The National Standard Examination in Chemistry is jointly conducted by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education and the Indian Association of Physics Teachers. This exam is held every year in November, and numerous examination centres are designated for its administration. The National Science Education Centre promotes chemistry as a topic and stimulates interest in it. The NSEC promotes students’ achievements depending on their examination results. This exam is designed for students who want to pursue chemistry as mainstream and want to gain knowledge on the subject by participating in the exam. Students who pass this exam will have the opportunity to compete in INCO (Indian National Chemistry Olympiad).
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Highlights of the Examination
The National Standard Examination in Chemistry (NSEC) is a chemistry examination for students in higher secondary schools in India. In most cases, the test takes place in late November. The Indian Association of Physics Teachers is in charge of this exam. This exam is taken by around 30,000 students, the majority of whom are in Class 12.
Syllabus for the Examination
The syllabus for the National Standard Examination in Chemistry (NSEC) is the same as CBSE, ICSE, and various other state boards or any other equivalent board that follows the senior secondary curriculum. However, only the course’s fundamental guidelines are mentioned below. The conducting authority has not provided a specific NSEC syllabus.
Class 11 Syllabus
The Class 11 syllabus is designed as per the academic curriculum in which the student is studying. Students belonging to any of the academic boards can easily get in touch with the syllabus of the NSEC exam. The topics for the Class 11 syllabus are given in the table below.
| Serial Number | Name of Chapter |
| 1 | Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry |
| 2 | Structure of Atoms |
| 3 | Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties |
| 4 | Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure |
| 5 | States of Matter: Solid, Liquid and Gas |
| 6 | Chemical Thermodynamics |
| 7 | Equilibrium |
| 8 | Redox Reaction |
| 9 | Hydrogen |
| 10 | S-block Elements |
| 11 | P-block Elements |
| 12 | Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques |
| 13 | Hydrocarbons |
| 14 | Environmental Chemistry |
Class 12 Syllabus
The Class 12 syllabus is designed as per the academic curriculum in which the student is studying. Students belonging to any of the academic boards can easily grasp the syllabus. The topics for the Class 12 NSEC syllabus are given below.
| Serial Number | Name of Chapter |
| 1 | Solid State |
| 2 | Solutions |
| 3 | Electrochemistry |
| 4 | Chemical Kinetics |
| 5 | Surface Chemistry |
| 6 | General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements |
| 7 | P-block Elements |
| 8 | Coordination Compounds |
| 9 | Haloalkanes and Haloarenes |
| 10 | Alcohol, Phenols and Ethers |
| 11 | Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids |
| 12 | Amines |
| 13 | Biomolecules |
| 14 | Polymers |
| 15 | Chemistry in Everyday Life |
Key Points
The key points on the examination are listed below.
- The National Standard Examination in Chemistry, or NSEC, has its own exam pattern.
- Only objective type or multiple-choice questions are included in the exam’s question paper, which has a total of 80 questions.
- Students receive three points for each successful response, and one point is deducted from their tries for each incorrect answer.
- Students have the option of choosing either English or Hindi as their examination medium at the time of enrollment.
