RRB NTPC 2026 Notification, Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Vacancies and Free Mock Tests

Posts filled through RRB NTPC

• Graduate-level posts — Station Master, Goods Train Manager, Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor, Junior Account Assistant cum Typist, Traffic Assistant and similar.
• Undergraduate-level posts — Junior Clerk cum Typist, Accounts Clerk cum Typist, Trains Clerk, Commercial cum Ticket Clerk and similar.
• Posts with a typing requirement — the clerk cum typist roles require a typing skill test, which is qualifying.
• Posts with an aptitude test — Station Master and Traffic Assistant require a computer-based aptitude test with its own qualifying standard.

Other conditions

• Fee — The examination fee is ₹500 for general candidates, of which ₹400 is refunded (less bank charges) to those who appear in the first CBT; SC, ST, ex-servicemen, PwBD, female, transgender, minority and Economically Backward Class candidates pay ₹250, refunded in full on appearing. The refund goes only to the bank account seeded with the candidate’s Aadhaar, so the account has to be linked before the application is submitted.
• One RRB, one application — Candidates choose one RRB and rank posts and zones within it; multiple applications lead to rejection of all.
• Medical standard A2 — Distant vision 6/9, 6/9 without glasses (no fogging test) and near vision Sn 0.6, 0.6 with or without glasses, plus colour, binocular, night and mesopic vision tests — the standard that Station Master, Goods Train Manager and Traffic Assistant candidates must clear, and which no LASIK or corrective surgery can satisfy.
• Serving employees — Must produce a no-objection certificate from the employer at document verification.

The RRB NTPC process, from account to appointment

1. Create an account on rrbapply.gov.in One account serves every RRB notification: mobile number, e-mail, name, parents’ names and date of birth exactly as on the matriculation certificate, and Aadhaar verification. Details in the account form — and the RRB chosen — cannot be changed later, even in the paid modification window, so they must be right at this step.
2. Choose one RRB and rank the posts You apply to one Railway Recruitment Board only, and are examined and considered against that RRB’s vacancies; a second application to any RRB cancels all of them. Inside the chosen RRB you rank every post and zone you are eligible for and willing to join — posts left without a preference are treated as declined, and preferences are final.
3. Fill the form with a live photograph The form asks for qualification, category and the certificates you will produce at verification, captures a live photograph through the webcam or phone camera at the time of application, and takes uploads of the photograph, signature and any category certificates to the CEN’s specification.
4. Pay the fee The examination fee is ₹500 for general candidates, of which ₹400 is refunded (less bank charges) to those who appear in the first CBT; SC, ST, ex-servicemen, PwBD, female, transgender, minority and Economically Backward Class candidates pay ₹250, refunded in full on appearing. The refund goes only to the bank account seeded with the candidate’s Aadhaar, so the account has to be linked before the application is submitted.
5. Use the modification window if you must A ten-day window opens after applications close in which any field other than the account details and the chosen RRB can be corrected on payment of ₹250 per occasion, which is not refunded.
6. Application status, city intimation, then the e-call letter The RRBs publish a notice for checking whether your application was accepted. About ten days before your date the exam city and date, and the travel authority for SC and ST candidates, become visible in the login; the e-call letter itself is released about four days before the examination. Aadhaar-linked biometric authentication is done at the centre, so carry the original Aadhaar card and the same photo identity document named in the application, and keep Aadhaar biometrics unlocked.
7. The computer-based test Objective questions in the language chosen at application, with a separate scribe-eligible duration. There is no sectional timing; the whole paper is one clock. Mock tests to familiarise candidates with the interface are put on the RRB website before the examination.
8. Results, scores and the objection tracker After each CBT the question paper, responses and provisional answer key are opened in the login with an objection window; results are published RRB by RRB as PDF lists of roll numbers with category-wise normalised cut-offs, and individual scores can be viewed in the login for a limited period.
9. CBT 1 result and the 15-times shortlist Each RRB publishes the roll numbers shortlisted for CBT 2 with category-wise cut-offs on normalised marks. Fifteen times the community-wise vacancies of the RRB are shortlisted, above the minimum qualifying marks, with post preferences taken into account; candidates who used a reservation continue in that category throughout.
10. CBT 2, then the skill test by post CBT 2 marks alone shortlist for document verification for Goods Train Manager, Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor, Commercial cum Ticket Clerk and Trains Clerk. For the typist posts, eight times the vacancies go to the computer-based typing skill test, qualifying only; for Station Master and Traffic Assistant, eight times the vacancies go to the CBAT with a vision certificate in the prescribed form, and the merit is CBT 2 at 70 per cent and CBAT at 30 per cent.
11. Document verification, medical and zone allotment Candidates equal to the vacancies are called with originals; ties are broken by age, then alphabetically. Empanelment follows the medical examination, and the RRB allots the zone or production unit by merit and the preferences given, after which the railway issues the appointment.

A five-month plan

1. Months 1–2: the syllabus at CBT 1 depth Arithmetic (number system, fractions, LCM and HCF, ratio, percentage, mensuration, time and work, speed and distance, interest, profit and loss), elementary algebra, geometry, trigonometry and statistics; the reasoning families (series, coding, syllogism, puzzles, Venn diagrams, data sufficiency, statement-conclusion); and a general awareness spine — history, geography, polity, economy, science to class 10, India’s transport and railways, organisations, flagship schemes — with daily current affairs.
2. Month 3: CBT 2 depth and the awareness bank The same topics at CBT 2 level with harder mensuration, algebra and DI; 50 awareness questions a day from a bank you build yourself; sectional tests under the 90-minute clock.
3. Month 4: full mocks with the one-third deduction A full CBT 1 mock every second day and a CBT 2 mock every week, each scored with a third of a mark off per error, and an error log by topic. Typist candidates start 15 minutes of typing a day; Station Master and Traffic Assistant candidates read the RDSO aptitude test guide.
4. Month 5: revision and the examination Revise from notes and the error log, keep current affairs to the examination date, and taper mocks in the final ten days.

What the pattern means for the attempt

• Never guess across four options — A wrong answer costs a third of a mark; a blind guess loses on average. A two-option guess is worth taking.
• Awareness first, on a budget — Forty or fifty recall questions in the first 20 minutes, skipping what you do not know, leaves an hour for the calculating sections.
• Normalisation rewards accuracy, not attempts — Because shifts are normalised, a clean 70 in a hard shift can beat a scrappy 75 in an easy one.

Official documents

CEN 06/2025 — NTPC (Graduate) detailed notification (21 October 2025) CEN 07/2025 — NTPC (Under Graduate) detailed notification (28 October 2025) CEN 06/2025 CBT 1 cut-off marks, RRB Chandigarh (11 June 2026) CEN 06/2025 CBT 2 result and cut-off, RRB Chandigarh (27 August 2026) CEN 06/2025 typing skill test notice (27 August 2026) CEN 06/2025 aptitude test notice and FAQs (27 August 2026) CEN 07/2025 CBT 1 result and cut-off, RRB Chandigarh (24 August 2026) CEN 07/2025 CBT 2 schedule (24 August 2026) RRB portal — notices, results and e-call letters RRB application portal