SSC JE Mechanical Syllabus | Detailed Syllabus For Paper I & II

SSC JE is an exam conducted for the post of ‘Junior Engineer’ in various ministries, departments, and organizations that come under the Government of India. In order to take the examination, a person needs to fulfill certain eligibility criteria in terms of age, educational qualification, etc. To get now about this in detail, please follow this link. When we talk about educational qualification, it requires one to have a degree or diploma in one of the following streams: Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. The SSC JE Exam is conducted in 2 stages – Paper-I and Paper-II. Paper-I is an objective type paper, while Paper II is descriptive. For a detailed scheme, please visit here. A lot of times we struggle to understand the paper pattern and the syllabus of the exam. This article aims to help you with this. Here we will get an insight into the SSC JE Mechanical Syllabus.

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The Pattern for Paper I & Paper II – SSC JE Mechanical Syllabus

The examination consists of two papers. Paper-I is a computer-based examination and Paper-II is the descriptive type. Detail of these papers are mentioned below:

Papers/ Mode of Examination	Subject	No of Questions/ Maximum marks	Duration
Paper-I (Objective Type) Computer Based Examination	(i) General   Intelligence and Reasoning (ii) General   Awareness (iii) Part-A General Engineering (Civil & Structural) or Part-B General Engineering (Electrical) or Part-C General Engineering (Mechanical)	50/50   50/50       100/100	2 Hours (40 mins extra for people using scribe)
Paper-II (Descriptive Type) Written  Examination	Part-A General Engineering (Civil & Structural) or Part-B General Engineering (Electrical) or Part-C General Engineering (Mechanical)	300	2 Hours (40 mins extra for people using scribe)

The Paper-I consists of d multiple-choice questions only. The question paper will be set in both the languages i.e. English & Hindi. There is a negative marking in Paper-I which is of 0.25 marks per each wrong answer. For Paper-II, we find no mention of negative marking in the official notification.

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Detailed SSC JE Mechanical Syllabus

The following will provide a detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering both for Paper-I and Paper-II.

Syllabus for Paper-I

1. General Intelligence & Reasoning

2. General Awareness

3. General Engineering: Civil & Structural, Electrical and Mechanical

Part-A (Civil Engineering)

Part-B (Electrical Engineering)

Part-C (Mechanical Engineering)

• Theory of Machines and Machine Design
• Engineering Mechanics and Strength of Materials
• Properties of Pure Substances
• 1st Law of Thermodynamics, 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
• Air standard Cycles for IC Engines, IC Engine Performance, IC Engines Combustion, IC Engine Cooling& Lubrication, Rankine cycle of System
• Boilers, Classification, Specification, Fitting & Accessories
• Air Compressors & their cycles, Refrigeration cycles, Principle of Refrigeration Plant, Nozzles & Steam Turbines

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Syllabus for Paper-II

SSC JE Mechanical Syllabus for Paper-II is as follows.

Theory of Machines and Machine Design:

Concept of a Simple machine, Four bar linkage and link motion, Flywheels and fluctuation of energy, Power transmission by belts–V-belts and Flat belts, Clutches–Plate and Conical clutch, Gears–Type of gears, gear profile and gear ratio calculation, Governors–Principles and Classification, Riveted joints, Cams, Bearings, Friction in collars and pivots.

Engineering Mechanics and Strength of Materials:

Equilibrium of Forces, Law of motion, Friction, Concepts of stress and strain, Elastic limit and elastic constants, Bending moments and shear force diagram, Stress in composite bars, Torsion of circular shafts, Buckling of columns – Euler’s and Rankin’s theories, Thin-walled pressure vessels.

Thermal Engineering:

Properties of Pure Substances: p-v & P-T diagrams of pure substance like H2O, Introduction of steam table with respect to steam generation process; definition of saturation, wet & superheated status. Definition of dryness fraction of steam, degree of superheat of the steam.H-s chart of steam (Mollier’sChart).

1st Law of Thermodynamics: Definition of stored energy & internal energy, 1st Law of thermodynamics of cyclic process, Non-Flow Energy Equation, Flow Energy & Definition of enthalpy, Conditions for Steady State Steady Flow; Steady State Steady Flow Energy Equation.

2nd Law of Thermodynamics: Definition of Sink, Source Reservoir of Heat, Heat Engine, Heat Pump& Refrigerator; Thermal Efficiency of Heat Engines & co-efficient of performance of Refrigerators, Kelvin–Planck & Clausius Statements of 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, Absolute or Thermodynamic Scale of temperature, Clausius Integral, Entropy, Entropy change calculation of ideal gas processes.Carnot Cycle & Carnot Efficiency, PMM-2; definition & its impossibility.

Air standard Cycles for IC engines: Otto cycle; plot on P-V, T-S Planes; Thermal Efficiency, DieselCycle; Plot on P-V, T-S planes; Thermal efficiency. IC Engine Performance, IC Engine Combustion, IC Engine Cooling & Lubrication.

Rankine cycle of steam: Simple Rankine cycle plot on P-V, T-S,h-s planes, Rankine cycle efficiency with & without pump work.

Boilers: Classification; Specification; Fittings & Accessories: Fire Tube & Water Tube Boilers.

Air Compressors & their cycles; Refrigeration cycles; Principle of a Refrigeration Plant; Nozzles & Steam Turbines

Fluid Mechanics & Machinery:

Properties & Classification of Fluid: Ideal & real fluids, Newton’s law of viscosity, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, compressible and incompressible fluids.

Fluid Statics: Pressure at a point.

Measurement of Fluid Pressure: Manometers, U-tube, Inclined tube.

Fluid Kinematics: Streamline, laminar & turbulent flow, external & internal flow, continuity equation.

Dynamics of Ideal Fluids: Bernoulli’s equation, Total head; Velocity head; Pressure head; Application of Bernoulli’s equitation.

Measurement of Flow rate Basic Principles: Venturimeter, Pilot tube, Orifice meter.

Hydraulic Turbines: Classifications, Principles.

Centrifugal Pumps: Classifications, Principles, Performance.

Production Engineering

Classification of Steels: mild steel & alloy steel, Heat treatment of steel, Welding–Arc Welding, Gas Welding, Resistance Welding, Special Welding Techniques i.e. TIG, MIG, etc. (Brazing &Soldering), Welding Defects & Testing; NDT, Foundry & Casting–methods, defects, different casting processes, Forging, Extrusion, etc, Metal cutting principles, cutting tools, Basic Principles of machining with (i) Lathe (ii) Milling (iii) Drilling (iv) Shaping (v) Grinding, Machines, tools &manufacturing processes.

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That’s all from us in this article. We hope you find the syllabus provided here useful. For details on SSC JE Civil Syllabus, visit here.

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