Its a golden chance to become a Manager at FCI, as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has invited applications via its official website. If you’re interested in FCI Manager Recruitment 2022, you can apply for it between 27 August 2022 and 26 September 2022. But do you know its latest syllabus? Let’s discuss today the FCI Manager Syllabus 2022 for Grade 2 and exam pattern and the selection process it involves.
A brief overview of the FCI Manager Syllabus 2022 given below along with the other details such as vacancies, syllabus, pattern etc. Candidates who are interested must pull up their socks and prepare their strategies to get their names on the list. Check the details tabulated below for FCI Syllabus 2022 for Manager Grade.
| FCI Manager Syllabus 2022 (Grade 2) | |
| Conducting Body | Food Corporation of India (FCI) |
| Post Name | Manager (Category 2) |
| Total Vacancy | 113 |
| Category | Syllabus |
| Exam Level | National |
| Mode of Exam | Online |
| Negative Marking | ¼th mark |
| Number of Papers | Two |
| Selection Process | ● Phase 1 Online Test ● Phase 2 Online Test ● Interview ● Training |
| Official Website | https://fci.gov.in/ |
The knowledge about the latest FCI Manager 2022 Syllabus is the first step to begin the preparation. The syllabus along with the exam pattern gives the better understanding of the exam, based on which you can craft your own preparation and exam strategy. It will also help you in choosing the best study material and books that suit the exam format best.
There are 3 sections in FCI Manager Phase-I exam i.e. English Language, Numerical Aptitude and Reasoning Ability. Here’s the detailed syllabus for FCI Manager 2022 Phase-I exam:
120 Multiple Choice Questions of General Aptitude consisting of Reasoning, Data Analysis, Computer Awareness, General Awareness, Management and Current Affairs for the post of Manager (General / Depot / Movement / Accounts / Technical / Civil Engineering / Electrical Mechanical Engineering).
I. 60 Multiple Choice Questions on General Accounting and Finance for candidates applying for Manager (Accounts)
OR
II. 60 Multiple Choice Questions on Agriculture, Food Science and Technology, Agricultural Engineering & Bio Technology for candidates applying for Manager (Technical)
OR
III. 60 Multiple Choice Questions on Civil Engineering / Electrical Mechanical Engineering for candidates applying for Manager (Civil Engineering / Electrical Mechanical Engineering).
I. FCI Manager (Accounts) (Post Code-D): This post has categories for specialised persons from Accounting, Finance, Taxes, Auditing and who has basic knowledge of Computers.
1. Basic Accounting concept: This includes the preparation of books of accounts and Accounting Standards.
2. Financial Accounting:
(a) Analysis of Financial statement
(b) Budgeting & Budgetary control
(c) Working Capital management
(d) Capital Budgeting & Ratio Analysis
3. Taxation:
(a) Income Tax including the filing of the return, TDS, Advance Tax etc
(b) Goods & Services Tax.
