AMIE Section B EEE Exam study materials
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AMIE Section B EEE Exam study plan

AMIE Section B EEE Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Electrical Engineering Division

  • Derive and apply the per-unit system to a three-bus power network with a generator, transformer, and load, converting all impedances to a common base.

  • Calculate line currents, voltage drops, and power losses for a 5 km 11 kV distribution feeder given conductor resistance and reactance per kilometre.

  • Select the correct cable size and protective device rating for a 400 V motor branch circuit by applying derating factors for ambient temperature and grouping.

  • Explain the operating principle of a three-phase induction motor and compute synchronous speed, slip, and rotor frequency from nameplate data.

Your checkpoint

A one-page worked calculation sheet (with per-unit diagram, feeder voltage-drop result, cable-sizing table, and motor slip calculation) that another engineer could follow without additional notes.

Week 2

Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Division

  • Design a passive Butterworth low-pass filter with a specified cutoff frequency and source/load impedance, and verify the component values by hand calculation.

  • Compute the noise figure of a two-stage receiver chain from stage gain and noise figure data, and identify which stage dominates overall noise performance.

  • Draw the small-signal model of a common-emitter BJT amplifier and calculate mid-band voltage gain, input resistance, and output resistance.

  • Compare ASK, FSK, and PSK modulation schemes in terms of bandwidth efficiency and bit-error-rate performance for a given Eb/N0.

Your checkpoint

A concise design note containing the filter schematic with calculated component values, the cascaded noise-figure table, the amplifier small-signal results, and a comparison table of the three modulation schemes.

Week 3

Electrical Engineering Division & Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Division

  • Solve a symmetrical three-phase fault problem using per-unit analysis and verify the result against a hand-calculated Thevenin equivalent.

  • Determine the output voltage and ripple of a full-wave bridge rectifier with a capacitor-input filter for a specified load current.

  • Explain how a current transformer ratio and burden affect protection accuracy, and select a CT for an overcurrent relay setting.

  • Describe the trade-offs between linear and switched-mode power supplies in terms of efficiency, EMI, and thermal design.

Your checkpoint

A two-page integration summary that links the fault-calculation result to the CT selection and power-supply choice, showing all intermediate values and assumptions.

Week 4

Computer Engineering Division

  • Implement and trace a recursive binary-search algorithm, stating its time and space complexity and identifying the base case and recurrence relation.

  • Convert a given infix expression to postfix using a stack, and evaluate the postfix expression step by step.

  • Design a normalized relational schema for a small library system, identifying primary keys, foreign keys, and the normal form achieved.

  • Explain the difference between process and thread, and describe how a mutex prevents a race condition in a shared-counter example.

Your checkpoint

A single PDF containing hand-traced algorithm outputs, the normalized schema diagram with keys labelled, and a short written explanation of the concurrency example.

Week 5

Computer Engineering Division

  • Construct a truth table for a 4-bit combinational circuit and minimize the Boolean expression using a Karnaugh map.

  • Describe the fetch-decode-execute cycle and calculate the effective memory access time for a two-level cache hierarchy given hit ratios and latencies.

  • Compare IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnet a given IPv4 network into four equal subnets, listing network and broadcast addresses.

  • Outline the TCP three-way handshake and explain how flow control and congestion control differ.

Your checkpoint

A study card set (digital or paper) with the minimized Boolean expression, the cache access-time calculation, the subnet table, and a labelled handshake diagram.

Week 6

Mechanical Engineering Division

  • Analyse a simply supported beam carrying a uniformly distributed load and draw the shear-force and bending-moment diagrams, stating maximum values and locations.

  • Calculate the thermal expansion stress in a restrained steel bar and explain how the result changes if one end is free.

  • Determine the required diameter of a solid shaft transmitting a given torque at a specified allowable shear stress.

  • Describe the four-stroke cycle of a diesel engine and compute indicated power from mean effective pressure, speed, and cylinder dimensions.

Your checkpoint

A worked solutions sheet with the shear and moment diagrams drawn to scale, the thermal-stress result, the shaft diameter, and the engine power calculation.

Week 7

Civil Engineering Division

  • Compute the reactions and member forces in a simply supported truss using the method of joints, and verify one member by the method of sections.

  • Classify a soil sample by sieve analysis and Atterberg limits, and state its suitability as a subgrade material.

  • Calculate the discharge through a rectangular channel using Manning's equation and check whether the flow is subcritical or supercritical.

  • Estimate the concrete volume and reinforcement weight for a rectangular footing from a given bar-bending schedule.

Your checkpoint

A calculation package containing the truss force table, the soil classification with justification, the channel discharge and Froude number, and the quantity take-off for the footing.

Week 8

Electrical Engineering Division & Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Division & Computer Engineering Division & Mechanical Engineering Division & Civil Engineering Division

  • Complete a timed 60-question mixed-domain mock examination under exam conditions and record the score per domain.

  • Review every incorrect mock question and write a corrected one-line rule or formula for each.

  • Re-derive the three formulas you most often misapplied across the eight weeks and confirm them against first principles.

  • Produce a personal formula sheet limited to two sides of A4 covering the highest-yield equations from all five domains.

Your checkpoint

A mock-exam score report with per-domain breakdown, a correction log for every wrong answer, and the final two-sided formula sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Complete the week-1 and week-2 calculation sheets without referring to worked examples, and score at least 70% on a self-marked 20-question set covering per-unit analysis, cable sizing, filter design, and noise figure.

Week 4: Explain the symmetrical-fault, rectifier, and CT-selection results aloud in under ten minutes, and correctly trace the binary-search and postfix-evaluation algorithms on paper with no errors.

Week 6: Draw the shear-force and bending-moment diagrams for the beam problem from memory and state the maximum values correctly, and achieve at least 65% on a 30-question mixed set from domains 1 to 4.

Week 8: Score at least 60% overall on the timed mock exam with no domain below 50%, and submit the completed correction log and two-sided formula sheet.