VNIT Nagpur Junior Engineer Electrical Recruitment Exam Syllabus 2026
Stage I – Screening Test:
i. Objective type test consisting of 100 questions.
ii. Total marks: 200 (each question carries 2 marks)
iii. Negative Marking: 0.5 marks will be deducted for each incorrect answer.
Unanswered questions will not attract negative marks.
iv. Syllabus:
a. General Syllabus: 40 questions consisting of General Intelligence
& Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Knowledge &
Computer Awareness, English Language & Comprehension
b. Domain Knowledge: 60 questions
Indicative Syllabus for Domain Knowledge:
Rules governing the execution of Public Works in Government of India, National Electrical Code, Handling and management of electrical substations and captive power plant, solar plant etc. Public procurement policy of Govt. of India, rules and procedures for Goods, Services. CPWD works manual, GCC, specifications, estimate and analysis of various works items relating to Electrical, HVDC, DG sets, lift, wet risers, fire fighting etc. Indian Electricity Rules, Indian electricity act, Indian electricity supply act, CEA rules and regulation, Knowledge of various BIS specification relating to Electrical equipment.
Electrical Materials: Electrical Engineering Materials, ceramic materials, insulating materials, magnetic materials – basics, properties and applications, ferrities, ferro-magnetic materials and components; basic of solid state physics conductors, photo conductivity, Super conductors. Electric Circuits Network: KCL, KVL, Node and Mesh analysis, Transient response of dc and ac networks, Sinusoidal steady‐state analysis, Resonance, Ideal current and voltage sources, Thevenin’s theorem, Norton’s theorem, Superposition theorem, Maximum power transfer theorem, Two‐port networks, Three phase circuits, Magnetically coupled circuits, Gauss Theorem, electric field and potential due to point, line, plane and spherical charge distribution, Ampere’s and Biot-Savart’s laws; inductance, dielectrics, capacitance, Maxwell’s equations, power in AC circuits, power factor, etc.
Electrical and Electronic Measurement: Principles of measurement, accuracy precision and standards; Bridges and potentiometers; moving coil, moving iron, dynamometer and induction type instruments, measurement of voltage, current, power, energy and power factor, instrument transformers, digital voltmeters and multi meters, phase, time and frequency measurement, Q-meters, oscilloscopes, potentiometric recorders, error analysis, Basic of sensors, Transducers, basic of acquisition systems.
Electrical Machines: Induction motors – principles, types, performance characteristics starting and speed control, servo and stepper motors. Single phase transformer: equivalent circuit, phasor diagram, open circuit and short circuit tests, regulation and efficiency; Three phase transformers: connections, parallel operation; Auto‐transformer, Electromechanical energy conversion principles, DC machines: separately excited, series and shunt, motoring and generating mode of operation and their characteristics, starting and speed control of dc motors; Three phase induction motors: principle of operation, types, performance, torque-speed characteristics, no-load and blocked rotor tests, equivalent circuit, starting and speed control; Synchronous machines: cylindrical and salient pole machines, performance, regulation and parallel operation of generators, starting of synchronous motor, characteristics; Types of losses and efficiency calculations of electric machines.
Power Systems: Basic power generation concepts, steam, gas and water turbines, cable performance, insulation, corona and radio interference, fault analysis, principles of protection systems, basics of solid state relays and digital protection, Radial and ring main distribution systems, Matrix representation of power systems, load flow analysis, voltage control and economic operation, system stability concepts, Swing curves and equal area criterion. HVDC transmission and FACTS concepts of power system dynamics, distributed generation, solar and wind power, smart grid concepts, environmental implications, fundamentals of power economics, lighting, power relays, circuit breakers, transformer protection, generator protection, ac and dc transmission concepts, performance of transmission lines and cables, Series and shunt compensation, Electric field distribution and insulators, Distribution systems, Per‐unit quantities, Bus admittance matrix, Frequency control, Power factor correction, Symmetrical components, Symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis, Principles of over‐current, differential and distance protection; Circuit breakers, relays and lightning arrester, etc.
Power Electronics and Drives: Semiconductor power diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTOs, MOSFETs and IGBTs – static characteristics and principles of operations triggering circuits, phase control rectifiers, bridge converters – fully controlled and half controlled, principles of choppers and inverters, basis concepts of adjustable speed DC and 3 AC drives, DC-DC switched mode converters, DC-AC switched mode converters, resonant converters, high frequency inductors and transformers, power supplies, Characteristics of semiconductor power devices: Diode, Thyristor, Triac, GTO, MOSFET, IGBT; DC to DC conversion: Buck, Boost and Buck-Boost converters; Single and three phase configuration of uncontrolled rectifiers, Line commutated thyristor based converters, Bidirectional ac to dc voltage source converters, Issues of line current harmonics, Power factor, Distortion factor of ac to dc converters, Single phase and three phase inverters, Sinusoidal pulse width modulation. etc.
Utilization of electric energy: Welding, illumination, heating, traction railway supply, earthing, etc. Control System Engineering: Feedback, feed-forward, transfer function, industrial control of ac, dc, hydraulic, pneumatic devices, thermal systems. various process controls, transducers, control system stability, system time response, PID controller, root locus plots and stability etc, digital control systems
v. Duration: 2 hours
Stage II – Proficiency/ Skill Test will be conducted on a ‘Go/ No-Go’ basis i.e. it
will be treated as qualifying test.
Selection from among the shortlisted candidates will be done based on Stage-I
merit, subject to qualifying in Stage-II. In the event of tie, following criteria may
be adopted in sequence for deciding position in merit list:
i. Higher positive marks in Stage I
ii. Higher positive marks in Domain Knowledge
iii. Higher positive marks in General Syllabus
iv. Higher positive marks in Quantitative Aptitude
v. Higher positive marks in General Knowledge
vi. If the tie still persists, the decision of the Competent Authority will be final.
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