4. Auditing:
(a) Auditing Concepts and Methods
(b) Internal & External Audit of Companies
5. Commercial Laws:
(a) Contract Act
(b) Companies Act
(c) Sales of Goods Act
(d) Negotiable Instrument Act
(e) Consumer Protection Act
(f) RTI Act
6. Basic Computers:
(a) Operating System
(b) Browsers
(c) Email
(d) Memory (Internal, External, portable)
(e) Chats
(f) Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
(g) Networks
II. FCI Manager (Technical) (Post Code-E): This post has categories for specialised persons from Agriculture, Biotechnology, Entomology, Chemistry field
1. Agriculture:
(a) Statistics of Indian Agriculture (Cereals & Pulses)
(b) Food & Agriculture Microbiology
(c) Nutrition (Animal & Plant)
(d) Postharvest care of Cereals & Pulses
(e) Food grain Protection
(f) Agriculture Extension
2. Biotechnology:
(a) Microbes: Beneficial & Harmful
(b)Genetic Engineering,
(c) Biotechnological Principles
(d) Economic Biotechnology
(e) Pathogens & Control
(f) Recent trends
3. Entomology:
(a) Basic Entomology
(b)Economic Entomology
(c) Beneficial and harmful insects
(d) Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
(e) Storage Grain Insect pest
(f) Vertebrate Pests
4. Chemistry:
(a) Physical Chemistry: Structure of Atoms, Chemical Bonding, Radioactivity
(b) Inorganic Chemistry, Periodic Table, Basics Metals & Non-metals
(c) Organic Chemistry, Basics of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, aldehydes and acids
(d) Biochemistry (Carbohydrates, Proteins & Fats)
5. Food:
(a) PFA Act, 1964
(b) Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006/Food Safety and Standards Regulations 2011
(c) Right to Information Act, 2005
III. FCI Manager Syllabus (Civil Engineering) (Post Code-F): This post has categories for specialised persons from Engineering, constructions, building, Surveying, Soil Engineering, Design
1. Engineering Materials & Construction Technology:
(a) Selection of site for the construction
(b) Engineering Materials & Construction Technology
(c) Planning and orientation of buildings, acoustics
(d) Ventilation and air conditioning
(e) Building and highway materials, Stones, Bricks timber, Lime, Cement Mortar, Plain and reinforced Cement Concrete, Bitumen, Asphalt
2. Building Materials:
(a) Stone, Lime, Glass, Plastics, Steel, FRP, Ceramics, Aluminium, Fly Ash, Basic Admixtures,
(b) Timber, Bricks and Aggregates Classification, properties and selection criteria, Cement etc
3. Construction Practice, Planning and Management:
(a) Construction Planning
(b) Equipment, site investigation
(c) Tendering Process and Contract Management
(d) Quality Control, Productivity, Operation Cost
(e) Land acquisition, Labor safety and welfare
4. Surveying:
(a) Surveying
(b) Leveling, temporary and permanent adjustments of levels and Theodolite
(c) Use of theodolite
(d) Tacheometry
(e) Trigonometrically and Triangulation survey
(f) Contours and contouring
(g) Computations of areas and volumes
5. Soil/Geotechnical Engineering:
(a) Classification of soil
(b) Field identification tests
(c) Water content, specific gravity, voids ratio, porosity, Soil permeability and its determination in the laboratory and field
(d) Darcy’s law, Flow nets its Characteristics
(e) Local and general shear failures
(f) Plate load test
(g) Stability of simple slopes
6. Highway and bridges:
(a) Classification of road land width
(b) Flexible pavements
(c) WBM courses, sub-base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete base / sub-base course
(d) Prime and tack coats
(e) surface dressing
(f) Asphaltic concrete, seal coats
7. Structural Analysis:
(a) Strength of materials
(b) Bending moments and shear force
(c) Suspended Cables
(d) Concepts and use of Computer-Aided Design
8. Design of steel structures:
(a) Principles of working stress methods
(b) Design of tension and compression members
(c) Design of beams and beam-column connections, built-up sections, Girders, Industrial roofs
(d) Principles of Ultimate load design
9. Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures:
(a) Principles of working stress methods
(b) Design of tension and compression members
(c) Design of beams and beam-column connections, built-up sections, Girders, Industrial roofs
(d) Principles of Ultimate load design
10. Estimating, Costing and Valuation:
(a) estimate, analysis of rates, earthwork
(b) Brick, RCC work shuttering, Painting, Flooring, Plastering flexible pavements, Tube well, isolates and combined footings, Steel Truss, Piles etc
(c) Valuation- Value and cost, scrap value, salvage value, assessed value, sinking fund, depreciation and obsolescence, methods of valuation
IV. FCI Manager syllabus (Electrical Mechanical Engineering) (Post Code-G):
(a) Thermodynamics
(b) Heat Transfer, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning
(c) Theory of Machines, Machine Design
(d) Strength of Materials, Engineering Materials
(e) Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering
(f) Production Planning and Control
(g) Material handling
(h) Electrical Circuits, Network theorems, EM Theory
(g) Strength of Materials, Engineering Materials
(i) Electrostatics, Material Science (Electric Materials), Electrical Measurements,
(j) Elements of Computation Power Apparatus and Systems (Power System: Power generation; Thermal, Hydro, Nuclear & Solar power production and Transmissions)
(k) Electromechanics, Control Systems, Electronics and Communications, Estimation and costing, Use of computers
V. FCI Manager syllabus (Hindi) (Post Code-H):
Paper 3 (Duration-90 minutes) (120 Marks) -: 120 Multiple Choice Questions on General Hindi, General English, General Awareness, General Intelligence, Computer Awareness, Management and Current Affairs for candidates applying for the Post Code H Manager (Hindi).
