GES Class 1 and Class 2 Exam 2022 - Date, Application Form, Eligibility, Syllabus, Preparation Tips, Admit Card, Result

Engineering aptitude: Unit 01

Engineering aptitude: Unit 02

Engineering aptitude: Unit 03

Engineering aptitude: Unit 04

Engineering aptitude: Unit 05

Engineering aptitude: Unit 06

Engineering aptitude: Unit 07

Engineering aptitude: Unit 08

Engineering aptitude: Unit 09

Civil engineering: Unit 01

• Stone, lime, glass, plastics, steel, FRP, ceramics, aluminium, fly ash, basic admixtures, timber, bricks and aggregates: Classification, properties, and selection criteria
• Cement: Types, composition, properties, uses, specifications, and various tests
• Lime and cement mortars, and concrete: Properties and various tests
• Design of concrete mixes: Proportioning of aggregates and methods of mix design

Civil engineering: Unit 02

• Elastic constants, stress, plane stress, strains, plane strain, Mohr's circle of stress and strain, elastic theories of failure, principal stresses, bending, shear and torsion

Civil engineering: Unit 03

• Basics of strength of materials, types of stresses and strains, bending moments and shear force, concept of bending and shear stresses
• Analysis of determinate and indeterminate structures
• Trusses, beams, plane frames
• Rolling loads, influence lines, unit load method and other methods
• Free and forced vibrations of single degree and multi degree freedom system
• Suspended cables
• Concepts and use of computer aided design

Civil engineering: Unit 04

• Principles of working stress methods, design of tension and compression members, design of beams and beam column connections, built-up sections, girders, industrial roofs, principles of ultimate load design

Civil engineering: Unit 05

• Limit state design for bending, shear, axial compression and combined forces
• Design of beams, slabs, lintels, foundations, retaining walls, tanks, staircases
• Principles of prestressed concrete design including materials and methods
• Earthquake resistant design of structures
• Design of masonry structure

Civil engineering: Unit 06

• Construction-planning, equipment, site investigation and management including estimation with latest project management tools and network analysis for different types of works
• Analysis of rates of various types of works
• Tendering process and contract management, quality control, productivity, operation cost
• Land acquisition
• Labour safety and welfare

Civil engineering: Unit 07

• Brick and stone masonry walls, types of masonry, cavity walls, reinforced brickwork, building services, detailing of floors, roofs, ceilings, stairs, doors and windows, finishing, formwork, ground water control techniques, cofferdams
• Functional planning of building, orientations of buildings, low cost housings

Civil engineering: Unit 08

• (a) Fluid mechanics, open channel flow, pipe flow: Fluid properties; dimensional analysis and modeling; fluid dynamics including flow kinematics and measurements; flow net; viscosity, boundary layer and control, drag, lift, principles in open channel flow
• (a) Fluid mechanics, open channel flow, pipe flow: Flow controls. Hydraulic jump; surges; pipe networks
• (b) Hydraulic machines and hydropower: Various pumps, air vessels, hydraulic turbines-types, classifications, and performance parameters; power house-classification and layout, storage, pondage, control of supply

Civil engineering: Unit 09

• Hydrological cycle, ground water hydrology, well hydrology and related data analysis
• Streams and their gauging
• River morphology
• Flood, drought, and their management
• Capacity of reservoirs
• Water resources engineering: Multipurpose uses of water, river basins, and their potential; irrigation systems, water demand assessment; resources- storages and their yields; water logging, canal and drainage design, gravity dams, falls, weirs
• Water resources engineering: Energy dissipaters, barrage distribution works, cross drainage works and head-works and their design; concepts in canal design, construction, and maintenance; river training, measurement and analysis of rainfall

Civil engineering: Unit 10

• (a) Water supply engineering: Sources, estimation, quality standards and testing of water and their treatment; rural, institutional and industrial water supply; physical, chemical, and biological characteristics and sources of water
• (a) Water supply engineering: Pollutants in water and its effects, estimation of water demand; drinking water standards, water treatment plants, water distribution networks
• (b) Waste water engineering: Planning and design of domestic waste water, sewage collection and disposal; plumbing systems. Components and layout of sewerage system; planning and design of domestic waste-water disposal system
• (b) Waste water engineering: Sludge management including treatment, disposal and reuse of treated effluents; industrial waste waters and effluent treatment plants including institutional and industrial sewage management
• (c) Solid waste management: Sources and classification of solid wastes along with planning and design of its management system; disposal system, beneficial aspects of wastes and utilization by civil engineers
• (d) Air, noise pollution, and ecology: Concepts and general methodology

Civil engineering: Unit 11

• (a) Geotechnical engineering: Soil exploration-planning and methods, properties of soil, classification, various tests, and interrelationships
• (a) Geotechnical engineering: Permeability and seepage, compressibility, consolidation and shearing resistance, Earth pressure theories and stress distribution in soil, properties and uses of geosynthetics
• (b) Foundation engineering: Types of foundations and selection criteria, bearing capacity, settlement analysis, design and testing of shallow and deep foundations; slope stability analysis, earthen embankments
• (b) Foundation engineering: Dams and Earth retaining structures: Types, analysis, and design, principles of ground modifications

