ME-303 RGPV B.Tech
Materials Technology (MT)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
6 papers, latest Jun 2025
- ME-303 paper, Jun 2025
- ME-303 paper, Dec 2024
- ME-303 paper, Jun 2024
- ME-303 paper, Dec 2023
- ME-303 paper, Jun 2023
- ME-303 paper, Jun 2022
Syllabus, notes and important questions for ME-303
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Fundamentals of Materials and Mechanical Properties 8 topics
- Solidification of metals
- Crystallisation
- Crystal and amorphous structures
- Different types of bonds in different metals
- Crystallography
- Stability and metastability of metals
- Different mechanical properties of metals and other engineering materials like strength, hardness, elasticity, plasticity, malleability, ductility, creep, fatigue etc.
- Introduction to industrial metals, steels and prevailing manufacturing methods by manufacturers
Unit 2 Phase Diagrams and Alloying 8 topics
- Cooling curves
- Isomorphous, eutectic, eutectoid, eutectoid solid solution, peritectic and other phase diagrams
- Alloying and characteristics of alloying elements
- Iron–Carbon phase diagram
- T‑T‑T diagrams
- Types of cast iron
- Types of stainless steels
- Elastic, anelastic and viscoelastic behaviour
Unit 3 Heat Treatment of Metals 9 topics
- Heat treatment of metals based on phase diagram and T‑T‑T diagram
- Bulk heat treatments
- Surface heat treatments
- Case carburising
- Types of annealing, normalising, spherodising
- Phase transformations such as pearlite, cementite, austenite, troostite, bainite, hard and soft martensite etc.
- Laser hardening, cyniding, boriding, nitriding, flame hardening, ion implantation, etc.
- Heat treatment cycles
- Metallographic studies using optical microscope and electron microscope
Unit 4 Testing Methods and Material Properties 11 topics
- Destructive and non‑destructive testing methods
- Tensile test
- Compression test
- Shear test
- Bend test
- Various hardness tests
- Impact tests
- Fatigue tests
- Hardenability test
- Fracture analysis and NDT methods
- Properties of steels, aluminium and its alloys, copper and its alloys, manganese and its alloys, chromium and its alloys, nickel and its alloys
Unit 5 Chemical Analysis of Alloying Elements 5 topics
- Chemical analysis of different alloying elements in commercial metals (C, Fe, Cr, Ni, Mn, Mg, S, P, Co, Mo, etc.)
- Different chemical reagents and equipment
- Volumetric and gravimetric analysis
- Spot test and colorimetric methods
- Optical and spectrophotometric analysis
Unit 6 == END OF UNITS==
The syllabus lists no separate topics for this unit.
Exam insights
Counted from 5 past ME-303 papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Solidification of metals 19 marks
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Unit 2 Cooling curves and Phase diagrams 27 marks
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Unit 3 Heat treatment of metals 21 marks
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Unit 4 Destructive and non-destructive testing methods 34 marks
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Unit 5 Chemical Analysis of different alloying elements in commercial metals 11 marks
Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.
Asked again and again
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What is spot test and how is it used for determination of metals in qualitative analysis?
Asked 5 times: 2025, 2023, 2020, 2019
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Draw and explain the T-T-T (time-temperature-transformation) diagram for steel / iron-carbon alloy, its working and information supplied and relevance in heat treatment.
Asked 5 times: 2024, 2023, 2020, 2018
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Discuss/describe the different chemical reagents used in the metallurgical industry and their purposes.
Asked 4 times: 2025, 2024, 2019