Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) conducts a written exam for recruitment of Senior Section Engineer (SSE) (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Electronics, Communication, Maintenance, Automobile etc.). Nowadays as the competition level is increasing the exams are also getting tougher. Candidates facing critical problem of “What to prepare” and “How to prepare” for the best performance in their Exams. Without knowing the proper syllabus & the proper tricks & techniques to solve the problems one cannot give their 100% in the exams. NAM INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUIDIES helps the candidates to know their capabilities and accordingly enhancing the same for the best results

Papers to be covered:

The exam is divided into 2 parts:

1. Non Technical (General intelligence & Reasoning, Arithmetic, General awareness, General Science)
2. Technical (Mechanical, civil, electrical, electronics & communications, Automobile, etc.)

Syllabus

NON- TECHNICAL

General Intelligence & Reasoning:- Questions will be asked from analogies, similarities and differences, spatial visualization, spatial orientation, problem solving, analysis, judgment, decision making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetic reasoning, verbal and figure classification, arithmetical number series, non-verbal series, coding and decoding, statement conclusion, syllogistic reasoning.

Arithmetic:- Algebra Basic algebra, factors & simplification, polynomials, Arithmetic Simple & compound interest, installments, taxation, shares & dividends, Ratio & proportion, percentage, time, distance & work, profit & loss, Pipes & Cisterns, Mensuration, Problem on Ages, Investment etc.. From Data Interpretation Use of Tables and Graphs, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar-diagram, Pie-chart, Pictorial Graph etc.

General Awareness:- History, Indian Polity, Current Events, Geography, Economy etc. Focus will be on Current national & International events, banking, sports etc. Some questions from Finance & Marketing will also be asked in the exam. Focus will be on News related to Railway, Rail Budget, New Technologies & Reform in Indian Railway.

General Science:- Questions will be of Basic Concept of Science of class 12th level , Daily use science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology & Zoology.

TECHNICAL

Mechanical Engineering:- Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Theory of Machines, Design for static and dynamic loading, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Power Engineering, Steam Tables, Rankine, Brayton cycles with regeneration and reheat, I.C. Engines: air-standard Otto, Diesel cycles, Metal Casting, Machining and Machine Tool Operations, Metrology and Inspection. Questions will be ask from basics of these Subjects & beam types.

Electrical Engineering:- Basics of Circuits and Measurement Systems, Electric Circuits and Fields, Signals and Systems,Electrical Machines, Power Systems, Control Systems, Electrical and Electronic Measurements, Analog and Digital Electronics, Power Electronics and Drives. In Electrical Engineering Key Subject for RRB exam is Electrical Machines, Basics of circuit & Power Electronics.

Electronics Engineering:- Electronic Devices: Energy bands in silicon, intrinsic and extrinsic silicon. Carrier transport in silicon: diffusion current, drift current, mobility, and resistivity. Generation and recombination of carriers.p-n junction diode, Zener diode, tunnel diode, BJT, JFET, MOS, MOSFET, LED, p-I-n and avalanche photo diode, Varactor Diode, Analog Circuits, Digital Circuits, Signal & Systems , Control System & Communication Basics. For Electronics & Communications people Focus on Basic & Fundamental Electronics Concept, Signal & Systems, Wireless Communication, Antennas, Arrays, EMFT.

Computers Engineering:- MS Office; Computer fundamentals & organization; C , C++ & Java language; Information systems; DBMS; System programming; Operating systems; UNIX; SAD; Data & Network communication; Web technology & programming; Software Engineering, Computer Networks, Databases, Algorithms.

Instrumentation & Measurement:- Basics of Circuits and Measurement Systems, Transducers, Mechanical Measurement and Industrial Instrumentation, Analog Electronics, Digital Electronics, Signal Systems, Measurement System, Process Control, Control Systems & Instrumentation. Focus will be more on Transducers, Measurement & Control Systems. Some questions of Signal & System will be ask in the RRB exam.

Chemical Metallurgical Assistant:- Basic concepts of Fuel; Material Science; Polymers; Thermodynamics; Applied Chemistry; Computers; Instrumentation & Measurement; Environment & Pollution Control.

Environment & Pollution Control:- Nature of questions is Basie Type. It will be a test of General Engineering topics of Environment, Pollution Control Methods, Type of Pollution etc.

Marks Distribution:

SUBJECT	MARKS
General Intelligence	5
Reasoning	5
Arithmetic	25
General awareness	25
Technical	90

The duration of the exam is 120 minutes i.e, 2 Hours

NOTE:

• The examination is objective type
• The paper consists of 150 Multiple Choice Questions out of which 60 questions are from non technical portion and 90 questions are from technical section.
• Each question carries 1 mark and 1/3 mark deduct for wrong answer.

NAM INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES guide you for the same according to below mentioned module:

Duration: 3 Months

Classes: 5 days in a week (Monday to Friday)

Class Duration: 3 hrs/day

For working aspirants:

Duration: 4 months

Classes: 2 days in a week (Saturday-Sunday)

Class duration: 5 hrs/day