IES Exam 2022: Latest News, Date, Eligibility, Salary & Vacancies

IES Exam Latest News

As UPSC has already conducted the IES prelims exams for this year, the results for this year were declared on August 6, 2021. However, all the details about IES important dates and notifications, including IES results, shall be available on UPSC’s official website. As of now, some essential information for the IES exam year 2021 is here.

IES releases the application forms for this exam nearly in April. Besides, UPSC follows the same procedures every year. Sometimes there can be a change in this pattern but, there will be some cause behind it.

Moreover, UPSC conducts this exam often in June. However, the admit cards are available three weeks before the exam and UPSC declares the IES prelims results within a month after the exam. Therefore, candidates must be aware that the IES important dates for results must be somewhere in July.

Also, UPSC conducts the IES main’s exam after the prelims results are out. Similar to the prelims exams the process of availability of admit cards and results is the same. Moreover, the tentative dates for the mains and final result are December 2021 and January 2022 respectively.

IES Important Dates

This section will now talk about all IES important dates covering all events in a sequential manner

• Firstly, as per the UPSC notification for the IES exam, the IES syllabus for various subjects was available on their website in April 2021.
• Secondly, the next in line is the release of the IES exam date. As per a notification on UPSC’s website, it will conduct the IES exam for prelims on July 18, 2021.
• However, the application forms were available from April 7 to April 27, 2021.
• Besides, there is also an option of withdrawal of exam forms for which the date was May 4, 2021.
• After this, the dates for prelims admit card release was June 24, 2021.
• As this exam consists of more than one stage, the next stage is the IES main’s exam for which the date is October 10, 2021. Also, the admit card for which will release sometime in September.
• The next in line is its result and UPSC will release the results for IES main’s in November 2021.
• Now coming to the final stage is the interview stage. UPSC will conduct it in December 2021. Moreover, the final results will be available in January 2022. However, these are only the tentative dates.

Apart from all these details, UPSC also releases a notification about the eligibility criteria for the IES exam. Candidates come to know about all the standards for them to become eligible. To make this thing clear; nationality, age limit, educational qualifications, etc, are some of the criteria for candidates to become eligible.

Highlights of IES important dates

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About IES exam

Here we will discuss the pattern of prelims and mains separately. However, the IES exam pattern is the same for each stream. Therefore we will discuss it briefly.

Prelims Pattern

The IES prelims exam pattern includes only objective-type questions. These carry a total of 500 marks. As IES prelims consist of two papers, Paper-I is for 200 marks whereas, Paper-II is for 300. Moreover, the candidates who qualify at this stage of the IES exam will be eligible to sit in the mains exams.

The UPSC takes the IES prelims exam online. Though, there is a negative marking for each wrong answer. However, the answers with no response are not marked. Furthermore, candidates have to select a correct response from four given options. Coming towards the exam duration, Paper-I is for two hours whereas, Paper-II is of three-hour duration. Apart from this, Paper-II in each subject is about the same category. Like in electrical engineering, the Paper-II in prelims will be about that subject itself. The same goes for the other categories.

Mains Pattern

Now talking about the IES mains exam, the paper pattern is somewhat different from the prelims. As we know that prelims are objective; the mains are descriptive. We also call this a conventional type. This exam also includes two papers; Paper-I and Paper-II. But these are both about the category they belong to.

Each paper of this exam is of 300 marks. Also, the duration is of three hours each. This means the total duration of IES mains is six hours. Being descriptive, the mode of this exam is offline. Moreover, the candidates must opt for all the questions unless there is given any choice.

IES Eligibility Criteria

Candidates to become eligible for this exam must pass through some criteria. This includes:

• Nationality
• Age limit, and
• Educational qualifications

Nationality

• Applying candidates must be citizens of India, Nepal, or Bhutan.
• Moreover, any person from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Burma, Zaire, Ethiopia, etc., who are of Indian origin are also eligible. However, the condition is that they should intent to settle permanently in India after their migration.
• Apart from the citizens of India, all other applying candidates would have an eligibility certificate. Moreover, only the Government of India can issue this certificate for them.

Age Limit

UPSC has set different age limits for candidates of different categories.

• The minimum applying age must be 21 as of August 1, 2021.
• Also, the candidates must not have been born before August 2, 1990.
• However, the upper age limit varies for different categories. In the general category, the upper age limit is 30 years.

