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RRB NTPC CBT 1 Mock Test
CBT 1 carries 100 questions for 100 marks in 90 minutes — 40 General Awareness, 30 Mathematics and 30 General Intelligence & Reasoning. One third of a mark is deducted for every wrong answer.
Exam updates · checked 19 September 2026
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Before you begin
Instructions
This is a shortened paper built on the current pattern. The full paper runs 100 questions · 90 min · 100 marks.
- Questions
- 25
- Time limit
- 22 min
- Total marks
- 25
- Marking
- +1 / −0.33
- The clock starts as soon as you press Start and the paper submits itself at zero.
- You can move between questions freely and change any answer before you submit.
- Mark a question for review to come back to it — a marked question still counts as answered if you have chosen an option.
- A wrong answer costs 0.33 marks, so leave a question blank when you have no idea.
- Your score, the answer key and a full explanation for every question appear as soon as you submit.
Sections in this test
General Awareness10 Q
Mathematics8 Q
General Intelligence & Reasoning7 Q
Use the result
How to learn from this RRB NTPC mock
Treat the RRB NTPC CBT 1 Mock Test as a measurement, not as a verdict. The useful output is a short correction plan built from the questions that cost marks or time.
- Reproduce real conditions. Use one uninterrupted 22-minute sitting, no notes and the same answer discipline you would use in the examination.
- Review correct guesses as well as wrong answers. A lucky mark is unresolved knowledge and should enter the correction list.
- Classify the cause of every loss. Mark it as an unknown concept, wrong method, misread question, calculation slip, poor selection or time pressure.
- Choose only three immediate corrections. Revise or drill the highest-frequency causes before attempting another full paper.
- Retest with a fresh paper. Allow enough practice time for the correction to work, then check whether the same error class has declined.
How to interpret this score
This is a shortened RRB NTPC practice paper, so compare accuracy, section balance and decision-making rather than treating the raw mark as a predicted official score. Cut-offs depend on the recruitment cycle, category, vacancies, paper difficulty and the authority’s scoring rules.
This exam
What this RRB NTPC set is measuring
The NTPC first stage is a computer-based test with a large general awareness component and no sectional timing, which makes it a very different allocation problem from a banking paper. This set keeps the subject mix and the marking rate.
What to take from the result
- General awareness accuracy — it is the largest and fastest-scoring block in the paper. A candidate weak here is trying to make up the difference in mathematics, which costs far more minutes per mark.
- Time spent in mathematics — the arithmetic is standard and the risk is not difficulty but over-investment. Watch how many minutes went in for how many marks out.
- Reasoning speed — general intelligence questions in this paper are mostly quick and mechanical. Slow reasoning usually means the question forms are unfamiliar rather than hard.
- Your wrong-to-blank ratio — there is a deduction for wrong answers, so an informed guess between two options is worth taking and a blind guess is not.
Normalisation and multiple shifts
Railway recruitment is conducted across many shifts, and scores are normalised to account for differences in difficulty between them. That means a raw mark on any practice paper — including this one — cannot be read as a position relative to other candidates. Use it to compare yourself against yourself over time, which is the only comparison it supports.
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