UPSC Conducts the IES Examination for recruiting Engineers to the posts in Railway, Defense, Central Engineering Service, Telecommunication service, Supply service etc. The Indian Engineering Service examination is conducted in 4 disciplines viz:
- Category I‐Civil Engineering.
- Category II‐Mechanical Engineering.
- Category III‐Electrical Engineering.
- Category IV‐Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Engineering graduates in relevant disciplines can apply for the examination. The selection will be based on A Combined Competitive Examination (ESE 2016) and Interview / Personality Test.
Pattern of Examination 2018:
The Engineering Service Examination consists two sections: Part I Contains Objective Questions and Part II contains Subjective (descriptive) questions
Paper |
No. of Questions | Total Marks |
General Ability Test (GAT) |
2 hrs | 200 |
Engineering Paper I |
2 hrs | 200 |
Engineering Paper II |
2 hrs | 200 |
Paper |
No. of Questions | Total Marks |
Engineering Paper I |
3 hrs | 200 |
Engineering Paper II |
3 hrs | 200 |
For more details about pattern of questions, scheme and plan of examination visit the forum page
Syllabus of IES ESE exam 2018
The exam generally contains degree level questions in all streams. Separate detailed and updated syllabus for all the subject is available for download as PDF files from the IES Syllabus download thread in the forum
Previous year question papers of IES examination with Answer key
We are having complete previous year question papers with key for free downloads from the pages below
- ESE Exam 2018 Completely solved question papers-All subjects
- ES ESE Exam 2017 solved question papers
- IES ESE Exam 2016 Question papers and key– All subjects
IES ESE Model Question papers
Our forum providing some model question papers also for the ESE/ IES exam preparation. You can check the papers at the links given below
- IES ME- Mechanical Engineering model question papers
- EE- Electrical Engineering model papers
- CE- Civil Engineering solved model question papers
- ETE- Electronics & Telecommunication Engg. model papers with key
IES Online Mock test papers for CE, EE, ME and ETE
For continuos practice for ESE examination you can use our free online mock test papers. The question bank contains 5000 questions in each section selected from previous year question papers of IES, GATE etc. You will be presented with 10 questions at a time, solve it in 5 minutes and review your answers. After reviewing your performance, you can go for the next set of questions. A good tool for real exma practice and preparation
- IES CE- Civil Engineering online mock tests
- IES ME- Mechanical Engineering online mock tests
- IES EE- Electrical Engineering online mock tests
- IES ETE- Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering online mock tests