UKPSC AE/JE

Time : 02 Hours, M.M. - 100, No.of questions – 100

• वर्ण संरचना (स्वर और व्यंजन)
• वाक्य शोधन
• वर्तनी शोधन/विश्लेषण
• शब्द रचना – उपसर्ग, प्रत्यय, संधि और समास
• शब्द शुद्धिकरण
• रिक्त स्थानों में उपयुक्त शब्दों का प्रयोग
• शब्द भेद – रचना, अर्थ, इतिहास, व्याकरण
• वाक्य रचना
• अपठित गद्यांश
• उपयुक्त शीर्षक का चयन
• आठ रेखांकित शब्दों/वाक्यों के अर्थ
• लोकोक्ति एवं मुहावरे

Time : 02 Hours, M.M. - 100, No.of questions – 100

Note : Each Multiple choice question shall be of 01 Mark.

• Comprehension: Passage of appropriate length to test vocabulary, grammar, and thematic understanding (20 marks)
• Use of Articles: (5 marks)
• Use of correct Prepositions: (5 marks)
• One-word substitution: (5 marks)
• Synonyms: (5 marks)
• Antonyms: (5 marks)
• Filling up of blanks with appropriate words: (5 marks)
• Verbs – Main, Auxiliary and Modals: (5 marks)
• Active/Passive voice: (5 marks)
• Direct/Indirect Narration: (5 marks)
• Correct spelling of words: (5 marks)
• Tenses: (5 marks)
• Re-ordering of given sentences into a meaningful paragraph: (5 marks)
• Subject – Verb agreement: (5 marks)
• Idioms and Phrases: (5 marks)
• Conjunctions: (5 marks)
• Homonyms: (5 marks)

(a) Strength of materials and theory of structures

• Effect of a force, tension and compression, free body diagram, virtual work, force distribution system.
• Principle of energy, conservation of energy and momentum, rotation of rigid bodies about fixed axis, mass moment of inertia.
• Stresses and strains: Types of stresses and strains, Definition of tension, compression, shear, bending, torsion, volumetric and lateral strain, Poisson’s ratio, Hooke’s law.
• Bending moment and shear force: Types of beam, simply supported, cantilever, fixed, overhanging and continuous beams.
• Analysis of trusses, slope and deflection of beams.
• Columns and struts: Long columns, short columns & struts, slenderness ratio.
• Torsion: Circular shaft, combined bending, torsion and axial thrust, strength of hollow and solid shaft.

(b) Design of reinforced concrete structures

• Design based on working stress method: Flexural strength, shear strength, and bond strength of a singly reinforced RCC beam.
• Design of lintels, design of a cantilever beam and slab, design of doubly reinforced concrete beam.
• Design of RCC slab: design of one way and two way slabs.
• Design of reinforced brick beams, slab & lintels, design of T-beams.
• Design of columns and column footings, cantilever retaining walls.
• Components of (i) overhead water tank and (ii) multistoreyed framed structures.
• Introduction to design based on limit state method.
• Pre-stressed concrete.

(c) Steel and Machinery structures

• Tension and compression members in steel.
• Design of steel beams.
• Design of simple column bases.
• Design of simple trusses and purlins.
• Design of masonry retaining walls.
• Design of masonry wall foundation.

(d) Building estimates & costing, construction management, account & entrepreneurship development

(a) Soil mechanics and foundation engineering.

• 1. Fundamental terms and their relationships.
• 2. Classification and identification of soils.
• 3. Phase relationship index property: laboratory determination.
• 4. Capillary phenomenon permeability: factors affecting permeability.
• 5. Compaction: methods of compaction.
• 6. Consolidation: difference between compaction and consolidation.
• 7. Stresses in soil, shear strength, Coulomb’s equation, unconfined compression test.
• 8. Earth pressure and retaining structures.
• 9. Shallow and deep foundations, classifications of piles.
• 10. Stabilisation of soils by lime and cement.
• 11. Sub-surface exploration.

(b) Surveying.

• 1. General principles.
• 2. Chain surveying.
• 3. Compass traversing, bearings, local attractions, types of traversing, traverse computations, corrections and missing readings.
• 4. Leveling – Theory, temporary & permanent adjustment of levels, types of levelling.: Reciprocal levelling, L-section and cross section, refraction and curvature corrections.
• 5. Contouring – characteristics, uses and plotting of contours.
• 6. Plane table surveying – orientation, plotting methods, two & three point problems, Lehmann’s rule, errors and precautions.
• 7. Theodolite: Adjustments (temporary & permanent), measurement of angles, curves, horizontal and vertical curves, their design and layout, transition curves.
• 8. Minor instruments: Abney’s level, tangent clinometer, Ceylon Ghat tracer, pantograph and planimeter.

