Indian Engineering Service exam for Electronics & Communiation is conducted by UPSC every year in second week of month of May for post of class-1 officer in various departments like Indian Railway, Indian telecom, Defence, Wireless planning, Ordinance, power-engineering &Inspection services etcs. All posts will be as class-1 officer. Most of the seats in Electronics & communication will be in Indian Railway & Indian Telecom service only. I.E.S is the best option for an electronics & communication engineer in government sector.
(1) Minimum Eligibility criterion for this exam
(A) Education qualification:
If you have done your B.TECH / B.E in
Any branch which has word Electronics eg .Electronics & Telecomm, Electronics-communication & Electronics
engineering.
Computer science/Information technology.
Electrical engineering.
Any branch related to instrumentation engineering.
M.Sc in electronics & equivalent.
Note: If you belongs to any circuit branch (Electronics, computer, IT, Instrumentation & Electrical) you are eligible for IES in Electronics & Tele Communication. There is no need of minimum percentage in your degree. Computer science is not included in engineering service exams but generally computer science graduates prefer ECE because many subjects of electronics they have already studied in B.Tech. Instrumentation graduates also prefer IES by Electronics & communicationOnly. Past result shows that many computer&Instrumentaion graduates have cleared IES exam in E&T only.
(B) Age criterion for IES- 2012
A candidate for this examination must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on the 1st August, 2012 i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1982 and not later than 1st August, 1991.
(2) NUMBER OF POSTS IN EXAM
Generally no of seats vary from year to year and it is in the range of 175-200. Out of which most of the posts belong to Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineering (IRSSE)&IndianTelecomService (I.T.S). Reservation is as per Government of India rule. In IES-2010 No of seats in Electronics & communication were 170 which are expected to be around 190 in IES 2011.
(3) PATTERN OF ENGINEERING SERCICE EXAM
(A) Number of Papers
There are 5 papers out of which 3 are objective types and 2 are conventional (Subjective) papers. Every paper carries 200 marks. These exams are conducted for 3 days. Result of written exam is declared and then successful candidates are called for interview which also carries 200 marks.So final results is declared out of 1200 marks.
(B) Negative marking
1/3 mark will be deducted as penalty for every wrong question in objective paper. There is no negative marking in conventional paper. So in objective paper accuracy is more important.
(C) Standard of questions
Questions asked in all 5 papers require depth and conceptual study of subject. For solving all those questions you must have basic concept and good practice of objective questions. In objective generally questions are trick based and one is required various tricks for solving those questions. For conventional paper generally questions are based upon derivations and numerical questions. In conventional numerical question answer is important.