PIEAS M.

S Test 2014 Questions

 General Portion:
 English:
1) What is the meaning of Protégé? (From comprehension)
2) Why is it difficult to evaluate real benefits of a mentor to a Protégé? (From
comprehension)
3) What is antonym of fast?
4) As an adjective, what is meaning of Intimate?
5) What is synonym of Continue?
6) He was in the swimming pool and calling for help but no one came!
What is active verb in the sentence?
7) _________, I can give my extra time for humanitarian cause. (As for me, as
from me, as to me)
8) He got the job as he is like a cat who ate the _________. (mouse, rat, bug,
canary)
9) We solved the problem ________________ a new device. (by means for, be
means with, by means of)
10) Everyone disliked his _____________ to the President (illusion, allusion,
elusion)
 Physics:
11) Light with energy E is incident upon a surface area (A) per unit time (T).
Simplify the units for E/(A*t).
12) What is energy of a 600 nm red light photon?
13) What is orbital speed of a satellite at the height of 8000 km above earth
where value of g=6.2 m/s2?
14) What is the angle between equipotential lines and electric field lines?
(parallel, orthogonal, acute, obtuse)
15) U23592 absorbs a neutron and emits two β particles. What will be the daughter
element?
16) What quantity does change when a light ray reflects from a mirror
(frequency, wavelength, speed, phase)

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 1

 17) Divergence of y2i + xz2j+2xk.
18) If a light ray propagates in direction of x-axis. In which plane is movement of
its electric field? (Y-axis, X-axis, XY plane, YZ plane)
19) The transverse wave nature of light is confirmed by which phenomenon
(interference, diffraction, polarization, refraction)
20) What is the best approximate for diameter of alpha particle (10-9,10-10, 10-12,
10-11)
21) What differs in two isotopes of an element (electrons, protons, neutrons,
shells)
22) What changes by increasing voltage on electrodes of X-ray tube (Speed,
frequency, no. of emitted photons, Energy)
23) Resistivity, length and resistance of a resistance are given, find the diameter
of the wire.
24) A 450C temperature change corresponds to a change in 0F (128, 113, 450,
145)
25) Conductivity in metals depends upon (electrons, ions, molecules)
26) A spring with a constant ‘k’ is cut into three equal parts, what is the spring
constant of newly formed parts? (k/3, 3k, k, None)
 Mathematics:
27) Cos(1+2i)=?
1+𝑖 12
28) ( ) =? (i, 1, -1, -i)
1−𝑖
29) Find Eigen values of a given 3*3 matrix.
(This question repeats almost each year)
30) What maximum volume rectangle can be formed by a rectangular piece of
21*16 inch by cutting a square piece from each corner? What is area of that
square?
31) A drum contains 100 gallons of salt solution with 1 lb/gallon salt. If 2 lb/gallon
solution is added at the rate of 5 gallons/min and stirred uniformly and
solution is ejected out at the same rate. What time will it require to reach
150 lb salt in solution?
𝜕𝑓 𝜕𝑓
32) If f(x,y) = ex. Sin(xy) the what is the relation b/w and
𝜕𝑥 𝜕𝑦

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 2

 𝑑 3
33) Evaluate (𝑙𝑜𝑔(√(2𝑥 + 6)2 ) )
𝑑𝑥
34) What is integrating factor in y’ + y/x = ex
35) How many word can be formed by letters of ALLANAMOPIA with no two A’s
adjacent to each other.
1 1 1 1
36) + + ⋯ + (𝑛+3) (𝑛+4) + ⋯ The given series is (divergent, in-
3.5 4.5
determinate, convergent, power series)
37) Pressure at the sea level is 100 kPa. Water density is 1020 kg/m3. At what
depth the pressure will be 110 kPa. (11m, 10m, 9.8m, 1m)
38) A function f(x,y)={(1,x), (2,y), (3,x), (4,y)} is a (an) (Surjective, bijective, 1-1,
onto) function.
39) What is the surface area of a unit cube?
40) Value of a variable k was to be found in terms of pi in a math question.

