Chemistry Standard Twelve
- 1. About the Book
- 2. Key Features
- 3. Book Index
- 4. Who Should Read This
- 5. Download PDF
State board textbooks rarely get the attention they deserve. But the Chemistry Standard Twelve textbook from the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research is a quiet powerhouse — a book that holds its own against expensive coaching material when used the right way.
About the Book
Published in 2020 and implemented from the academic year 2020-21, this textbook was built with a constructivist philosophy. That means it does not just dump information on the page. Each chapter starts from familiar ground and gradually layers complexity, nudging students to think their way into new concepts rather than memorise them passively.
The book spans four major branches of chemistry. Physical covers Solid State, Solutions, Ionic Equilibria, Thermodynamics, Electrochemistry, and Chemical Kinetics. Inorganic dives into group 16-18 elements, transition and inner transition metals, and coordination compounds. Organic walks through halogen derivatives, alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, amines, and biomolecules. Applied rounds things off with polymer chemistry, green chemistry, and nanochemistry.
Key Features
What makes this textbook genuinely useful is its interactivity. Scattered through every chapter are engagement boxes — Can You Recall?, Do You Know?, Use Your Brain Power, Internet My Friend, Try This, and Can You Think? — each designed to break the passive reading habit and make you engage with the material.
Solved problems appear in highlighted boxes with every step laid out clearly. The exercises at the end of each chapter go beyond recall. They test correlation, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning — the exact skills that competitive exams reward.
There is also a DIKSHA App QR code integration. Scan it, and you get access to full text plus audio-visual study material for each lesson. For students who learn better through video than text, this alone makes the book worth keeping on the desk.
Book Index
| # | Chapter | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solid State | 01–27 |
| 2 | Solutions | 28–46 |
| 3 | Ionic Equilibria | 47–62 |
| 4 | Chemical Thermodynamics | 63–89 |
| 5 | Electrochemistry | 90–119 |
| 6 | Chemical Kinetics | 120–137 |
| 7 | Elements of Groups 16, 17 and 18 | 138–164 |
| 8 | Transition and Inner Transition Elements | 165–191 |
| 9 | Coordination Compounds | 192–209 |
| 10 | Halogen Derivatives | 210–233 |
| 11 | Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers | 234–253 |
| 12 | Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids | 254–281 |
| 13 | Amines | 282–297 |
| 14 | Biomolecules | 298–321 |
| 15 | Introduction to Polymer Chemistry | 322–339 |
| 16 | Green Chemistry and Nanochemistry | 340–352 |
Who Should Read This
Class 12 students of the Maharashtra State Board are the primary audience, but the reach goes further. NEET aspirants will find the chapters on Biomolecules, Coordination Compounds, and Electrochemistry directly relevant to the NCERT-aligned syllabus. JEE Mains and JEE Advanced candidates benefit from the Thermodynamics, Chemical Kinetics, and Ionic Equilibria sections — the solved problems here build a solid numerical foundation.
For NEST and IISER IAT, where conceptual depth matters more than memorisation, the constructivist approach of this book pays off. The competency statements listed at the beginning tell you exactly what each chapter trains you to do, which helps when you are mapping your preparation against an exam's demands.
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