Scheme of Examination

The Competitive Examination will be held in two successive stages:

1. Preliminary Examination
2. Main Examination

1. Preliminary Examination

The Preliminary Examination will consist of two papers: one compulsory and one optional, both objective type, carrying a maximum of 400 marks. This exam serves as a screening test. Marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination are not considered for the final merit list of candidates qualified for the Main Examination. The number of candidates admitted to the Main Examination will be 15 times the approximate number of vacancies, plus all candidates tied at the cut-off score.

Section - B

• PERSONALITY AND VIVA-VOCE EXAMINATION:-
  1. Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written test of the Main examination as may be fixed by the Commission in their discretion shall be summoned by them for interview. Provided that no candidate who fails to obtain a minimum of 35% marks in each of the two compulsory papers and a minimum of 40% marks in the aggregate shall be called by the Commission for interview which carries 72 marks.
  2. The Commission shall award marks to each candidates interviewed by them. In interviewing the candidates besides awarding marks in respect of character, personality, address and physique, marks shall also be awarded for the candidate's knowledge of Rajasthani culture. The marks so awarded shall be added to the marks obtained in the written test or the main examination by each such candidate.
  3. The standard of the papers will be that of Bachelor's Degree level except paper on Hindi which will be of Senior Secondary Level.
  4. All papers unless specifically required shall be answered either in Hindi or in English, but no candidate shall be permitted to answer any one paper partly in Hindi and partly in English unless specifically allowed to do so.
  5. If a candidate's hand-writing is not easily legible, a deduction will be made on this account from the total marks otherwise accruing to him.
  6. Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact expression combined with due economy of words in all subjects of the examination.
  7. It is obligatory for a candidate to appear in all the compulsory papers and in optional papers.

Note - 1: The Commission shall not recommend any candidate for the State Engineering Services, who has failed to obtain a minimum of 50% marks in the aggregate.

Note - 2: The Commission shall, in case of Woman Candidates, candidates belonging to the Backward Classes, More Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections, Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes recommend the names of such candidates upto the number of vacancies reserved for them from amongst those who have qualified for interview, even if they fail to obtain the aggregate marks prescribed under Note – 1.

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Syllabus :- Civil Engineering

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1. A. ENGINEERING MATERIALS & CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY
   1. Selection of site for the construction of various types of buildings: Planning and orientation of buildings.
   2. Bonds in masonry. Damp proof course. Scaffolding, underpinning, and racking.
   3. Floors. Staircases. Roofs. Doors and Windows.
   4. Requirements of fire protection. Ventilation and air conditioning and acoustics.
   5. Building and highway materials and their IS codal provisions. Stones, Bricks, timber, Lime, Cement, Mortar, Glass, Plastics, Steel, FRP, Ceramics, Aluminium, Fly Ash, Basic Admixtures, Plain and reinforced Cement Concrete, Bitumen.

2. B. SURVEYING
   1. Leveling, Use of Theodolite, Total Station, tacheometry, Trigonometrical and Triangulation survey.
   2. Traversing and Traverse Adjustment, Contours and contouring.
   3. Simple Circular Compound and Transition Curves and their setting out.
   4. Theory of errors and survey adjustment. Computations of areas and volumes.
   5. Basics of Remote Sensing, Global Positioning System, Geographic Information System, Digital Elevation Method.

3. C. SOIL/ GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
   1. Classification of soil as per I.S. code, Field identification tests for soils; water content, specific gravity, voids ratio, porosity, degree saturation; unit weight, density index, etc; and their inter-relationships.
   2. Determinations of various properties of soils as noted above as well as grain size distribution, consistency limits, etc.
   3. Soil permeability and its determination in the laboratory and field; Darcy's law, Flow nets, its Characteristics and uses.
   4. Compaction and consolidation of soil, soil stabilization methods. Boussinesq’s methods. Newmark’s chart and its uses.
   5. Shear strength parameters and their determination Bearing capacity, local and general shear failures, design Criteria for shallow foundation, Plate load test and standard penetration test. Earth pressures on retaining wall. Stability of simple slopes. Properties and uses of geosynthetics.

