Exam Process
0%of exam
General Awareness
40%of exam
Mathematics
30%of exam
Reasoning
30%of exam
CodingSeriesBlood RelationsSyllogismDirectionsCalendars Clocks
Quick Facts
- Exam
- RRB NTPC
- Body
- Railway Recruitment Boards
- Format
- Computer Based Test
- CBT 1
- 100 Qs
- CBT 2
- 120 Qs
- Time
- 90 min
- PwBD
- 120 min
- Penalty
- 1/3 wrong
- Minimums
- 40/30/25%
- Pass Rate
- Not published
- Validity
- CEN cycle
Section Split
GA 40; Maths 30; Reasoning 30
GA: largestMaths: arithmeticReasoning: patterns
CBT 1 vs CBT 2
CBT 1
- 100 questions
- Screening stage
- 40/30/30 split
CBT 2
- 120 questions
- Merit stage
- 50/35/35 split
Screening vs merit
Stage Picker
- Starting exam→CBT 1(Screening)
- CBT 1 cleared→CBT 2(Merit)
- Station Master choice→CBAT(T-score 42)
- Typist post choice→Typing test(Qualifying)
- Shortlisted after tests→DV(Documents)
- Post allotment→Medical exam(Fitness)
CBT Stages
- CBT 1
- Screening test
- CBT 2
- Merit stage
- Questions
- 100 / 120
- Duration
- 90 min
- PwBD time
- 120 min
- Marking
- +1 correct
- Penalty
- -1/3 wrong
- Normalisation
- Shift adjustment
- Qualifying
- Minimum marks
- Cutoff
- Vacancy based
Negative Marking
Wrong costs one-third; blank costs zero
Wrong: -1/3Blank: 0Correct: +1
CBAT vs Typing
CBAT
- SM/TA posts
- Aptitude batteries
- T-score 42
Typing
- Clerical posts
- Speed test
- Qualifying
Aptitude vs typing
Score Picker
- Sure answer→Attempt(+1)
- One option left→Attempt(Reasoned)
- Two eliminated→Consider(Risk)
- No elimination→Skip(No penalty)
- Slow calculation→Flag(Return)
- End review→Recheck(Marked)
Post Tests
- Stage order
- CBT then tests
- CBAT
- SM/TA only
- Typing test
- Typist posts
- DV
- Document check
- Medical
- Fitness standard
- Station Master
- CBAT post
- Traffic Assistant
- CBAT post
- Clerk Typist
- Typing post
- Final panel
- CEN vacancies
Qualifying vs Cutoff
Qualifying
- Minimum percent
- Category listed
- Eligibility floor
Cutoff
- Vacancy based
- Zone varies
- Merit rank
Floor vs selection
Eligibility + Fees
- UG age
- 18-30 years
- Graduate age
- 18-33 years
- UG education
- Class 12
- Graduate education
- Degree
- Standard fee
- Rs 500
- Reduced fee
- Rs 250
- Refund rule
- After CBT 1
- Attempts
- Age-bound
- Validity
- CEN cycle
- Pass rate
- Not published
Attempt vs Skip
Attempt
- Known answer
- Eliminated options
- Penalty accepted
Skip
- No clue
- Time drain
- No penalty
Marks vs risk
Scoring Strategy
- Known answer
- Attempt
- Two eliminated
- Calculated risk
- No clue
- Skip
- Easy first
- Secure marks
- GA speed
- Protect time
- Math roughwork
- Prevent slips
- Reasoning diagrams
- Avoid memory load
- Review flagged
- Use remaining time
- Question order
- Flexible
- Guess discipline
- Penalty aware
Awareness vs Maths
Awareness
- Largest section
- Facts + current
- Fast scoring
Maths
- Formula driven
- Calculation accuracy
- More roughwork
Recall vs calculate
Topic Picker
- Need highest yield→General Awareness(40/50 Qs)
- Need fast marks→Railway GK(Static)
- Weak arithmetic→Percentages(Base topic)
- Slow calculations→BODMAS(Simplify)
- Pattern misses→Series(Differences)
- Relation errors→Blood Relations(Draw)
Awareness Core
- General Awareness
- Largest section
- CBT 1 GA
- 40 questions
- CBT 2 GA
- 50 questions
- Current affairs
- Daily revision
- Railway GK
- Rail facts
