Very recently Staff Selection Commission has invited applications for the position of Junior Engineer in disciplines of civil, mechanical and electrical. Interested candidates can apply for the position before 15th March 2013. Those who are opting for Junior Engineer (Civil) can have reference books like Ramesh General Intelligence Test/Mental Ability Test, Test of Reasoning Ability by Gupta, General Knowledge Overview with Current Affairs by Upkar, Design of Steel Structures by S.K.Duggal, and Mechanics of Fluids by Shames for exam preparation.

Books for General Intelligence & Reasoning

• Ramesh General Intelligence Test/Mental Ability Test
• Logical and Analytical Reasoning by A. K. Gupta
• All about Reasoning (Verbal) by Anjani A Gupta
• Test of Non Verbal Reasoning by Anjani A Gupta
• Arihant Hotel Management & Hospitality Administration Entrance Examination Self Study Guide (D008) by D. Mittal
• Non Verbal Reasoning by B. S. Sijwali & Indu Sijwali
• Upkars Quicker Reasoning Test by Dr. M. B. Lal & A. K. Singh
• Analytical & Logical Reasoning by BS Sijwali/Ajay Singh
• Test of Reasoning by A Panel of experts
• All about Reasoning (Non-Verbal) by Anjani A Gupta
• Test of Reasoning Ability by Gupta
• A Modern Approach to Non Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Agarwal
• Non-Verbal Reasoning by R.S.Agrawal & Deepak Agrawal

Books for General Awareness

• General Knowledge Overview with Current Affairs by Upkar
• Competition Winner
• Prathiyogita Darpan
• General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Who’s Who by Khanna

Books for Civil Engineering

• Advance Surveying by R. Agor
• Applied Resource engineering by Linsely
• Building Construction by B.C. Punmia
• Comprehensive Design of Steel Structures by B.C.Punmia
• Irrigation Engineering & Hydraulic Structures by S.K.Garg
• Concrete Dams by R.S.Varshney
• Construction Engineering & Management by S.Sitaraman
• Design of Steel Structures by N.S.Negi
• Earth & Rock-fill Dam by H.D.Sharma
• Engineering Hydrology by K.Subramanya
• Hydraulic Machines by J. Lal
• Engineering Hydrology by Linsely
• Engineering Materials by Surinder Singh
• Design of Steel Structures by S.K.Duggal
• Environmental Engineering by Howard S.Peavy, Donald R. Rowe and George Tchobanoglous
• Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Engineering by Dr R.S.Kumar
• Fluids Mechanics & Hydraulics by A.K. Jain
• Fluids Mechanics by R.J. Garde & Mirajgaonkar
• Geotechnical Engineering by S.K.Ghulati and Manoj Dutta
• Hand Book of Applied hydrology by V.T.Chow
• Hazardous Waste management by M.D. LaGrega, P.L. Buckingham, J.C.Evans
• Hydraulic Structures by Narayanan & Novak
• Mechanics of Fluids by Shames
• Noise and Vibration Control Engineering by Beranek
• PERT and CPM by L.S.Srinath
• Principles and Management Issues by G. Tchobanoglous, H.Theisen, S.Vigil
• Soil Engineering Theory and Practice by Alam Singh
• Strength of Materials & Mechanics of Structures by B.C. Punmia
• Strength of Materials by Timoshenko and young
• Traffic engineering and Transport planning by L.R Kadyali
• Waste Water Treatment for Pollution Control by Soli J.Arcieivala
• Water resource engineering by Linsely
• Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering by G.S Birdie and J.S. Birdie
• Water Supply Engineering by B.C. Punnia, Ashok Jain and Arun Jain

Materials collected from web can also be used for study. Practicing previous year questions for SSC (Junior Engineer) will also be helpful to clear the exam.