Civil engineering: Unit 12

• (a) Surveying: Classification of surveys, various methodologies, instruments and analysis of measurement of distances, elevation and directions; field astronomy, global positioning system; map preparation; photogrammetry; remote sensing concepts
• (a) Surveying: Survey layout for culverts, canals, bridges, road/railway alignment and buildings, setting out of curves
• (b) Geology: Basic knowledge of engineering geology and its application in projects

Civil engineering: Unit 13

• Highways-planning and construction methodology, alignment and geometric design; traffic surveys and controls; principles of flexible and rigid pavements design
• Tunneling-alignment, methods of construction, disposal of muck, drainage, lighting and ventilation
• Bridges‐fundamentals of bridge engineering , bridge site investigations and planning, bridge hydrology, standards of loadings for bridge design, different types of bridges, bridge superstructure, bearings and substructure design
• Bridges-design of bridge foundations, bridge approaches, river training work and protection work, methods of bridge construction, inspection, maintenance and repair of bridges, testing of bridges, bridge architecture

Civil engineering: Unit 14

English language: Unit 01

• Descriptive/analytical/philosophical/based on current affairs

English language: Unit 02

• Daily office matters/a problem that has occurred in the office/an opinion in response to one sought by a ranked officer/issues pertaining to recent concern etc

English language: Unit 03

• Official function/event/field trip/survey etc

English language: Unit 04

• Graph/image/flow chart/table of comparison/simple statistical data etc

English language: Unit 05

• Inauguration speech, an educational seminar/conference, a formal ceremony of importance etc

English language: Unit 06

English language: Unit 07

English language: Unit 08

• Tenses
• Voice
• Narration (direct-indirect)
• Transformation of sentences
• Use of Articles and Determiners
• Use of Prepositions
• Use of phrasal verbs
• Use of idiomatic expressions
• Administrative glossary
• Synonyms/antonyms
• One-word substitution
• Cohesive devices/connectives/linkers
• Affixes
• Words that cause confusion like homonyms/homophones

English language: Unit 09

• Translation of a short passage from Gujarati to English

Civil engineering-I: Unit 01

• Stone, lime, glass, plastics, steel, FRP, ceramics, aluminium, fly ash, basic admixtures, timber, bricks and aggregates: Classification, properties, and selection criteria
• Cement: Types, composition, properties, uses, specifications, and various tests
• Lime and cement mortars and concrete: Properties and various tests
• Design of concrete mixes: Proportioning of aggregates and methods of mix design

Civil engineering-I: Unit 02

• Elastic constants, stress, plane stress, strains, plane strain, Mohr's circle of stress and strain, elastic theories of failure, principal stresses, bending, shear and torsion

Civil engineering-I: Unit 03

• Basics of strength of materials, types of stresses and strains, bending moments and shear force, concept of bending and shear stresses
• Analysis of determinate and indeterminate structures
• Trusses, beams, plane frames
• Rolling loads, influence lines, unit load method and other methods
• Free and forced vibrations of single degree and multi degree freedom system
• Suspended cables
• Concepts and use of computer aided design

Civil engineering-I: Unit 04

• Principles of working stress methods, design of tension and compression members, design of beams and beam column connections, built-up sections, girders, industrial roofs, principles of ultimate load design

Civil engineering-I: Unit 05

• Design, design process, design philosophy. Limit state design for bending, shear, axial compression and combined forces
• Design of beams, slabs, lintels, foundations, retaining walls, tanks, staircases
• Principles of prestressed concrete design including materials and methods
• Design of masonry structure
• RC design: Loading standards as per I.S, distribution and flow of loads, lateral load due to wind as per IS: 875 (part-III), load combinations, guide lines for preparation of structural layout for building
• Earthquake engineering: Fundamentals of earthquake vibrations of buildings, earthquake basics, earthquake resistant masonry features, philosophy of earthquake resistant design, earthquake proof v/s earthquake resistant design
• Earthquake engineering: Seismic structural configuration, introduction to IS: 1893 (part I), IS: 875 (part V). Seismic load: Seismic coefficient method-base shear and lateral force distribution along height, introduction to response spectrum
• Earthquake engineering: IS code provisions. Modal analysis of building frame, lateral loads on buildings, lateral load distribution, ductile detailing, introduction to soil liquefaction, structural controls and seismic strengthening

Civil engineering-II: Unit 01

• General principles of building, brick and stone masonry walls, types of masonry, cavity walls, reinforced brickwork, building services, detailing of floors, roofs, ceilings, stairs, doors and windows, finishing, formwork, functional planning of building
• Orientations of buildings, low cost housings

