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Kerala PSC Assistant Engineer (Electrical) – Kerala State Housing Board

അസിസ്റ്റന്റ് എഞ്ചിനീയർ (ഇലക്ട്രിക്കൽ) – കേരള സംസ്ഥാന ഭവന നിർമ്മാണ ബോർഡ്

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About the exam

About the post

  • Department: Kerala State Housing Board
  • Category No: 044/2026
  • Method: Direct Recruitment
  • Pay scale: ₹51,400 – 1,10,300
  • Vacancies: 1
  • Notification: Gazette 30 June 2026; last date to apply was 5 August 2026

Qualification

  • Option 1: Degree in Electrical or Electrical & Electronics Engineering from a UGC-recognised university, a national institute of the Central Government or a Kerala Government institution
  • Option 2: AMIE (India) Sections A and B in Electrical Engineering
  • Option 3: Associate Membership Diploma of the Institution of Engineers (India) in Electrical Engineering
  • Option 4: Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
  • Equivalent or higher qualifications declared by Government order are also accepted

Who can apply

  • Age: 18–40 (usual relaxations apply)

Always confirm the details in the official notification on keralapsc.gov.in before you apply or prepare.

Syllabus · സിലബസ്

10 sections · 73 topics
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Objective-type test of 100 marks, made up of 10 modules of 10 marks each. Kerala PSC objective tests of this kind run 1 hour 30 minutes, with questions in English.

Questions may also come from other topics in the qualification prescribed for the post.

