Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES APPEARING FOR THE COMPETITIVE WRITTEN TEST OF TWO AND A HALF HOURS DURATION (1030 HOURS TO 1300 HOURS) FOR SELECTION AS EXECUTIVE TRAINEES (TECHNICAL ) .
Kindly appear for the Written Test on the specified Date and Time at the allotted Test Venue.
· Make sure that you occupy the allotted seat at the Test Venue by 0950 hours, which will be displayed on the Notice Board.
· Candidates are required to bring any proof of their identity having their photograph viz Passport, Voters’ ID Card, Driving License, ID Card issued by the Academic Institution last attended etc., for verification, when they come for the Written Test. The Admit Card shall be signed by the Candidates in the presence of the Invigilator. Candidates should affix their passport size photograph on the Admit Card.
· Candidates have to ensure that they return the Admit Card, OMR Answer Sheet and the Question Booklet to the Invigilator after the Written Test, failing which their candidature shall be cancelled.
· The Question Booklets are broadly classified into five Disciplines as indicated below:
1) Aeronautical
2) Mechanical and Production
3) Metallurgy
4) Electrical and Electronics
5) Computer Science
· Each Question Booklet will have 160 Objective Type Questions, as indicated below:
General Awareness
(15 Questions)
General Engineering
(25 Questions)
Questions specific to the respective Disciplines indicated above (120 Questions)
Total
(160 Questions)
15 Marks
25 Marks
120 Marks
160 Marks
Notes
1. The Question Booklet for Mechanical and Production Disciplines will be the same and candidates will have to answer questions for both Mechanical and Production Branches.
2. The Question Booklet for Electrical and Electronics Disciplines will be the same and candidates will have to answer questions for both Electrical and Electronics Branches.
· There are no negative marks for incorrect answers.
· Please use the blank pages provided at the end of the Question Booklet only for any rough work.
· If any Candidate is found to be indulging in any kind of malpractice like copying, trying to talk to other candidates, exchanging information, carrying/passing on chits of paper or any other mode to communicate with others, his/her candidature shall be cancelled.
· Mobile Phones, Pagers, Beepers, any kind of Audio Devices, Digital Diaries, Organisers etc., shall not be permitted inside the Examination Hall.
· Candidates will be required to appear for the Written Test at their own expense and will have to make their own arrangements for boarding and lodging at the place of the Examination.
· Further consideration of the candidature after the Written Test will be subject to:-
1. Candidates having passed the final Engineering Examination in the specified Branches of Engg. indicated in the Advertisement, from any recognised Institution/University, with 60% marks in the Aggregate of all Semesters for General/OBC and 50% Marks in the aggregate of all Semesters for SC/ST Candidates.
2. Verification of Qualifications, Marks scored, Age, Caste (for SC/ST/OBC only), PWD (Person with Disability) /Ex-Servicemen etc.
IMPORTANT
Candidates must ensure that they are in possession of the following documents/items, when they report at the Examination Centre:
· Admit Card (with Passport Size photograph duly affixed).
· Proof of Identity having their photograph such as Passport, Voters’ ID Card, Driving License, ID Card issued by the Academic Institution last attended etc., for verification by the Invigilator.
· HB Pencils, Eraser, Pen and Calculator.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES FOR ANSWERING ON THE OMR ANSWER SHEET
Use only HB Pencil to mark the Ovals in the Answer Sheet.
Use Ball Point Pen to fill the Boxes (ie for the Question Booklet No., Roll Number, Date of Birth and Signature.)
Indicate the Question Booklet Series and Question Booklet Serial Number in the space provided on the OMR Answer Sheet without fail.
Please mark the relevant Ovals against the columns like Series, Category, Quota and Main Branch of Engineering as applicable to you.
Mark your answer only in the appropriate space against the Number corresponding to the question you are answering. Darken the response for each question:
A B C D
(ie., if the answer to the Question is option A , then it needs to be darkened )
6. Please ensure that the Ovals are completely darkened.
In case of any mistake while marking, please erase the mark completely and fill the correct Oval again. Do not leave stray marks/half filled Ovals on the Answer Sheet.
Rough work must not be done on the Answer Sheet. Use the blank pages given at the end of the Question Booklet for rough work

Out of 160 questions there
Out of 160 questions there were 20 mathematical questions,10 vocabulary, 5 paragraph questions,10 fill in the blanks, 20 apttitude and rest was subject related.
1. partial differntiation of x^3*y^3/(x+y)^3
2. some points like (0,2,4), (2,5,-1) and (6,2,0) were given and were asked to find whether it is parabola, ecllipse, carboid or cycloid.
3. there were so mant conversion questions like binary to decimal, decimal to binary, decimal to oct, binary mulitiplicationsetc.
4. some laplace formulae related to sine and cosine terms.
5. fouries series of quarter symmetry
6. by appling rouths hurwits criterien we were suppose to find the nuber of roots the equation was something like 2s^4+s^3+4s^2+s i think so
7. damping is proportional to gain, sqrtof gain, 1/gain or 1/sqrt of gain
8. vocabulary like germs:diesease::, emulate:mimic::,
9. there questions about power plants like which plant correspondes to highest capital cost, highest running cost,lowest operational cost, efficiency of thermal plant etc
10. what is the present capacity of unit generation 200MW, 210 MW, 375MW or 500 MW
11. where in nuclear power plant is located like kota, talcher, kolghat,
12. there was 1 question realed to idduki, ramagundam power plants i dont know whether it is the odd 1 out of the hydro plants
13. there was 1 repeated questions related to the spacing b/w the phase conductors like 11m, 8m, 20m, 24m.
14. is megger related to hot wire instrument,moving coil or moving iron.
15. 1 question related to load factor.
16. in a two w/m method what is the condition for which both the w/ms are equal and opposite.
17. question based on inverter gate
18. question related to maximum overshoot.
19. 2 or 3 questions were related to step input, impulse i/p etc.
20. 1 question related to boolean algebra
21. some questin related to find the value of lambda to get no solution.
22. 1 question was related to find from the options of nquist criteria, bode plot, routh hurwits,
23. question related to expontial rise and fall of inductor.
24. given 2 poles and 50 hz freq to find the syn speed.
25. question based on inertia constant and p.u. values
26. quetion baed on power transfer capacity and voltage
27. SIL of 400 KV lines
28. 2 quetions based on maximum power transfer capacity from circuit theory.
29. apttitude ques of pipes and cisterns, compound interest, time and distance,cubes, hcf and lcm,multiplication,
30. for how many days there will food if 2 persons are supposed to leave. question related to this were asked.
31. questions related to angles i dont remember the quetions i remember only the options like pi/3, pi/6,pi/4. 1, -1, 1/2 1/sqrt2. etc
32. ouestion based on P&V, P&Q, V&delta.
33. how many HVDC links are presently in use in india.
34. there were 4 questions like if A*B represents Ais the son of B, C/D represents Cis the husband of D then how A and D are related.
35. to sort the odd number out from a box of given numbers.
36. Vrms and Vo of full wave rectifier
37. reflection coefficent of current of an open ended line.
there were still more questions but i couldnt remember all of them. the questions were taken mostly from electrical handbook, gate papers and some from upsc to my knowledge.almost all qusetions were simple basics.
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