Union Public Service Commission conducted IES 2020 (Prelims) on January 5, 2020. Engineering aspirants were surprised with the exam level as they felt that it was easy as compared to last year. There were two papers, conducted in different sessions. Paper 1 was conducted in the morning shift, whereas Paper 2 was conducted in the afternoon shift. As per the feedback of some students who attempted the exam, this article will help you get to know every tiny detail about UPSC IES 2020 Prelims. The result for Prelims has been out on February 20, 2020.
Highlights of IES 2020 are as follows:
IES 2020 | Paper 1 | Paper 2 |
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Subjects | General Studies and Engineering Discipline | Technical Paper |
Shift Timings | 10 am to 12 pm | 2 pm to 5 pm |
Mode of Examination | Offline | Offline |
Total No. of Questions | 100 | 150 |
Total Marks | 200 | 300 |
Exam Duration | 2 hours | 3 hours |
Negative Marking | 0.33 | 0.33 |
Difficulty Level | Moderate to difficult | easier than previous year |
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IES Prelims Paper I was conducted in the morning session (10 am to 12 pm). Candidates were taken aback with the type of questions that were asked in the examination.
Topics | No. of Questions |
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Current issues of National and International importance relating to Social, Economic and Industrial development | 10 |
Engineering aptitude covering Logical reasoning and analytical ability | 10 |
Engineering Mathematics and Numerical analysis | 12 |
General Principles of Design, Drawing, importance of safety | 9 |
Standards and Quality practices in production, construction, maintenance and services | 10 |
Basics of Energy and Environment: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, Climate Change, Environmental impact assessment | 10 |
Basics of Project Management | 12 |
Basics of Material Science and Engineering | 11 |
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based tools and their applications in Engineering | 11 |
Ethics and values in Engineering profession. | 5 |
Given below is the sub-categorical analysis of topics which were covered in Paper I:
Topic | Sub Topics | Difficulty Level |
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Current issues | GST Bill | Easy |
Digital India | ||
Committees | ||
Engineering Aptitude | Numerical computation | Moderate |
Pendulum | ||
Ages | ||
Cartesian & Co-ordinate Geometry. | ||
Work and men | ||
Percentage | ||
Ratio | ||
Clock | ||
Compression and string | ||
Engineering Mathematics | System of Equation | Difficult |
Maxima and Minima | ||
Complete Integral and Definite Integral | ||
Fourier series | ||
Partial differentiation solution | ||
Complex analysis | ||
Chord of cone | ||
General principles of Design, Drawing, and Importance of Safety | Centre of gravity | Difficult |
Section plane cutting | ||
Vertical and horizontal plane | ||
Health safety | ||
Building demolition | ||
Policy of company | ||
Development of lateral surfaces | ||
Standards and quality practices in production, construction, maintenance and services | Quality practices in construction | Moderate |
Belts drive | ||
Drilling | ||
Cost factors | ||
Reliability analysis | ||
Industrial wastage and production | ||
Defects | ||
Efficiency of power plant | ||
Pneumatic structure | ||
Green public procurement. | ||
Basics of Energy and Environment | Rotterdam convention | Difficult |
Design | ||
Sludge process | ||
Ozone | ||
Renewable and non-renewable energy resources | ||
Pollution | ||
SMOG | ||
Bio-diversity | ||
Water molecules | ||
Global warming | ||
Environmental consideration | ||
Basics of Project management | Depreciation | Easy |
Total quality management | ||
Optimizing strategy | ||
Fixation concept | ||
Project execution | ||
Basics of Material science and technology | Pressure theory, | Moderate |
Shear stress | ||
Material Recycling | ||
Material products | ||
Ionic theory | ||
Crystalline & Non-crystalline structure | ||
Resistance | ||
I.C.T. | Internet of thingsHolostore | Moderate |
Web content | ||
Firewall (Networking) | ||
Tools | ||
Cost constructive Model | ||
Ethics and values in engineering profession | Ethical judgement | Moderate |
Ethical values | ||
Pre- post justification | ||
Ethical issues |
Read more about UPSC IES Cutoff
As per the analysis, listed below are the important points informing about the level and type of questions that were asked in IES 2020 Paper 1:
Candidates who qualify IES Prelims will have to appear for IES Mains 2020. Shortlisted candidates from IES Mains will then be called for personal interview session for final recruitment.
IES Examination constitutes the following 3 stages carries a total of 1300 Marks:
Stage 1: Preliminary Exam
Preliminary Exam is Objective type and consist of 2 papers which will be conducted in different sessions.
Stage 2: Mains Exam
Stage 3: Personality Test
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The final results will be declared after preparing a Merit list based on candidate’s performance in each round. Top candidates in the merit list will be given an appointment letter and would be recruited in Engineering Services through UPSC IES.
*The article might have information for the previous academic years, please refer the official website of the exam.