UPSC released IES/ESE syllabus on 4th September 2021 for all the four categories which are given below
- Category-I (Civil Engineering)
- Category-II (Mechanical Engineering)
- Category-II (Electrical Engineering)
- Category-IV (Electronics and telecommunication Engineering)
IES (ESE) mains 2021 exam syllabus for civil Engineering
In the ESE mains 2021 exam, there are two papers for the civil engineering category and each paper have six subjects which are given below in the tabular form
S.no |
Paper-1 |
Paper-2 |
1 |
Building Materials |
The flow of Fluids, Hydraulic mechanics and Hydropower |
2 |
Solid Mechanics |
Hydrology and water resources Engineering |
3 |
Structure analysis |
Environmental Engineering |
4 |
Design of steel structure |
Geotechnical Engineering and foundation Engineering |
5 |
Design of concrete and Masonry structure |
Surveying and Geology |
6 |
Construction practice, planning, and Management |
Transportation Engineering |
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ESE mains 2021 exam syllabus for Mechanical Engineering
In IES 2021 mains examination there are two papers for mechanical engineering and each paper have six subjects which are given below in the tabular form
S.no |
Paper-1 |
Paper-2 |
1 |
Fluid Mechanics |
Engineering Mechanics |
2 |
Thermodynamics and Heat transfer |
Engineering Materials |
3 |
IC Engines, Refrigeration and air conditioning |
Mechanism and Machines |
4 |
Turbomachinery |
Design of Machine Elements |
5 |
Power plant Engineering |
Manufacturing, Industrial and Maintenance Engineering |
6 |
Renewable sources of Energy |
Mechatronics and Robotics |
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IES (ESE) Mains 2021 Exam syllabus for Electrical Engineering
Here is the ESE mains 2021 syllabus from Electrical Engineering and its have two papers Paper-1 will be conducted in the morning and Paper-2 will be conducted in the afternoon. Each paper have six subjects which are given below in the tabular form
S.no |
Paper-1 |
Paper-2 |
1 |
Engineering Mathematics |
Analog and Digital Electronics |
2 |
Electrical Material |
System and Signal processing |
3 |
Electrical circuit and fields |
Control system |
4 |
Electrical and Electronics measurement |
Electrical Machines |
5 |
Computer fundamentals |
Power System |
6 |
Basic Electronics Engineering |
Power Electronics and Drivers |
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IES Mains 2021 Exam syllabus for Electronics and telecommunication Engineering
In IES 2021 mains examination there are two papers for Electronics and telecommunication Engineering and each paper have 6 subjects that are given below in the tabular form
S.no |
Paper-1 |
Paper-2 |
1 |
Basic Electronics engineering |
Analog and Digital communication system |
2 |
Basic Electrical Engineering |
Control system |
3 |
Materials Science |
Computer Organization and Architecture |
4 |
Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation |
electro Magnetics |
5 |
Network Theory |
Advance electronics Topics |
6 |
Analog and Digital circuits |
Advanced Communication Topics |
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IES (ESE) 2020 mains examination cutoff
As we know the cutoff scores are released after the final recruitment of ESE 2021 but we provide ESE 2020 cutoff for the candidates to know the expected cutoff scores for ESE 2021 mains examination.
There are cutoffs of ESE 2021 for all four disciplines with different cast categories.
ESE Mains cutoff 2020 for civil Engineering
These main cutoff scores are out of 1100 means these scores are included prelims score also and these data is shown in the tabular form below.
Category |
Mains score (out of 1100) |
General |
651 |
OBS |
576 |
SC |
486 |
ST |
575 |
EWS |
600 |
PwBD-1 |
365 |
PwBD-3 |
180 |
ESE Mains cutoff 2020 for mechanical Engineering
The following data is of IES 2020 mains cutoff with all cast categories and mains score in the tabular form.
Category |
Mains score (out of 1100) |
General |
624 |
OBS |
577 |
SC |
545 |
ST |
506 |
EWS |
575 |
PwBD-1 |
382 |
PwBD-3 |
196 |
ESE Mains cutoff 2020 for Electrical Engineering
The below table is for IES mains 2020 cutoffs of Electrical Engineering with all categories and mains total score.
