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ETO Exam Syllabus

The document outlines the syllabus and important topics for the Electro-Technical Officer (ETO) Entrance Exam. It covers principles of direct and alternating current, electronics, batteries, electric fields, electrical machines, protection and switchgear, electrical and electronic measurements, English, aptitude, and a psychometric test. Some key topics include production and properties of AC and DC, resistors, inductors, and capacitors in series and parallel circuits, semiconductors, diodes, rectifiers, transistors, amplifiers, transformers, motors, circuit breakers, and equipment for electrical measurements.

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ETO Exam Syllabus

The document outlines the syllabus and important topics for the Electro-Technical Officer (ETO) Entrance Exam. It covers principles of direct and alternating current, electronics, batteries, electric fields, electrical machines, protection and switchgear, electrical and electronic measurements, English, aptitude, and a psychometric test. Some key topics include production and properties of AC and DC, resistors, inductors, and capacitors in series and parallel circuits, semiconductors, diodes, rectifiers, transistors, amplifiers, transformers, motors, circuit breakers, and equipment for electrical measurements.

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Electro-Technical Officer (ETO) Entrance Exam

SYLLABUS & IMPORTANT TOPICS

 Principle of Direct and Alternating current and circuits


• Production of DC & AC
• Concept of frequency and wave form,
• Instantaneous maximum and average values
• Form factor for sinusoidal wave.
• Concept of phase and phase difference.
• Concept of resistance, inductance, capacitance.
• Power and power factor.
• Alternating voltage applied to resistance and inductance in series and RLC
series/parallel circuits.
• Practical importance of power factor
• Concept of three phase system
• Star delta connection, voltage and current relationship.
• Sinusoidal steady-state analysis, resonance, basic filter concepts
• Thevenin’s, Norton’s, Superposition and Maximum Power Transfer theorems,

 Electronics
• Semi conductors theory
• Pn Junction diodes
• Forward and Reversed Bias
• Principle of working of electronic rectifier
• Full wave and half wave rectifiers
• Zener Diode
• voltage stabilization by Zener diode.
• Amplifiers biasing
• Oscillators and feedback amplifiers
• Transistors
• Thyristors
• Triacs
• Triggering circuits
• Phase control rectifiers
• Bridge converters fully controlled and half controlled
• SCR
• PLC

 Batteries
• Construction of lead acid batteries and S.M.F. batteries
• Battery charging and necessary precautions.
 Electric Fields
• Gauss Theorem
• Electric field and potential due to point, line, plane and spherical charge
distributions
• Ampere’s and Biot-Savart’s laws
• Inductance
• Dielectrics
• Capacitance.
 Electrical Machines
• Synchronous Motor
• Single Phase transformer & three phase transformers
• Armature reaction and commutation
• Starting and speed control of motors
• Starters : Star Delta, DOL, Auto transformer
• Three phase induction motors principles
• Single phase induction motors
• Parallel operation of generators
 Protection and switchgear
• Principles of over-current
• Differential and distance protection
• Solid state relays and digital protection
• Circuit breakers : ACB, VCB, MCB, OCB, SF6,

 Electrical and Electronic Measurements


• Use of multi-meter, ohm meter, megger, earth tester etc.
• Bridges and potentiometers
• Measurement of voltage, current, power, energy and power factor
• Digital voltmeters and multimeters
 ENGLISH
• Sentence Completion
• Grammar
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Verbal Ability
 APTITUDE
• Qualitative reasoning
• Quantitative reasoning
• Abstract reasoning
• Spatial reasoning
• Logical reasoning
 Psychometric Test

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