Previous year paper and books for FCI ASSISTANT GRADE-III EXAM

In my last post I discussed on FCI Recruitment 2015, As Assistant Grade-III jobs have been made available by FCI - and you can definitely grab one of them, if you prepare seriously for the written exam. In this article I am going to discuss  about Preparation materials , Books and previous year paper for FCI Assistant Grade-III Exam 2015. 

Date of FCI Assistant Grade-III Exam 2015 has still not been decided and hence it is the best time to start your preparation. Early bird gets the worm, is not it?

Pattern of FCI Assistant Grade-III Exam 2015:

If you are apply for the Assistant Grade-III posts then there are lot of question comes to your mind like -- Which and how many papers you have to appear in this FCI exam, what type of Question comes , Syllabus of FCI exam. The exam pattern given in the notification makes that very confusing, specially as it is being held for many other posts, besides the Assistant Grade-III.

For AG-III (General) or AG-III (Depot) there is only one exam paper - Paper-I.But if you are targeting AG-III (Accounts) or AG-III (Technical), you have to appear in two papers - Paper-I and Paper-II. 

Paper-I is a General Aptitude paper and Paper-II is a Technical paper.Paper-II is specific to the post you are applying for. For example, Paper-II for AG-III (Accounts) would contain questions on Commerce while the same paper for AG-III (Technical) would contain questions on Biological Sciences.
In each of these two papers, there are 120 questions, each worth 1 mark, which has to be answered within the duration of 1-1/2 hour (i.e. 90 minutes).
FCI in its notification has not said what are the sections within the General Aptitude paper But as expected its very similar to the IBPS Bank PO CWE exam

FCI Assistant Grade-III Exam 2015 Syllabus: 

Syllabus of Paper-I (Duration-90 minutes)

120 Multiple Choice Questions of General Aptitude consisting Reasoning, Data Analysis, English Language, Computer Proficiency, General Awareness, General Intelligence, Current Events, Numerical Ability, Data Interpretation.

Syllabus of Paper-II (Duration-90 minutes):

For candidates applying for AG-III (Accounts):
120 Multiple Choice Questions on Commerce particularly General Accounting and Finance to assess the post specific technical knowledge of relevant stream.

For candidates applying for AG-III (Technical):
120 Multiple Choice Questions on Biological Sciences to assess the post specific technical knowledge of relevant stream.

Previous Years Exam Paper for FCI Assistant Exam:

I has searched on the net for old exam papers of this exam and could find only one genuine paper, which has been posted by Jagran.com. You can click here to download this previous years exam paper.
But as I said above, you can also use the sample/previous years exam papers of IBPS CWE PO Exam to prepare. You can click here to find the find the IBPS CWE PO Exam Papers.

Book for FCI Assistant Grade-III Exam :

I am on the look out for some more study materials for FCI Assistant Grade-III Exam and would post the same here. So keep coming back. And again.

Food Corporation of India Vacancies

ZONE-WISE RECRUITMENT FOR JUNIOR ENGINEER (JE) (CIVIL ENGINEERING / ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING / MECHANICAL ENGINEERING), ASSISTANT GRADE-II (AG II) (HINDI), TYPIST (HINDI) AND ASSISTANT GRADE-III (AG III) (GENERAL / ACCOUNTS / TECHNICAL / DEPOT)

The Food Corporation of India (FCI), one of the largest Public Sector Undertakings, dealing with food grain supply chain management, invites application for the Post of Junior Engineer (JE) (Civil Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Mechanical Engineering), Assistant Grade-II (Hindi), Typist (Hindi) and Assistant Grade-III (General / Accounts / Technical / Depot) for manning posts in its Depots and Offices spread all over the Country. Only ONLINE APPLICATIONS are invited from eligible candidates who fulfill the prescribed qualifications, age, experience etc. for the posts indicated below:-

Name of the Vacancy:

1. Jr. Engineer (Civil/ Electrical/ Mechanical): 88 Posts
Education Qualification: B.E./ B.Tech./ Diploma (Civil/ Electrical/ Mechanical).