(c) Building Materials and construction.

• 1. Building Materials: Bricks, their classification and characteristics; building stones – source, quarrying, classification and properties; lime – properties; cement – types, properties and tests; timber and wood products – types, properties and uses; paints, varnishes and distempers, glass and plaster etc.; lime concrete – uses in foundation and terracing; cement concretes – ingredients, grading of aggregates, workability, water cement ratio, mixing, laying, compaction, curing.
• 2. Building constructions: Detailing of walls, floors, roofs, staircases, doors and windows, finishing of building, plastering, pointing, damp proofing etc.; ventilation and air conditioning, fire fighting.

(d) Water supply and sanitation for public building.

• 1. Sources of water, quality and quantity of water supply, water treatment, water distribution, laying of pipes, building water supply & maintenance.
• 2. Quantity of sewage, sewage systems, sanitation and drainage, disposal of rainfall and domestic wastes including night soil, waste water and garbage; plumbing for public and residential buildings, septic tanks and soak pit, sewage treatment.

(a) Irrigation Engineering

• 1. Introduction: Definition of irrigation, necessity of irrigation, history of development of irrigation in India, types of irrigation in India, sources of irrigation water.
• 2. Rainfall & Run-off: Definition of rainfall and run-off, catchment area, Dicken’s and Ryve’s formula, types of rain gauges (automatic and non-automatic), stream gauging.
• 3. Water Requirement of Crops: Definition of crop season, duty, delta and base period, their relationship, irrigation methods and efficiencies, gross command area, culturable command area, intensity of irrigation, irrigable area, water requirements of crops (Kharif and Rabi), preparation of water supply schedules for Kharif and Rabi.
• 4. Lift Irrigation: Types of wells, shallow and deep wells, aquifer types, ground water flow, construction of open wells and tube wells, yield of open/tube wells and related problems, methods of lifting water (manual and mechanical devices), use of windmills, lift canals—their design, construction and water scheduling.
• 5. Flow Irrigation: Irrigation canals, perennial irrigation, different parts of irrigation canals and their functions, sketches of different canal cross-sections, classification of canals according to alignment, design of irrigation canals—Chezy’s formula, Manning's formula, Kennedy's and Lacey's silt theory and equations, comparison of the two silt theories, critical velocity ratio, use of Garret’s and Lacey’s charts, various types of canal lining, advantages and disadvantages.
• 6. Canal Head Works: Definition, objectives, general layout, functions of different parts, difference between weir and barrage.
• 7. Regulatory Works: Functions and explanation of cross and head regulators, falls, energy dissipators, outlets (different types), escapes.
• 8. Cross Drainage Works: Functions and necessity, types such as aqueduct, siphon, superpassage, level crossing, inlet, outlet; constructional details of the above.
• 9. Dams: Earthen dams—types, causes of failure; classification into masonry and concrete dams, labelled cross-section of gravity dam, spillways.
• 10. Water Logging and Drainage: Definition, causes and effects, detection, prevention and remedies, surface and sub-surface drains and their layout, field drainage, salinity control measures, ground water recharging measures.
• 11. Flood Protection: Estimation of flood discharges, systems of flood warning, river behaviour, training works and control, marginal embankments (design, causes of failure), spurs and dykes (attracting and repelling types), nonstructural flood management, relief and rehabilitation measures.
• 12. Irrigation Management: Checking of irrigated areas, raising water charges, bills, compensation for crop damages, penalties for unauthorized use of irrigation water, procedure for imposition of penal rates, canal law and its application, formation of water users’ associations and their participation in irrigation management, command area development.
• 13. Major Irrigation Projects in India.

(b) Fluid Mechanics

• 1. Properties of fluids, hydrostatic pressure on various types of surfaces, measurement of pressure, kinematics of fluid flow.
• 2. Dynamics of fluid flow: Bernoulli’s theorem, measurement of flow, pitot tube, piezometer, orifices, venturimeter, current meter.
• 3. Flow through pipes: losses and pipe network, water hammer, Reynolds number.
• 4. Flow through open channels: hydraulic gradients, equation for uniform flow, Chezy’s and Manning's formula, most economical section.
• 5. Measurement of discharges by (i) weirs and (ii) notches.
• 6. Hydraulic machines: pumps (reciprocating and centrifugal), turbines (impulse and reaction).

