Test Paper :6

Paper Type : Technical - Electronics

Test Date : 17 April 2011
Test Location : Subodh Public School, Jaipur
Posted By : Bhuvnesh Kumar Kumawat
Total Questions=120 Time=2 Hours (Technical=70 + Non Technical=50)
Technical:--->
Note:Maximum questions came from Control Engineering, EMI and EDC.
Q1:-Frequency of UV,Vsible and Infrared Region.
Q2:-Abbrivation of LASER.
Q3:-Properties of Piezoelectric crystal.
Q4:-Miller Effect
Q5:-Laplace Trans. of Exp(-8t)sin6t
Q6:-ref. to Q5=> Find Damping freq. and Natural Frequecy.
Q7:-Effect of Modulation index on AM and FM.
Q8:-Question on Gain Margin.

Non Tech:---->
--Questions Based on pie chart,tables etc.
--English comp. contains a Passage with 5 Questions.
--10 Question on General Awareness
Q1:-Economical Recession in Greece,spain and germany.
Q2:Euro footballer of the year 2009.
Q3:Second green revolution in India.
Q4:winner of world biliards champ.

Test Paper :10

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences
Test Date : 2 May 2010
Test Location : PMI, Noida.
Posted By : Obli Rajesh
Hi friends! I am Obli Rajesh. I got selected as Executive Trainee-2010 in NTPC. I belong to
mechanical discipline. I want to share my experience about the GD & PI process of NTPC.

The written test was held on 2/5/2010. The written test had 85 questions with 1/4th negative
marking. The results of the written test were declared on 3rd June 2010. The total number of
candidates short listed was 1647 for 438 posts. So the ratio will be 1:4.the GD & PI were held at
PMI, Noida.

My GD & PI was on 12-July-2010. The reporting time is 8:00 am. First, they will verify your
original documents. Each one will be given a number as per their branch. For ex: Mech
1,2,3…..Electrical 1,2,3,…and so on.

Then the GD will be held. Batches of 8 members will be formed. The time for GD is 10
minutes. One can speak either in hindi or English. There will be two judges. Two topics will be
given. Out of which the group has to decide about which topic they are going to speak. My GD
started at 10am.

After the GD the PI is held. My turn came at 11:15am. It was a panel interview. There were
five members in the board. One was the chairman. The panel members are very experienced.
They seem to be around 50-60 yrs of age.
I had my summer training in Hyundai motors. My subjects of interest are thermodynamics and
refrigeration & air conditioning. Some of the questions asked to me are:
1. What are the types of clutches?
2. What is the purpose of clutch?
3. What is the name of the clutch used in cars?
4. What is automatic transmission? How it works?
5. Do you know about hydraulic clutch?
6. What is the specialty of i20?
7. What kind of layout used in Hyundai assembly line?
8. What subject you want me to ask?
9. State the Second law of thermodynamics?
10. What is common between the two statements?
11. What is exergy?
12. What is availability?
13. Draw psychrometric chart?
14. How to find the dew point temperature?
15. Plot Sensible cooling?
16. Plot cooling and humidification?
17. Do you know about sensible heat factor line?
18. What is dryness fraction?
19. Plot dryness fraction on T-S diagram?
20. Which point represents zero dryness and which point represents dryness fraction of one?
21. What apparatus will be used to measure both dry bulb and wet bulb temperature?
22. Have you seen it?
23. You have not even seen it?
24. Does it have a handle?
25. Why it should be rotated in the air?
26. What is the type of cloth used to cover the bulb?
27. Can I use the cloth from your shirt?
28. What will be the temperature if I use it outside this room?
29. Which will be higher either DBT or WBT?
 30. What is the state of this liquid in this bottle?
31. Will it have zero dryness fractions?
32. Plot the boiling of liquid on T-S diagram?
33. What is dew point depression?
34. For what it is used?
Besides these I was also asked about my native place. They asked about the SAIL steel plant in
my home town (Salem, TN). My interview lasted for 30-35 minutes. It wasn’t easy. It is a
combination of both hr and tech.

The interviewers will also try to stress you. They will make comments abt u. but be calm and
collected. That will help you to sail through. The weightage given for written, GD & PI are in the
ratio 85:5:10. So a good written score will definitely help you. The results were declared on
21/8/10. I am joining NTPC on 9th September 2010.

Test Paper :9
Paper Type : Candidate Experiences
Test Date : 2 May 2010
Test Location : Vizag
Posted By : Aditya Sarma
Hai Friends,

I'm Aditya Sarma from Aditya Engg. College (JNTUK Affiliated college, AP). My stream is C&I
(ECE). The paper is an easy one (It varies from person to person) as I had written many
PSUs so I feel it as an easier one. The paper consists of 85 questions (technical-50, general
ability-35) high score is required as it is having 85% weightage for the final selection.

My perfect advice for the aspirants is to prepare previous IES papers for technical section (I
feel most PSUs take IES papers as reference). You can clear the written only If you score
good in general ability as it is really deciding (Solving R.S Aggarwal models can do the
aptitude, for reasoning apply brain, for vocabulary you should have sufficient time (do it
last) paper consists of paragraph questions, Data interpretation etc.

