APGCL Junior Manager Syllabus 2026 – Discipline-wise Detailed Syllabus

Assam Public Service Commission (APSC), for Assam Power Generation Corporation Limited (APGCL), has issued the syllabus for Junior Manager recruitment (Advertisement No. 10/2026, 31 vacancies) across Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Information Technology and Instrumentation disciplines.

Exam Pattern

Baseline: 100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours. Expected (from 2023 APGCL/AEGCL cycle): Paper-I Concerned Engineering Discipline (100 marks, 2 hrs) + Paper-II General Studies (100 marks, 2 hrs). General Studies split: General English 25, General Aptitude & Emotional Intelligence 50, GK & Current Affairs 25.

Detailed Syllabus (Discipline-wise)

Electrical Engineering: Basic electrical (Ohm's/Kirchhoff's/Faraday's laws, Thevenin's/Norton's/Maximum Power Transfer theorems, magnetic circuits, transformers, generators, motors, instruments, semiconductors, rectifiers); electrical circuits (phasor algebra, polyphase, star-delta, network theorems, RLC resonance); electrical materials; instruments & measurements (AC bridges, shunts, multipliers, power factor meters); electrical machines (DC machines, transformers, induction/synchronous/single-phase motors); generation/transmission/distribution (thermal/hydel/nuclear plants, corona, substations, earthing, circuit breakers, relays); estimation & costing; power utilization (lighting, heating, welding, drives); power electronics (thyristors, rectifiers, MOSFETs); digital electronics (logic gates, Boolean algebra, flip-flops, counters, A/D-D/A); computer programming (C/C++).

Mechanical Engineering: Engineering mechanics & strength of materials (stress-strain, SFD/BMD, torsion, columns); engineering materials (heat treatment, alloys, corrosion); machine design (joints, shafts, keys, couplings, gears, brakes, clutches); hydraulics & hydraulic machines (Bernoulli's equation, turbines, pumps); thermal engineering (thermodynamics, boilers, turbines, IC engines, refrigeration/AC, heat transfer); theory of machines (cams, governors, balancing, vibrations, flywheels); production & industrial engineering (casting, forming, welding, machining, metrology, CNC, production planning, QC, safety).

Civil Engineering: Strength of materials & theory of structures (Mohr's circle, trusses, arches); water resources (hydrology, reservoir routing, irrigation, canal design); fluid mechanics; geotechnical (soil classification, permeability, foundations); highway & railway engineering; surveying (contouring, theodolite, tacheometry, total station); structural design (working stress & limit state, RCC, steel); environmental engineering (water/sewage treatment).

Information Technology: OOP (C++), DBMS (ER diagrams, normalization, SQL, transactions), operating systems, data structures & algorithms, microprocessors (16-bit, assembly), data communication & networks, multimedia & web (HTML/CSS), computer organization, basic electronics, software development & hardware maintenance.

Instrumentation Engineering: Electrical circuits, signals & systems (Fourier, Laplace, Z-transforms, sampling), control systems (transfer functions, stability, PID), analog & digital electronics, measurements (transducers, calibration), sensors & industrial instrumentation (PLC), communication & optical instrumentation.

General Studies (Common): General English (sentence completion, error spotting, synonyms/antonyms, idioms); general aptitude & emotional intelligence (time/distance, series, analogy, direction sense, verbal/non-verbal reasoning, EQ models like Bar-On/Genos); general knowledge & current affairs (national, international, Assam-specific, sports, books, awards, S&T).

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