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RBSE SS Voc Electrical and Elect study plan

RBSE SS Voc Electrical and Elect · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Basic Electrical Fundamentals: voltage, current, resistance, power, Ohm's law, series and parallel circuits & Measurement, Testing and Instruments: multimeters, oscilloscopes, bridges, fault finding

  • State and apply Ohm's law and the power equation to at least 30 numerical problems, showing units at every step.

  • Compute equivalent resistance, branch current, and voltage drop for series, parallel, and two-level mixed circuits without reference notes.

  • Describe how a moving-coil meter movement is adapted into voltmeter, ammeter, and ohmmeter ranges using shunts and multipliers.

  • Demonstrate correct multimeter use on a breadboard circuit: measure voltage, current, and resistance and record readings in a log.

Your checkpoint

A worked problem set of 30 solved circuit calculations plus a lab log of 10 multimeter measurements with expected versus observed values and percent error.

Week 2

Electrical Wiring, Installation and Safety: domestic and industrial wiring, earthing, protective devices, shock prevention & Trade Practice and Workshop Skills: soldering, PCB work, tool use, wiring practice, maintainability

  • Draw from memory the layout of a domestic single-phase distribution board including main switch, RCCB, MCBs, and earth bar.

  • Select protective device ratings for three given load schedules and justify each choice against cable current-carrying capacity.

  • Explain the difference between earthing and neutral, and describe why a broken neutral is dangerous.

  • Terminate conductors on a practice board: strip, crimp, and connect to MCB, socket, and earth bar to acceptable torque and neatness.

  • Demonstrate safe isolation procedure: prove dead, lock off, and tag.

Your checkpoint

A hand-drawn distribution board schematic with a device schedule table, plus a photographed practice board showing five correctly terminated connections.

Week 3

Electrical Machines: transformers, DC machines, induction motors, single-phase and three-phase systems

  • Explain transformer action from Faraday's law and derive the turns ratio relationship for voltage and current.

  • Solve ten transformer problems covering turns ratio, efficiency, and copper versus iron losses.

  • Compare DC shunt, series, and compound motor characteristics and state one industrial application for each.

  • Describe how a rotating magnetic field is produced in a three-phase induction motor and define slip.

  • Distinguish star and delta connections by line and phase voltage and current relationships.

Your checkpoint

A one-page comparison table of transformer, DC motor, and induction motor covering principle, starting method, speed control, and typical fault symptoms.

Week 4

Electronic Components and Devices: resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, power supplies & Electronic Circuits and Applications: amplifiers, oscillators, rectifiers, logic gates, basic digital electronics

  • Read resistor colour codes and capacitor markings for 20 components and record nominal and tolerance values.

  • Explain the operating region and biasing of a BJT and calculate base, collector, and emitter currents for a given bias network.

  • Trace the operation of a half-wave and full-wave bridge rectifier and sketch input and output waveforms with and without a smoothing capacitor.

  • Identify the logic symbol, truth table, and one practical use for AND, OR, NOT, NAND, and XOR gates.

  • Assemble a half-wave rectifier with filter on a breadboard and measure DC output and ripple.

Your checkpoint

A component identification sheet of 20 coded values plus a rectifier lab record with sketched waveforms and measured ripple voltage.

Week 5

Electronic Circuits and Applications: amplifiers, oscillators, rectifiers, logic gates, basic digital electronics & Measurement, Testing and Instruments: multimeters, oscilloscopes, bridges, fault finding

  • Calculate voltage gain, input and output impedance for inverting and non-inverting op-amp configurations.

  • Explain the Barkhausen criterion and identify the feedback network in RC phase-shift and Wien bridge oscillators.

  • Set up a CRO to measure amplitude, period, and phase difference of two signals and convert period to frequency.

  • Describe the principle of a Wheatstone bridge and a Megger and state when each is used in fault finding.

  • Diagnose three injected faults in a simple circuit using a systematic half-split method and record the reasoning trail.

Your checkpoint

A fault-finding report on three injected faults listing symptom, test sequence, measurement at each step, and confirmed root cause.

Week 6

Trade Practice and Workshop Skills: soldering, PCB work, tool use, wiring practice, maintainability & Electrical Wiring, Installation and Safety: domestic and industrial wiring, earthing, protective devices, shock prevention

  • Solder 20 joints on a practice PCB meeting a visual acceptance standard: shiny fillet, no bridge, no cold joint.

  • Identify ten hand tools and state the correct use and one misuse for each.

  • Transfer a simple circuit to a PCB by etching or stripboard and inspect it for continuity and shorts.

  • Explain IP ratings and select an enclosure and cable gland suitable for a wet industrial location.

  • Describe preventive maintenance tasks and intervals for a motor control panel.

Your checkpoint

A finished soldered stripboard or PCB circuit that passes a continuity check on all nets, with a short inspection checklist and photographs.

Week 7

Employability and Entrepreneurship: workplace safety, communication, costing, self-employment in electrical/electronics trade & Electrical Wiring, Installation and Safety: domestic and industrial wiring, earthing, protective devices, shock prevention

  • List the five steps of a hazard assessment and apply them to a live-panel working scenario.

  • Explain the purpose and content of a method statement and a permit to work.

  • Prepare a cost estimate for a small wiring job covering material, labour, overhead, and margin.

  • Draft a short quotation and a payment schedule for that job in professional written English.

  • Practise a two-minute spoken explanation of a technical fault to a non-technical customer.

Your checkpoint

A complete job pack for one small wiring job: hazard assessment, material list, costed estimate, quotation, and payment terms.

Week 8

Basic Electrical Fundamentals: voltage, current, resistance, power, Ohm's law, series and parallel circuits & Electrical Machines: transformers, DC machines, induction motors, single-phase and three-phase systems & Electronic Components and Devices: resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, power supplies & Electronic Circuits and Applications: amplifiers, oscillators, rectifiers, logic gates, basic digital electronics & Measurement, Testing and Instruments: multimeters, oscilloscopes, bridges, fault finding

  • Complete two full-length timed mock papers under exam conditions and score each against the answer key.

  • Re-derive the ten formulas most used across all domains from memory on a single sheet.

  • Re-teach the three weakest topics from mock results in writing, at 200 words each.

  • Redo every question answered incorrectly on the mocks until each is correct without notes.

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock papers with an error log listing each wrong answer, the correct reasoning, and the domain it maps to.

Milestones

Week 2: Can compute a mixed series-parallel circuit and select a protective device for a given load without notes, scoring at least 80 percent on a self-made 15-question quiz.

Week 4: Can state turns ratio, slip, and rectifier output relationships from memory and correctly identify 18 of 20 colour-coded components.

Week 6: Can set up a CRO for a stable waveform and diagnose one injected fault within 10 minutes using half-split testing.

Week 8: Both mock papers completed within time, with a combined score of at least 70 percent and every error logged and reworked.