BPSC AE 2025 (Assistant Engineer)

BPSC AE 2025:  Important Highlights

BPSC AE 2025 Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

The candidate must have a degree in Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering from a recognised university/institution approved by the AICTE.

Age Limit (As on 01 August 2025) 

The age limit for the post of BPSC AE will be as follows: -

Candidate must have completed 21 years of age. (As on 01 August 2025) 

Note:  Age relaxation shall be allowed as per the rules of the Bihar Government.

Syllabus

Compulsory Papers

General Engilish and General Hindi

Questions on General English and General Hindi will be such that the candidate's understanding of language usage can be tested.

General Studies

Current events and daily news in general studies paper. Topics and experiences related to observation and their scientific information on aspects will be included.

There will be social, economic and political questions and such Research and innovative changes that have taken place in various disciplines of engineering and are important to the technological subject in engineering, including Emphasis on the development of science.

General Engineering Science 

Engineering Mechanics- General Equilibrium-Equation Experiments, Motion-Equation Functions, Power, Energy.

Survey and Measurement - Distance and Area Measurement, Direction Measurement and Angular Measurement of Slope, Levitation and Height, General Survey Equipment, Electrical Workshop Measurements like Ammeter, Volt Meter, Chargemeter, Insulation Tester, Energy Meter and their working principle, Mechanical Workshop Measuring instruments, linear and angular measurements, straight, plane and roundness measurements.

Structure of solids - Generalized pressure and its relation, making laws, transformation of pressure, pressure energy, analysis of beams, columns and shafts, unbalanced orientations at the centre, principles of decay.

Engineering materials and their manufacture - Bricks lime, Cement, Shrapnel, Dalwa iron and steel, Non-ferrous metals Timber paints and miscellaneous engineering materials, Testing of engineering materials, Considerations for construction of brick floors and walls.

Transport Phenomenon - Linear and Regular Conduction of Transport, Boundary Level Continuous Equations, Warnowati's Principle, Energy Equations, Steam of Transport Conduction, Dimensional Analysis and Gadling, One Dimensional Study, Natural Movement of Heat through Single and Multilayered Materials including Walls and Cylinders and induced convective heat transfer, concept of thermal boundary level, Accutten-Boltmann's theory of radiation, Kirchhoff's law, concept of black and gray matter.

Energy conversion:  Process of thermodynamics, first and second impulses and reactions of thermodynamics, water turbine-belton peel and centrifugal pump. 

Elementary Engineering - Electric Circuits, Circuit Laws and Principles of Superposition Meaning of Sound Series and Parallel Connections, Resistance and Capacitance, Junction Transistor, Junction Diode, Equivalent Circuit, Common Emitter Electric Circuit, Magnetic Effect of Electric Current, Transformer, Circuit Elements In the form of Transformer, Transfer of electromagnetic energy, Function of DC Motor and Generator, Function of AC Motor and Generator. 

Environmental Engineering: Water pollution and purification, sewage treatment, air pollution and its control, ecological balance.

 

Optional Paper I - Civil Engineering

Structural Analysis Structural Analysis

Structure:- Determination and stability, internal and external forces, special positional reinforcement and inelastic beam structure, frames and arches, structure theory, method of reinforcement and flexibility, matrix method, determination of elastic stability of pillars and analysis of impact lines for non-conforming structures and Robust analysis of dam and silt.

Structural Design (a) RCC beams, sills, pillars, shear and diagonal tension, Concrete techniques: Climbing and marginal load design, Study of vertical and seismic forces in building structure design. (b) Steel structure tension, compression and flexural components, roof scissor plate girder, bracket connection. (c) Pre-reinforced concrete structure and its essentials

Soil Mechanics and Foundations Engineering: Earthquake force and its determination, Formation and classification of rocks, Nature and texture of soil, Properties and behavior, Generation and compaction, Compaction, Shear force, Stability of slopes, Soil stress, Carrying capacity, Coating, Earth pressure, Retention, shallow and deep foundations including diaar seat piles, tafoot and well foundations, machine foundations, diffusion of soils.

 

Optional Paper II - Civil Engineering

Hydrology and Water Resources- General run-off estimation, use of hydrogram, empirical formula, potential hydrological analysis, management of surface water and groundwater, principles of irrigation engineering, water requirement for crops- General.

Description of irrigation works, flooding, damage and control, the behavior of river drainage, surface and underground drainage, channel design, and general principles of hydropower engineering.

Water system flow description- the principle of energy and momentum homogeneous, sequential traversal changed flow, components of river flow, sediment transport.

Design of Fluid-Structure:- Design of Exterior, Weir, Barrage, Canal and Canal Structure and Pulse, Cross Drainage Works, Cross Regulator, Head Regulator, Head Regulator and Canal Drain, Design of Turk and Hydroelectric Power Equipment.

Transportation Engineering Geometrical design of highways, components of traffic engineering, high side materials, maintenance of high roads. Components of bridge engineering, IRC classification, weights and its behavior in the overhead structure design.

Public Health Engineering: Water supply- population forecast, types of pipes used for water supply, construction of tube well and dug well, design of the slow sand filter and rapid gravity filter, design of the underground and upper tank, details of water supply dam construction.

Drainage and Sanitation - Surface drainage storms, Drainage and sewage - Design of double-cleaning filters Design of septic tank, Design of Imhoff tank, details of health plants.