RRB SSE Exam Syllabus/ Question Paper Pattern

Railway Recruitment Board (RRBs) will conduct a Written exam for recruitment of Senior Section
Engineer (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Electronics, Communication, Maintenance, Automobile
ETC.), Chief Depot Material Superindent & Chemical Mettalurgical Assistant Nowadays
Competition Level become very high so Competitive Exams gets too tougher. Candidates facing critical problem
of What to prepare and How to prepare for the best performance in their Exams. Without Proper
Knowledge of Syllabus Pattern, one can not give 100% in the exam. For solving candidates purpose, we
are providing the latest Syllabus & Exam Pattern of Senior Section Engineer Exam Exam conducting RRB.

Click Here for Check JE and SSE Recruitment Notification Detail (Last Date 19.10.2014)

Exam Pattern:- There will be a Objective Type Multiple Choice Question in the Written Exam
for Senior Section Engineer (SSE). Pattern for the written exam will be as follows:

Written exam will consists of Total 150 Questions.

Time Duration for Written exam is 2 Hours.

There will be Negative Marking of 1/3 Marks in the written exam.

90 Questions will be asked from Technical Ability & General Science.

60 Questions will be from General Awareness, Arithmetic, General Intelligence and

Reasoning

Syllabus:- Syllabus for the Senior Section Engineer (P-Way, Bridge, Works, Drawing Civil,
Estimator, Research Engineering, Engineer Workshop, Mechanical
Workshop, Mechanical, Carriage & Wagon, Dsl Mechanical, Dsl Electrical, Dsl (A), Loco, J&T
(Jig & Tools) /(Drawing/ Design & Drawing) Mechanical, Drawing, (Design)
Mechanical, Engineering Workshop, S&T Workshop, Mechanical/ Dy. Car/ BG & MG, Electrical/
Electrical (GS), Electrical Operations, Electrical Maintenance, Electrical
(TRD), Electrical(TRS), Electrical /RS, (Drawing/ Design&Drawing) Electrical,
Signal, Telecommunication, Drawing/ S&T, (Research) Instrumentation, Track
Machine, Printing Press, Engineer / Melting, Chief Depot Material Superindent, Chemical
Mettalurgical Assistant as per Notification is given below: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:- Question will be asked from Indian History, Indian Polity, Current Events, Geography,
Economy etc. Focus will be on Current national & International events, banking, sports etc. Some questions
from Finance & Marketing can be ask 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 (Class 12th standard), Questions will be ask
from Daily use science. Physics, Chemistry, Biology & Zoology.
Technical Ability:- Questions will be ask from the Subject/ Trade/ Branch select by candidate. For
Section Engineer Some Mathematics questions from topics Laplace Transformation, Matrices, Basic Linear
Algebra will be ask.
Subject/ Branch Wise Questions for Technical Ability will be from following Topics of Eligible
Trades:Civil Engineering:- Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Concrete Structures, Steel Structures, Soil Mechanics,
Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, Hydrology, Bridge Construction, Water requirements, Highway Planning,
Traffic Engineering, Importance of surveying, principles and classifications, mapping concepts, coordinate
system, map projections, measurements of distance and directions, leveling, theodolite traversing, plane table
surveying, errors and adjustments, curves, Environmental Engineering, Estimating, Costing and Valuation &
Building Materials.
Focus will be Mainly on Construction/ Structure Engineering. Some Questions from Basic Drawing type will be
ask in the exam. Questions ask will be General Civil Engineering Type.
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-In 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.
Engineering Drawing / Graphics:- In Engineering Drawing Sections questions will be ask from basics of
Drawing. Candidates have to focus on Fundamental of Graphics & Engineering Drawing.