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Science and reasoning together carry more than half the paper. Those are the notes to work hardest.
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.
Checked 19 September 2026
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Notes
Treat the science notes as a syllabus to complete rather than a topic to revise. Working through class 10 physics, chemistry and life sciences in order, chapter by chapter, is a two-month project that secures a quarter of the paper — a better return than almost any other use of the same time in this exam.
Science notes Reasoning notes Quantitative aptitude notes General knowledge notes Current affairs
Keep a chapter checklist for science and mark off only what is genuinely finished — read, understood, and tested with questions. The distinction between started and finished is where most self-assessment goes wrong in a subject that feels familiar, and in a section drawn from a syllabus this small, the difference between eighty per cent covered and fully covered is several marks.
Technical and factual recall decays considerably faster than reasoning skill. A chapter finished in month one and never revisited is largely gone by the examination, whereas two short revisits — one at three days, one at three weeks — hold it at very little cost. Build the revisits into the plan rather than relying on a final revision that will not have room for everything.
| Section | Read this | Do not spend time on |
|---|---|---|
| General science | Class 10 level physics, chemistry and life sciences, covered completely. This carries real weight and it is a closed syllabus. | Anything above class 10 level. |
| Mathematics | School arithmetic to completion, with basic mensuration, geometry and elementary statistics. | Algebra and trigonometry at competitive-mathematics depth. |
| General intelligence and reasoning | A mixed question bank, short daily sets, including analogies, classification, series and non-verbal families. | Theory of any kind. |
| General awareness and current affairs | Recent current affairs, basic polity, geography, economy and general science in the news, plus material on Indian railways. | Deep static general knowledge, which returns less here than current material. |
| Physical efficiency test | The events and standards prescribed in the notification, trained for from the first month with margin above the requirement. | Treating the written stage as the recruitment. |
Exam resources
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