Time : 02 Hours, No.of questions – 100

Note : Each Multiple choice question shall be of 01 Mark.

• Terms commonly used in office communication
• Direct and Indirect Narration
• Use of Conditionals
• Proper ordering of jumbled sentences
• Correct use of Tenses
• One-word substitution
• Synonyms/Antonyms/Homonyms
• Use of correct Prepositions
• Subject-Verb agreement
• Spotting the errors pertaining to adjectives, adverbs and determiners
• Use of Verbs - Main, Auxiliary and Modals
• Transformation of sentences
• Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
• Comprehension: A passage of appropriate length on scientific/technical theme for testing the ability of the candidate in the following areas: (a) Familiarity with vocabulary, (b) Knowledge of the fundamentals of English grammar, (c) Thematic understanding of the passage

• Grammar (व्याकरण)
• Vocabulary (शब्द भंडार)
• Comprehension (गद्यांश बोध)
• Fill in the Blanks (रिक्त स्थान पूर्ति)
• Error Detection (त्रुटि पहचान)
• Antonyms & Synonyms (विलोम व पर्यायवाची)
• Phrases / मुहावरे (वाक्यांश/मुहावरे)

• Current Affairs: National & International (राष्ट्रीय/अंतरराष्ट्रीय समसामयिकी)
• General Science (सामान्य विज्ञान)
• Literature (साहित्य)
• Indian Parliament, Civics, Heritage (भारतीय संसद, नागरिक शास्त्र, धरोहर)
• Geography (भूगोल)
• Indian History (भारतीय इतिहास)
• Famous Books & Authors (प्रसिद्ध पुस्तकें व लेखक)
• Tourism (पर्यटन)
• Inventions & Discoveries (आविष्कार व खोजें)
• Famous Places in India (भारत के प्रमुख स्थल)
• Rivers, Lakes & Seas (नदियाँ, झीलें, समुद्र)
• Sports (खेल)

PAPER-I

PART – A

• Theory of Structures: Principles of super-position; reciprocal theorem, unsymmetrical bending. Determinate and indeterminate structures; simple and space frames; degrees of freedom; virtual work; energy theorem; deflection of trusses; redundant frames; three-moment equation; slope deflection and moment distribution methods; column analogy; energy methods; approximate and numerical methods. Moving loads, shearing force and bending moment diagrams; influence lines for simple and continuous beams. Analysis of determinate and indeterminate arches. Matrix methods of analysis, stiffness and flexibility matrices.
• Steel Design: Factors of safety and load factor; design of tension, compression and flexural members; built-up beams and plate girders; semi-rigid and rigid connections; design of stanchions, slab and gusseted bases; cranes and gantry girders; roof trusses; industrial and multi-storeyed buildings. Plastic design of frames and portals.
• R.C. Design: Design of slabs, simple and continuous beams, columns, footing - single and combined, raft foundations, elevated water tanks, encased beams and columns, ultimate load design. Methods and systems of prestressing; anchorages; losses in prestress.

PAPER-I

PART – B

• A) Fluid Mechanics: Dynamics of fluid flow-equations of continuity; energy and momentum. Bernoulli’s theorem; cavitation, velocity potential and stream function; rotational and irrotational flow, free and forced vortices; flow net, dimensional analysis and its application to practical problems. Viscous flow-flow between static and moving parallel plates, flow through circular tubes; film lubrication. Velocity distribution in laminar and turbulent flow boundary layer, incompressible flow through pipes laminar and turbulent flow, critical velocity, losses, Stanton and Moody’s diagram, hydraulic and energy grade lines; siphons; pipe network. Forces on pipe bends. Compressible flow- Adiabatic and isentropic flow, subsonic and supersonic velocity; Mach number, shock wave, water hammer, surge tanks.
• B) Hydraulic Engineering: Open channel flow-uniform and non-uniform flow, best hydraulic cross section. Specific energy and critical depth, gradually varied flow; classification of surface profiles; control sections; standing wave flume; surges and waves. Hydraulic jump. Design of canals– unlined channels in alluvium; the critical tractive stress, principles of sediment transport regime theories, lined channels; hydraulic design and cost analysis; drainage behind lining. Canal structures– designs of regulation work; cross drainage and communication works, cross regulators, head regulator, canal falls, aqueducts, metering flumes etc., canal outlets. Diversion headworks– principles of design of different parts on impermeable and permeable foundations; Khosla’s theory; energy dissipation; sediment exclusion. Dams– design of rigid dams; earth dams; forces acting on dams: stability analysis. Design of spillways. Wells and tube wells.
• C) Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering: Soil Mechanics- Origin and classification of soils; Atterberg limits. Void ratio: moisture content, permeability, laboratory and field tests, seepage and flow nets, flow under hydraulic structures, piping and quicksand condition. Unconfined and direct shear tests; triaxial test; earth pressure theories, stability of slopes; theories of soil consolidation; rate of settlement. Total and effective stress analysis, pressure distribution in soils; Boussinesque and Westergaard theories. Soil exploration. Foundation Engineering; bearing capacity of footings; piles and walls; design of retaining walls; sheet piles and caissons. Principles of design of block foundation for machines.

