SSC SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT EXAM
SSC SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT EXAM
Staff Selection Commission (SSC) will conduct an open competitive examination for recruitment to the post of Scientific Assistant in India Meteorological Department (IMD), Group ‘B’ Non-Gazetted, Non-Ministerial post, in the Level 6 of the Pay Matrix as per the Recruitment Scheme formulated by the IMD and as per the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between IMD and SSC. The salient features of the recruitment areas under:- The Examination will be advertised by SSC based on vacancies intimated by IMD.
- Applications from the candidates for the examination will be accepted through online mode only.
- The Staff Selection Commission will conduct the examination in “Computer Based Examination” (CBE) Mode in Hindi and English, on Pan India basis depending on 2 the number of applicants from different States and UTs. Call letters for the Computer Based Examination will be uploaded on the websites of the Regional Offices concerned of the Staff Selection Commission and a “Notice” about information regarding Admit Card/ Admission Certificate will be provided on the website of IMD.
- The Document Verification will be conducted by the IMD. IMD will issue the Admission Certificates for DV to candidates through its website. A notice regarding the DV will also be uploaded on the website of the Commission.
- The final result will be processed and declared by the Commission on its website. A ‘reserve panel/additional list’ of 50% candidates (category-wise) will also be prepared by the Staff Selection Commission in addition to the number of candidates selected as per the notified vacancies and the same will be provided to IMD in a sealed cover, not to be uploaded. The “Reserve Panel” will be valid for a period of one and half years from the date of declaration of result.
- Court Cases/ RTI/ Public Grievances relating to Notice of Examination excluding issues related to IMD, on-line application, conduct of Computer Based Examination and preparation of Merit List would be handled by the Staff Selection Commission. The remaining court cases/ RTI/ Public grievances etc. will be handled by the IMD.
- The process of cancellation of candidature of candidates found indulging in any malpractice or impersonation etc. during the conduct of Computer Based Examination will be handled by the SSC
- The cases of candidates found indulging in any malpractice or impersonation etc. during the conduct of the DV will be handled by the IMD.
- Any representation regarding change (inclusion/exclusion) in the Merit List/ Reserve List due to wrong/incorrect DV data will be handled by the IMD.
TENTATIVE VACANCIES / RESERVATION:
- Total Vacancies: About 990.
- The number of vacancies is tentative and subject to variation.
- Reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) candidates is available as per extant Government Orders.
- The posts have been identified suitable for the persons suffering from disabilities of One Arm affected (OA) or One Leg affected (OL) and Dwarfism (Dw) or Acid Attack Victims (AAV).
- The posts carry All India Service Liability (AISL) i.e. the candidate, on selection, may be asked to serve anywhere in the country.
Essential Educational Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Science (with Physics as one of the subject)/Computer Science/Information Technology/Computer Applications OR Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from a recognized Institution/University or equivalent.
NOTE-I: The qualifying Degree or Diploma referred above should be in First Class (60% marks) or 6.75 CGPA on a 10 point scale.
NOTE-II: The qualifying Degree or Diploma referred above must be of three (3) years duration after (10+2) examination.
NOTE-III: The applicant must have passed 10+2 Examination from a Recognized Board or equivalent in Science with Physics and Mathematics as core subjects.
Indicative Syllabus (Part-I):
General Intelligence & Reasoning:
The Syllabus for General Intelligence
would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal type. The test may
include questions on analogies, similarities, differences, space visualization,
problem solving, analysis, judgement, decision making, visual memory,
discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning,
verbal and figure classification, arithmetical number series etc. The test will
also include questions designed to test the candidate’s abilities to deal with
abstract ideas and symbols and their relationships, arithmetical computations
and other analytical functions.
General Awareness:
General, physical, geographical, topographical,
economic and climatic features of India. Current events. Matters of everyday
observation and experience on scientific aspects and reasoning. Basic topics
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of Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. History of India, its cultural
heritage, freedom movement, salient feature of the Constitution of India.
Economic and social aspect of the country and its people.
Quantitative Aptitude:
The questions will be designed to test the ability of
appropriate use of numbers and number sense of the candidate. The scope of
the test will be computation of whole numbers, decimals, fractions and
relationships between numbers, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion, Square
roots, Averages, interest, Profit and Loss, Discount, Partnership Business,
Mixture and Alligation, Time and Distance, Time & Work, Basic algebraic
identities of School Algebra & Elementary Surds, Graphs of Linear
Equations, Triangle and its various kinds of center, Congruence and
similarity of triangles, Circle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by
chords of a circle, common tangents to two or more circles, Triangle,
Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons, Circle, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone,
Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere, Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped,
Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square base, Trigonometric ratio,
Degree and Radian Measures, Standard Identities, Complementary angle,
Heights and Distances, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar diagram & Pie
chart.
English Language and Comprehension
English grammar, Vocabulary,
Spellings, Synonyms and Antonyms, Comprehension, Correct and incorrect
usages, etc.
