SSC Junior Engineer Exam Pattern
Each stage is checked separately so one stage cannot inherit another stage's scoring rules.
Paper I
Official SSC JE 2025 pattern| Questions | 100 |
| Total marks | 100 |
| Duration | 120 minutes |
| Negative marking | 0.25 per wrong answer |
| Sections | General Intelligence and Reasoning, General Awareness |
| Test | Qs | Marks | Min |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Intelligence and Reasoning | 50 | 50 | 60 |
| General Awareness | 50 | 50 | 60 |
Timing: Single 120-minute timer for both sections combined (no sectional lock)..
Paper I is common to every candidate regardless of engineering discipline. Paper II, the discipline-specific General Engineering paper (100 questions, 300 marks) for Civil & Structural, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering depending on the candidate's notified stream, is not modeled on this site: the technical syllabus differs by discipline, so no single question bank would be accurate for every candidate. Both papers are Computer-Based, objective, multiple-choice, and their normalized scores together decide the final merit list; there is no separate descriptive paper.
Official source · checked 7 August 2026