FCI (Food Corporation of India) Exam 2025 - Notification, Eligibility, Important Dates, Syllabus and more

The Food Corporation of India conducts the FCI exam. Various posts are available like Technical Depot, Assistant Grade III, General Accounts, FCI Manager etc. Candidates can expect an average salary of Rs 28,200 – Rs 79,200.

Official notification will be released soon on the official website of FCI. It will include all the necessary details like eligibility, application process, and selection procedure etc. The FCI exam date is yet to be announced.

The age limit of a candidate should be between 18-28 years. Candidate must be 12th pass and hold a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university. Application fee for UR / OBC / EWS is Rs. 1000/. There is no application fee for SC / ST / PWD / Female.

• Building Materials
• Surveying
• Soil Mechanics
• Estimating, Costing, and Valuation
• Transportation Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Concrete Technology
• RCC Designs
• Steel Design
• Construction Management

Junior Engineer (Electrical Mechanical Engineering)

• Basic concepts
• Concepts of current and voltage
• Electrical Machines
• Estimation and costing
• Air standard Cycles for IC engines
• Boilers
• Refrigeration cycles
• Transmission and Distribution of power in different power stations
• Engineering Mechanics
• Strength of Materials

Assistant Grade-III (Accounts)

• Basic Accounting concepts
• Taxation including Income Tax and Goods and Services Tax
• Auditing
• Internal & External audit of companies
• Commercial Laws such as the Contract Act, Company Act, Sales of Goods Act, and Negotiable Instrument Act
• Basic of Computers including Operating System, Browsers, Email, Memory, Chats, and Office tools like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

Assistant Grade-III (Technical)

• Agriculture
• Botany
• Zoology
• Chemistry
• Physics

Watchman

1. Quantitative Aptitude

This section covers topics such as:

• Pipes & Cisterns
• Time & Work
• Roots
• HCF & LCM
• Mixture & Allegation
• Volume & Surface Area
• Profit & Loss
• Problem on Trains
• Decimals & Fractions
• Ratio & Proportions
• Height & Distance
• Partnership
• Number System
• Boat & Stream
• Probability & Combination
• Line Graph
• Simplification
• Permutation & Combination
• Average
• Simple Interest & Compound Interest
• Percentage
• Clock
• Mensuration
• Bar Graph
• Logarithms
• Pie Chart
• Problem on Age
• Time and Distance

2. Reasoning

• Analogy
• Classification
• Series
• Venn Diagrams
• Cubes & Dices
• Analytical Reasoning
• Numerical Aptitude
• Direction Test
• Ranking Sequence
• Time Sequence
• Coding-Decoding
• Missing Characters
• Blood Relations

3. General Awareness

• General Knowledge
• Business Scenario
• Sports
• Indian Constitution
• Countries & Capitals
• Budget and Five-Year Plans
• History
• India and its neighbouring countries
• Important Financial & Economic News
• Current Affairs
• Culture
• Economy
• Geography
• General Politics
• Scientific Research
• Knowledge of Current Events
• Science – Invention & Discoveries

Manager

English Language

• Para Completion
• Error Correction (Underlined Part)
• Spelling Test
• Passage Completion
• Sentence Arrangement
• Fill in the blanks
• Transformation
• Sentence Improvement
• Joining Sentences
• Error Correction (Phrase in Bold)
• Articles
• Gerunds
• Tense
• Synonyms
• Prepositions
• Active and Passive Voice
• Spotting Errors
• Substitution
• Adjectives
• Homophones
• Nouns
• Antonyms
• Sentence Completion
• Prefix
• Sentence Pattern
• Tag Questions
• Plural Forms
• Odd Words
• Suffix
• Idioms and Phrases

Reasoning Ability

• Visual Memory
• Clocks
• Discrimination
• Space Visualization
• Odd man out
• Symbolic/ Number Classification
• Analytical Reasoning
• Letter series
• Arithmetical Number Series
• Relationship Concepts
• Figural Classification
• Similarities
• Coding-Decoding
• Shapes and Mirror
• Arithmetical Reasoning
• Venn diagrams
• Non-Verbal Test
• Semantic Analogy
• Number series
• Problem Solving

Numerical Aptitude

• Average
• Number System
• Profit and Loss
• Time and Distance
• Clocks and Calendars
• Problems on Trains
• Percentages
• Ratios and Proportion
• H.C.F. and L.C.M
• Pipes and Cisterns
• Problems on Ages
• Data Interpretation
• Mixture and Allegation
• Boats and Streams
• Simple & Compound Interest
• Time and Work
• Discounts

Exam Pattern

The examination is conducted in 3 stages - Phase I Examination, Phase-II examination, and Skill Test according to the applied post applied. The candidates needs to qualify for all the stages for the final selection.

Phase I Exam Pattern

Negative marking for every wrong answer is 1/4.

Phase II Exam Pattern

FCI Phase II Exam Pattern - AG - III

Negative marking for every wrong answer is 1/4.

Phase-II Examination Syllabus

The syllabus varies according to the posts:

Manager (Accounts) (Post Code-D)

• Basic Accounting concepts
• Financial Management
• Auditing
• Commercial Laws
• Basics of Computers
• Taxation

Manager (Technical) (Post-Code-E)

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

Manager (Civil Engineering) (Post Code-F)

• Engineering Materials & Construction Technology
• Building Materials
• Design of steel structures
• Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures
• Estimating, Costing, and Valuation
• Construction
• Surveying
• Soil/Geotechnical Engineering
• Highway and bridges
• Structural Analysis

Manager (Electrical Mechanical Engineering) (Post Code-G)

• Thermodynamics
• Heat Transfer
• Refrigeration and Air-conditioning
• Engineering Materials
• Production Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Theory of Machines
• Machine Design
• Strength of Materials
• Production Planning and Control
• Material handling

You can refer to the books below for FCI exam preparation and cover all the important topics needed to crack the exam.

• Quantitative Aptitude by R.S. Aggarwal
• Reasoning by R.S. Aggarwal
• English for Competitive Examinations by A.K. Kapoor
• Lucent’s General Knowledge by Dr. Binay Karna and Manwendra Mukul

Candidates are suggessted to prepare a study plan to cover the entire syllabus on time. Below are some tips following which will help to cover the entire syllabus on time and also make it easier to ace the FCI exam.

• Know the syllabus and take a printout of it.
• Manage your time effectively.
• Decide your study materials and stick to it.
• Study daily as consistency is the key.
• Go through the previous year question papers of 5 years at least.
• Join any test series and attempt mock tests time to time.

The cutoff marks for FCI Exam 2024 will be announced post-wise and category-wise.

Result will be declared on the official website after successful completion of the examination. It will contain the cut-off marks. You can download it from the official website. Cutoff will be released along with the declaration of the result.

Planning your study and consistent hard work will ensure your success in FCI exam. We hope for your success.