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RRB Group D Exam Pattern

Every figure here is from CEN 09/2025 — what the single CBT asks, what a wrong answer costs, who qualifies, and what the physical test demands.

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RRB Group D · checked 19 September 2026

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

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RRB Group D: the facts that matter now

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CBT held 3–25 August 2026 in 16 sittings; result awaited, then PET for three times the vacancies
Current stage
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Railway Recruitment Boards for the zonal railways — CEN 09/2025, Level 1 of the 7th CPC pay matrix
Conducted by
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Track Maintainer Grade IV, Pointsman-B, Assistant (S&T), Assistant TRD, Assistant Operations and Assistant TL&AC (Electrical), Assistant Loco…
Posts
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22,195 across the railway zones; 52.4 lakh applications received
Vacancies

Pattern

RRB Group D — RRB Group D exam pattern 2026: the Level 1 CBT, negative marking and the PET

Group D — the Level 1 recruitment — has one computer-based test, a physical efficiency test, document verification and a medical examination. The CBT builds the merit list; the PET is pass or fail; verification and medical are called one candidate per vacancy. The notification keeps the right to add a second CBT if the field requires it, but none was held in the 2025-26 cycle.

RRB Group D CBT. Objective; 1 mark per question; 90 minutes (120 with a scribe); one third of a mark deducted per wrong answer; section split indicative.
Section	Questions	Marks
General Science	25	25
Mathematics	25	25
General Intelligence and Reasoning	30	30
General Awareness and Current Affairs	20	20
Total	100	100

How the CBT is used

Minimum qualifying marks — 40 per cent for UR and EWS, 30 per cent for OBC, SC and ST, relaxable by two marks for PwBD where candidates fall short.
PET shortlist — Three times the vacancies, on normalised marks and merit within the RRB, with post preferences considered; the railways may raise or lower the ratio.
Merit for verification — Normalised CBT marks among candidates who clear the PET, called at 1:1 of the vacancies railway-wise; ties broken by age, then name.
Normalisation — Where a test runs in more than one shift, marks are normalised across shifts by the RRBs’ published formula, and it is the normalised score — not the raw mark — that is compared with the cut-off and used for shortlisting.

Physical Efficiency Test — qualifying, one chance per event.
Candidates	Weight carry	Run
Male	35 kg for 100 metres in 2 minutes without putting the weight down	1,000 metres in 4 minutes 15 seconds
Female	20 kg for 100 metres in 2 minutes without putting the weight down	1,000 metres in 5 minutes 40 seconds
PwBD	Exempt; medically examined for the post	—

What the pattern means for how you attempt the paper

Science and mathematics are the scoring half — Fifty marks of class-10 material with definite answers; accuracy here is what separates the shortlist.
Never guess across four options — A third off per error; two-option guesses only.
Use the mock test link — The RRBs put the interface mock online before the CBT — practise the navigation, marking for review and language switching before the day.

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