In technical you need to score atleast 40/50, In general ability you should score atleast 28.
So you will get the call for G.D and PI easily (even less scorers also be called i.e; 55/85) but
chances of getting selected are less.

I completed the technical part in the first 40 minutes. As it is having mostly theory related
bits and some problems (can be solved with a single formula! study Electronic
measurements and instrumentation also)

I got enough time to solve general ability, I took time to think about the questions in
patience they seems tough but if you got the basic well its easy. (men and work problem,
proportionality problem, some gk questions (very easy ones no special preparation
required)
Data interpretation seems difficult and time taking but you should solve this as every mark
counts. I belong to general category I feel I have scored more than 75. The cut-off may be
around 65 for general. 55 for obc not sure)

I got call for G.D and PI. My date of interview on June 29th 2010. The G.D is a good one I
talked very less(Im neither an initiator nor finisher ) I talked in English (we can talk in
either Hindi or English).

They have given two topics

1. Caste based politics good or bad 2. Technology most used or abused.

We chosen first one. I said just 2 to 3 points but I'm very attentive to the G.D. Its not an
elimination round(but have 5% weightage as I said earlier)

Interview weightage is 10%. Within less time I got the call for interview.

I'm the first person to be interviewed. My mind was blank when I entered into interview.
They (4 ppl including the head in panel) asked some questions related to favorite subject (I
said Signals and systems), and some HR questions. Show patience if you are not able to
answer the question no need to know everything. But try to understand what they are
saying and respond well. If they ask about any experiences say about it (if you have
relevant experience not software experiences) (freshers will get an easy interview.

Prepare your project, prepare for the industrial training if you have. Percentage in B.Tech
also plays a prominent role. Learn abt NTPC well, Be prepared to work anywhere in India. I
felt I haven't done well (It happens to every one) but

Thank god! At last I got selected For NTPC A Maharatna company as ET-2010, This is the
12th Psu I faced so far, I'm not able to clear many exams earlier (I'm 2009 passout). But I
was placed in a great organisation like NTPC. So try and try till you reach your goal. Every
thing is possible for every body but you should try hard and believe that it is going to be
possible!
Test Paper :7
Paper Type : Whole Testpaper
Test Date : 2 May 2010
Test Location : Chennai, Category - Electrical
Posted By : Amigo

I had appeared in NTPC MT-2010 in Chennai on 2nd May ’10 under Electrical Engineering (B.Tech.) Category and
surprisingly NTPC has changed their question format this time.

Total number of Q were 85 (50 Technical, 35 Non-Technical) but time was 120 mins. So u can assume that the Q
Paper was a bit tough.

Among Non-technical the different sections were based on

GK(4 Q only)

DI (4-5 Q from Graph)

Apti (2 Q on number series, 2 Q on Permutation Combination, 1 Q on time & work)

Reasoning (1 Q on relation, 3 Q from series of pictures)

English Paragraph and Q from there, Sentence assembling (total 5-6 Q)

Though it was Electrical Category but 40%-45% of technical questions came from Electronics related.

SO, IT’S MY ADVICE TO YOU THAT DON’T ASSUME THAT THE RECRUITER IS NTPC SO IT IS
MANDATORY TO GIVE STRESS ONLY ON

TRANSFORMER-ALTERNATOR-POWER SYSTEM-DC MACHINES.

YOU MUST GIVE MORE STRESS ON CONTROL SYSTEM BASICS, MEASUREMENT & ELECTRONICS
BASICS.

I’m giving the Technical questions (from Electrical Category) as much as I can remember,

1) Steady state acceleration error of type 1 system,

a. 0

b. 1

c. Infinity

d.

2) Position and velocity of type 2 system,

a. Constant, Infinity.

b. Zero, Constant.

c. Zero, Zero.
 d. Constant, Constant.

3) In a diode ‘cut-in’ & ‘forward voltage drop’

a. 0.7, 0.7

b. 0.7, 1

c. 0.7, 0.6

d. 1, 0.7

4) Potential value of α in a transistor? β

a. 1.

b. 1.

c. Negative.

d. Between 0.95 & 0.99

5) What is the relation between α & β of a transistor?

6) In SCR dv/dt protection achieved by

a. RL in Series.

b. RC across.

c. L in series.

d. RC in Series.

7) Placing inverter between both input of S-R Flip-Flop results in,

a. J-K Flip Flop.

b. D Flip-Flop.

c. T Flip-Flop.

d. Master Slave J-K Flip-Flop.

8) Which have Max. Distortion?

a. Class A Amplifier.
 b. Class B Amplifier.

c. Class AB Amplifier.

d. Class C Amplifier.

9) Which is Initial Value Theorem,

4 options were there.

10) By increasing Frequency, power dissipation in CMOS,

a. reduce.

b. Increase.

c. Unchanged.

