FCI 2019 Exam Pattern – Phase I & II

Food Corporation of India (FCI) had released the notification of 4103 vacancies to fill various posts.  FCI Phase 1 exam was held from 31st May- 3rd April 2019 and FCI Phase 2 exam will be conducted on 27th July 2019 (Category III). In this blog, we are going to provide you all the details about the FCI 2019 Exam Pattern of both Phase 1 and 2. Read along to check the details: 

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FCI Phase 2 Syllabus 2019

FCI 2019 Exam Pattern

The FCI online test will comprise of Phase-I and Phase-II exams.  The FCI Prelims exam pattern will be common for all the posts.

The exam pattern for Phase I Online exam is as follow:- 

Sr. No	Name of the Test	No. of Ques.	Max. Marks	Duration (minutes)	Medium
1	English Language	30	30	20 minutes	English
2	Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 minutes	Bilingual
3	Numerical Aptitude	35	35	20 minutes	Bilingual
		100	100	60 minutes

Note: – For each wrong answer, there will be negative marking of one-fourth (1/4) of the mark assigned to that question. The marks obtained in Phase I will not be reckoned in final merit ranking.

FCI Phase 2 Exam Pattern

AG III (General) & AG III (Depot)

PAPER – I
Sr. No.	Name of the Test	No. of Qs.	Max. Marks	Duration
1.	Reasoning/General Intelligence	30	30	90 Minutes
2.	English language	20	20
3.	Computer proficiency	20	20
4.	General Awareness/ Current events	30	30
5.	Data analysis/ Numerical Ability/ Data Interpretation	20	20
	TOTAL	120	120

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Junior Engineer (Civil), Junior Engineer (Electrical Mechanical), AG III (Accounts), AG III (Technical)

PAPER – I
Sr. No.	Name of the Test	No. of Qs.	Max. Marks	Duration
1.	Reasoning/General Intelligence	30	30	90 Minutes
2.	English language	20	20
3.	Computer proficiency	20	20
4.	General Awareness/Current events	30	30
5.	Data analysis/Numerical Ability/Data Interpretation	20	20
	TOTAL	120	120
PAPER – II
6.	Professional Knowledge **	60	120 (Each question carries 02 marks)	60 Minutes

** Separate test for each post.AG III (Technical) to have two separate  tests  for  Group  A  (Agriculture, Botany, Zoology) and Group B (Agriculture, Chemistry, Physics)

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Typist (Hindi)

Paper – III
Sr. No.	Name of the Test	No. of Qs.	Max. Marks	Duration
1.	General Hindi	40	40	90 Minutes
2.	General English	20	20
3.	General Awareness	20	20
4.	General Intelligence	20	20
5.	Computer Knowledge	20	20
	TOTAL	120	120

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AG II (Hindi)

PAPER – III
Sr. No.	Name of the Test	No. of Qs.	Max. Marks	Duration
1.	General Hindi	40	40	90 Minutes
2.	General English	20	20
3.	General Awareness	20	20
4.	General Intelligence	20	20
5.	Computer Knowledge	20	20
	TOTAL	120	120
PAPER – IV
6.	Subjective Paper	2 (Translation  passage. One each – Hindi to English & English to Hindi)	120 (Each question carries 60 marks)	90 Minutes

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Steno Grade II

PAPER – V
Sr. No.	Name of the Test	No. of Qs.	Max. Marks	Duration
1.	General English	40	40	90 Minutes
2.	General Awareness	20	20
3.	General Intelligence	20	20
4.	Computer Knowledge (with special reference to MS word and Internet)	40	40
	TOTAL	120	120

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FCI 2019: Distribution of Questions and Marks

Paper Type	Number of questions	Marks	Negative marking
Paper – I, Paper – III and Paper V	120 Multiple Choice Questions	120	Candidate should note that there will be negative marking of one fourth of the mark assigned to a question in Phase –II.
Post specific Paper-II (in phase II)	60 Multiple Choice Questions	120
Paper – IV (Subjective)	Two questions each carrying 60 marks.	120	No negative marking

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