Indicative Syllabus (Part-II)
Physics
Mechanics: Units and dimensions, SI Units, Newton’s Laws of Motion,conservation of linear and angular momentum, projectiles, rotational
motion, moment of inertia, rolling motion, Newton’s Law of
gravitation, Planetary motion, Kepler’s Laws of Planetary motion,
artificial satellites, Fluid motion, Bernoulli’s theorem, Surface tension,
Viscosity, Elastic Constants, bending of beams, torsion of cylindrical
bodies, elementary ideas of special theory of relativity.
gases, Dalton’s law of partial pressure. Thermometry, Zeroth, first and
second laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes,
Heat engines, Maxwell’s relation, Heat Capacities, Adiabatic and
Isothermal processes, Clausius-Clapeyron relation, Thermal
Conductivity, Thermodynamic state variables, viz., Internal energy,
Entropy, Enthalpy, Helmholtz’s free energy function, Gibb’s free
energy function. Vapour pressure, evaporation. Kinetic theory of
gases, Brownian motion, Maxwell’s velocity distribution,
Equipartition of energy, mean free path Vander walls’ equation of
State, Liquefaction of gases. Blackbody radiation, Kirchhoff’s law,
Stephen’s law, Planck’s law. Conduction in solids.
superposition principle, Damped oscillations; forced oscillations and
resonance; simple oscillatory systems; vibrations of rods, strings and
air columns. Doppler effect; Ultrasonic; Sabine’s law of reverberation;
Recording and reproduction of sound.
Optics: Nature and propagation of light; Reflection & Refraction.
Interference; diffraction; polarization of light; simple interferometers.
Determination of wavelength of spectral lines, Electromagnetic
spectrum. Rayleigh scattering, Raman effect, Lenses and mirrors,
combination of coaxial thin lenses, spherical and chromatic
aberrations, and their corrections, Microscope, Telescope, Eyepieces
and Photometry.
Electricity and magnetism: Electric charges, fields and potentials,
Gauss’s theorem, Electrometers, Dielectrics, Magnetic properties of
matter and their measurement, Elementary theory of dia, para and
ferro-magnetism, Hysteresis, Electric current and their properties,
Ohm’s law, Galvanometers, Whetstone’s bridge and applications,
Potentiometers, Faraday’s law of E.M. induction, self and mutual
inductance and their applications, alternating currents, impedance and
resonance, LCR circuit, Dynamos, motors, transformers, PeltierSeebeck and Thomson effects and applications, electrolysis, Hall
effect, Hertz experiment and electro-magnetic waves, Particle
accelerators and cyclotron.
Atomic structure: Electron, measurement of ‘e’ and ‘e/m’,
measurement of Planck Constant, Rutherford-Bohr Atom, X-rays,
Bragg’s law, Moseley’s law, Radioactivity, Alpha-Beta-Gamma
emission, Elementary ideas of nuclear structures, Fission, Fusion and
Reactors, Louis de Broglie waves and Electron Microscope.
Electronics: Thermo-ionic emission, diodes and triodes, p-n diodes and
transistors, simple rectifier, amplifier and oscillator circuits.
Calculus: Limits, Differential calculus (Differentiation), Integral
calculus (Integration), Multivariable calculus (Function theory), basic
concepts of differential equation, viz., types, order, degree of
differential equations. Concept of Laplacian of a function.
Linear algebra: Concept of a Vector Space, Basic concepts of linearly
dependent/independent vectors. Matrix and determinant. Concepts of
Eigen Value and Eigen Vectors.
Vector Algebra & calculus: Zero Vector, Unit Vector, Position Vector,
Co-initial Vector, Like and Unlike Vectors, Co-planar Vector,
Collinear Vector, Equal Vector, Displacement Vector, Negative of a
Vector, Vector and Scalar Quantities, Vector Formulas, Components
of a Vector, Vector Addition and its Laws, Multiplication of Vectors
and Scalar Quantity, Vector Algebra, Dot Product of Two Vectors,
Scalar Triple Product. Basic concepts of Vector calculus, viz., Grads,
Divergence, Curl, Stokes theorem, Gauss divergence theorem.
Computer Science and Information Technology
Computer: History of Computers and their classification, Basic
Organization, Memory–RAM, ROM, EPROM, etc., Magnetic-Floppy,
Hard disks, CDROM, WORM etc., Concept of Virtual Memory and
Cache Memory, Number systems, binary, octal, Hexadecimal, Binary
Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication, Flotation, point
representation and arithmetic, Arithmetic through stacks.
Operating systems: assemblers, elements of Assembly language
programming-Overview of the Assembly process, assembler for the
PC, Process synchronization, Memory Management – address Binding
– dynamic Loading and linking – overlays – logical and Physical
address space – Contiguous Allocation – internal & External
Fragmentation. Non-Contiguous Allocation: Paging and Segmentation
Schemes – Implementation – Hardware Protection – Protection –
sharing – Fragmentation.
Virtual Memory: Demand Paging – Page Replacement – Page
Replacement algorithms – Thrashing.
