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CIL Management Trainee Test Pattern

Name of the Subject Number of Number of Marks

Questions

100 100
Paper I

● General Knowledge/
Awareness
● Reasoning
● Numerical Ability
● General English

Paper II: Professional Knowledge 100 100

Total 200 Questions 200 Marks

Time Duration: 3 Hours

Multiple Choice Objective Questions

NOTE: There is no negative marking.

CIL MT Syllabus Topics

CIL MT General Awareness Syllabus

● Countries & Capitals

● Knowledge of Current Events
● Current Affairs – National & International
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● Economy, Banking, and Finance
● Budget and Five Year Plans
● Science – Inventions & Discoveries
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● History
● Geography
● Important Financial & Economic News
● Economy
● Indian Constitution
● India and its neighbouring countries
● Scientific Research
● Culture
● Sports
● General Politics

CIL Management Trainee Numerical Ability Syllabus

● Number System
● Decimals
● Fractions and relationships between numbers
● Percentages
● Basic algebraic identities of School Alge, Factor
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● Heights, and Distances
● A.P. & G.P.Series
● Profit and Loss
● Discount
● Mixture and Allegation
● Ratio & Proportion
● Time and distance
● Time & Work
● Square roots
● Averages
● Interest

CIL MT Reasoning Syllabus

● Analogies
● Similarities and differences
● Space visualization
● Spatial orientation
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● Non- verbal series

● Coding and decoding
● Observation
● Relationship concepts
● Arithmetical reasoning and figure classification
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● Arithmetic number series
● Word Building statement conclusion
● Problem solving
● Analysis
● Judgement
● Decision making
● Visual memory
● Discrimination
● Syllogistic reasoning
● Puzzle
● Venn Diagrams
● Symbolic/
● Number Classification
● Figural Classification etc.

CIL MT General English Syllabus

● Fill in the blanks (verbs, Preposition etc.)

● Error recognition
● Mis-spelt words
● Idioms & phrases
● One word substitution
● Sentences structure
● Sentence completion
● Shuffling of sentence parts
● Shuffling of sentences in a passage
● Comprehension passage
● Synonyms
● Antonyms
● Spelling/ Detecting
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Mechanical Engineering

● Engineering Mechanics: Free body diagrams and equilibrium; trusses and

frames; virtual work; kinematics and dynamics of particles and of rigid bodies in
plane motion; impulse and momentum (linear and angular) and energy
formulations, collisions.
● Mechanics of Materials: Stress and strain, elastic constants, Poisson's ratio;
Mohr’s circle for plane stress and plane strain; thin cylinders; shear force and
bending moment diagrams; bending and shear stresses; deflection of beams;
torsion of circular shafts; Euler’s theory of columns; energy methods; thermal
stresses; strain gauges and rosettes; testing of materials with universal testing
machine; testing of hardness and impact strength. Theory of Machines:
Displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis of plane mechanisms; dynamic
analysis of linkages; cams; gears and gear trains; flywheels and governors;
balancing of reciprocating and rotating masses; gyroscope. Vibrations: Free and
forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems,
● Theory of Machines: Displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis of plane
mechanisms; dynamic analysis of linkages; cams; gears and gear trains;
flywheels and governors; balancing of reciprocating and rotating masses;
gyroscope.
● Vibrations: Free and forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems, effect
of damping; vibration isolation; resonance; critical speeds of shafts.
● Machine Design: Design for static and dynamic loading; failure theories; fatigue
strength and the S-N diagram; principles of the design of machine elements such
as bolted, riveted and welded joints; shafts, gears, rolling and sliding contact
bearings, brakes and clutches, springs.
● Fluid Mechanics: Fluid properties; fluid statics, manometry, buoyancy, forces on
submerged bodies, stability of floating bodies; control-volume analysis of mass,
momentum and energy; fluid acceleration; differential equations of continuity and
momentum; Bernoulli’s equation; dimensional analysis;
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boundary layer, elementary turbulent flow, flow through pipes, head losses in
pipes, bends and fittings.
● Heat-Transfer: Modes of heat transfer; one dimensional heat conduction,
resistance concept and electrical analogy, heat transfer through fins; unsteady
heat conduction, lumped parameter system, Heisler's charts; thermal boundary
layer, dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer, heat
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transfer correlations for flow over flat plates and through pipes, effect of
turbulence; heat exchanger performance, LMTD and NTU methods; radiative
heat transfer, Stefan- Boltzmann law, Wien's displacement law, black and grey
surfaces, view factors, radiation network analysis.
● Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic systems and processes; properties of pure
substances, behaviour of ideal and real gases; zeroth and first laws of
thermodynamics, calculation of work and heat in various processes; second law
of thermodynamics; thermodynamic property charts and tables, availability and
irreversibility; thermodynamic relations.
● Applications: Power Engineering: Air and gas compressors; vapour and gas
power cycles, concepts of regeneration and reheat. I.C. Engines: Air-standard
Otto, Diesel and dual cycles. Refrigeration and air-conditioning: Vapour and gas
refrigeration and heat pump cycles; properties of moist air, psychrometric chart,
basic psychrometric processes. Turbomachinery: Impulse and reaction
principles, velocity diagrams, Pelton-wheel, Francis and Kaplan turbines.
Engineering Materials: Structure and properties of engineering materials, phase
diagrams, heat treatment, stress-strain diagrams for engineering materials.
Casting, Forming and Joining Processes: Different types of castings,
● Engineering Materials: Structure and properties of engineering materials, phase
diagrams, heat treatment, stress-strain diagrams for engineering materials.
Casting, Forming and Joining Processes: Different types of castings,
● Casting, Forming and Joining Processes: Different types of castings, design
of patterns, moulds and cores; solidification and cooling; riser and gating design.
Plastic deformation and yield criteria; fundamentals of hot and cold working
processes; load estimation for bulk (forging, rolling, extrusion, drawing) and sheet
(shearing, deep drawing, bending) metal forming processes; principles of powder
metallurgy. Principles of welding, brazing, soldering and adhesive bonding.
● Machining and Machine Tool Operations: Mechanics of machining; basic
machine tools; single and multi-point cutting tools, tool geometry and materials,
tool life and wear; economics of machining; principles of non-traditional
machining processes; principles of work holding, design of jigs and fixtures.
● Metrology and Inspection: Limits, fits and tolerances; linear and angular
measurements; comparators; gauge design; interferometry; form and finish
measurement; alignment and testing methods; tolerance analysis in
manufacturing and assembly. Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Basic
concepts of CAD/CAM and their integration tools. Production Planning and
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Control: Forecasting models, aggregate production planning, scheduling,