2. Assistant Grade-2 (Hindi): 54 Posts
Education Qualification: Degree with Hindi as the main subject. Proficiency in English. One year experience.

3. Typist (Hindi): 98 Posts
Education Qualification: Graduate. 30 wpm speed in Hindi Typing.

4. Assistant Grade-III (General/ Technical/ Depot): 3958 Posts
Education Qualification: Graduate in any discipline/ Bachelor of Commerce/ B.Sc. in Agriculture/ B.Sc. (Botany/ Zoology/ Biotechnology/ Bio-Chemistry/ Microbiology/ Food Science)/ B.Tech./ B.E. etc.,

Tentative Schedule of FCI Recruitment


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computer knowledge for competitive exams (ER - modal)

In my last post i have discussed basic DBMS terminology now in this post i am going to discuss Entity relationship model. ER-modal related question asked in every IT exam and these are basic to understand database

Entity relationship model defines the conceptual view of database. It works around real world entity and association among them. At view level, ER model is considered well for designing databases.
Entity - A real-world thing  that can be easily identifiable and distinguishable. For example, in a school database, student, teachers, class and course offered can be considered as entities. 


Attributes - Entities are represented by means of their properties, called attributes. All attributes have values. For example, a student entity may have name, class, age as attributes.

TYPES OF ATTRIBUTES:

  1. Simple attribute - Simple attributes are atomic values, which cannot be divided further. For example, student's phone-number is an atomic value of 10 digits. 
  2. Composite attribute - Composite attributes are made of more than one simple attribute. For example, a student's complete name may have first_name and last_name. 
  3.  Derived attribute - Derived attributes are attributes, which do not exist physical in the database, but there values are derived from other attributes presented in the database. For example, average_salary in a department should be saved in database instead it can be derived. For another example, age can be derived from data_of_birth. 
  4.  Single-valued attribute - Single valued attributes contain on single value. For example: Social_Security_Number. 
  5.  Multi-value attribute - Multi-value attribute may contain more than one values. For example, a person can have more than one phone numbers, email_addresses etc. 


Relationship - The association among entities is called relationship. Relationships are represented by diamond shaped box. Name of the relationship is written in the diamond-box. All entities (rectangles), participating in relationship, are connected to it by a line.

BINARY RELATIONSHIP AND CARDINALITY

A relationship where two entities are participating, is called a binary relationship. Cardinality is the number of instance of an entity from a relation that can be associated with the relation.

  1. One-to-one  When only one instance of entity is associated with the relationship, it is marked as '1'. 
  2. One-to-many  When more than one instance of entity is associated with the relationship, it is marked as 'N'. 
  3.  Many-to-one When more than one instance of entity is associated with the relationship, it is marked as 'N'.  



PARTICIPATION CONSTRAINTS 
  1.  Total Participation: Each entity in the entity is involved in the relationship. Total participation is represented by double lines. 
  2.  Partial participation: Not all entities are involved in the relation ship. Partial participation is represented by single line. 
ENTITY-SET AND KEYS

Key is an attribute or collection of attributes that uniquely identifies an entity among entity set. For example, roll_number of a student makes her/him identifiable among students.

  • Super Key: Set of attributes (one or more) that collectively identifies an entity in an entity set. 
  • Candidate Key: Minimal super key is called candidate key that is, supers keys for which no proper subset are a superkey. An entity set may have more than one candidate key. 
  • Primary Key: This is one of the candidate key chosen by the database designer to uniquely identify the entity set.


An entity set that does not have a primary key is referred to as a weak entity set. The existence of a weak entity set depends on the existence of a identifying entity set .In entity relationship diagrams a weak entity set is indicated by a bold (or double-lined) rectangle (the entity) connected by a bold (or double-lined) type arrow to a bold (or double-lined) diamond (the relationship).
In my next Post I am going to diccuss generalization and specialization.