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Selection Process:
There will be a Selection Test Short listed candidates will be called for GD and Personal Every year NTPC conducts an examination to recruit brilliant engineers and professionals for its technical and HR posts. The NTPC Executive Trainee Test is to recruit engineers.
The test pattern is given below:
The written test consists of two papers- Technical and Aptitude. The questions of the Technical test depend on the discipline chosen among the six disciplines. The six disciplines are Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Control and Instrumentation and HR & Finance.
The number of questions in the Technical Test is 120 and that in the Aptitude Test is 50. The questions are of multiple choice types and time allotted is 2 hours. The questions are not very tough but time management is an important issue. Maximum number of questions should be answered fro getting a chance, but it should also be remembered that there is a negative marking of 1/4th mark for every wrong answer.
The aptitude test questions do not belong to any specific stream. They consists general questions like Synonyms, Antonyms, Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word, Word Analogies, Comprehension Passages. There can be some questions on problem solving skills. The problems are on topics like time and distance, profit and loss, ratio and proportion etc.
It constitutes of 170 questions (120 Tech + 50 Aptitude)
Time: 2 Hrs
For tech part the syllabus is same as of the GATE and for Aptitude Part R. S. Aggarwal is more than sufficient. As time duration is very short so time management is very important.
APTITUDE SECTION:
For this section no special attention is required only rs aggarwal is enough and it also has easy level of English section.
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For this section u have to b good in the basics. No hard question was asked but u should b careful about your time. It has also some part of very basic general knowledge. The questions were from following topics 10-12 Questions about microprocessor (8085)
3 Questions about RS232 standard
7-10 Questions of GK
4-6 Questions on opamp
10-15 Questions on Digital Communications
2-5 Questions on microwaves
15-20 Questions on Analog Devices
20-23 Questions on Digital Electronics (flip flops,gates,mux,no system etc)
1 Questions on ISO OSI Model
5-8 Questions on Control System
10-12 Questions on Signals and their Processing
AND SOME QUESTIONS ON PASSAGES & LIKE
1. Passage 2. Word meaning based (antonym and synonyms) fetter, fester, lucid, anomaly, elucidate etc
3. Word analogy based
4. What is a tunnel diode
5. What is a Zener diode
6. Effect of + and – feedback on stability
7. Composition of gobar gas
8. Function of differential in the vehicle
9. Function of stack register
10. Fun of instruction pointer
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11. Fun of rst6.5,7.512. Wht is an interrupt
13. Output vtg calc on op amp
14. How a pulse train can b generated using registers
15. Conversion of oct to hex,hex to binary
16. Fun of quantizer in pcm
17. Why fm is less prone to noise
18. Fun of limiter in detection of FM
19. What is envelop detector 20. Phase shift of 1/s^2
21. Signal limited to 1000 Hz sampled at nyquist rate. quantizer has 128 level .calculate the bit rate of the system.
22. 1.5 V battery supply same power to R1 and R2 separately (R1>R2).calc the internal resistance of battery
23. A wire is cut in two halves. One half is again stretched to the twice of length .calc the resistance.
Selection Procedure: The candidates will be selected as per the written entrance test and after personal interview.
How to apply: The interested candidates have to supply online through the website www.ntpccareers.net. The candidates after downloading the application form have to send it to the address HR Recruitment Group, NTPC Ltd., Post Box No.004, Head Post Office, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, Pin - 110003”.