 Subject Portion (Electrical/Electronics):

 Power:
𝑀𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
41) = ? (load factor, diversity factor,
𝑆𝑢𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠
plant factor)
42) Potential at the ends of a transmission line is 132 kV, reactance of line is 50
ohm. What is approximate loading capacity of line?
43) Breakdown voltage strength of air depends upon (voltage applied, air
density, humidity, all of these)
44) Receiving and sending end voltage at the ends of a short transmission line
are 120<-50 and 100<00 respectively. Reactance of line is 1+j5. Calculate real
power line losses?
45) IGBT combines the good characteristics of ___________ and ___________
46) A 500 kV, 60 Hz transmission line has inductance 0.4 mH/km and capacitance
0.02 uF/km. Find the surge impedance of line.
47) Which power plant will always be used as a base load power plant? (coal,
diesel, nuclear, hydro-electric)
48) Which motor is not self-starting? (induction, stepper, synchronous, none)

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 3

 49) What is the effect of increasing rotor resistance on torque of 3 phase wound
rotor induction motor? (increases, decreases, remains same, none)
 Controls & Communication Systems:
50) For a stable system, what should be values of phase & gain margins
(opposite, both positive, PM –ve & gain margin +ve, both are same)
51) Y=6.x(t)+4 Is this system Linear & time invariant?
52) The phenomena of Coding and Width allocation is associated with (PAM,
PCM, PWM, PPM)
(𝑠−7)
53) Find inverse Laplace of
(𝑠 2 −14𝑠+50)
54) Fourier transform of an even periodic function contains (sine components,
cosine components, both, none of them).
55) x[n] and x[n-1], their Fourier Magnitude & Phase Plots are same or different?
56) A carrier of 2 kHz modulates a signal with frequency deviation 5 kHz, what’s
the frequency of modulated signal?
57) What is hamming distance between two binary numbers (011011 &
110001)? (3,2,1,4)
 Electronics, Electronic Circuits and Components:
58) A JFET amplifier was shown with values given and its output voltage was to
be determined for given input.
59) What happens to the value of Gain-Band width product of an op-amp when
provided with negative feedback? (increase, decrease, remains constant)
60) Data regarding an Op-amp was given and was asked to determine its slew
rate.
61) Gd = 400 and … (This question is related to JFET and was calculation based,
don’t remember the whole question, I think a diagram was also provided)
62) A circuit with a biased JFET was shown and was asked to determine the input
impedance of the amplifier.
 Basic Electrical Engineering, (Electric circuits, Electric and
Magnetic Field Theory and applications, Digital Logic)
63) What is the minimum number of variable components required to balance
an AC bridge? (4, 2, 1, 3)

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 4

 64) To implement the system Y=∑(1,3,4,5,6,7,11,14) what single multiplexer
would be enough: (4-1, 12-1, 8-1, 16-1)
𝜕2 𝑈 𝜕2 𝑈 𝜕2 𝑈
65) + + = 0 is called? (Laplace eq, Poisson eq, Bernoulli eq,
𝜕𝑥 2 𝜕𝑦 2 𝜕𝑧 2
Maxwell eq)
66) The type of amplifier that can be used to amplify signal from a bridge circuit?
(Inverting, non-inverting, tuning, instrumentation)
67) A voltage source of 20 V with internal resistance 1.5 ohm provides power to
a 6.5 ohm load resistance. How much power is provided to load resistance?
68) An inductor stores 300 kVar power, quality factor of inductor is 300. What
are real power losses of inductor?
69) In an R-L circuit, inductor stores 1000 J energy, and resistor dissipates 2000
W power. What is time constant of the circuit?
70) A circuit was shown and effect of adding a new resistor (using switch) was to
be determined on the brightness of the lamp.
71) For a full wave bridge rectifier, load current is 10 A and peak to peak ripple
voltage is 20 V. What should be the value of repetitive current for diodes in
the bridge?
72) For an ammeter with Rm = 100 ohm, Ifsd = 100 mA, what should be the value
of shunt resistance to measure a full scale deflection current of 5A?
73) A 2nd order RLC circuit was shown and voltage across capacitor was to be
calculated?
74) For the same circuit, a switch was closed at t=0, and current through inductor
was to be found immediately after closing the switch.
75) A balanced delta impedance of 60+j45 is equivalent to what value of
equivalent star connected load?
76) A two port network was shown and wrong value of Z (Impedance) parameter
was to be sorted out of given values.
77) A four bit adder circuit adds two numbers A3A2A1A0 and B3B2B1B0 what is the
logic expression for Carry output of First Bit?
78) What will be the logic expression for the decision of four judges to select a
candidate? The candidate selected on the basis +ve selection response from
maximum number of judges. The input for Judges are W, X, Y and Z.

