| GATE MINI TEST SERIES |
| S. No. | DATE | UNIT TEST | SYLLABUS |
| 1 | 25-03- 2025 | 1, 2 | Quantum Chemistry |
| 2 | 02-04- 2025 | 3, 4, 5 | Classical Thermodynamics, Equilibrium (Chemical & Phase), Solutions & Statistical
Thermodynamics |
| 3 | 10-04- 2025 | 6, 7 | Chemical Kinetics, Nuclear Chemistry & Surface Chemistry |
| 4 | 20-04- 2025 | 8, 9 | Solid State & Group Theory |
| 5 | 28-04- 2025 | 10, 11, 12 | Electrochemistry, Ionic Equilibria, Analytical Chemistry, Polymers, Data Analysis |
| 6 | 10-05- 2025 | 13, 14 | Chemical Periodicity, Chemical Bonding & Main Group Chemistry |
| 7 | 25-05- 2025 | 15, 16 | CoordinationCompounds (Nomenclature & Isomerism) |
| 8 | 07-06- 2025 | 17, 18 | Coordination Chemistry |
| 9 | 17-06- 2025 | 19, 20 | Organometallic Chemistry & Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| 10 | 30-06- 2025 | 21, 22, 23 | Organic Nomenclature, Stereochemistry & General Organic Chemistry. |
| 11 | 10-07- 2025 | 24, 25 | Basic mechanistic concepts – kinetic versus thermodynamic control, Hammond’s postulate and Curtin- Hammett principle. Methods of determining reaction mechanisms through identification of products, intermediates and isotopic labeling. Nucleophilic and electrophilic
substitution reactions (both aromatic and aliphatic). Addition reactions to carbon-carbon and carbon- heteroatom (N,O) multiple bonds. Elimination reactions. Reactive intermediates – carbocations, carbanions, carbenes, nitrenes, arynes and free radicals. Molecular rearrangements involving electron deficient atoms. |
| 12 | 20-07- 2025 | 26, 27, 28 | Organic Synthesis: Synthesis, reactions, mechanisms and selectivity involving the following classes of compounds – alkenes, alkynes, arenes, alcohols, phenols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, nitriles, halides, nitro compounds, amines and amides.
Uses of Mg, Li, Cu, B, Zn and Si based reagents in organic synthesis. Carbon-carbon bond formation through coupling reactions - Heck, Suzuki, Stille and Sonogoshira. Concepts of multistep synthesis - retrosynthetic analysis, strategic disconnections, synthons and synthetic equivalents. Umpolung reactivity – formyl and acyl anion equivalents. Selectivity in organic synthesis – chemo-, regio- and stereoselectivity. Protection and deprotection of functional groups. Concepts of asymmetric synthesis – solution (including enzymatic),
desymmetrization and use of chiral auxilliaries. Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions through enolates (including boron enolates), enamines and silyl enol ethers. Michael addition reaction. Stereoselective addition to C=O groups (Cram and Felkin-Anh models). |
| 13 | 31-07- 2025 | 29, 30 | Heterocyclic Chemistry, Biomolecules |
| 14 | 11-08- 2025 | 31, 32, 33 | Organic, Inorganic, Physical Spectroscopy including Instrumental Methods of Analysis |
| 15 | 25-08- 2025 | 34, 35 | Photochemistry and Pericyclic Reactions |