File System: File Concepts – Assess Methods – Directory Structures –
Protection Consistency Semantics – File system Structures –
Allocation Methods – Free Space Management.
12.12.2.5. I/O System: Overview – I/O hardware – Application I/O Interface –
Kernel I/O subsystem, Performance, Secondary Storage Structures,
Protection, Goals, Domain – Access matrix.
12.12.2.6. Assemblers: Elements of assembly language programming – Overview
of the Assembly process – Design of a low-pass Assembler – a single
pass Assembler for the PC. The security Problem – Authentication –
Threats – Threat Monitoring – Encryption.
Fundamentals of programming: Unix Programming, Programming in
FORTRAN, C, Object Oriented Programming in C++, programming
in Java, Basics of compilers.
Database Management Systems: Advantages and components of a
Database Management Systems, Data Types, Data Dictionary, Query
Basics, Forms and Reports, Graphical objects, Error Handing,
Distributing Application, Data Storage Methods, Data Clustering and
Partitioning, Database Administration, Backup and Recovery, Security
and Privacy, Distributed Databases, Client/Server Databases, Object
Oriented Databases, Integrated Applications, SQL, RDBMS.
Internet Technology: Basics, topologies, layers, switching in the
networks, bridges, routers and gateways, types of networks, WWW.
Client/Server Applications, Internet Standards and specifications, ISP,
Broad Band Technologies, Protocols, web-servers, browsers, and
security, fire walls, data security, HTML, dHTML, XML, Web
designing.
12.12.2.10. Fundamentals of Geographical Information System (GIS): GIS Data
and Spatial Models, Topology and Spatial Operations, Projections,
Scale and Coordinate Systems, Mapping, GIS Analysis, Cartography.
Basics of GIS application development.
Electronics & Telecommunication
Electronics: Conductors, Semi-conductors, Insulators, Magnetic,
Passive components, characteristics of Resistors, Capacitors and
inductors.PN Junction diode, forward and reverse bias characteristics
and equivalent circuits of diode, Zener diode and applications, clipping,
clamping and rectifier circuits using diodes.
Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), Field Effect Transistor (FET) and
MOSFET; Biasing and stability, Emitter follower and its applications
– Negatives Feedback-Transistor as a switch, Multistage Amplifiers,
Feedback, Oscillators, Multi vibrators, Voltage regulation, Power
amplifiers.
Introduction to Network Theorems: Kirchoff’s laws, superposition,
Thevenin’s , Norton’s and Maximum power theorems.
Voltage and Current relationship in the resistance, inductance and
capacitance. Concept of reactance, susceptance, conductance,
impedance and admittance in series and parallel RL, RC and RLC
circuits – Three phase supply-star and delta connection diagrams –
Relation between line and phase & voltages and currents, series and
parallel resonance circuits – condition of resonance, resonant
frequency, Q factor and bandwidth.
Digital electronics:–Logic gates, Demorgan’s theorem, Boolean
algebra, frequency counters, flip-flops, shift resistors, Basic concepts
of Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital Converters, Timing circuits,
Digital logic circuits, systems & codes Combinational logic design.
Telecommunication: Basic antenna principle directive gain, directivity,
radiation pattern, broad-side and end-fire array, Yagi antenna,
Parabolic antenna, Ground wave propagation, space waves, ionosphere
propagation and electromagnetic frequency spectrum, Modulation,
types of modulation, Amplitude Modulation (AM), Modulation index,
Power relation in AM, Generation and Demodulation of AM.
Single Side Band (SSB): Power requirement in comparison with AM,
Advantages of SSB over AM. Concept of Balanced Modulator,
Generation of SSB, Pilot Carrier System. Independent Side System,
Vestigial Sideband Transmission.
Frequency Modulation (FM): Definition of FM, Bandwidth, Noise
triangle, Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis.
Pulse Modulation (PM): Definition of PM. Difference between AM
and FM. Radio receivers. Sampling Theorem, PAM, PTM, PWM,
PPM, pulse code modulation, Quantization noise, commanding, PCM
system, differential PCM, Delta modulation.
Multiplexing: FDM/TDM.
Introduction of digital Communication: PSK, ASK, FSK, introduction
to fiber optics system, Propagation of light in optical fiber and ray
model.
Propagation of signals at HF, VHF, UHF and microwave frequency
and satellite communications.
Dates for submission of online applications :30-09-2022 to 18-10-2022
Last date and time for receipt of online applications 18-10-2022 (23:00)
Last date and time for generation of offline Challan 19-10-2022 (23:00)
Last date and time for making online fee payment 20-10-2022 (23:00)
Last date for payment through Challan (during
working hours of Bank) 20-10-2022
Date of ‘Window for Application Form Correction’
including online payment. 25-10-2022 ( upto 23:00)
Tentative Schedule of Computer Based
Examination (CBE) December, 2022
How to apply:
Applications must be submitted only in online mode at the website of SSC
Headquarter i.e. https://ssc.nic.in
application fee - 100/
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