HPSSC JE Syllabus 2023, Check Detailed Exam Pattern Here

1. Important Happenings in Himachal Pradesh
2. Important Festivals Celebrated in Himachal Pradesh
3. Agreements/Summits & Conferences
4. Schemes, Committees, Summits & Conferences
5. Appointments/Resignations within the State
6. Art, Culture, and Heritage of Himachal Pradesh
7. Notable Personalities from Himachal Pradesh
8. Recent Scientific Discoveries and Innovations
9. History & Formation of Himachal Pradesh
10. Geography and Climatic Features of HP
11. Political Science of Himachal Pradesh
12. Environment, Climate, Ecosystem of HP
13. Miscellaneous General Knowledge of HP

1. Important National & International Happenings
2. Environmental Conventions
3. New Acts Passed by the Parliament
4. Issues Concerning Politics & Elections
5. Important Judgements by Supreme Court
6. Reconstruction of Cabinet Sub-committees
7. Women’s Safety & Empowerment
8. Schemes Launched by the Central Government
9. Important Political Changes in the World
10. United Nations and Relevant Details
11. Unemployment
12. Cyber Security, Economic Issues
13. Environmental Changes, Ecosystem & Biodiversity

1. Error Spotting
2. Theme based questions
3. Reading comprehension
4. Odd one out
5. Sentence Connectors
6. Fillers
7. Sentence Improvement
8. Sentence rearrangement
9. Para jumbles
10. Cloze Test
11. Grammar
12. Vocabulary
13. One-word substitutions
14. Idioms & Phrase

1. Units & Dimensions
2. Work, Energy, and Power
3. Light, Heat, Wave
4. Motion and Gravitation
5. Scientific Instruments
6. Magnetism
7. Matter and Atomic Structure
8. Chemical Bonding
9. Acids, Bases, and Salts
10. Chemical Reactions
11. Metals and Non-metals
12. Food and Nutrition
13. Human Reproductive System(Male)
14. Human Reproductive System(Female)
15. Human Circulatory System
16. Human Diseases and Remedies
17. Respiratory System in Humans
18. Human Digestive System

1. Puzzles
2. Input-Output
3. Seating Arrangement
4. Syllogism
5. Coding-Decoding
6. Blood Relations
7. Data Sufficiency
8. Inequality
9. Verbal Reasoning
10. Order and Ranking
11. Direction Sense

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams. Simple stress and strain relationship: Stress and strain in two dimensions, principal stresses, stress transformation, Mohr’s circle. Simple bending theory, flexural and shear stresses, unsymmetrical bending, shear centre. Thin-walled pressure vessels, uniform torsion, buckling of column, combined and direct bending stresses.

Structural Analysis: Analysis of statically determinate trusses, arches, beams, cables, and frames, displacements in statically determinate structures and analysis of statically indeterminate structures by force/ energy methods, analysis by displacement methods (slope deflection and moment distribution methods), influence lines for determinate and indeterminate structures.
Basic concepts of matrix methods of structural analysis.

Concrete Structures: Concrete Technology- properties of concrete, basics of mix design. Concrete design- basic working stress and limit state design concepts, analysis of ultimate load capacity and design of members subjected to flexure, shear, compression and torsion by limit state methods. Basic elements of prestressed concrete, analysis of beam sections at transfer and
service loads.

Steel Structures: Analysis and design of tension and compression members, beams and beamcolumns. column bases. Connections- simple and eccentric, beam–column connections, plate girders and trusses. Plastic analysis of beams and frames.

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

Soil Mechanics: Origin of soils, soil classification, three-phase system, fundamental definitions, relationship and interrelationships, permeability &seepage, effective stress principle, consolidation, compaction, shear strength.

Foundation Engineering: Sub-surface investigations- scope, drilling bore holes, sampling, penetration tests, plate load test. Earth pressure theories, effect of water table, layered soils.
Stability of slopes-infinite slopes, finite slopes. Foundation types-foundation design requirements. Shallow foundations-bearing capacity, effect of shape, water table and other factors, stress distribution, settlement analysis in sands & clays. Deep foundations–pile types, dynamic & static formulae, load capacity of piles in sands & clays, negative skin friction.

WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING

Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics: Properties of fluids, principle of conservation of mass, momentum, energy and corresponding equations, potential flow, applications of momentum and Bernoulli’s equation, laminar and turbulent flow, flow in pipes, pipe networks. Concept of boundary layer and its growth. Uniform flow, critical flow and gradually varied flow in channels, specific energy concept, hydraulic jump. Forces on immersed bodies, flow measurements in channels, tanks and pipes. Dimensional analysis and hydraulic modeling. Kinematics of flow, velocity triangles and specific speed of pumps and turbines.

Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, rainfall, evaporation, infiltration, stage discharge relationships, unit hydrographs, flood estimation, reservoir capacity, reservoir and channel routing. Well hydraulics.

Irrigation: Duty, delta, estimation of evapotranspiration. Crop water requirements. Design of lined and unlined canals, waterways, headworks, gravity dams, and spillways. Design of weirs on permeable foundation. Types of irrigation systems, irrigation methods. Water logging and drainage, sodic soils.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Water requirements: Quality standards, basic unit processes, and operations for water treatment. Drinking water standards, water requirements, basic unit operations and unit processes for surface water treatment, and distribution of water. Sewage and sewerage treatment, quantity and characteristics of wastewater. Primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment of wastewater, sludge disposal, and effluent discharge standards. Domestic wastewater treatment, quantity of characteristics of domestic wastewater, primary and secondary treatment Unit operations and unit processes of domestic wastewater, sludge disposal.

Air Pollution: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution meteorology, air pollution control, air quality standards, and limits.

Municipal Solid Wastes: Characteristics, generation, collection, and transportation of solid wastes, engineered systems for solid waste management (reuse/ recycle, energy recovery, treatment, and disposal).

Noise Pollution: Impacts of noise, permissible limits of noise pollution, measurement of noise, and control of noise pollution.

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Highway Planning: Geometric design of highways, testing and specifications of paving materials, design of flexible and rigid pavements.
Traffic Engineering: Traffic characteristics, theory of traffic flow, intersection design, traffic signs and signal design, highway capacity.

SURVEYING
Importance of surveying, principles and classifications, mapping concepts, coordinate system, map projections, measurements of distance and directions, leveling, theodolite traversing, plane table surveying, errors and adjustments, curves.