SSC JE Civil

It is a competitive recruitment examination run by the Staff Selection Commission to fill junior engineer posts in various government departments and organizations. The Civil stream is one of the streams of the Junior Engineer (Civil, Mechanical & Electrical) Examination. Read the official notice for the post details and eligibility conditions of the specific recruitment year.

The Commission's own notice for the 2026 Junior Engineer Examination refers to Paper-I as a Computer Based Examination. So expect an objective, computer-delivered paper rather than a pen-and-paper test. The detailed scheme, including the number of papers, sections and marks, is published on the official Scheme of Examination page, which you should check for your recruitment year.

Prepare the core civil engineering subjects: structural analysis and design of concrete and steel, soil mechanics and foundations, fluid mechanics and hydraulics, irrigation and water supply, surveying, transportation engineering, and estimating and construction management. The non-technical sections, general intelligence and reasoning and general awareness, also need regular practice. Follow the official syllabus page for the definitive topic list.

We do not state a duration or question count here because those figures must come from the official notice for your recruitment year, and they can change between cycles. Check the Scheme of Examination page and the current year's notice on the Commission's site before you plan your attempt strategy.

The Commission runs the Junior Engineer Examination in successive yearly cycles, so a candidate who is not selected can appear again in a later cycle, subject to the eligibility conditions and any age limits in that year's notice. Always read the current notice for the rules that apply to you.

Only on the Commission's official notice board. For the 2026 cycle, a notice dated Oct 23 2026 covered the city of examination and the Admission Certificate for Paper-I of the Computer Based Examination, and a notice dated Oct 26 2026 announced revised dates for the examination. Treat any date from a coaching site as unverified until you see the official notice.

Tentative vacancies for the Junior Engineer Examination, 2026 were published in a notice dated Oct 8 2026. The figures are not reproduced here; open that notice on the Commission's site for the stream-wise and category-wise breakdown. Vacancy numbers can be revised, so re-check before the final stage.

Confirm this from the official Scheme of Examination and the notice for your year rather than from secondary sources. Marking rules and cut-off practices are set out in the Commission's own documents, and they are the only reliable basis for deciding how aggressively to guess on the computer-based paper.

Ignoring the official syllabus and notice, then studying from undated third-party material. The Commission publishes the scheme of examination, syllabus, previous year question papers, mock tests and normalization method on its site. Build your plan from those, and re-read the notice board for revisions before the exam.