SSC JE Electrical Syllabus 2026: Paper-I and Paper-II Topics

The SSC JE Electrical syllabus is published in the Staff Selection Commission's Junior Engineer notice, and it decides how you spend your next few months. Paper-I combines General Intelligence and Reasoning, General Awareness and Electrical Engineering. Paper-II is entirely Electrical Engineering. This page lists the topics under each heading, based on the notice of 2 September 2026, and shows where to start.

The official notice lists the electrical syllabus as a group of topic headings, and the Paper-II list is more detailed than the Paper-I one. Use this page as a working checklist, and confirm any change on the official SSC website.

Table of Contents

• Syllabus at a glance

• Key changes to know

• Paper-I: General Intelligence and Reasoning

• Paper-I: General Awareness

• Electrical Engineering syllabus

• Overlap between Paper-I and Paper-II

• Is there an interview or personality test?

• How to cover the syllabus

Syllabus at a glance

Key changes to know

• Paper-I is qualifying: Its marks decide only whether you reach Paper-II. Merit is based on Paper-II.

• Engineering carries the weight: Electrical Engineering is 100 of the 200 marks in Paper-I and all 300 marks in Paper-II.

• Common paper for electrical and mechanical: Electrical and Mechanical candidates share a merit list, and their scores are normalised against each other.

• Older sources may differ: Some older pages show previous marks and patterns. Follow the current notification.

Paper-I: General Intelligence and Reasoning

This section has 50 questions and tests both verbal and non-verbal reasoning. The notice describes it in broad terms and names these areas:

The notice gives a broad description rather than a chapter list. Practise a mix of question types, because the questions are objective and quick to solve once you know the pattern.

Paper-I: General Awareness

This section also has 50 questions. It tests awareness of the environment and its application to society, with a focus on India and its neighbours. The notice lists history, culture, geography, economic scene, general polity and scientific research.

• History and culture: Major movements, important personalities and heritage, covered at the level of competitive exams.

• Geography and economy: Physical features, rivers, resources, and basic economic terms.

• Polity: The Constitution, institutions and key provisions.

• Science and research: Everyday science and recent developments, which also help your engineering paper.

Electrical Engineering syllabus

The notice lists the Paper-I electrical topics under broad headings: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Magnetic Circuits, A.C. Fundamentals, Measurement and Measuring Instruments, Electrical Machines, Special Electric Machines and Synchronous Generators, Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Estimation and Costing, Utilization of Electrical Energy, Basic Electronics and Power Electronics. Paper-II expands the same areas, as shown below.

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

• Circuit elements such as resistors, capacitors, inductors and batteries, and the factors affecting their values and performance

• Voltage, current, power, energy, flux and their units

• Network solution methods: KCL, KVL, node and mesh analysis

• Network theorems: Thevenin, Norton, Superposition and Maximum Power Transfer

Magnetic circuits and AC fundamentals

• Flux, reluctance, self and mutual inductance, magnetomotive force

• RMS and average values of alternating waves

• Series and parallel AC circuits, resonance

• Balanced three-phase circuits, star-delta transformation

• Complex power and power factor in AC circuits

Measurement and measuring instruments

• Measurement of voltage, current, power and power factor

• Classification of instruments and types of errors

• Galvanometer, ammeter, voltmeter, wattmeter, Wheatstone bridge, Kelvin's double bridge, energy meter and megger

• Constructional features and calibration of a single-phase electronic energy meter

• Current transformers, potential transformers and their uses

Electrical machines

Generation, transmission and distribution

• Types of power stations, load factor, demand factor and diversity factor

• Power factor and its improvement

• Types of transmission and distribution lines and transmission line parameters

• Corona effect and Ferranti effect

• Circuit breakers and protection of generators and transformers

• Coaxial cables, their ratings and efficiency

Estimation, costing and utilisation of electrical energy

• Estimation of lighting schemes, electric installation of machines and relevant IE Rules

• Earthing practices and IE Rules

• Illumination, electric heating, electric welding, electroplating

• Electric traction and drives

Basic electronics and power electronics

• P-N junction diodes, rectifiers and wave-shapers, clipping and clamping

• BJT and FET transistors, their characteristics, amplifiers and oscillators

• Static V-I characteristics of a thyristor, firing and gating circuits

• DC to DC conversion: buck, boost and buck-boost converters

• Single-phase half-controlled, full-controlled and midpoint-controlled rectifiers

Where to put your effort

The notice does not publish topic-wise weightage. Machines, circuits and network theorems, AC fundamentals, power systems and measurements take up the largest share of the official topic list, so they are a sensible place to begin. Treat this as a planning guide rather than an official weightage. Numerical questions on transformers, induction motors, network theorems and AC circuits reward regular practice.

Overlap between Paper-I and Paper-II

You study the engineering subject once and use it in both papers. The difference is depth and the cost of a wrong answer.

Is there an interview or personality test?

No. The notification lists only two computer-based papers followed by document verification, and no interview or personality test is mentioned. The syllabus therefore ends with the two papers above.

How to cover the syllabus

1. Weeks 1 to 4: Cover circuits, network theorems, magnetic circuits and AC fundamentals. These are the base for machines and power systems.

2. Weeks 5 to 8: Cover transformers, DC machines, induction motors and synchronous machines, with numerical practice after each topic.

3. Weeks 9 to 11: Cover power systems, measurements, estimation and costing, utilisation and electronics.

4. Alongside: Do 30 minutes of reasoning a day, and read for general awareness for 20 to 30 minutes.

5. Final phase: Take full-length mocks, analyse every wrong answer and revise from an error log.

The official notice is available on the SSC website.