Educational Qualification

This section is about the educational qualifications of IES candidates.

• The minimum qualification for candidates applying for this is graduation in engineering.
• Candidates must first qualify for the Graduate Membership Examination. Moreover, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers conducts this exam.

IES Application Form

Once the candidates are at the application filling process, they need to consider some things. These include

• Firstly, a working mobile number
• Secondly, their email address
• All their relevant certificates
• Also, a scanned photograph and signature are a must.
• Moreover, they must also keep a category certificate (if any)
• Lastly, their banking details.

IES: How to apply?

• Candidates must first visit the website http://www.upsc.gov.in/
• The second step is to find the link for application forms on the UPSC website.
• The next step involves clicking on new users
• Moreover, a link will appear for filling in personal details.
• Lastly, fill in their details like personal names, gender, academic details, etc.

Fee Payment

• Candidates can pay fees using debit cards, credit cards, or, Net banking.
• Moreover, only the general category candidates have to pay a fee of Rs. 200. However, other categories are females are exempted from paying any fee.

Syllabus

We will discuss the syllabus for each stage separately.

IES Syllabus for prelims

Starting with the first stage, we will now discuss the prelims syllabus for each stream. The first in line is Civil Engineering. In this one, there are two papers. This one is the Paper-I also known as the General Studies and Engineering Aptitude. Moreover, there is another paper known as Paper-II. However, the IES Syllabus for Paper-I is the same in every category. The questions are all objective type.

Now, we will talk about the total chapters in this paper. The IES syllabus of paper-I constitutes ten chapters. A few of the topics are:

• The first one here is Engineering Aptitude
• Then comes Material Science and Engineering
• The next one is Engineering Ethics and values
• Another topic is economic and industrial development

These are some of the topics in the IES syllabus from prelims. However, the Paper-II of prelims is the same as the Paper-II in mains. The only difference is that it is objective. We will discuss the IES syllabus of prelims paper-II in the main’s section. Moreover, this applies to every category.

The IES mains syllabus is different for each category. In this section, we will discuss the mains syllabus category-wise.

IES Syllabus of Mains for Mechanical Engineering

Our second category is mechanical engineering. Here are the chapters

• Chapter one is  about Fluid Mechanics
• The second chapter talks about Thermodynamics and Heat transfer
• The third one is about IC Engines; Refrigeration and Air conditioning
• The next one is Turbo Machinery
• Then comes Power Plant Engineering
• Renewable Sources of Energy is also part of the syllabus
• Then comes Engineering Mechanics
• Engineering Materials is in the syllabus
• Mechanisms and Machines is another chapter
• Moreover, the Design of Machine Elements is the next one.
• Further, the next one is Manufacturing, Industrial and Maintenance Engineering
• The last one is Mechatronics and Robotics

As we have mentioned all the chapters in the IES syllabus, now given here are some of the topics. We will start with topics from Paper-I. It includes SI and CI Engines; Thermal resistance; Emissions and Emission Control; Flow through pipes and head losses in pipes; Bio-mass and Tidal Energy; Evaporators and Expansion devices, etc. Besides, condensers and compressors are also in it.

Moreover, the topics from Paper-II include Analysis of System of Forces, Basic Crystallography, Types of Kinematics Pair, Law of gearing, Design for static and dynamic loading; Metal casting-Metal forming, Field Balancing of Rotors, Pneumatic and Hydraulic actuators, etc. Furthermore, some other topics are Robot Classification, Hall effect sensor, NDT Techniques in Condition Monitoring, etc.

IES Syllabus of Mains for Electrical Engineering

The IES syllabus for this category is also divided into two parts. The two papers include twelve units; six units each. The six units from Paper-I cover Engineering Mathematics, Electrical Materials; Electric Circuits and Fields; Electrical and Electronic Measurements; Computer Fundamentals and Basic Electronics Engineering.

Moreover, the six units from Paper-II include Analog and Digital Electronics; Systems and Signal Processing; Control Systems; Electrical Machines. The last one in this paper is Power Electronics and Drives.

Furthermore, we now move towards the topics. Some of them are Semiconductor power diodes, DC-DC switched-mode converters; HVDC transmission and FACTS concepts; Circuit breakers, etc. Also, DC machines, the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, Fourier series representation of continuous periodic signals, etc, are there in the syllabus.

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