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 5

 79) What will the response of a system with just a single pole at origin
(oscillatory, constant, exponential, sinusoidal)
80) What is the value of damping factor for an over damped system? [Doubtful
Qs.]

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 6

 I could remember only 80 questions out of 100. If anyone who appeared in the
test does have any more questions not included above, send them to me! The
question order is jumbled, also the questions of Subject Part weren’t classified in
sub-categories in the actual test.
So, how was the test? Seemed a little difficult to me at very first. Some
questions were knavish, many were irrelevant to Power Engineering and no doubt
some were easy too! But overall test was satisfactory (to many) including the
General Portion. If you can attempt ~40% questions right now, you’re expected to
attempt 75%+ questions with proper preparation.
More than 60% questions are numerical types and calculation based that’s
why a non-programmable scientific calculator is allowed in the test (The calculator
is much helpful in the test, much more than you imagine, bring an original
scientific calculator with natural display, download its user manual from its site
and read the complete manual, the one/two hour(s) you spend on reading the
calculator manual will help you save time and earn extra marks during the test).
I solved about 4-5 questions using advanced natural display calculator which I
couldn’t have solved with a simple scientific calculator or if solved with simple
scientific calculator would have taken me twice or thrice more time!
What to prepare for the test? Preparing irrelevant subject matter for years
will have no significant effect on your test results. So, try to be focused, prepare
well, and avoid far-flung rote learning. Here is the explanation outline of the Test
as supplied by PIEAS:
The question paper is divided into two parts i.e. Part (A) and (B). There will
be 50 questions in Part (A) and 50 Questions in Part (B). Part (A) is the general part
to be attempted by all the candidates (except MBBS/Medical Sciences students)
whereas Part (B) is the subject part having subject related questions. Only the
subject paper relevant to the candidate’s academic background is to be attempted
by a candidate. The candidate should mention the subject paper he/she is
attempting by filling the appropriate section of the answer sheet. The maximum
time allowed is 3 hours. Each question carries 3 marks and 1 mark will be deducted
for a wrong answer.
A. General Part:
i. It consists of three fields namely Mathematics, Physics and English.

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 7

 ii. General Part must be attempted by all the candidates
iii. General Part will have 50 questions in all. 20 from Mathematics &
Physics respectively and 10 from English
a) Mathematics (Level F.Sc and B.Sc)
Topics: Basic Calculus, Differential Equations, Complex Variables,
Boolean Algebra, Vector Algebra, Matrices, Statistics
b) Physics (Level F.Sc and B.Sc)
c) English
B. Subject Part: It consists of 50 question from
Electrical/Electronics/Telecommunication in the following proportion:
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WITH SPECIALIZATION IN ELECTRICAL POWER
RELATED TOPICS SHARE (Approx.)
Electrical Engineering General (Circuit Analysis, Basic
Electronics, Electricity and Magnetism, Digital Logic Design,
50%
Signals and Systems, Control Systems, Measurement and
Instrumentation, etc.)
Electrical Power Specialization (High Voltage Engineering,
Power System Analysis, Power System Protection, Power
50%
Generation, Power Transmission and Distribution, Power
Electronics, etc.

