There is no single best maths playlist for JEE Mains and Advanced, and the reason is not opinion. The two exams now run on different syllabuses. Topics like Rolle's and Lagrange's mean value theorem, triple products and the properties of binomial coefficients were cut from JEE Main and are still explicitly listed for JEE Advanced. So a Mains only student following an Advanced playlist studies chapters that cannot appear, and an Advanced student following a Mains playlist has holes.
Take your chapter list from your own exam's official syllabus first, then use MathonGo for Mains style past questions and Mohit Tyagi sir for Advanced level depth. If you only want one source for both, SATHEE covers the syllabus free and adds live doubt solving. Everything else on this page is an alternative to one of those three, in a different language or at a different pace.
Most guides to the best maths playlist for JEE Mains and Advanced rank teachers and stop. That is the easy half. The half that actually costs students weeks is that the same chapter list no longer applies to both papers, and no playlist announces which syllabus it was recorded against.
So this guide leads with the split, then names the sources. If you only read one section, read the next one.
NTA reduced the JEE Main syllabus and two full maths chapters went completely, along with a set of individual topics inside other chapters. JEE Advanced publishes its own separate syllabus and kept several of them.
| Maths topic | JEE Main | JEE Advanced |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematical Reasoning | Removed, full chapter | Not listed |
| Mathematical Induction | Removed, full chapter | Not listed |
| Rolle's and Lagrange's mean value theorem | Removed | In, explicitly named |
| Scalar and vector triple products | Removed | In, explicitly named |
| Properties of binomial coefficients | Removed | In, explicitly named |
| Heights and distances | Removed | Not listed |
| Calculus, coordinate geometry, algebra core | In | In, at greater depth |
Compiled in August 2026 from published syllabus comparisons and the JEE Advanced maths syllabus. Both lists are reissued each year, so read yours in the bulletin rather than trusting any summary, this one included.
The three middle rows are the ones that matter. Each is a real topic that a Mains only student can skip and an Advanced aspirant genuinely cannot, and no maths playlist for JEE Mains and Advanced recorded before the reduction will tell you which side of the line you are on.
Beyond the chapter list, the two papers reward opposite habits, and that changes which kind of video is useful to you.
| JEE Main maths | JEE Advanced maths | |
|---|---|---|
| Paper shape | 25 questions, 100 marks, 20 multiple choice and 5 numericals | Two papers, both compulsory, question types change year to year |
| Pace | About 2.4 minutes a question across the paper | Far longer per question, fewer questions |
| What it tests | Speed, accuracy and recognising a known pattern fast | Depth, and joining two or three ideas in one question |
| Best video for it | Past year question sessions, short and exam shaped | Long form chapter lectures that build the concept properly |
| Where students go wrong | Learning deep theory and running out of time | Learning shortcuts that collapse on an unfamiliar question |
The Advanced paper format is published fresh each year, so confirm it on the official site rather than assuming last year's structure carries over.
Read the last row in both columns. The Mains failure mode and the Advanced failure mode are opposites, which is exactly why one playlist cannot serve both students equally well. A shortcut that saves you ninety seconds in January can be the thing that sinks you in May.
All six are free, published by the organisation that runs them, and current as of August 2026. Reupload channels are excluded, because they vanish without notice and often host the pre reduction version of the very lectures this guide is warning about.
The order matters more than the choice. This loop works for either exam, with one difference in step three.
Roughly four to six hours of video and eight to twelve hours of solving per chapter. If your ratio runs the other way, the chapter will not hold whoever taught it. We work through the solving side in how many questions to solve daily for JEE.
The most expensive one, and completely invisible while it is happening. Older playlists are still online, still complete and still well taught, and they cover Mathematical Reasoning and Mathematical Induction as though they still counted for Mains. Check the upload dates, and check every chapter against your own list.
This one bites in May rather than January, which is why nobody catches it early. A Mains oriented series trains fast pattern recognition, and Advanced questions are built specifically to defeat pattern recognition by combining ideas. If you are targeting Advanced, at least one of your two sources has to be a long form conceptual one.
Saving nine playlists on a Sunday produces a real feeling of progress and no marks. The teacher you already have is almost always good enough. Switching after the first hard chapter means restarting the difficulty rather than getting past it, and the next teacher feels wonderful for exactly as long as the easy topics last.
