FCI Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2025 for All Posts

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) conducts recruitment exams for various posts such as Assistant Grade 3, Junior Engineer, Stenographer, and others. Candidates preparing for the upcoming FCI Recruitment 2025 must have a clear understanding of the latest syllabus and exam pattern to plan their preparation effectively. Knowing the detailed subject-wise topics and marking scheme is crucial to cracking the exam with a good score. This article provides complete insights into the FCI Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2025 for all posts to help candidates prepare in a structured way.

FCI Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2025

FCI Syllabus and exam pattern 2025 for different posts under Categories II, III, and IV are discussed below. Category III covers assistant-level posts comprising AG-III (General), AG-III (Accounts), AG-III (Depot), JE Civil, JE Electrical & Mechanical, Steno Grade II, and AG-III Hindi. Here, candidates can check the complete FCI Syllabus and Exam Pattern.

FCI Syllabus 2025: Overview

To make sure that all the important points are provided at a single place we have mentioned below an overview of the FCI Syllabus 2025.

FCI Syllabus For Assistant Grade 3

FCI Exam Pattern Phase I For Assistant Grade 3

The online exam of FCI Assistant for phase 1 will be common for all the posts i.e. depot, accounts, general, technical, Hindi (AG), and Stenographer. The test structure for the Prelims Online exam is as follows

* General Studies: History, Geography, Economy, General Science up to Class 8th level. (20 questions) and Current Affairs (5 questions)

FCI Syllabus Category II (Manager)

The syllabus given below is for phase 1, which is common for all the posts falling under category II. In phase 1, there will be three sections, i.e. Reasoning Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, and English Language. In the table given below, we have provided the section-wise syllabus covering all the topics. Candidates must read the syllabus carefully to avoid skipping any topic.

FCI Exam Pattern Phase II For Assistant Grade 3

The Phase II exam for Assistant Grade 3 posts in FCI is conducted post the main examination. It consists of Paper-I and Paper-II depending on the post applied for. Paper-I is common for all posts and tests candidates on topics like General English, General Awareness, Reasoning, and Numerical Ability. Paper-II is specific to technical and depot-related posts and focuses on relevant domain knowledge. Each paper is objective in nature, and candidates must complete the exam within the stipulated time. Scoring well in Phase II is essential for final selection.

Note:

Paper I: For all the posts except Steno posts

Paper II: For all the posts except General & Steno posts

Paper III: For Steno posts only

FCI Syllabus Post-Wise (Phase II)

 Below is the post-wise FCI Syllabus, which is different for all the posts. The specific post paper will be of 120 marks, carrying 60 questions. Keep reading to explore the syllabus specific to each post.

FCI Syllabus For Accounts Manager Post

Commercial Laws –

• Contract Act
• Companies Act
• Sales of Goods Act
• Negotiable Instrument Act
• Consumer Protection Act
• RTI Act

Financial Accounting –

• Analysis of Financial statement
• Budgeting & Budgetary control
• Working Capital Management
• Capital Budgeting & Ratio Analysis

Auditing –

• Auditing Concepts and Methods
• Internal & External Audit of Companies

Basic Computers-

• Operating System
• Browsers
• Email
• Memory(Internal, External, portable)
• Chats
• MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Networks

Taxation –

• Income Tax, including the filing of the return, TDS, Advance Tax, etc
• Goods & Services Tax.

FCI Syllabus For Technical Manager

Biotechnology-

• Microbes: Beneficial & Harmful
• Genetic Engineering,
• Biotechnological Principles
• Economic Biotechnology
• Pathogens & Control
• Recent trends

Chemistry–

• Physical Chemistry: Structure of Atoms, Chemical Bonding, Radioactivity
• Inorganic Chemistry, Periodic Table, Basics, Metals & Non-metals
• Organic Chemistry, Basics of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, aldehydes and acids
• Biochemistry (Carbohydrates, Proteins & Fats)

Entomology

• Basic Entomology
• Economic Entomology
• Beneficial and harmful insects
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Storage Grain Insect pest
• Vertebrate Pests

