Paper I consist of three parts. General Intelligence & Reasoning for 50 marks, General Awareness for 50 marks, and General Engineering for 100 marks.

Paper II is of conventional type. All 300 marks will be from Civil & Structural Engineering

SSC JE Syllabus - Civil Engineering

(i) General Intelligence & Reasoning

The Syllabus for General Intelligence would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal type. The test may include questions on analogies, similarities, differences, space visualization, problem solving, analysis, judgement, decision making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning, verbal and figure classification, arithmetical number series etc. The test will also include questions designed to test the candidate’s abilities to deal with abstract ideas and symbols and their relationships, arithmetical computations and other analytical functions.

(ii) General Awareness

Questions will be aimed at testing the candidate’s general awareness of the environment around him/her and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observations and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of any educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighbouring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity and Scientific Research, etc. These questions will be such that they do not require a special study of any discipline.

(iii) Civil & Structural Engineering

Building Materials, Estimating, Costing and Valuation, Surveying, Soil Mechanics, Hydraulics, Irrigation Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering.

Theory of Structures, Concrete Technology, RCC Design, Steel Design

Official Notification SSC JE

https://ssc.nic.in/SSCFileServer/PortalManagement/UploadedFiles/notice_eng_jemec_01022019.pdf
 

SSC JE 2019 Exam Preparation Tips - Paper I

Paper I consist of three parts. General Intelligence & Reasoning for 50 marks, General Awareness for 50 marks, and General Engineering for 100 marks.

• General Intelligence & Reasoning - Solve previous year questions. If you are able to solve them, no special preparation is required.

• General Awareness - Check your level by solving previous year questions. Most of the questions are from Indian History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity (For these you can even refer to NCERT Books) and current affairs (Staying updated is the only way). Your objective here is not to score all 50 marks. Try to grab more marks with the time you have left for preparation after covering Civil Engineering subjects.

• General Engineering - Questions are mostly fact based. You will have questions like which test is suitable for workability, and at the same time you will have a question like what is snoweem (Is it chalk powder, colored cement like that). So, accordingly the more facts you know, the better it is. Even once if you have seen somewhere what is snoeeem you will be able to answer this question. Concentrate on knowing more such facts.