There will be two papers for Management Trainee exam conducted by Coal India Limited. Paper I will contain questions from topics such as General Awareness and General Aptitude. Paper II will contain questions to evaluate the Technical Knowledge of the candidates. It covers topics such as Electric Circuits and Fields, Signals and Systems, Electrical Machines, Control Systems Analog and Digital Electronics and Electrical and Electronic Measurements. Candidates can expect B.Tech level questions in the examination. There will be a total of 200 objective type questions and each question carries one mark.

Syllabus for Management Trainee Entrance Exam (Geology) in CIL

Paper-I

General Awareness

• Science and Technology
• Persons in News
• National and International affairs
• Five Years Plan
• Current events
• Business
• Budget
• Books and Authors
• Awards
• Sports

General Aptitude

• Verbal Reasoning
• Non-Verbal Reasoning
• Logical Reasoning
• Data Interpretation
• Arithmetic Aptitude

Paper-II

Technical Knowledge (Electrical Engineering)

Electric Circuits and Fields

• Two-port networks
• Transient response of DC and AC networks
• Three phase circuits
• Thevenin’s, Norton’s and Superposition and Maximum Power Transfer theorems
• Spherical charge distributions
• Sinusoidal steady-state analysis, resonance
• Point
• Plane
• Node and mesh analysis
• Network graph
• Line
• Inductance
• Ideal current and voltage sources
• Gauss Theorem
• Electric field and potential due to
• Basic filter concepts
• Dielectrics
• Capacitance
• Ampere and Biot-Savart’s laws

Signals and Systems

• Continuous and discrete-time signals
• Fourier series representation of continuous periodic signals
• Fourier transforms
• Laplace transforms
• Sampling theorem
• Shifting and scaling operations
• Z transforms

Electrical Machines

• Armature reaction and commutation
• Autotransformer
• DC machines
• Energy conversion principles
• Generator characteristics
• Performance characteristics
• Principles
• Servo and stepper motors
• Single-phase induction motors
• Single-phase transformer
• Starting and speed control of motors
• Synchronous machines
• Three phase induction motors
• Three phase transformers
• Types
• Windings

Power Systems

• Basic power generation concepts
• Bus impedance and admittance matrices
• Circuit breakers
• Distribution systems
• Economic operation
• Fault analysis
• Load flow
• Per-unit quantities
• Power factor correction
• Principles of over-current
• Radio interference
• Symmetrical components
• System stability concepts
• Transmission line models and performance
• Voltage control

Control Systems

• Bode plots
• Principles of feedback
• Routh and Niquist techniques
• State space model
• State transition matrix
• Steady-state errors
• Transfer function

Analog and Digital Electronics

• 8-bit microprocessor
• A/D and D/A converters
• Characteristics of diodes
• Combinational and sequential circuits
• Multiplexer
• Multi-vibrators
• Operational amplifiers
• Oscillators and feedback amplifiers
• Sample and hold circuits
• Schmitt trigger
• Simple active filters
• VCOs and timers

Electrical and Electronic Measurements

• Q-meters
• Bridges
• Induction type instruments
• Instrument transformers
• Oscilloscopes
• Error analysis
• Phase, time and frequency measurement
• PMMC
• Digital voltmeters and multi-meters
• Potentiometer

There will be multiple choice objective type questions in the examination. Candidates can expect graduate level questions in the examination. Hence it is preferable to refer syllabus prescribed for B.Tech in Electrical Engineering to be successful in the examination.