GSSSB Instrumentation Instructor Syllabus 2026

Check the official GSSSB Instrumentation Instructor Syllabus 2026, exam pattern, subject-wise topics, marks distribution, and syllabus PDF download.

GSSSB Instrumentation Instructor Syllabus 2026 & Exam Pattern

The competitive examination consists of two parts.

Part	Subject Area	Questions	Marks
Part-A	General Subjects	90	90
Part-B	Qualification Related Subjects	120	120
Total	—	210 Questions	210 Marks

Part-A Subjects

Subject	Questions	Marks
Reasoning & Data Interpretation	30	30
Quantitative Aptitude	30	30
Constitution of India	10	10
Current Affairs	10	10
Comprehension (Gujarati + English)	10	10
Total	90	90

Part-B

Section	Questions	Marks
Questions related to Educational Qualification	120	120

Exam duration: As per official notification, details are awaited.

Negative marking: 1/4 mark deduction for each incorrect answer.

Read Also : GSSSB CCE Prelims Syllabus 2026

Detailed Subject-wise Syllabus

Reasoning & Data Interpretation

• Problems on Ages
• Venn Diagram
• Visual Reasoning
• Blood Relation
• Arithmetic Reasoning
• Data Interpretation (Charts, Graphs, Tables)
• Data Sufficiency

Quantitative Aptitude

• Number Systems
• Simplification and Algebra
• Arithmetic and Geometric Progression
• Average
• Percentage
• Profit-Loss
• Ratio and Proportion
• Partnership
• Time and Work
• Time, Speed and Distance
• Work, Wages and Chain Rule

Constitution of India

• Preamble of the Constitution
• Fundamental Rights
• Directive Principles of State Policy
• Fundamental Duties
• Role and responsibilities of President, Vice President and Governor
• Parliamentary System
• Constitutional Amendments
• Emergency provisions
• Centre-State relations
• Judicial system of India
• Constitutional bodies

Current Affairs

• Current events of state, national and international importance

Comprehension

• Assessment of comprehension, interpretation and inference skills
• Paragraph-based questions
• Statement and assertion type questions

Part-B Technical Syllabus

Introduction to Process Control

• Introduction to process control
• Sequential and continuous process control
• Elements in a control loop
• Instrumentation and sensors
• Instrument parameters
• Control system evaluation (stability, regulation, transient response)
• Analog and digital data
• Pneumatic data
• Smart sensors
• On/off control and continuous control (P, I, D, PI, PD, PID)
• Process control tuning

Units and Standards

• Basic units and derived units
• Units common to English and SI systems
• Units derived from base units

Electricity and Magnetism

• Coulomb’s law
• Electric field intensity and flux density
• Gauss’s law
• Electric potential and dielectric medium
• Capacitance of simple configurations
• Biot-Savart law
• Ampere’s law
• Faraday’s law
• Lorentz force
• Magnetic circuits and inductance

Control Systems

• Feedback principles
• Signal flow graphs
• Transient response and steady-state errors
• Bode plot and gain margins
• Nyquist criteria and root loci
• Lead and lag compensators
• State-space representation of systems
• Mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic system components

Electrical Circuits and Machines

• Voltage and current sources
• Resistor, inductor and capacitor relationships
• RLC circuit analysis
• Kirchhoff’s laws and network theorems
• AC power and phasor analysis
• Resonance and filters
• Transformers and induction motors
• Efficiency calculations of electrical machines

Analog Electronics

• Characteristics of diode and Zener diode
• BJT and MOSFET applications
• Small signal analysis of transistor circuits
• Operational amplifier characteristics
• Op-amp applications such as integrator, differentiator, filters and oscillators
• Noise and interference in electronic circuits

Sensors and Transducers

• Resistive, capacitive, inductive and piezoelectric sensors
• Hall effect sensors
• Signal conditioning circuits
• Industrial transducers for displacement, velocity, force and torque
• pH, conductivity and viscosity measurement
• 4–20 mA transmitters

Digital Electronics

• Combinational logic circuits
• Boolean function minimization
• TTL and CMOS IC families
• Flip-flops, shift registers, timers and counters
• Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters
• Number systems
• Embedded systems and microcontroller applications
• Data acquisition systems

Signals and Systems

• Periodic and aperiodic signals
• Laplace, Fourier and Z-transforms
• Transfer function and frequency response
• Convolution and correlation
• Discrete time systems
• DFT and FFT

Industrial Instrumentation

• Pressure measurement
• Flow measurement methods
• Temperature measurement devices
• Level measurement techniques

Measurements

• SI units and standards
• Errors in measurement
• Accuracy and precision
• Bridges for measurement of R, L, C and frequency
• Measurement of voltage, current and power
• Digital voltmeter and multimeter
• Oscilloscope
• Shielding and grounding

Final Control Element

• Safety valves, globe valve and butterfly valve
• Valve characteristics
• Actuators and servo motors
• Stepper motors and synchronous motors
• Ladder diagrams

PLC and DCS

• Programmable logic controller systems
• Controller operation
• SCADA systems
• Distributed control systems
• Data acquisition basics

Communication and Optical Instrumentation

• Amplitude and frequency modulation
• Shannon sampling theorem
• Pulse code modulation
• Multiplexing techniques
• Digital modulation techniques
• Optical sources and detectors
• Fiber optic sensing
• UV-VIS spectrophotometers
• Mass spectrometer

Current Trends and Recent Advancements

• Recent developments in instrumentation and automation fields

Marking Scheme / Subject Weightage

Section	Questions	Marks
Part-A	90	90
Part-B	120	120
Total	210	210 Marks

Additional official instructions:

• 1/4 mark deduction for incorrect answers.
• Part-A questions will be available in Gujarati and English languages.

Summary & Next Steps

The GSSSB Instrumentation Instructor Syllabus 2025 includes general aptitude subjects in Part-A and instrumentation engineering related technical subjects in Part-B.

Candidates should:

• Follow the official syllabus topic-wise
• Practice previous year question papers
• Attempt mock tests based on the official exam pattern