Candidates, who have completed B.Tech/B.E in any of the disciplines i.e. CSE, IT, ECE, Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering, are eligible for the position of Management Trainee in EIL. There will be two sections for the exam, General Aptitude and Technical Knowledge. Syllabus for first section is common for all candidates and that for the second section depends on the stream pursued by the applicant at graduate level.

Main Topics Covered under EIL Management Trainee (Electrical) Exam

• General Aptitude
• Quantitative Aptitude
• General Awareness
• Reasoning
• English Language
• Technical Knowledge

Detailed syllabus for EIL Management Trainee (Electrical) Exam

Quantitative Aptitude

• Area
• Problems on Ages
• Ratio and Proportion
• Compound Interest
• Partnership
• Allegation of Mixture
• Average
• Boats and Streams
• Calendar
• Chain Rule
• Clock
• Decimals
• Fraction
• Height and Distance
• Number Series
• Percentage
• Profit and Loss
• Simple Interest
• Permutation and Combination
• Pipes and Cistern
• Probability
• Problems on H.C.F and L.C.M
• Problems on Trains
• Simplification
• Square Root and Cube Root
• Time and Distance
• Data Interpretation
• Time and Work

General Awareness

• Economy
• Five Years Plans
• Awards
• Books and Authors
• Business
• Sports

Current events

• National and International affairs
• Important Personalities
• Science and Technology

Reasoning Ability

• Logical Reasoning
• Letter and Symbol Series
• Verbal Classification
• Analogies
• Judgment Making
• Logical Problems
• Course of Action
• Cause and Effect
• Statement and Argument

Verbal Reasoning

• Data Sufficiency
• Logical Sequence of Words
• Character Puzzles
• Blood Relation
• Series Completion
• Seating Arrangement
• Direction Sense Test
• Classification
• Arithmetic Reasoning

Non-Verbal Reasoning

• Series
• Analogy
• Classification
• Analytical Reasoning

General English

• Sentence Correction
• Ordering
• Usage of words
• Comprehension
• Synonyms
• Preposition
• Sentence formation
• Tenses

Technical Knowledge

Electric Circuits and Fields

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

Signals and Systems

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

Electrical Machines

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

Power Systems

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

Control Systems

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

Electrical and Electronic Measurements

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

Analog and Digital Electronics

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

Syllabus for technical section will have topics covered under B.Tech Electrical engineering. Therefore preparation for the same can be made by using the books referred at degree level.