Kerala PSC Assistant Engineer (Electrical) – Kerala State Housing Board Syllabus
അസിസ്റ്റന്റ് എഞ്ചിനീയർ (ഇലക്ട്രിക്കൽ) – കേരള സംസ്ഥാന ഭവന നിർമ്മാണ ബോർഡ് – സിലബസ്
Technical posts and departmental tests · Category No. 044/2026
The full syllabus, organised section by section with the marks for each part: 10 sections and 73 topics, 100 marks in all. Tick topics off as you study and practise each part with the mock tests.
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.
- Sections
- 10
- Topics
- 73
- Total marks
- 100
Exam pattern & marks · പരീക്ഷാ ഘടന
1
Module 1 – Electrical Circuits and Networksഇലക്ട്രിക്കൽ സർക്യൂട്ടുകളും നെറ്റ്‌വർക്കുകളും
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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