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Module 1 – Electrical Circuits and Networksഇലക്ട്രിക്കൽ സർക്യൂട്ടുകളും നെറ്റ്‌വർക്കുകളും
8 topics
10 marks›
  • Circuit elements: ideal voltage and current sources, dependent sources, passive elements (R, L, C, mutual inductance)
  • Circuit analysis: KCL, KVL, nodal and mesh analysis, supermesh and supernode analysis
  • Network theorems: Thevenin's, Norton's, superposition, maximum power transfer, Millman's theorem
  • Transient response of DC and AC networks: RC, RL and RLC circuits, time constants, s-domain analysis
  • Sinusoidal steady-state analysis: phasor and s-domain methods
  • Resonance: series and parallel resonance, Q-factor
  • Two-port networks: z, y, h and T parameters
  • Three-phase circuits: star-delta transformation, complex power and power factor, neutral-point shift
2
Module 2 – Electromagnetic Fields and Magnetic Circuitsവൈദ്യുതകാന്തിക മണ്ഡലങ്ങളും മാഗ്നറ്റിക് സർക്യൂട്ടുകളും
6 topics
10 marks›
  • Electrostatics: Coulomb's law, electric field intensity, electric flux density, Gauss's law, divergence
  • Electric field and potential due to point, line, plane and spherical charge distributions
  • Effect of dielectric medium, capacitance of simple configurations
  • Magnetostatics: Biot-Savart's law, Ampere's law, curl, Faraday's law
  • Magnetic circuits: inductance, magnetomotive force, reluctance
  • Self and mutual inductance of simple configurations
3
Module 3 – Analog Electronicsഅനലോഗ് ഇലക്ട്രോണിക്സ്
6 topics
10 marks›
  • Diode circuits: clipping, clamping, rectifiers
  • Amplifiers: BJT and MOSFET biasing, equivalent circuits and frequency response (bandwidth, gain, output impedance)
  • Power amplifiers: efficiency of class A, B, AB and C
  • Feedback amplifiers and oscillators: feedback topologies, voltage and current feedback, Barkhausen criteria, RC phase-shift and Wien bridge oscillators
  • Operational amplifiers: ideal and non-ideal characteristics, inverting and non-inverting configurations
  • Op-amp applications: integrator, differentiator, scaling and summing amplifiers, instrumentation amplifier, comparators, Schmitt triggers, 555 timer
4
Module 4 – Digital Electronicsഡിജിറ്റൽ ഇലക്ട്രോണിക്സ്
5 topics
10 marks›
  • Combinational and sequential logic circuits: SoP and PoS forms
  • Multiplexers, demultiplexers, flip-flops
  • Counters: synchronous and asynchronous
  • Sample and hold circuits
  • Data converters: A/D (SAR type), D/A (binary weighted and ladder network)
5
Module 5 – Power Electronicsപവർ ഇലക്ട്രോണിക്സ്
8 topics
10 marks›
  • Power devices: static V-I characteristics and firing/gating circuits of thyristor, MOSFET, IGBT
  • DC to DC conversion: buck, boost and buck-boost converters
  • AC to DC converters: single-phase and three-phase uncontrolled rectifiers
  • Voltage- and current-commutated thyristor-based converters
  • Bidirectional AC to DC voltage source converters
  • Line current harmonics (magnitude and phase) for uncontrolled and thyristor-based converters
  • Power factor and distortion factor of AC to DC converters
  • Inverters: single-phase and three-phase voltage and current source inverters, sinusoidal pulse width modulation
6
Module 6 – Signals and Systemsസിഗ്നലുകളും സിസ്റ്റങ്ങളും
7 topics
10 marks›
  • Representation of continuous and discrete time signals: shifting and scaling
  • Linear time-invariant and causal systems
  • Fourier series of continuous and discrete time periodic signals
  • Sampling theorem
  • Applications of Fourier transform for continuous and discrete time signals
  • Laplace transform and Z transform
  • RMS and average value of general periodic waveforms
7
Module 7 – Control Systemsകൺട്രോൾ സിസ്റ്റംസ്
7 topics
10 marks›
  • Mathematical modelling, principle of feedback, transfer function
  • Block diagrams and signal flow graphs
  • Transient and steady-state analysis of LTI systems
  • Stability analysis: Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist criteria
  • Bode plots, root loci
  • Compensators and controllers: lag, lead and lead-lag compensators, P, PI and PID controllers
  • State-space model, solution of state equations of LTI systems
8
Module 8 – Electrical Power Systemsഇലക്ട്രിക്കൽ പവർ സിസ്റ്റംസ്
11 topics
10 marks›
  • Basic concepts of power generation, AC and DC transmission concepts
  • Models and performance of transmission lines and cables
  • Economic load dispatch: with and without transmission losses
  • Series and shunt compensation
  • Electric field distribution and insulators
  • Distribution systems, per-unit quantities, bus admittance matrix
  • Load flow: Gauss-Seidel and Newton-Raphson methods
  • Voltage and frequency control, power factor correction
  • Symmetrical components, symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis
  • Protection: principles of overcurrent, differential, directional and distance protection, circuit breakers
  • System stability concepts, equal area criterion
9
Module 9 – Electrical Machinesഇലക്ട്രിക്കൽ മെഷീനുകൾ
8 topics
10 marks›
  • Single-phase transformer: equivalent circuit, phasor diagram, open-circuit and short-circuit tests, regulation, efficiency
  • Three-phase transformers: connections, vector groups, parallel operation
  • Auto-transformer
  • Electromechanical energy conversion principles
  • DC machines: separately excited, series and shunt, motoring and generating modes, characteristics, losses and efficiency, speed control
  • Three-phase induction machines: principle, types, performance, torque-speed characteristics, no-load and blocked-rotor tests, equivalent circuit, losses and efficiency, starting and speed control
  • Single-phase induction motors: operating principle
  • Synchronous machines: cylindrical and salient pole types, performance and characteristics, regulation and parallel operation of generators, starting of synchronous motors, losses and efficiency
10
Module 10 – Communicationകമ്മ്യൂണിക്കേഷൻ
7 topics
10 marks›
  • Amplitude modulation: spectrum, power relations, modulator and demodulator circuits
  • Frequency modulation: frequency deviation, modulation index, spectrum, relationship between phase modulation and FM
  • Superheterodyne receivers
  • Information theory: entropy, mutual information, channel capacity theorem
  • Stochastic processes: stationarity, conditions for WSS and SSS, autocorrelation, power spectral density
  • Digital communication: PCM, DPCM, matched filter and correlation receivers, MAP receiver, maximum likelihood receiver, probability of error
  • Digital modulation: ASK, PSK, FSK, QAM

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