Duration of SCRA Exam

Can you tell me about the duration and pattern of Special Class Railway Apprentice' (SCRA) exam? Also provide me the syllabus of Special Class Railway Apprentice' (SCRA)?

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Special Class Railway Apprentice' (SCRA) refers to a handful of candidates that are selected by the Union Public Service Commission India, after a rigorous selection process, to the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur

Exam pattern of SCRA Exam

The entrance for Special Class Railway Apprentice Service comprises of a Written Exam and an Interview. The details follow:

The written exam consists of three papers.

Written Examination

Paper Subject Duration Maximum Marks

I General Ability Test (English,
General Knowledge,
and Psychological test ) 2 hours 200

II Physical Science (Physics
and Chemistry) 2 hours 200

III Mathematics 2 hours 200

Total 600

SCRA Syllabus
Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination contains of three papers as Paper I, Paper II, and Paper III.

English:
• Unseen Passages
• Advertisement And Notices
• Invitations And Replies
• Business Or Official Letters
• Jumbled Sentences
• Sentence Correction And Paragraph Completion
• Idiomatic Usage
• Subject And Verb Agreement
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Punctuation
• Passive Nouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs And Proverbs
• Articles Direct And Indirect Speech

General Knowledge
• Manures And Fertilizers
• Crop Protection Measures
• High Yielding Varieties And Green Revolution,
• Main Cereal And Cash Crops Of India
• Solar System And The Earth
• Seasons, Climate, Weather, Soil—Its Ormation, Erosion.
• Forests and Their Uses. Natural Calamities Cyclones, Floods, Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions.
• Mountains and Rivers and Their Role In Irrigation In India.
• Distribution of Natural Resources and Industries In India.
• Social Control — Reward And Punishment, Art, Law,
• Environmental Pollution And Its Control
• Food Adulteration, Proper Storage And Preservation Of Food Grains And Finished Products, Population Explosion
• Population Control
• Agricultural Versus Industrial Development;
• Inflation And Price Stabilization,
• Problem of Resource Mobilization.
• India’s Five Year Plans.
• Production Of Food And Raw Materials
• Breeding Of Animals And Plants
• Artificial Insemination
• Customs, Propaganda,
• National Income, Economic Growth.
• Private And Public Sectors; Economic And Non-Economic Factors In Planning,
• Balanced Versus Imbalanced Growth,

Psychological Test:
Questions of this section will be planned to assess the basic aptitude and mechanical aptitude of candidate.
• Introduction to Psychology
• Methods of Psychology
• The Bases of Human Behavior
• Human Development
• Sensory and Perceptual Processes
• Learning
• Human Memory
• Language and thought
• Motivation and Emotion
• Reasoning

Paper-II Physical Sciences (Physics and Chemistry)

Physics
• Momentum, impulse, work, energy and power
• Coefficient of friction
• Equilibrium of bodies under action of Forces
• Moment of a force, couple
• Newton’s Law of Gravitation
• Escape velocity Acceleration due to gravity
• Mass and Weight; Centre of gravity,
• Uniform circular motion, centripetal force,
• Simple Harmonic motion
• Simple pendulum
• Length measurements using vernier
• Screw gauge,
• Speedometer and optical lever measurement of time and mass
• Straight line motion and relationships among placements
• Velocity and acceleration
• Newton’s Laws of Motion
• Production, properties and uses of Grays
• Radioactivity; Alpha, Beta and Gamma rays
• Nuclear energy; fission and fusion
• Conversion of mass into energy
• Chain reaction
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in magnetic field; moving coil galvanometers; conversion to ammeter or voltmeter.
• Chemical effects of current; Primary and storage cells and their functioning
• Laws of electrolysis
• Electromagnetic induction; Simple A.C. and D.C. generators
• Transformers, Induction Coil,
• Cathode rays, discovery of the electron
• Bohr model of the atom
• Diode and its use as a rectifier

Chemistry
1. Organic Chemistry
• Chloroform
• Carbon Tetrachloride
• Chlorobenzene,
• Hydroxyl Compounds: Preparation, properties and uses of Primary, Secondary and tertiary alcohols, Methanol
• Tetrahedral nature of carbon
• Alkenes and alkynes
• Petroleum and its refining
• Halogen derivatives
• Fats and Lipids, amino acids and proteins – Vitamins and hormones
• Hybridization and sigma pie bonds and their relative strength
• Single and multiple bonds
• Shapes of molecules
• Geometrical and optical somerism
• General methods of preparation
• Properties and reaction of alkenes

2. Inorganic Chemistry
• Atomic structure
• Atomic radii, Electro-negativity in period and groups.
• Chemical Bonding
• electro-valent, covalent
• Energy changes in a chemical reaction Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions Application of First Law of Thermodynamics, Hess’s Law of constant heat summation.
• Chemical Equilibriums and rates of reactions
• Temperature and concentration on the rates of reaction
• Natural and Artificial Radioactivity: Nuclear Fission and Fusion. Uses of Radioactive
• coordinates covalent bonds
• Bond properties, sigma and Pie bonds
• Shapes of simple molecules like water
• Hydrogen sulphide, methane and ammonium chloride
• Molecular association and hydrogen bonding
• Effect of Pressure
Paper-III: Mathematics
• Algebra
• Matrices and Determinants
• Trigonometry
• Analytic Geometry (two dimensions)
• Differential Calculus
• Integral Calculus and Differential equations
• Vectors and its applications
• Statistics
• Probability