PAPER-II

PART – A

• A) Building Construction: Building materials and constructions - timber, stone, brick, sand, surkhi, mortar, concrete, paints and varnishes, plastics, etc. Detailing of walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, staircases, doors and windows. Finishing of building: plastering, pointing, painting etc. Use of building codes. Ventilation, air conditioning, lighting and acoustics. Building estimates and specifications. Construction scheduling: PERT and CPM methods.
• B) Railways and Highways Engineering: Railways - Permanent way, ballast, sleeper; chairs and fastenings; points and crossings, different types of turn outs, cross over, setting out of points. Maintenance of track, super elevation, creep of rail, ruling gradients; track resistance, tractive effort; curve resistance. Station yards, station buildings, platforms, sidings, turn tables. Signals and interlocking; level crossings.
• C) Roads and Runways: Classification of roads, planning, geometric design. Design of flexible and rigid pavements; sub-bases and wearing surfaces. Traffic engineering and traffic surveys; intersections, road signs, signals and markings.
• D) Surveying: Plane Table Surveying: Equipment & methods, solution of 3 & 2 point problems. Errors and precautions. Triangulation: Grades, baseline and its measurement, satellite station, intervisibility of stations; errors and least squares. General methods of least squares estimation with interdisciplinary approach, adjustment of level nets and triangulation nets. Matrix notation solutions. Layout of curves: simple, compound, reverse, transition and vertical curves. Project surveys and layout of civil engineering works such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, and hydroelectric projects.

PAPER-II

PART – B

• A) Water Resources Engineering: Hydrology - Hydrologic cycle; precipitation; evaporation-transpiration and infiltration; hydrographs, unit hydrograph; flood estimations and frequency. Planning for water resources - ground and surface water resources; surface flows. Single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity; reservoir losses; reservoir silting; flood routing. Benefit cost ratio. General principles of optimization.
• B) Water Requirements for crops: Quality of irrigation water, consumptive use of water, water depth and frequency of irrigation; duty of water; irrigation methods and efficiencies.
• C) Distribution system for canal irrigation: Determination of required channel capacity; channel losses, alignment of main and distributary channels, water logging - its causes and control, design of drainage system; soil salinity. River training - principles and methods. Storage works - types of dams (including earth dams) and their characteristics, principles of design, criteria for stability. Foundation treatment; joints and galleries; control of seepage. Spillways - different types and their suitability; energy dissipation; spillway crest gates.
• D) Sanitation and Water Supply: Sanitation - site and orientation of buildings; ventilation and damp proof course; house drainage; conservancy and waterborne system of waste disposal; sanitary appliances; latrines and urinals.
• E) Environmental Engineering: Elementary principles of ecology and ecosystems and their interaction with environment. Engineering activity and environmental pollution; environment and its effects on human health and activity. Air environment: major pollutants and their adverse effects, types of air cleaning devices. Water quality: parameters, adverse effects, monitoring, self-purification of streams. Solid wastes: collection systems and disposal methods, their selection and operation. Typical features of water distribution systems: demand, available need, network analysis, storage, corrosion.
• F) Typical features of sewerage systems: Permissible velocities, partial flow in circular sewers, non-circular sections, corrosion in sewers, construction and maintenance, sewer appurtenances, dumping of sewage. Plumbing: standards & systems. Environmental management.