General Part Preparation:

Mathematics: Prepare F.Sc Part 1 maths: Ch. 1 to Ch. 7 (Skip Trigonometry
th
& 8 chapter). Each chapter is equally important and keep in mind that Test is
numerical based. Memorize formulas and work out with calculations.
From F.Sc Part 2 Maths: Skip Ch. 5 and prepare remaining all 6 chapters (you may
skip Ch. No. 6 too, but it’s better to prepare some basics of 6th chapter). Pay special
attention to Ch. 2 & 3. Though each chapter shares equal importance in test, one
or two questions are included from each chapter roughly.
Physics: Go through all the chapter of Physics F.Sc Part 1 and Part 2 books.
Learn all the formulas and be good with calculations. Last 3,4 chapters of 2nd year
Physics are important.
English: English has nothing to prepare, because no specified course can be
allotted for English preparation. This is the first portion of the General test

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 8

consisting of 10 questions. 1st two are from comprehension, so they are easy. Next
3-4 are synonyms & antonyms, they’re easy too but confusing, tick them carefully.
And remaining questions are correct form of verbs, prepositions or correction of
grammar mistakes.

Subject Preparation:
Electrical General portion has been subdivided into several sub-portions. Prepare
each of them separately
Basic Electrical Engineering General: Revise Circuit Analysis I & II from David
Irwin’s book or any other Basic Circuit Analysis book (1st order & 2nd order circuits
are important). Review EMT from William H. Hayt’s Book or Alexander Sadiko’s.
Learn all basic equations (i.e. Maxwell’s, Poisson, Laplace, Ampere, Green/Stokes
Theorems etc.). Have a basic review of DLD book by Thomas L. Floyd. Pay special
attention to combinational logic circuits (They’re important). Have an insight of
sequential logic. You may skip K-maps and other lengthy portions.
Electronics, Electronic Circuits and Components: For this portion, prepare
thoroughly Electronic Circuit & Devices by Robert T. Paynter or Thomas Floyd’s
Electronic Devices. FET, JFET and MOSFET’s components, circuits, biasing and
analysis is REALLY important. Learn them by heart (in fact brain :P).
Controls Systems: For control systems, review Control System by Norman S.
Nice. Revise basics of Open loop & Feedback Control systems. Stable & Un-Stable
system conditions, poles-zeros plots, bode plots, frequency response, Phase
margin, gain margin, root locus and all basic relevant topics.
Signals & Systems: Review topics from Signal & Systems and DSP. Prepare
basics (i.e. LTI systems, signals & their properties, convolution, Fourier series &
transform plots of a signal etc.)
Measurement & Instrumentation: Prepare this portion from any
instrumentation book. Measurement & Insturumentation Principlas by Alan S.
Morris is a good one. Prepare basic configuration of all bridge circuits and their
amplifying & conditioning circuits.
Communication Systems portion is now not included in the Electrical Power subject
portion, so need to prepare for, but I haven’t removed it from this guide.

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 9

Communication Systems: (Advance topics from this portion are asked in test)
Prepare Laplace & Fourier transforms (important). Harmonics, AM & FM
modulation techniques, Slew rate, Fourier magnitude & phase plots, filters (IIR &
FIR). You may refer to Modern Digital & Analog Communication Systems by B. P.
Lathi.
 Electrical Power Specialization (High Voltage Engineering, Power System
Analysis, Power System Protection, Power Generation, Power Transmission
and Distribution, Power Electronics, etc.)
This portion is not much difficult as most Power Engineers have had studied at least
5-8 subject as a part of their B.S Curriculum. Prepare this portion carefully as it
carries almost half the weightage of subject portion. Consult reference books for
each subject if you need to. Questions from the topics specified in outline will be
asked in the test.
Prepare AC & DC machines from chapman. Revise selective topics of Power
Engineering from Principals of Power Systems by V.K Mehta. Power calculations are
very important (i.e. finding base values, Impedances, Real & Reactive power
flowing through a circuit, capacitance & inductance values). Revise Power
generation too (it’s important). Also revise Power Electronics topics especially for
SCR, IGBT, MOSFET, BJT, DIODES, TRIACS & DIACS; their properties, construction,
circuits & applications.
Electrical Objective type by A. Handa & M. Handa might also be useful for a quick
review of the topics. Though I’ve never used it as I prefer to revise topics from the
textbooks of each subject. Schaum series books are also useful for revision.

