CWC Exam Pattern and Syllabus 2026: 202 Questions, 230 Marks, 3 Hours for AM and JE

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Common rules for every post

• 202 questions, 230 marks, 3 hours. Each section has its own clock. You cannot carry time over.
• Penalty: one-fourth of a question's marks for a wrong objective answer. No penalty for a blank.
• Descriptive test (all posts): Language and Comprehension Abilities, 2 questions, 30 marks, 30 minutes, English. Qualifying floor 40% UR, 35% OBC, EWS, SC, ST, PwBD, ExSM.
• Professional or Subject Knowledge (AM Technical, Finance, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and JE Technical): same 40% and 35% floor.
• Every section has a cut-off, plus a total cut-off. CWC sets the actual figures after the exam and can raise or lower the printed floors.
• Normalisation: equated scores and the equi-percentile method if sessions differ.
• Medium: English Language and descriptive in English. Most other sections in Hindi and English. In the two JE structures, Reasoning and Computer Aptitude is printed as English only.

Assistant Manager (General)

This is close to a bank PO mains in shape. Reasoning and quant carry 120 of the 200 objective marks.

Assistant Manager (Technical, Finance and Engineering)

Professional knowledge is the single biggest block, and it has a floor. Twenty minutes for 40 GA questions is tight. That is 30 seconds a question.

Junior Executive (General)

Four equal sections. General Awareness gives 50 questions in 25 minutes, so GA here is speed recall. Merit for JE is on online test marks, with no interview.

Junior Executive (Technical)

Official subject syllabus

CWC calls these "broad and indicative". They are the only official lists, and AM (General) and JE (General) have none.

AM (Technical), Post Code 02

• Agricultural process engineering and storage: engineering properties of produce, drying and moisture, cleaning, grading and handling, processing of cereals, pulses and oilseeds, godowns, silos, controlled and modified atmosphere storage, packaging
• Food engineering and preservation: heat and mass transfer basics, cooling, freezing, cold storage, pasteurisation and sterilisation, water activity
• Food chemistry and nutrition: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, enzymes, changes during storage, quality and deterioration
• Food microbiology and pest control: grain microorganisms, spoilage, storage fungi and mycotoxins, food-borne pathogens, fumigation, stored grain pests, rodent control, IPM, pesticide dosage and safety
• General biology and biotechnology: biomolecules, enzymes, microbes, basic genetics, biotech in food preservation and storage
• Grain storage and quality control: inspection, grading, sampling, moisture, grain standards, storage losses, pre- and post-monsoon prophylactic treatment, fumigation chemicals and dosage, warehouse quality control

AM (Finance), Post Code 03

• Financial accounting: Ind AS under the Companies Act, 2013, GAAP, accounting for income, expense, assets and liabilities, bank reconciliation, rectification entries, disclosure notes, cash flow statement, company final accounts format, banking transactions, payroll accounting, cost accounting and cost control
• Taxation: concepts and provisions of the Income Tax Act, 2025, and the GST Act, 2017
• Auditing: concept, company audit, audit reports and certificates, ledger scrutiny, internal control

Note the Income Tax Act, 2025. If your notes are on the 1961 Act, update them.

AM (Civil), Post Code 04: engineering mechanics, strength of materials, structural analysis, materials, RCC and steel design with IS codes, soil mechanics, foundations, soil improvement, fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, irrigation, water and wastewater, air and noise pollution, solid waste, transportation and pavements, traffic, surveying (traversing, triangulation, curves, GIS and GPS basics), project management, concrete technology and prestressed concrete.

AM (Electrical), Post Code 05: electric circuits and network theorems, electromagnetic fields, signals and systems, electrical machines (transformers, DC machines, induction and synchronous machines), power systems, control systems, electrical and electronic measurements, analog and digital electronics including op-amps and DC-DC converters.

AM (Mechanical), Post Code 06: applied mechanics and machine design (strength of materials, theory of machines, gears, bearings, brakes, clutches, belts, vibration basics); thermal and fluids (Bernoulli, pipe flow, pumps and compressors, thermodynamics, IC engines, refrigeration and air conditioning, heat transfer, psychrometry, compressed air systems); manufacturing and materials (heat treatment, casting, welding, machining, CNC, metrology, limits and fits); production engineering (tool geometry and wear, jigs and fixtures, non-traditional machining, CAD/CAM, additive manufacturing, PPC); industrial engineering (inventory, forecasting, scheduling, MRP, lean, linear programming, transportation, assignment, queuing, PERT and CPM).

JE (Technical), Post Code 08

• Basic agriculture: crop production, animal husbandry, plant protection, extension, horticulture, agricultural economics
• Botany: cell biology, tissues and organs, genetics, plant classification, ecology, life processes
• Zoology: insect morphology, physiology and taxonomy, organ systems, heredity, microorganisms, storage and public health, insects and rodents, insecticides, toxicology
• Chemistry: chemical bonding, organic, inorganic, biochemistry
• Physics: motion, force and energy, electricity, magnetism, light and sound, thermodynamics, measurement

CWC says the structure can change and that an Information Handout will come with the call letter.

How to split your preparation

JE (General) and AM (General): treat it as a bank mains. Daily quant and DI sets, high-level reasoning puzzles, one English reading set, and an essay or letter every two days for the descriptive. Add warehousing and agri-logistics current affairs to GA.

AM professional posts: half your time on the subject list above. Use GATE-level material for engineering branches, Ind AS and the new Income Tax Act for Finance, and storage and pest control texts for Technical. The other half on English, the descriptive, and quick GA.

JE (Technical): the subject list is wide but at B.Sc level. Storage, pests, fumigation and microbiology appear across both technical syllabi, which tells you what CWC actually does in a warehouse.

Descriptive for everyone: the floor is 40% or 35% of 30 marks. Write two short pieces (say a 250-word essay and a formal letter) in 30 minutes, five times before the exam.

A full 200-question JE (General) mock uses the same four timed sections.