11) Anderson Bridge used to measure

a. Inductance

b. Capacitance.

c.

d.

12) Laplace transform of e-atsin wt.

13)Lap winding is mostly suitable for

a. Low Voltage, High Current Machines.

b. High Voltage, High Current Machines.

c. High Voltage, Low Current Machines.

d. Low Voltage, Low Current Machines.

14) Turn-on time of SCR in Series with RL circuit can be reduced by,

a. Increasing ckt resis. R.

b. Decreasing ckt resis R.

c. Increasing ckt ind. L.

d. Decreasing ckt. Ind. L.

 15) In Two-Wattmeter Method of measuring power, the reading of 2 W.M. will be

a. VLILcos(30+φ), VLILcos(30+φ)

b. VLILcos(30–φ), VLILsin(30–φ)

c. VLILcos(30–φ), VLILcos(30+φ)

d. VLILcos(30–φ), VLILsin(30+φ)

16) In Railways the CB used is

a. SF6.

b. ABCB.

c. VCB.

d. OCB.

17) What is the short-circuit admittance parameter Y11 of the following п-Network?

____________Yc____________

| |

| |

Ya Yb

| |

| |

18) What is 7483?

4 options were given.

19) 8080 is

a. 16 bit.

b. 24 bit.

c. 64 bit.

d. 32 bit.

20) A question on 4 types of CRO with their application. You have to match them.
 21) Kirchoff’s Law is applicable for.

a. AC ckt. only.

b. DC ckt. only.

c. Both AC & DC ckt.

d. Passive ckt. Only.

22) What is Synchronous Reactance?

23) A Q was from DC M/c.; 4 type Generators(series, shunt, cumulative, ______ ) and their appl.(arc
welding, booster, ______, ______ ) Given, you have to match them.

24) Q came from II-quadrant operation of DC drive.

25) An inverted sawtooth wave form was given which had (-)ve Y-axis magnitudeon 30 and time value on X-
axis were 5 & 7.

You have to choose the correct mathematical form of that wave from 4 options.

26) A simple ckt with a 20V source, a diode and a 10 Ohm resistance in series was given,

The condition was 'if the diode is ideal' then what will be the current value?

27) Which is universal GATE?

a. NAND & NOR.

b. NAND.

c. NOR.

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper

Test Date : 2 May 2010
Test Location : guntur
Posted By : meghana
it consists of 2 sections (50 techincal + 35 aptitude ,reasoning and general awarness)
............2hrs duration
correct ....1M and wrong..........-1/4M
first section is on techincal(50 bits)
1.differential relay is used for which type of protection
a) internal b)
2.Type of CB's used in railway service
a)air blast b)SF6 c)vacuum d)oil
3.L[e^-at .sinwt]
4.what are the positional and velocity constants of a type 2 system
5.what type of compensation is made if a pole is added to T.F
6.what are universal gates
a)NAND and NOR b)NAND c)NOR d)none of these.
7.which f/f is formed if both the inputs of SR f/f are inverted.
a)JK b)D c)T d)
8. formula for initial value theorem
9.how many circuits are to be solved in a super position theorem
a)equal to no of nodes b)no of sources...
10.KVL is applied to which networks
a)linear b)ac circuits c) dc circuits d )both ac and dc circuits
11.A match the following about CRO's
p.storage cro
q.sampling cro
r.high fre. cro
s.low fre. cro
12. A match the following about power plants
p.hydal 1.high initial cost
q.thermal 2.high maintainence
r.nuclear 3.high operating cost
sdiesel 4.high life
13.how the turn on time of an SCR can be reduced
14A match the following about different scr's
p.triac
q.gto
r.rct
s.
15.how dv/dt triggering is applied to an scr
a) by using series RC
b)placing RC across scr
c)
d)
16.what are the values of cut in and forward voltage drops of a diode
a)0.7v,0.7v
b)1v ,0.6v

17.alpha value range in a transistor

a)unity b)0.95 to 0.99 c)more than unity
18.relation between alpha and beta in a transistor
19.what is 7423
a) full adder b)TTL adder c) 8 bit adder/subtractor
20.A match the following about dc generators
p. series 1.battery charging
q.shunt 2.booster
r.compound 3.transmission
s.differential 4.arc welding
21. A simple ckt with a dc voltage and a diode is connected to it FB conditon and a MI meter is
connected to it then asked about the amount of rms value of current shown by the multimeter
22.

2nd section (35 bits)consists of general awareness (5 bits),aptitude(10) ,reasoning (10)

,comprehension and grammatical mistakes(3)
general awareness
51.who donated land to golden temple at amritsar
a)akbar b)humayan c)shahjahan d)jahangir
52.what is Fahrenheit 9/11
53.who is christiano Ronaldo
54. what a student should possess to participate in municipal council elections
aptitude
blood relations -------1
time and work ..........1
about volume of a cone
bar chars and pie charts ..........5

reasoning
serie completion of numbers ......2
coding.........1
non verbal reasoning ........3
a no preceeding by some no and followed by bit ...1
permutations and combinations .........3