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RRB NTPC Mock Tests

A mock with the wrong deduction rate teaches the wrong guessing habit. Practise with one third of a mark deducted, because that is what the exam applies.

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RRB NTPC · checked 19 September 2026

RRB NTPC at a glance, from the official notices

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 NTPC: the facts that matter now

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    Graduate: CBT 2 result 27 August; typing test 24 September (city intimation 13 September) and aptitude test 30 September 2026. Under Graduate: CBT…

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    Railway Recruitment Boards (21 RRBs) for the zonal railways — CEN 06/2025 (Graduate) and CEN 07/2025 (Under Graduate)

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    Graduate: Station Master, Goods Train Manager, Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor, Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist, Senior Clerk cum…

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    5,810 graduate posts and 3,058 undergraduate posts in the 2025-26 cycle

    Vacancies

Practice

RRB NTPC — Using mock tests as a measurement

The free RRB NTPC mock on this site follows the current CBT pattern with its actual deduction rate. That matters more than it sounds: candidates who practise on quarter-mark papers develop a guessing threshold calibrated to a gentler penalty, and carry it into an exam that punishes it harder.

Getting value from each attempt

  1. Take general awareness first and fast. It is the largest section and pure recall — there is nothing to gain from spending longer on a question you do not know.
  2. Count your wrong answers, not just your score. At one third of a mark each, a dozen wrong answers is a four-mark loss on top of the marks not gained.
  3. Separate "did not know" from "guessed and lost". The first is a study problem; the second is a discipline problem, and the second is faster to fix.
  4. Do not compare raw scores with other candidates. Normalisation across shifts makes cross-shift comparison meaningless.

If you are applying for a post with a typing or aptitude requirement, build that practice into your weekly routine now rather than after CBT 2. The gap between stages is not reliably long enough to acquire a skill from scratch.

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What to record after every mock

  1. Your error count, explicitly Not just the score. At a third of a mark each, fifteen errors cost five marks on top of the fifteen not earned — a ten-mark swing that a score alone conceals.
  2. Errors split by cause Did not know, versus guessed and lost. The first calls for study; the second calls for discipline, and confusing them wastes months.
  3. General awareness accuracy by theme Polity, history, geography, science, static and railway. One aggregate figure across six very different areas is not actionable.
  4. Time left at the end Ninety minutes for a hundred questions is not tight. Finishing early with avoidable errors means you rushed a paper that did not require it.

The guessed-and-lost figure is the one candidates most often refuse to look at, and it is usually the largest single correctable leak in an NTPC paper. It costs nothing to fix — no additional study, no new material — and it typically returns more marks than a month of revision would. Recording it honestly for three mocks is generally enough to change the behaviour.

Build skill-test practice into the same routine

If your target post carries a typing skill test or a computer-based aptitude test, ten minutes on the days you take a mock is enough to keep it from becoming a separate project later. Both are qualifying: they add nothing to your merit position and can end an otherwise successful attempt, which is exactly the asymmetry that justifies small regular practice.

Reading an NTPC result. Compare yourself against your own previous attempts, not against a target mark.
What you seeWhat it usually meansWhat to change
General awareness dragging the totalCoverage. This is the largest block and the cheapest to improve.A pair-format static sheet revised daily, plus a monthly current-affairs consolidation.
Too many minutes in mathematicsOver-investment in the section with the worst marks-per-minute return.Cap the time you allow mathematics and spend the difference on awareness.
Science questions missed on basicsClass 10 science not covered completely.Finish it chapter by chapter. It is finite and it recurs every cycle.
Wrong answers well above blanksGuessing blind in a paper that deducts.Guess only between two options you can defend; leave the rest.
Skill or aptitude test unpractisedThe stage that eliminates candidates who cleared the papers.Put it on the same weekly calendar as the mocks, starting now.

Exam resources

Everything for RRB NTPC

Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.

RRB NTPC SyllabusRRB NTPC syllabus — general awareness, mathematics and reasoning topics for CBT 1 and CBT 2, with the railway-specific general awareness emphasis.RRB NTPC Exam PatternRRB NTPC exam pattern 2026 — CBT 1 and CBT 2 tables with questions, marks and time, one-third negative marking, qualifying marks, typing and aptitude tests.RRB NTPC Previous PapersRRB NTPC previous year papers — mining past general awareness sections for the railway and static themes that repeat every cycle.RRB NTPC Mock TestsFree RRB NTPC mock tests on the current CBT pattern with one-third negative marking, scoring and section-wise analysis.RRB NTPC PreparationRRB NTPC preparation strategy — weighting general awareness properly, managing a long multi-stage process and preparing for skill tests.RRB NTPC Study MaterialRRB NTPC study material — general awareness, mathematics, reasoning and class-10 science notes matched to the CBT syllabus.

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