- Polity
- Constitution articles
- History
- Movements battles
- Geography
- Maps rivers
- Economy
- Budget RBI GST
- Science
- NCERT basics
Railway GK
- Indian Railways
- Ministry of Railways
- Railway Board
- Apex body
- First passenger
- 1853 Mumbai-Thane
- Dalhousie
- Railway introduction
- Vande Bharat
- Train 18
- Zones
- RRB-wise vacancies
- Production Units
- CEN vacancies
- Medical standards
- Post specific
BODMAS
Bracket Order Divide Multiply Add Subtract
Brackets firstPowers earlyLeft to right
HCF vs LCM
HCF
- Greatest factor
- Common divisor
- Smaller answer
LCM
- Smallest multiple
- Common dividend
- Larger answer
Divide vs multiple
Formula Picker
- Changing percent→Base value(Always)
- Profit question→Cost price(Base)
- Interest yearly→SI/CI(Formula)
- Speed units differ→5/18(Convert)
- Two workers→Rate addition(Invert)
- Train crossing→Relative speed(Length)
Math Formulas
- BODMAS
- Operation order
- HCF
- Greatest common factor
- LCM
- Smallest common multiple
- Percentage
- Per hundred
- Profit %
- Profit / CP x100
- Loss %
- Loss / CP x100
- Simple Interest
- PRT / 100
- Compound Amount
- P(1+R/100)^T
- Average
- Sum / count
- Speed
- Distance / time
Speed Convert
km/h x 5/18 gives m/s
Reverse: x18/5Units first
SI vs CI
SI
- Fixed principal
- Linear interest
- PRT formula
CI
- Growing amount
- Interest on interest
- Power formula
Linear vs compounding
Math Shortcuts
- km/h to m/s
- x 5/18
- m/s to km/h
- x 18/5
- Successive change
- Use net percent
- Time-work
- Add rates
- Pipes
- Fill minus empty
- Trains
- Use relative speed
- Mensuration
- Memorize units
- Algebra
- Factor pairs
Reasoning Draw
Draw before solving relation questions
Relations: treeDirections: compassSeating: map
Analogy vs Classification
Analogy
- Same relation
- Pair logic
- Bridge words
Classification
- Odd option
- Common property
- Category test
Match vs exclude
Reasoning Toolkit
- Analogy
- Match relationship
- Classification
- Find odd one
- Series
- Pattern continuity
- Coding
- Letter shifts
- Blood Relations
- Draw family tree
- Direction Sense
- Draw compass path
- Syllogism
- Must-follow only
- Venn Diagram
- Class overlap
- Seating
- Fixed positions
- Ranking
- Opposite-side formula
Reasoning Timers
- Clocks
- 30 deg/hour
- Calendars
- Remainder by 7
- Alphabet Test
- A1 Z26
- Mirror Images
- Left-right flips
- Figure Counting
- Systematic scan
- Math Operations
- Substitute symbols
- Statement Assumption
- Check necessity
- Logical Sequence
- Natural order
Common Traps
CBT 1 merit
CBT 1 screens ≠ CBT 2 ranks
Minimum vs cutoff
Minimum qualifies ≠ Cutoff selects
Wrong vs blank
Wrong loses marks ≠ Blank loses none
CBAT for all
CBAT post-specific ≠ Typing post-specific
Percent base
Profit uses CP ≠ Discount uses marked price
Speed units
Convert before formula ≠ Keep units same
Syllogism certainty
Only must-follow ≠ Ignore possibilities
Current affairs drift
Use current cycle ≠ Avoid stale notes
Last Minute
- 1.CBT 1: 100 questions
- 2.CBT 2: 120 questions
- 3.Time: 90 min
- 4.PwBD scribe: 120 min
- 5.Penalty: one-third wrong
- 6.Blank: zero penalty
- 7.GA has largest share
- 8.CBAT is post-specific
- 9.Typing is post-specific
- 10.Cutoffs vary by RRB
- 11.Normalisation handles shifts
- 12.DV precedes medical
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