materials requirement planning. Inventory Control: Deterministic models; safety
stock inventory control systems. Operations Research: Linear programming,
● Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Basic concepts of CAD/CAM and their
integration tools. Production Planning and Control: Forecasting models,
aggregate production planning, scheduling, materials requirement planning.
Inventory Control: Deterministic models; safety stock inventory control systems.
Operations Research: Linear programming,
● Production Planning and Control: Forecasting models, aggregate production
planning, scheduling, materials requirement planning. Inventory Control:
Deterministic models; safety stock inventory control systems. Operations
Research: Linear programming,
● Inventory Control: Deterministic models; safety stock inventory control systems.
● Operations Research: Linear programming, Operations Research, Linear
programming, simplex method, transportation, assignment, network flow models,
simple queuing models, PERT and CPM.

Civil Engineering

● Engineering Mechanics: System of forces, free-body diagrams, equilibrium

equations; Internal forces in structures
● Friction and its applications; Kinematics of point mass and rigid body
● Centre of mass, Euler’s equations of motion; Impulse-momentum; Energy
methods; Principles of virtual work
● Solid Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate
beams
● Simple stress and strain relationships; Theories of failures; Simple bending
theory, flexural and shear stresses, shear
● Solid Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate
beams
● Simple stress and strain relationships; Theories of failures; Simple bending
theory
● Flexural and shear stresses, shear centre; Uniform torsion, buckling of column,
combined and direct bending stresses
● Structural Analysis: Statically determinate and indeterminate structures by force/
energy methods; Method of superposition; Analysis of trusses, arches, beams,
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● Structural Analysis: Statically determinate and indeterminate structures by