Paper 4 (Duration-90 minutes) (120 Marks) (Subjective Test) -:
i. 01 Passage for translation from Hindi to English (30 Marks)
ii. 01 Passage for translation from English to Hindi (30 Marks)
iii. 01 Essay in Hindi (30 Marks)
iv. 01 Precise Writing in English (30 Marks).
For appearing in Paper-IV Manager (Hindi) candidate should be able to use the following keyboard layouts:
1. Inscript
2. Remington (GAIL)
In order to succeed in this exam, you should be well aware of the FCI Manager Exam Pattern 2022. FCI Manager Recruitment 2022 will be based on this exam pattern:
| Number of Papers | Post code | Post | |
| One Paper Exam | Paper I only | A | Manager (General) |
| B | Manager (Depot) | ||
| C | Manager (Movement) | ||
| Two Paper Exam | Paper I and Paper II | D | Manager (Accounts) |
| E | Manager (Technical) | ||
| F | Manager (Civil Engineering) | ||
| G | Manager (Electrical Mechanical Engineering) | ||
| Paper III and Paper IV | H | Manager (Hindi) |
| Paper Type | No. of Questions / Marks | Time |
| Paper I | 120 Questions/ 120 Marks | 90 Minutes |
| Paper 2 | 60 Questions/ 120 Marks | 60 Minutes |
| Paper 3 | 120 Questions/ 120 Marks | 90 Minutes |
| Paper 4 | i) 01 Passage for translation from Hindi to English (30 Marks) ii) 01 Passage for translation from English to Hindi (30 Marks) iii) 01 essay in Hindi (30 Marks) iv) 01 Precis Writing in English (30 Marks). | 90 Minutes |
Note: There will be no negative marking in Phase-II of the FCI Manager Examination.
The FCI Manager Phase-I exam will be conducted by FCI in an online mode testing your skills with Objective type (Multiple Choice Questions). It will consists of 3 sections with a total of 100 questions and a maximum score of 100 marks. You’ll get a total duration of 60 Minutes to complete the prelims exam. There is section-wise timing for all sections i.e., 20 minutes each.
| Section | No. of Questions | Max. Marks | Time Duration |
| English Language | 25 | 25 | 15 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 25 | 25 | 15 minutes |
| Numerical Aptitude | 25 | 25 | 15 minutes |
| General Studies | 25 | 25 | 15 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
Note: Each question will carry equal 01 (one) mark. For each wrong answer, there will be a negative marking of one-fourth (1/4) of the mark assigned to that question.
FCI Manager Selection Process 2022 details are given below.
For Manager (General/ Depot/ Movement/ Accounts/ Technical/ Civil Engineering/ Electrical Mechanical Engineering):-
a. The selection process will be consisting of 3 Stages:
b. Manager (Hindi):
The selection process will be consisting of 2 Stages:
Q1. What is the FCI Manager Syllabus 2022?
Ans. Refer to the article above to know all the subjects of topics that make up the FCI Manager syllabus for the year 2022.
Q2. How many vacancies are released for FCI Manager posts?
Ans. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has released the official 2022 notification PDF for the posts of FCI Managers via its official website @www.fci.gov.in on 24th August 2022. FCI has declared a total of 113 vacancies (zone wise) to be filled this year.
Q3. What is the selection procedure for positions as an FCI Manager?
Ans. The selection procedure consists of the Phase-I and Phase-II exams to be given online, and the interviews and training thereafter.
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