JAMB Chemistry syllabus

The JAMB Chemistry syllabus has 20 examinable topics, listed in full below. This is the same breakdown Handbook uses to track which topics you have mastered and which are still costing you marks.

All 20 topics on the JAMB Chemistry syllabus

1. 01Acids, Bases and Salts
2. 02Aliphatic hydrocarbons (Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes)
3. 03Alkanols
4. 04Atomic Structure and Bonding
5. 05Carbon (Allotropes, CO₂, CO, Coal, Coke)
6. 06Chemical bonding: Electrovalency, covalency, coordinate bond, hydrogen bonding, metallic bonding, van der Waals’ forces
7. 07Chemical Equilibrium
8. 08Chemical symbols, formulae, equations and their uses
9. 09Electrolysis
10. 10Halogens (Chlorine as representative)
11. 11Kinetic Theory of Matter and Gas Laws
12. 12Nuclear Chemistry: Radioactivity, nuclear reactions, half-life, applications
13. 13Oxidation and Reduction (Redox)
14. 14Periodic table and periodicity (ionization energy, ionic radii, electron affinity, electronegativity)
15. 15Polymers (Natural and synthetic)
16. 16Rates of Chemical Reaction
17. 17Separation of Mixtures and Purification of Chemical Substances
18. 18Solubility
19. 19Spontaneity (∆G, ∆H, ∆S)
20. 20Stoichiometry of reactions