force/ energy methods; Method of superposition
● Analysis of trusses, arches, beams, cables and frames; Displacement methods:
Slope deflection and moment distribution methods
● Influence lines; Stiffness and flexibility methods of structural analysis
● Construction Materials and Management: Construction Materials: Structural steel
- composition, material properties and
● Construction Materials and Management: Construction Materials: Structural
steel - composition, material properties and behavior
● Concrete - constituents, mix design, shortterm and long-term properties; Bricks
and mortar; Timber; Bitumen.
● Construction Management: Types of construction projects; Tendering and
construction contracts; Rate analysis and standard specifications;
● Cost estimation; Project planning and network analysis - PERT and CPM.
Concrete Structures: Working stress, Limit
● Concrete Structures: Working stress, Limit state and Ultimate load design
concepts; Design of beams, slabs, columns
● Bond and development length; Prestressed concrete; Analysis of beam sections
at transfer and service loads
● Steel Structures: Working stress and Limit state design concepts; Design of
tension and compression members, beams and beam- columns, column bases
● Connections - simple and eccentric, beam-column connections, plate
● Steel Structures
○ Working stress and Limit state design concepts
○ Design of tension and compression members, beams and beam- columns,
column bases
○ Connections - simple and eccentric, beam-column connections, plate
girders and trusses; Plastic analysis of beams and frames.
● Soil Mechanics: Origin of soils, soil structure and fabric; Three-phase system
and phase relationships, index properties; Unified and Indian standard soil
classification system
● Permeability - one dimensional flow, Darcy’s law; Seepage through soils -
two-dimensional flow, flow nets, uplift pressure, piping
● Principle of effective stress, capillarity, seepage force and quicksand condition;
Compaction in laboratory and field conditions; One-dimensional consolidation,
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time rate of consolidation; Mohr’s circle, stress paths, effective and total shear
strength parameters, characteristics of clays and sand.
● Foundation Engineering: Sub-surface investigations - scope, drilling bore
holes, sampling, plate load test, standard penetration and cone penetration tests;
● Earth pressure theories - Rankine and Coulomb; Stability of slopes - finite and
infinite slopes, method of slices and Bishop’s method; Stress distribution in soils -
Boussinesq’s and Westergaard’s theories, pressure bulbs;
● Shallow foundations - Terzaghi’s and Meyerhoff’s bearing capacity theories,
effect of water table; Combined footing and raft foundation;
● Contact pressure; Settlement analysis in sands and clays; Deep foundations -
types of piles, dynamic and 2/4 static formulae, load capacity of piles in sands
and clays, pile load test, negative skin friction.
● Fluid Mechanics: Properties of fluids, fluid statics; Continuity, momentum,
energy and corresponding equations;
● Potential flow, applications of momentum and energy equations; Laminar and
turbulent flow; Flow in pipes, pipe networks; Concept of boundary layer and its
growth.
● Hydraulics: Forces on immersed bodies; Flow measurement in channels and
pipes;
● Dimensional analysis and hydraulic similitude; Kinematics of flow, velocity
triangles; Basics of hydraulic machines, specific speed of pumps and turbines;
● Channel Hydraulics - Energy depth relationships, specific energy, critical flow,
slope profile, hydraulic jump, uniform flow and gradually varied flow
● Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, evapo-transpiration,
watershed, infiltration, unit hydrographs, hydrograph analysis, flood estimation
and routing, reservoir capacity, reservoir and channel routing, surface run-off
models, ground water hydrology - steady state well hydraulics and aquifers;
Application of Darcy’s law.
● Irrigation: Duty, delta, estimation of evapo-transpiration; Crop water
requirements;
● Design of lined and unlined canals, head works, gravity dams and spillways;
● Design of weirs on permeable foundation; Types of irrigation systems, irrigation
methods; Water logging and drainage; Canal regulatory works, cross-drainage
structures, outlets and escapes.
● Water and Waste Water: Quality standards, basic unit processes and operations
for water treatment.
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● Drinking water standards, water requirements, basic unit operations and unit
processes for surface water treatment, distribution of water.
● Sewage and sewerage treatment, quantity and characteristics of wastewater.
● Primary, secondary and tertiary treatment of wastewater, effluent discharge
standards.
● Domestic wastewater treatment, quantity of characteristics of domestic
wastewater, primary and secondary treatment. Unit operations and unit
processes of domestic wastewater, sludge disposal.
● Air Pollution: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution
meteorology, air pollution control, air quality standards and limits.
● Municipal Solid Wastes: Characteristics, generation, collection and
transportation of solid wastes, engineered systems for solid waste management
(reuse/ recycle, energy recovery, treatment and disposal).
● Noise Pollution: Impacts of noise, permissible limits of noise pollution,
measurement of noise and control of noise pollution.
● Transportation Infrastructure: Highway alignment and engineering surveys;
● Geometric design of highways - cross-sectional elements, sight distances,
horizontal and vertical alignments;
● Geometric design of railway track; Airport runway length, taxiway and exit
taxiway design.
● Highway Pavements: Highway materials - desirable properties and quality
control tests;
● Design of bituminous paving mixes; Design factors for flexible and rigid
pavements;
● Design of flexible pavement using IRC: 37-2012; Design of rigid pavements using
IRC: 58- 2011; Distresses in concrete pavements.
● Traffic Engineering: Traffic studies on flow, speed, travel time - delay and O-D
study, PCU, peak hour factor, parking study, accident study and analysis,
statistical analysis of traffic data; Microscopic and macroscopic parameters of
traffic flow, fundamental relationships;
● Control devices, signal design by Webster’s method; Types of intersections and
channelization; Highway capacity and level of service of rural highways and
urban roads.
● Surveying: Principles of surveying; Errors and their adjustment; Maps - scale,
coordinate system; Distance and angle measurement - Levelling and
trigonometric leveling;
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● Traversing and triangulation survey; Total station; Horizontal and vertical curves.
● Photogrammetry - scale, flying height; Remote sensing - basics, platform and
sensors, visual image interpretation; Basics of Geographical information system
(GIS) and Geographical Positioning system (GPS).