4. D. STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
   1. Stress and strains, elastic constants, factor of safety, relation among elastic constants.
   2. Bending moment and shear force diagrams for cantilever, simply supported and overhanging, fixed and continuous beams subjected to static loads:- concentrated, uniformly distributed and uniformly varying, couple (moment).
   3. Theory of simple bending. Shear Stress, torsion, shear centre, Influence lines for determinate structures.
   4. Deflection of cantilever, simply supported fixed and continuous beams.
   5. Analysis of Determinate and Indeterminate structures for axially loaded members, beams, frames pin jointed- Plane and space frames.

5. E. STEEL STRUCTURES
   1. Provisions of latest versions of IS : 800 and 875, Limit State Design.
   2. Design of bolted connections, welded connections.
   3. Design of axially and eccentrically loaded tension members.
   4. Design of axially and eccentrically loaded compression members.
   5. Design of beams, Design of column bases (slab base and gusseted base).
   6. Design of plate girder, gantry girder, Design of roof trusses, Concepts of Plastic theory.

6. F. REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
   1. Provisions of latest IS: 456, design of beams singly and doubly reinforced, design of flexure and shear reinforcement. Serviceability criteria.
   2. Design for bond, anchorage and development length.
   3. Design of slabs spanning in two directions and T-beam slabs.
   4. Design of column axially and uniaxially eccentrically loaded.
   5. Design of isolated and combined column footings.
   6. Design of simple RCC cantilever and counterfort retaining walls.
   7. Provisions of latest IS: 3370, Reinforcement in overhead, ground supported and underground water tanks.

7. G. FLUID MECHANICS INCLUDING HYDROLOGY AND IRRIGATION
   1. Properties of fluids, Hydraulic pressure at a point and its measurement. total pressure and centre of pressure on plane and curved immersed surfaces, fluid flow conditions.
   2. Bernoulli’s, Navier-Stokes, Reynold’s equations, flow through orifices venturimeter, notches and wires, flow through pipes and open channels, Gradually and rapidly varied flow.
   3. Momentum and angular momentum principles as applied to fluid in a control volume, applications of jets, Viscous flow, concept of drag, flow through pipes.
   4. Dimensional analysis, Model similitude, Model scales, Physical modeling, Computational hydraulics- theory and applications, Momentum and energy equations.
   5. Engineering hydrology; Hydrology of floods and drought reservoirs and dams; spillways, ground water hydrology. Irrigation: canals, silt theories, Khosla’s theories for design of hydraulic structures. Ground water and well irrigation, water logging.

8. H. PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING
   1. Water demand for urban and rural areas, Forecast of population. Sources.
   2. Water supply standards of purity of public water supplies with various methods of purification.
   3. House drainage system Distribution network with all the ancillaries: system of drainage.
   4. Characteristics of waste water- BOD, COD, DO and TOC, Layout of sewerage systems.
   5. Primary, secondary treatments, sequencing batch reactor, trickling filters, lagoons and other treatment units and their design criteria. Flushing of sewers; sewage treatment; rural water supply and sanitation, classification of solid waste.

9. I. HIGHWAY AND BRIDGES
   1. Principles of highway planning; classification of road land width, building line, center line, formation width, terrain classification.
   2. Geometric Design: pavement width, Camber, longitudinal gradient, sight distance, horizontal curve, super elevation, vertical curve, lateral and vertical clearances.
   3. Flexible pavements. Sub-base, base course and shoulder stone / Kankar brick soling, WBM courses, shoulders. Granular sub-base, stabilized soil roads cement / lime stabilized sub base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete base/sub-base course.
   4. Rigid pavements: Application of tie and dowel bars
   5. Traffic Engineering: traffic characteristics, road user characteristics, vehicular characteristics, volume, speed and delay studies origin and destination study, traffic flow characteristics, traffic capacity and parking studies, traffic regulation, traffic control devices, Intersection control. Alignment
   6. Highway construction and maintenance of different types of roads. Need for highway drainage and arboriculture.
   7. Highway bridges: Provisions of latest versions of IRC:5, IRC:6, IRC:21.