RRB NTPC syllabus

Computer-based recruitment for non-technical popular category posts: a 100-question 1st Stage CBT in 90 minutes, with one-third negative marking, then a 2nd Stage CBT.

1st Stage Computer Based Test (CBT-1)

General Awareness

40 questions, 40 marks (indicative) · Within the 90 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. One-third of a mark is deducted for a wrong answer. The 40 questions are the indicative split in the notice.

  • Current events of national and international importance, kept here to stable facts
  • Games and sports
  • Art and culture of India, Indian literature, monuments and places
  • General science and life science up to Class 10
  • History of India and the freedom struggle
  • Physical, social and economic geography of India and the world
  • Indian polity and governance
  • Scientific and technological developments, including space and nuclear programmes
  • UN and other world organisations, environment
  • Computers, abbreviations, transport, the Indian economy, famous personalities, flagship programmes, flora and fauna, government and public-sector organisations

Mathematics

30 questions, 30 marks (indicative) · Within the 90 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. One-third of a mark is deducted for a wrong answer. Calculators are not allowed; that instruction was read in CEN 06/2025.

  • Number system, decimals, fractions, LCM and HCF
  • Ratio and proportion, percentage
  • Mensuration
  • Time and work, time and distance
  • Simple and compound interest, profit and loss
  • Elementary algebra, geometry and trigonometry
  • Elementary statistics

General Intelligence and Reasoning

30 questions, 30 marks (indicative) · Within the 90 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. One-third of a mark is deducted for a wrong answer. Figure questions (mirror images, paper folding) are not used in this practice test; the topics are the written ones in the syllabus.

  • Analogies
  • Number and alphabetical series
  • Coding and decoding
  • Mathematical operations
  • Similarities and differences, relationships
  • Analytical reasoning, syllogism, jumbling
  • Venn diagrams, puzzles, data sufficiency
  • Statement-conclusion, statement-courses of action, decision making
  • Maps and interpretation of graphs

2nd Stage Computer Based Test (CBT-2)

General Awareness

50 questions, 50 marks (indicative) · Within the 90 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. One-third of a mark is deducted for a wrong answer.

  • The same general-awareness syllabus as the 1st Stage CBT

Mathematics

35 questions, 35 marks (indicative) · Within the 90 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. One-third of a mark is deducted for a wrong answer.

  • The same mathematics syllabus as the 1st Stage CBT

General Intelligence and Reasoning

35 questions, 35 marks (indicative) · Within the 90 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. One-third of a mark is deducted for a wrong answer.

  • The same reasoning syllabus as the 1st Stage CBT