UPPSC AE Civil study guide
UPPSC AE Civil · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
UPPSC Assistant Engineer (Civil) is a recruitment examination conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission, Prayagraj, for appointment to Assistant Engineer posts in the civil engineering discipline under the Government of Uttar Pradesh. It is intended for civil engineering graduates who meet the eligibility conditions set out in the Commission's advertisement for the post, and it is one of several technical recruitment examinations the Commission advertises through its online notification system. The Commission's scheme places the examination in two parts: a technical paper testing civil engineering subject knowledge as per the Commission syllabus, and a non-technical paper covering General Studies and General Hindi. Selection therefore rewards candidates who are strong in core civil engineering subjects and also comfortable with general awareness and Hindi language usage. Topics on this exam: Civil Engineering (technical paper - subject matter as per Commission syllabus) and General Studies / General Hindi (non-technical paper). The UPPSC AE Civil study guide has 2 sections and about 836 words.
01Civil Engineering (Technical Paper): Design, Analysis and Field-Applied Fundamentals
The UPPSC AE Civil technical paper is set from the Commission's own civil engineering syllabus and is deliberately broad: building materials and construction management, strength of materials, structural analysis, RCC and steel design, fluid mechanics and hydraulics, irrigation and water supply, geotechnical engineering, transportation, and surveying. Questions are mostly single-concept, so accuracy on code clauses and standard formulae matters more than long derivations. IS 456:2000 limit state of collapse: partial safety factors of 1.5 on dead plus live load; 1.2(DL+LL±EL), 1.5(DL±EL) and 0.9DL±1.5EL for earthquake/wind combinations. Characteristic strength: the 28-day cube strength below which not more than 5% of test results are expected to fall; the target mean strength is fck + 1.65σ.
461 words, about 2 min02General Studies and General Hindi: Uttar Pradesh Focus, Polity and Language Accuracy
The non-technical paper has two halves. General Studies tests Indian polity, modern history and the freedom movement, geography (with a strong Uttar Pradesh component), economy, science and current affairs. General Hindi tests grammar, vocabulary, sentence correction and comprehension. Both halves reward precise recall of named facts rather than broad description.
375 words, about 2 min