Agriculture-

• Statistics of Indian Agriculture (Cereals & Pulses)
• Food & Agriculture Microbiology
• Nutrition (Animal & Plant)
• Postharvest care of Cereals & Pulses
• Food grain Protection
• Agriculture Extension

Food-

• PFA Act, 1964
• Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006/Food Safety and Standards Regulations 2011
• Right to Information Act, 2005

FCI Syllabus For Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering Manager

• Thermodynamics
• Heat Transfer, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning
• Theory of Machines, Machine Design
• Strength of Materials, Engineering Materials
• Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering
• Production Planning and Control
• Material Handling
• Electrical Circuits, Network theorems, EM Theory
• Strength of Materials, Engineering Materials
• Electrostatics, Material Science (Electric Materials), Electrical Measurements,
• Elements of Computation Power Apparatus and Systems (Power System: Power generation; Thermal, Hydro, Nuclear & Solar power production, and Transmissions)
• Electromechanics, Control Systems, Electronics and Communications, Estimation and costing, Use of computers

FCI Syllabus For Civil Engineering Manager

• Engineering Materials & Construction Technology-
• Selection of site for the construction
• Engineering Materials & Construction Technology
• Planning and orientation of buildings, acoustics
• Ventilation and air conditioning
• Building and highway materials, Stones, Bricks timber, Lime, Cement Mortar, Plain and reinforced Cement Concrete, Bitumen, and Asphalt.

Building Materials-

• Stone, Lime, Glass, Plastics, Steel, FRP, Ceramics, Aluminium, Fly Ash, Basic Admixtures,
• Timber, Bricks and Aggregates Classification, properties and selection criteria, Cement, etc

Construction Practice, Planning, and Management-

• Construction Planning
• Equipment, site investigation
• Tendering Process and Contract Management
• Quality Control, Productivity, Operation Cost
• Land acquisition, Labor safety, and welfare

Surveying-

• Surveying
• Levelling, temporary and permanent adjustments of levels and Theodolite
• Use of theodolite
• Tachometry
• Trigonometrically and Triangulation survey
• Contours and contouring
• Computations of areas and volumes

Soil/Geotechnical Engineering

• Classification of soil
• Field identification tests
• Water content, specific gravity, voids ratio, porosity, Soil permeability, and its determination in the laboratory and field
• Darcy’s law, Flow nets its Characteristics
• Local and general shear failures
• Plate load test
• Stability of simple slopes

Highways and bridges-

• Classification of road land width
• Flexible pavements
• WBM courses, sub-base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete base / sub-base course
• Prime and tack coats
• surface dressing
• Asphaltic concrete, seal coats

Structural Analysis-

• Strength of materials
• Bending moments and shear force
• Suspended Cables
• Concepts and use of Computer-Aided Design

Design of steel structures-

• Principles of working stress methods
• Design of tension and compression members
• Design of beams and beam-column connections, built-up sections, Girders, Industrial roofs
• Principles of Ultimate Load Design

Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures

• Principles of working stress methods
• Design of tension and compression members
• Design of beams and beam-column connections, built-up sections, Girders, Industrial roofs
• Principles of Ultimate Load Design

Estimating, Costing and Valuation-

• estimate, analysis of rates, earthwork
• Brick, RCC work shuttering, Painting, Flooring, Plastering flexible pavements, Tube well, isolates and combined footings, Steel Truss, Piles, etc
• Valuation- Value and cost, scrap value, salvage value, assessed value, sinking fund, depreciation and obsolescence, methods of valuation

FCI Category II Exam Pattern For Phase I

The FCI Manager (Category II) preliminary examination will be conducted in online mode. Candidates will have a duration of 60 minutes to complete the preliminary exam. There is a sectional timing of 20 minutes each. It consists of 3 sections with a total of 100 questions and a maximum score of 100 marks.

FCI Category II Exam Pattern For Phase-II

Under phase II, there will be a single paper for the Manager (General) and the Manager (Depot).  Paper 2 will be a post-specific exam and will be conducted for the Manager  (Electrical Mechanical Engineering), Manager (Civil Engineering), Manager (Technical), and Manager (Accounts). Candidates can check the FCI Category II exam pattern from the table given below

In the table given below, candidates can check the description of the exam patterns for the phase II exam.