This is the complete course outline for M.S fellowship test for Electrical Power
Engineers. But you must prepare more than that mentioned above in order to
succeed. By carefully observing the 2014 test questions and other past papers
available, you may find out the exact (up to a limited accuracy) topics to prepare
for a specific subject for coming year’s test. For example from Circuit Analysis,
questions of Series Parallel combination of Resistors, 1st order & 2nd order circuits,
Maximum Power transfer theorem, Basic Current/Voltage division, KCL, KVL are
much important because questions related to these topics have been found in

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 10

Fellowship tests. For instance, at least 3 questions were related to FET, JFET, &
MOSFET as listed in above questions, so this is most important topic! Same is true
for Op-Amp.
Carefully read the sample paper; also search Internet for past papers for
PIEAS B.S and M.S fellowship tests (2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013; 2014 is given above).
At least 3-4 questions (or may be more) are from past papers. And many more are
related to past paper questions with just small changes in values etc.
How much time should you allot for test preparation? The answer to this
question is quite important for an aspirant candidate to succeed. The time you set
aside for your test preparation depends on a number of factors; you have to ask a
couple of questions to yourself:
 What is you previous Knowledge Level about the subject(s)?
 Are you starting from scratch?
 Do you plan to revise only or to read the topics thoroughly?
 What is your intelligence level?
 How much are you eager to learn?
 What is your Method of Revision?
So, scrutinize each subject and its sub-topics according to Previous
Knowledge, Type of Revision etc. and you may be able to allocate specific time for
each subject. Manage your time well and you may be able to revise a lot of material
in shorter time span! :) For just to take an example, I completed my revision in 4-5
days from 04 June, 2014 to 08 June, 2014. I revised only F.Sc Maths and Physics
books, because I had left with no time for Subject Preparation (as 8th semester’s
finals started from 10th June). Then I got one and half day more after 2nd paper of
finals. I once again reviewed Maths & Physics and reviewed some topics from
engineering subjects. That was all of my preparations!
Attempting a MCQs based test is itself an art. Mastering that art with a
proper commingle of preparation will get you through any test. You’ve 3 hours and
100 MCQs; spend each second of available time wisely. In the first round, attempt
only easiest question which you can solve in less than 30 seconds. Then in the next
round try moderate questions. And in the last, attack the Hard questions, answer

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 11

those which you can easily solve, don’t spend a lot of time on a single questions.
Use your Brain & Calculator collectively.
While attempting questions in the test, beware of the –ve marking, don’t
attempt a question unless you’re completely sure for the correct answer. Never
answer a question by mere random guessing. If you don’t know an answer to
question, use educated guesses that may increase your chance for guessing a
correct answer.
Read the question and its answer choices carefully, now relate each answer
choice to the question and find the chances for this choice to be a correct answer.
Use the techniques of reverse solving, inference from other option, use analogies
and make a decision that the choice being considered can be an answer or not.
Similarly, work out all the option choices and each time roll out the choice which
has no (or relatively lesser) chance to be a correct answer and this way you may
increase the probability for guessing a correct answer.
If 4 multiple choices are given for a question, then you have 25% (1/4)
probability of guessing a correct answer randomly. If you eliminate one choice,
then you’ve 33% chance and if you eliminate two answer choices your correct
guessing chance rises up to 50% and so on.
That was all from my side, rest is up to your hard work, luck and prayers. :))
Best of Luck to everyone. (Y)

Conceived & Compiled by:

Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS

By: Muhammad Sarwar, M.S Electrical Engg. 2014-16, PIEAS || |Page | 12