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POWERGRID Diploma Trainee (Electrical): DTE

Evidence status: 🟢 official. Every number below is from POWERGRID's Detailed Advertisement No. CC/01/2026 dated 17.04.2026, "Recruitment of Diploma Trainee (Electrical/Civil/Survey), Junior Officer Trainee and Junior Technician Trainee", fetched from www.powergrid.in on 2026-09-29.

POWERGRID (Power Grid Corporation of India Limited), a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Power, recruits Diploma Trainee (Electrical) — DTE — for its regional and corporate offices and, through the same advertisement, on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary CTUIL. Selection for DTE is a single computer-based test; there is no interview.

At a glance
Conducted by POWERGRID (also on behalf of its subsidiary CTUIL)
Post Diploma Trainee (Electrical) — DTE
Stages Written Test / CBT (100% weightage) → Pre-Employment Medical Examination
Qualification Three-year full-time regular Diploma in Electrical / Electrical (Power) / Electrical and Electronics / Power Systems Engineering / Power Engineering (Electrical), with 70% marks for General/OBC(NCL)/EWS (pass marks for SC/ST/PwBD)
Higher degree B.Tech/BE/M.Tech/ME, with or without a diploma, is not allowed
Age Maximum 27 years as on 11.05.2026 (category relaxations as per the advertisement)
2026 cycle (per advertisement) Online application 20.04.2026 (1700 hrs) → 11.05.2026 (2359 hrs)
Qualification cut-off 15.07.2026

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Exam pattern

For DTE the selection process is the Written Test / Computer Based Test (CBT) alone, carrying 100% weightage (there is no interview and no skill or trade test for this post). A Pre-Employment Medical Examination follows.

CBT: 2 hours, objective with four options per question, 170 questions in all, 1 mark each, and a penalty of −¼ for every wrong or multiple answer. The test is held on a single day. PwBD candidates are allowed compensatory time as per Government of India directives.

Part Questions Content
Part-I — Technical Knowledge Test (TKT) 120 Discipline-specific questions (Electrical for DTE)
Part-II — Aptitude Test (AT) 50 English vocabulary, verbal comprehension, quantitative aptitude, reasoning ability, data sufficiency and interpretation, numerical ability, general awareness
Total 170

Qualifying criteria (applied category-wise): Unreserved/EWS — minimum 30% in each part separately and 40% in aggregate; reserved vacancies — minimum 25% in each part separately and 30% in aggregate.

Syllabus

The advertisement does not print a topic list for Part-I; it states that the 120 questions are "specific questions from the respective discipline" — for DTE, diploma-level Electrical engineering. Prepare it from the shared electrical engineering core and engineering mathematics.

Part-II topics listed above map to the shared quantitative aptitude, reasoning, English language and general awareness modules.

How to prepare (free, in order)

  1. Cover the diploma-level Electrical core — circuits, electrical machines, power systems, measurements, power electronics and basic electronics — from the EE core module. It is the whole of Part-I.
  2. Add engineering mathematics at diploma depth.
  3. Practise Part-II daily in small slots: quantitative aptitude and reasoning carry the bulk; keep a short general-awareness and English-vocabulary habit.
  4. Take full 170-question, 2-hour timed mocks and respect the −¼ penalty. The qualifying cut-offs are low, so accuracy across both parts matters more than the number of attempts.

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