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Hi.. Could you please provide me CIL entrance exam syllabus and past year's papers

Minimum eligibility of CIL Coal India Limited for the post of Management Trainee is BTECH or BE degree and MBA with minimum 60 per cent marks. Candidates from Mining, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical/Mineral, Electronics & Telecommunications, Industrial Engineering are eligible. There are openings for Environment Geology and Geophysics Materials Management and Accounts Personnel and Sales and Marketing. The written exam is for 3 hours comprise of two papers 100 marks each. The paper one comprise of General Awareness & Aptitude and paper 2 is about technical aptitude.
Paper-I
General Awareness
• Awards
• Books and Authors
• Budget
• Business
• Current events
• Five Years Plan
• National and International affairs
• Persons in News
• Science and Technology
• Sports
General Aptitude
• Arithmetic Aptitude
• Data Interpretation
• Logical Reasoning
• Verbal Reasoning
• Non-Verbal Reasoning
Paper-II
Technical Knowledge (Geology)
Crystallography
• Concept of unit cell
• Concept of Point Group
• Concept of Space lattice
• Concept of Space Group
• X-ray diffraction methods
• Twinning in crystals
• Mineral Chemistry
Mineral Optics
• Plane polarized and cross-polarized light
• Birefringence
• Interference of light waves
• Convergent polarized light
• Dispersion of light
• Absorption of light by minerals
Principles of Stratigraphy
• Stratigraphic procedures (Surface and Subsurface)
• Lithofacies and Biofacies
• Stratigraphic Correlation
• Standard stratigraphic code
• Lithostratigraphic
• Biostratigraphic
• Chronostratigraphic
• Magnetostratigraphy
• Chemostratigraphy
• Event Stratigraphy
• Sequence Stratigraphy
Paleontology
• Invertebrate Paleontology
• Vertebrate Paleontology
• Introduction to Micropaleontology
• Types of Microfossils
• Paleopalynology
• Foraminifera & Ostracods
Gravity, Interior and Figure of the Earth
• The Earth’s figure and Gravity
• Application of Global Positioning System
• Seismology
• Elastic Rebound Theory
• Seismic waves and their propagation
• Seismic waves and Internal Structure of the Earth
• Travel-time Tables and Velocity-depth Curves
• Introduction to Geodesy, Geodetic Datum and Co-ordinate Systems
• Seismic Tomography
• Seismograms
Thermal, electrical, mechanical properties of the Earth, and Geomagnetism
• Heat-flow measurements
• Heat-flow and Radioactivity
• Introduction to Rock Mechanics
• Geomagnetism
• Geomagnetism and Magnetic Field of the Earth
• Physics of Magnetism and Rock Magnetism
• Palaeomagnetism
• Rock Magnetic Applications in Geosciences
• Magnetic Survey
Sedimentology
• Sedimentary Petrology
• Geologic cycle
• Sedimentary textures - Surface textures, Granulometric analysis, Shape and roundness, studies
Petrography
• Petrography of rocks
• Volcanogenic sedimentary rocks
Magma in Geological processes
• Geochemical and geophysical jargon
• Magmatism and Plate tectonics
• Physical properties of magma
• Source Anatomy of the earth
• Igneous rocks
Other Topics
• Hydraulic and Structure
• Environment and Facies
• Geochemical tracers of mantle processes
• Magma Crystallisation and Evolution
• Petrogenetic Provinces
• Metamorphic Petrology
• Concepts and Theory
• Metramorphism types
• Structural Geology
• Tectonics
• Geomorphology
• Remote Sensing

You will find the old sample question papers in www.coalindia.in website.