Electrical Engineering

● Electric circuits: Network graph, KCL, KVL, Node and Mesh analysis, Transient
response of dc and ac networks Sinusoidal steady‐state analysis, Resonance,
Passive filters, Ideal current and Voltage sources Thevenin’s Theorem, Norton’s
theorem, Superposition theorem, Maximum power transfer theorem Two‐port
networks, Three phase circuits, Power and power factor in ac circuit .
● Signals and Systems: Representation of continuous and discrete‐time signals,
Shifting and scaling operations Linear Time Invariant and Causal systems,
Fourier series representation of continuous periodic signals Sampling theorem,
Applications of Fourier Transform, Laplace Transform and z-Transform
● Electrical and Electronic Measurements: Bridges and Potentiometers,
Measurement of voltage, current, power, energy and power factor Instrument
transformers, Digital voltmeters and multimeters, Phase, Time and Frequency
measurement
Oscilloscopes, Error analysis.
● Analog & Digital Electronics: Characteristics of diodes, BJT, MOSFET; Simple
diode circuits: clipping, clamping, rectifiers;
● Amplifiers: Biasing, Equivalent circuit and Frequency response; Oscillators and
Feedback amplifiers; Operational amplifiers: Characteristics and applications;
Simple active filters, VCOs and Timers, Combinational and Sequential logic
circuits, Multiplexer, Demultiplexer, Schmitt trigger, Sample and hold circuits, A/D
and D/A converters,
8085 Microprocessor: Architecture, Programming and Interfacing.
● Power Electronics: 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
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● Control Systems: Mathematical modeling and representation of systems,

Feedback principle, transfer function, Block diagrams and Signal flow graphs,
Transient and Steady‐state analysis of linear time invariant systems,
Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist criteria, Bode plots, Root loci,Stability analysis, Lag,
Lead and Lead‐Lag compensators; P, PI and PID controllers; State space model,
State transition matrix.
● Power Systems: Power generation concepts, ac and dc transmission concepts,
Models and performance of transmission lines and cables, Series and shunt
compensation, Electric field distribution and insulators, Distribution systems,
Per‐unit quantities, Bus admittance matrix, Gauss Sideline and Newton-Raphson
load flow methods, Voltage and Frequency control, Power factor correction,
Symmetrical components, Symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis,
Principles of over‐current, differential and distance protection; Circuit
breakers,System stability concepts, Equal area criterion.
● Electrical Machines: 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;
Operating principle of single phase induction motors; 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.
● Electromagnetic fields: Coulomb's Law, Electric Field Intensity, Electric Flux
Density, Gauss's Law, Divergence, Electric field and potential due to point, line,
plane and spherical charge distributions, Effect of dielectric medium,
Capacitance of simple configurations, Biot‐Savart’s law, Ampere's law, Curl,
Faraday’s laws, Lorentz force, Inductance, Magnetomotive force, Reluctance,
Magnetic circuits, Self and Mutual inductance of simple configurations.
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Systems/ IT Engineering

● Algorithms: Searching, sorting, hashing. Asymptotic worst case time and space
complexity. Algorithm design techniques: greedy, dynamic programming and
divide‐and‐conquer. Graph Search,minimum spanning trees,shortest path.
● Programming and Data Structures: Programming in C. Recursion. Arrays,
stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.
● Computer Networks: Concept of layering. LAN technologies (Ethernet). Flow
and error control techniques, switching. IPv4/IPv6, routers and routing algorithms
(distance vector, link state). TCP/UDP and sockets,
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protocols (DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP). Basics of Wi-Fi. Network security:
authentication, basics of public key and private key cryptography, digital
signatures and certificates, firewalls.
● Computer Organization and Architecture: Machine instructions and
addressing modes. ALU, data‐path and control unit. Instruction pipe lining,
Memory hierarchy, Cache, Main memory and secondary storage, I/O interface
(interrupt and DMA mode).
● Databases: ER‐model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, SQL.
Integrity constraints, normal forms. File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+
trees). Transactions and concurrency control.
● Operating System: Processes, threads, inter‐process communication,
concurrency and synchronization. Deadlock,CPU, Scheduling,Memory
Management and virtual memory, Fire Systems
● Digital Logic: Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits.
Minimization. Number representations and computer arithmetic (fixed and
floating point).
● Compiler Design: Lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation. Run
time environments. Intermediate code generation.
● Theory of Computation: Regular expressions and finite automata. Context-free
grammars and push-down automata. Regular and context-free languages,
pumping lemma. Turing machines and undesirability.