Provided by www.YuvaJobs.com - NHPC Question paper(March 8, 2009) NHPC Question paper(March 8, 2009, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) Hi friends! This is Tarang Bhattacharya from DIT, Dehradun. Today I appeared in written test conducted for the post of engineer trainee in NHPC. DAV degree College was the centre for examination. BJP,s PM in waiting L K Advani visited the Dehradun today in context of next parliamentary election campaign ...By the way ,test paper consist of three different sections 1 .General Awareness (30 Qs) 2. Quant + reasoning(30 qs) 3. Technical aptitude(branch wise 140 Qs) Fortunately, I got memorized some questions which I want to share with u guys........ All of them were objective type. I am writing here only Q&As or fill in the blanks..... GENERAL AWARENESS 1.who won the US open 2008 womens title.....serena williams 2.who got the highest price in IPL 08 bid of players...MSD 3.world rank of india in cotton production...2 or 3 according to diff books. 4.writer of Enchantrance of Florence .......sulman rushdie 5.writer of argumentating Indian........amartya sen 6.satyamev jayte has been taken from ....Mundaka upnishad 7. in april 2008 Pak tested ........shaheen 2 8.UN gen secretary is chosen by......General assembly 9.which of the following has the description about kalinga war...13th rock edict 261 B.C. 10. amartya sen got Nobel prize for branch of economics......development economics 11.first women president in any org. in india.....Anne Besent 12.which planet is known as red planet..... mars 13.members of nobel prize foundation belongs to........sweden 14. plants absorb during photo synthesis.........CO2 15.which one belongs to Yamini krishnamurti......Bharat natyam 16. first factory in india......... 17. New games in SAF games 2010..... 18.which government body take decision about revenue distributionbetween state and central government.......finance commission. 19.higest legal officer in union government......attorny genral 20. how many are the fundamental duties of a Indian citizens 21.which is not categorized in infrastructure ...1 power sector 2 food sector 3....4.... 22.whre is rajiv Gandhi youth welfare centre......name the state Quant + reasoning There were very simple Qs in this section . After some hits, they can be tackled easily...need not to worry abt this section...... Technical Aptitude There were very standard and basic questions in this section covering the entire syllabus of mechanical engineering (B Tech/B E) but some subjects got more emphasis with 8 to 12 questions from each subject like theory of machines, engineering mechanics, production technology, strength of materials, IC engines,thermodynamics. Apart from it 2 or 3 questions were from each of 30 to 40 subjects . Some questions........ 1. Zeroth law of thermodynamics 2. Why moderators are used in nuclear power plant 3. Glass plate is opaque for..? 4. Pelton wheel is best suited for....high head low discharge 5. A circular plate of half the radius of larger circular plate(r=6) is cut from it(cresent shape). Find the location of new C.G. 6. APF for HCP 7. If width of cantilever beam is halved deflection would be........ 8. Area under stress strain curve up to fracture point .......toughness 9. Bearing characteristics..... 10. Break even point is intersection of following lines..... 11. Enthalpy remains constant during.........throttling 12. Vegetable oil can be employed in ....type of IC engine 13. Name the circle from which involute profile is generated 14. Question on Newton s law of viscosity 15. Fluid is ........four options describing fluids 16. Question on coeff of thermal expansion, thermal stress, ratio in young mod was given 17. What do we do with queing theory 18. Why does white metal is used in bearings..... 19. 8 to 12 Qs were from heat treatment , steel compositions and iron carbon diagram 20. What is effort of governor? 21. Function of bleeding steam in boilers. 22. Does shaft weight affect torque transmitted? 23. More CO will be produced in 1 idling 2 cruising 3 slowdown 4 accelerating 24. Pascal law is applicable to .....static fluids 25. Which one of following is a 1.thermodynamic 2. Intensive property...4 options each Q 26. Type of tress in torque transmission.... 27. Why crowning in pulleys is done 28. Hydrodynamic lubrication 29. PERT stands for...... 30. Al Ni Co is magnetic or not 31. Shear angle in metal cutting.. 32. Why Ni is added to steel ,copper? 33. Why Ni+cu is added to steel n iron 34. What are allotropic changes... 35. What happened at recrystallisation temperature 36. In cupola furnace molten metal accumulates in....... 37. What are fully killed steels? 38. Question on screw thread angle? 39. What does radius of mohr circle indicate? 40. In uniaxial stress max shear stress ....... 41. No of elastic coefficient....... 42. Q on creep and fatigue 43. If helical spring is halved , deflection will be..... 44. Q on projectile motion ....at 45 deg highest point was given...range? 45. Why only rocket engines are used in satellite lauch....4 option 46. String diagrams are used in..... 47. Water hammer occurs in..... 48. Various pipes connected in series...4 conditions 49. What is surging? 50. Velocity of fluid layer adjacent to flat surface in laminar flow 51. How do we measure the velocity of fluid in pipe...name the correct instrument 52. Question on Archimedes principle ..condition of floating body 53. Condition of irrotational flow... 54. Condition of stream line flow... 55. Wet bulb depression is.... 56. Internal energy is a function of temp only 57. Isentropic process....reversible adiabatic process 58. Higher octane no. means...... 59. Thermocouple works on......sebeck effect 60. Name the insulator material used in spark plug 61. Ball socket joint is.....type of pair 62. Which of following is a lower pair 63. Q,s from theories of failure Provided by www.YuvaJobs.com - NHPC Question paper(March 8, 2009)