Category |
Mains score (out of 1100) |
General |
578 |
OBS |
550 |
SC |
496 |
ST |
510 |
EWS |
548 |
PwBD-1 |
412 |
PwBD-3 |
141 |
ESE Mains cutoffs 2020 for Electronics and telecommunication engineering
The following details are the IES/ESE 2020 cutoffs for Electronics and telecommunication Engineering with all categories and mains scores
Category |
Mains score (out of 1100) |
General |
516 |
OBS |
491 |
SC |
451 |
ST |
442 |
EWS |
459 |
PwBD-2 |
190 |
Recommended books for ESE Mains examination
These are the most popular and recommended books for IES/ESE mains 2021 examination by the experts for all four categories that are civil Engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and electronics and telecommunication engineering.
Books for IES (ESE) Civil Engineering
Here are the Reference books for the ESE mains exam for civil engineering which are given below in the tabular form.
S.no |
Book name |
Author name |
1 |
Strength of Material |
Gere & Goodno, L.Singer |
2 |
Theory of Structure |
L.S. Negi & Jangit |
3 |
Soil mechanics |
R.F Craig, Muni Budhu |
4 |
Fluid Mechanics |
Modi & Seth, R.K Bansal |
5 |
Environmental engineering |
G.O.I Manual, S.K Garg |
6 |
Conventional and Objective |
R.S Khurmi, J.K Gupta |
7 |
Railway Engineering |
Saxena & Arora |
8 |
Building Materials |
Rangwala, M.L Gambhir |
9 |
Steel Design |
Manicka Selvam |
Books for IES (ESE) Mechanical Engineering
Here are some reference books for ESE main examination for mechanical engineering which are given below in the tabular form
S.no |
Book name |
Author name |
1 |
Strength of Materials |
Gere & Timoshenko |
2 |
Engineering Thermodynamics |
P.K Nag, Cengel & Boles |
3 |
Industrial Engineering |
O.P Khanna, Ravi Shankar |
4 |
Material Science |
WD Callister |
5 |
Machine Design |
Shigley, V.B Bhandari |
6 |
Theory of Machines |
R.K bansal, Jagdish Lal |
7 |
I.C Engine |
Sharma Mathur, V. Ganeshan |
8 |
Operations Research |
Taha, S.D Sharma |
9 |
Compressible Flow |
S.M Yahya |
Books for IES (ESE) Electrical Engineering
There are some reference books for ESE Electrical Engineering all the books with the Author names are given below in the tabular form
S.no |
Book name |
Author name |
1 |
Electrical Circuits |
Van Valkenberg, Schaum series |
2 |
Electro-Magnetic field |
W.H Hayt, K.D Prasad |
3 |
Electrical Materials |
A.J Dekker, S.P Seth |
4 |
Computer Networking |
Tanenbaum, Forouzon |
5 |
Basic Electronics Engineering |
Streetman & Banerjee |
6 |
Analog Electronics |
Milman & Halkias, Sedra & Smith |
7 |
Microprocessor |
R.S Goenkar, B. Ram |
8 |
Control Systems |
B.C Kuo |
9 |
Power Systems |
I.J Nagrath & D.P Kothari |
Books for IES (ESE) Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Here are some reference books of Electronics and Telecommu Engg for ESE mains examination which are given below in the tabular form
S.no |
Book name |
Author name |
1 |
Material Science |
A.J Dekkar, S.P Seth |
2 |
Basic Electrical Engineering |
B.L Thareja |
3 |
Network Theory |
Van Valkonberg, D.Roy Choudhary |
4 |
Electronics Measurements and instrumentation |
A.K Sawhney Helfrich & Cooper |
5 |
Control Systems |
Nagrath & Gopal B.C Kuo |
6 |
Electro-Magnetics |
K.D Prasad Mathew N.O Sadiku |
7 |
Advances Electronics Topics |
Plummer-Silicon VLSI Muhammad N.Mazidi |
8 |
Analog & digital communication |
Taub & Schilling, Singh & sapre |
9 |
Digital Electronics |
Morris mano & R.P Jain |
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