Civil engineering-II: Unit 02

• (a) Fluid mechanics, open channel flow, pipe flow: Fluid properties; dimensional analysis and modeling; fluid dynamics including flow kinematics and measurements; flow net; viscosity, boundary layer and control, drag, lift, principles in open channel flow
• (a) Fluid mechanics, open channel flow, pipe flow: Flow controls. Hydraulic jump; surges; pipe networks
• (b) Hydraulic machines and hydropower: Various pumps, air vessels, hydraulic turbines-types, classifications, and performance parameters; power house-classification and layout, storage, pondage, control of supply

Civil engineering-II: Unit 03

• Hydrological cycle, measurement and analysis of rainfall, ground water hydrology, well hydrology and related data analysis
• Streams and their gauging
• River morphology
• Flood, drought, and their management
• Capacity of reservoirs
• Water resources engineering: Multipurpose uses of water, river basins and their potential; water demand assessment; resources-storages and their yields; water logging, canal and drainage design, gravity dams, falls, weirs, energy dissipaters
• Water resources engineering: Barrage distribution works, cross drainage works and head-works and their design; concepts in canal design, construction and maintenance; river training
• Water resources engineering: Introduction to use of remote sensing and GIS technologies in study of irrigated areas. Land grading and field layout, design aspects in border strip method, check basin method and furrow irrigation
• Irrigation systems: Types, principles, design, operation, maintenance and problems associated with it. Irrigation efficiencies, scheduling of irrigation. Irrigation water quality
• Design of hydraulic structures: Elements of dam engineering, embankment dam engineering, concrete dam engineering, dam outlet works, drop structures

Civil engineering-II: Unit 04

• (a) Water supply engineering: Sources, estimation, quality standards and testing of water and their treatment; rural, institutional and industrial water supply; physical, chemical, and biological characteristics and sources of water
• (a) Water supply engineering: Pollutants in water and its effects, estimation of water demand; drinking water standards, water treatment plants, water distribution networks
• (b) Waste water engineering: Planning and design of domestic waste water, sewage collection and disposal; plumbing systems. Components and layout of sewerage system; planning and design of domestic waste-water disposal system
• (b) Waste water engineering: Sludge management including treatment, disposal and reuse of treated effluents; industrial waste waters and effluent treatment plants including institutional and industrial sewage management
• (c) Solid waste management: Sources and classification of solid wastes along with planning and design of its management system; disposal system, beneficial aspects of wastes and utilization by civil engineers
• (d) Air, noise pollution, and ecology: Concepts and general methodology

Civil engineering-II: Unit 05

Civil engineering-III: Unit 01

• Construction-planning, equipment, site investigation and management including estimation with latest project management tools and network analysis for different types of works
• Market survey and analysis of rates of various types of works
• Abstracting and billing, tendering process and contract management, quality control, productivity, operation cost
• Land acquisition
• Labour safety and welfare

Civil engineering-III: Unit 02

• (a) Geotechnical engineering: Soil exploration-planning and methods, properties of soil, classification, various tests and interrelationships; permeability and seepage, compressibility, consolidation and shearing resistance, stability of slopes
• (a) Geotechnical engineering: Earth pressure theories and stress distribution in soil; properties and uses of geosynthetics, basics of foundation, subsurface investigation, bearing capacity of shallow foundation, pile foundations
• (b) Foundation engineering: Types of foundations and selection criteria, bearing capacity, settlement analysis, design and testing of shallow and deep foundations; slope stability analysis, earthen embankments
• (b) Foundation engineering: Dams and Earth retaining structures-types, analysis and design, principles of ground modifications, ground water control techniques, cofferdams

Civil engineering-III: Unit 03

• (a) Surveying: Classification of surveys, various methodologies, instruments and analysis of measurement of distances, elevation and directions; field astronomy, global positioning system; map preparation; photogrammetry; remote sensing concepts
• (a) Surveying: Survey layout for culverts, canals, bridges, road/railway alignment and buildings, setting out of curves. Application of geoinformatics in civil engineering: Land use and land cover mapping, transportation studies, crop inventory studies
• (a) Surveying: Ground water mapping, urban growth studies, flood plain mapping, waste land mapping, waste disposal facility in urban areas and disaster management
• (b) Geology: Basic knowledge of engineering geology and its application in projects. Types of structures and classification and their effect on civil engineering projects and geological mapping

Civil engineering-III: Unit 04

• Highway-planning and construction methodology, alignment and geometric design; traffic surveys and controls; principles of flexible and rigid pavements design
• Tunneling-alignment, methods of construction, disposal of muck, drainage, lighting and ventilation
• Bridges-fundamentals of bridge engineering, bridge site investigations and planning, bridge hydrology, standards of loadings for bridge design, different types of bridges, bridge superstructure, bearings and substructure design
• Bridges-design of bridge foundations, bridge approaches, river training work and protection work, methods of bridge construction, inspection, maintenance and repair of bridges, testing of bridges, bridge architecture

Civil engineering-III: Unit 05

• Repair strategies, serviceability and durability of concrete, materials and techniques for repair, repairs, rehabilitation and retrofitting of structures, demolition techniques