SSC JE Civil Engineering
Staff Selection Commission Junior Engineer, Civil Engineering. This page carries the paper structure and the subject-by-subject route through the syllabus. Read the note under the tests before you plan around it: there is no dedicated SSC JE series yet, and the shared Civil banks are pitched harder than this paper.
Subjects
Choose a subject to see its tests and notes.
Mock Tests
SSC JE Paper I is 200 objective questions across Reasoning, General Awareness and the technical section. Mock Test Mitra currently serves the technical subjects through the shared Civil Engineering banks, which are written at ESE and GATE depth — useful for concepts, harder than the real paper, and no substitute for a dedicated series. The Reasoning and General Awareness sections are not served at all today.
Study Material
SSC JE — paper structure
| Paper | Content | Questions / Marks | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper I | General Intelligence & Reasoning | 50 questions | 2 hours (whole paper) |
| Paper I | General Awareness | 50 questions | — |
| Paper I | General Engineering (Civil & Structural) | 100 questions | — |
| Paper II | General Engineering (Civil & Structural), descriptive | 300 marks | 2 hours |
Mock Test Mitra is a practice platform, not a conducting authority. SSC sets the pattern, marking and negative marking, and they change between cycles — verify against the current SSC JE notification.
Syllabus coverage
- Building Materials — Cement, concrete mix design (IS 10262), mortar, lime, timber, bricks and stones.
- Strength of Materials — Stress-strain, SFD/BMD, bending and shear stresses, deflection, torsion, columns, Mohr's circle.
- Theory of Structures — Determinate and indeterminate analysis, influence lines, energy methods, matrix stiffness.
- Design of Structures — RCC limit state design (IS 456:2000) and steel design (IS 800:2007) — beams, slabs, columns, footings.
- Geotechnical Engineering — Soil classification, permeability, consolidation, shear strength, bearing capacity, pile foundations.
- Hydraulics & Fluid Mechanics — Fluid properties, hydrostatics, Bernoulli, pipe flow, open channel flow, hydraulic machines.
- Engineering Hydrology — Precipitation, runoff, hydrographs, flood routing, groundwater.
- Irrigation Engineering — Crop water requirements, canal design, cross-drainage works, dams.
- Environmental Engineering — Water quality, coagulation, filtration, chlorination, sewage treatment and disposal.
- Transportation Engineering — Highway geometric design, pavement design (IRC:37, IRC:58), traffic engineering, railways.
- Surveying — Levelling, theodolite, traversing, triangulation, curves, total station and GPS.
- CPM & PERT — Network diagrams, critical path, float, crashing and PERT probabilistic timing.
- Reasoning — Analogies, series, coding-decoding, classification and non-verbal reasoning.
- General Awareness — Current events, history, polity, geography, economy and everyday science.
About SSC JE Civil Engineering
Does Mock Test Mitra have SSC JE mock tests?
Not a dedicated series, no. The Civil Engineering subject banks cover the technical section's topics, but they are written at ESE and GATE depth — longer and more numerical than SSC JE Paper I. They are useful for building concepts; they are not a simulation of the paper. A dedicated series is in preparation.
Is the ESE question bank good practice for SSC JE?
For concepts and codal recall, yes. For exam simulation, no — SSC JE Paper I rewards speed across 200 questions in two hours, including 100 non-technical ones, which is a different skill from working ESE-depth numericals.
What does SSC JE Paper I contain?
200 objective questions: 50 General Intelligence and Reasoning, 50 General Awareness, and 100 General Engineering for your discipline. Paper II is descriptive and discipline-specific. Confirm the current structure and marking against the SSC notification.
Which Civil subjects matter most for SSC JE?
Building Materials, Surveying, Hydraulics, Soil Mechanics and Estimating tend to carry the most one-liner, conceptual questions — the shape SSC JE favours over long derivations.