Most students are, so this is the common case rather than the exception. The good news is that you do not need two separate plans.
| When | What to weight towards | Which source |
|---|---|---|
| Through the year | Advanced depth, because it contains Mains | Mohit Tyagi, or SATHEE for the full syllabus |
| From November | Mains speed and past papers | MathonGo, plus timed practice |
| Between the two sessions | Whichever Mains chapters actually cost you marks | eSaral one shots for fast revision |
| After Mains, before Advanced | The topics Mains dropped but Advanced kept | Mohit Tyagi for the three named earlier |
A shape rather than a schedule. The last row is the one students forget, and it is only a few topics, so it is a genuinely cheap gap to close.
This is the practical answer for anyone wanting one maths playlist for JEE Mains and Advanced. Preparing at Advanced depth covers Mains almost entirely, so the sensible default is depth through the year and speed from November. The one thing that does not come free is the reverse, which is why a Mains only preparation leaves real holes if you later decide to take Advanced seriously.
For the other two subjects, see our guides on the best physics playlist for JEE Mains and Advanced and the best organic chemistry playlist. If you want a wider list of free channels across all three subjects rather than maths alone, that is in our free JEE resources and YouTube channels guide.
There is no single one, because the two syllabuses differ. For Advanced depth use Mohit Tyagi, for Mains past year questions use MathonGo, and if you want one free source covering the whole syllabus use SATHEE from the Ministry of Education and IIT Kanpur, which also runs live doubt solving. Pick one for learning and one for past questions, and check both against your own exam's official chapter list first.
No. Mathematical Reasoning and Mathematical Induction were removed from JEE Main as full chapters, and individual topics including Rolle's and Lagrange's mean value theorem, scalar and vector triple products, and the properties of binomial coefficients were also cut. JEE Advanced publishes its own syllabus and explicitly names all three of those. Always confirm against the current bulletin for the exam you are actually sitting.
You can use one channel, but not blindly. Preparing at Advanced depth covers almost all of Mains, so a conceptual playlist plus timed Mains practice from November works well. The reverse does not. A Mains oriented series trains fast pattern recognition, and Advanced questions are designed to defeat that by combining several ideas in one problem.
Mathematical Reasoning and Mathematical Induction were both dropped as complete units, and a number of smaller topics were removed from other chapters. This matters because free playlists stay online for years and were never re-recorded, so an older one will teach the deleted material as though it still counted. Check the chapter list in the current information bulletin before starting any long playlist.
For teaching, yes. The free lectures named here reach Advanced depth and several are taught by the same calibre of teacher as paid courses. What free video does not give you is doubt solving on your own specific question and a rank among thousands of students. SATHEE closes the doubt gap at no cost. The ranking pool is the one thing that usually costs money.
Roughly four to six hours of lectures and eight to twelve hours of solving, so twelve to eighteen hours in total. For Mains, weight the solving towards volume at pace. For Advanced, weight it towards fewer and harder questions that take twenty minutes each. If your video hours exceed your solving hours, the chapter will not hold regardless of how good the teacher was.
Not as a habit. Two full explanations of one chapter doubles the video time and adds very little, because the second feels easy precisely due to the first. The one good reason to switch is a single topic you genuinely could not follow. Watch a second explanation of that topic, not of the entire chapter.
Alongside your normal chapter work rather than as a separate phase later. Every chapter you learn can be finished with a few genuinely hard multi concept problems, which builds the habit gradually. Leaving Advanced level practice until after Mains gives you a few weeks to develop a skill that takes months, which is the version that goes wrong.
The question people ask is which teacher is best. The question that actually decides your marks is which syllabus your playlist was recorded against, and whether the habit it trains matches the paper you are sitting.
Two full chapters and several named topics separate Main from Advanced now. That is not a huge gap, but it is a real one, and it runs in both directions. A Mains only student can safely skip material an Advanced aspirant must know, and an Advanced aspirant relying on a Mains playlist has holes they will not find until May.
So do the boring part first. Open your exam's official syllabus, write the chapter list on one page, then pick two sources from the six above and finish them. That single page is worth more than any ranking of teachers, including this one.
For the rest of your free stack, see our free JEE resources and YouTube channels guide, and keep an eye on the latest JEE and NEET updates for syllabus changes as they are announced.
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