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Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) · Central

आरआरबी गैर-तकनीकी लोकप्रिय श्रेणियाँ — अंडर ग्रेजुएट स्तरRRB Non-Technical Popular Categories — Under Graduate Level

Recruitment for Commercial cum Ticket Clerk, Accounts Clerk cum Typist, Junior Clerk cum Typist and 1 more posts, conducted by Railway Recruitment Board (RRB).

Exam held · 2025-26 cycle

Eligibility & key facts

Qualification
12th pass · Any streamFinal-year / awaiting-result candidates cannot apply.
Age
18–30 years as on 01 Jan 2026Born between 02 Jan 1996 and 01 Jan 2008 (General category; relaxed categories below).
Nationality
Indian citizen (Nepal/Bhutan subjects, pre-1962 Tibetan refugees, and certain persons of Indian origin migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka & specified East African countries also eligible per CEN Para 4.0, subject to a Government of India eligibility certificate)
Domicile
Whether a domicile certificate is required is not stated on this record — check the official notification.

Upper age limit by category

CategoryRelaxationUpper limit
General (no relaxation)—30
OBC+3 yr33
SC / ST+5 yr35
Ex-servicemenEx-servicemen: effective age = actual age minus military service; result must not exceed the upper limit by more than the confirmed cap for your caste category — UR/EWS +3 years, OBC-NCL +6 years, SC/ST +8 years (CEN §5.2). This is the UR/EWS tier; OBC-NCL and SC/ST have their own higher tiers below (added 2026-08-25).Service deducted from age, +3 yr formulaFormula — see note
OBC + exsmCEN §5.2: OBC-NCL Ex-Servicemen get 6 years, not the flat UR/EWS 3. ADDED 2026-08-25 now that rules.js can AND a caste category with 'special':['exsm'].Service deducted from age, +6 yr formulaFormula — see note
SC / ST + exsmCEN §5.2: SC/ST Ex-Servicemen get 8 years, not the flat UR/EWS 3. ADDED 2026-08-25 now that rules.js can AND a caste category with 'special':['exsm'].Service deducted from age, +8 yr formulaFormula — see note
PwDCONFIRMED, CEN §5.2: this is the UR/EWS tier. PwBD-OBC-NCL and PwBD-SC/ST have their own higher tiers below (added 2026-08-25).+10 yr40
OBC + pwdCEN §5.2: PwBD-OBC-NCL gets 13 years, not the flat UR/EWS 10. ADDED 2026-08-25 now that rules.js can AND a caste category with 'special':['pwd'].+13 yr43
SC / ST + pwdCEN §5.2: PwBD-SC/ST gets 15 years, not the flat UR/EWS 10. ADDED 2026-08-25 now that rules.js can AND a caste category with 'special':['pwd'].+15 yr45

Relaxations do not stack — the single highest that applies to you is used. Ex-servicemen: your military service is deducted from your age; the notification’s formula, not a flat number of years, decides the result.

The bar beside each limit compares it against the highest upper limit on this record (45 years).

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Important dates — 2025-26 cycle

  1. 04 OctNotification
  2. 28 OctApplications open
  3. 27 NovApplications close
  4. 17 SeptExam beginsNext up

RRB NTPC UG · 2025-26 cycle · as on 25 Aug 2026 · meribari.com

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Notification date04 Oct 2025
Applications open28 Oct 2025
Applications close27 Nov 2025
Exam dates17 Sept 2026
Exam modeWritten examination (CBT)
Vacancies3,058
Application fee — 2025-26 cycle
Applies toFeeNote
Male · General / EWS / OBC₹500₹400 refunded (minus bank charges) on appearing in 1st Stage CBT. Confirmed from CEN §7.0 Sl.No.1 — the general/default tier, applying to every candidate not named in Sl.No.2 (SC/ST/ExSM/PwBD/Female/Transgender/Minorities/EBC).
SC / ST / Ex-servicemen₹250Fully refunded (minus bank charges) on appearing in 1st Stage CBT. Confirmed from CEN §7.0 Sl.No.2.
Female₹250Fully refunded (minus bank charges) on appearing in 1st Stage CBT. Confirmed from CEN §7.0 Sl.No.2.
2025-26 cycle notenotificationDate is the 'Indicative Notice in Employment News' date; the detailed CEN's own issue date is not separately stated. Application window, fee-payment deadline (29.11.2025) and modification window (30.11.2025-09.12.2025) are confirmed directly from the notification's own page image (Para, Important Dates table). CBT dates are communicated separately from the CEN itself (per its own Para/Note 2) — the single date recorded in examDates (17.09.2026, CBT 2) is from cross-referenced secondary aggregator reporting (Testbook, Careerpower, Adda247), NOT the primary CEN, since 1st Stage CBT had already been conducted with an answer key released and CBT 2 scheduled as of the verification date (25.08.2026); exact CBT 1 date(s)/shifts are not recorded here as they were not independently confirmed against a primary corrigendum. EBC (family income < ₹50,000/yr, per Para 7.3) and notified Minority-community candidates (Para 7.2) also qualify for the ₹250 fee tier below, refunded in full on appearing in CBT 1 — not expressible via the category enum in the fee rules, recorded here for completeness. PwBD and Transgender candidates are also explicitly named in the ₹250 tier (Para 7.0 Sl.No.2) alongside SC/ST/ExSM/Female/Minorities/EBC — PwBD is not separately encoded below; the rules.js gap that would have made a 'pwd' fee rule inert was FIXED 2026-08-25, so one could now be added correctly, it just hasn't been. 'transgender' still has no matching value in the schema's gender enum (male/female/any).

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Selection process

  1. 1st Stage Computer Based Test (CBT 1)प्रथम चरण कंप्यूटर आधारित परीक्षा

    WrittenQualifying only

    100 marks · shortlists 15× vacancies

    Common for all notified posts (CEN §13.1, confirmed from the notification's own page image). 90 minutes / 100 questions / 100 marks (40 GA + 30 Maths + 30 GI&R — indicative, may vary slightly in the actual paper); 120 minutes for candidates eligible for a scribe. Qualifying/screening only; normalised score used to shortlist for CBT 2 at 15x the community-wise vacancies. Candidates shortlisted for CBT 2 under OBC(NCL)/SC/ST/EWS/PwBD/ExSM reservation continue to be considered only against that same category for all subsequent stages.

  2. 2nd Stage Computer Based Test (CBT 2)द्वितीय चरण कंप्यूटर आधारित परीक्षा

    WrittenCounts to merit

    90 min · 120 marks

    CEN §13.2.1, confirmed from the notification's own page image: 90 minutes / 120 questions / 120 marks (50 GA + 35 Maths + 35 GI&R — indicative, may vary slightly in the actual paper); 120 minutes for candidates eligible for a scribe. CBT 2 marks (normalised across shifts) are the sole basis of the final merit list, including for typist posts — the Typing Skill Test that follows is qualifying only.

  3. Computer Based Typing Skill Test (CBTST)टंकण कौशल परीक्षा

    Typing testQualifying only

    Only for Accounts Clerk cum Typist and Junior Clerk cum Typist posts: 30 wpm English or 25 wpm Hindi on a computer, no spell-check/editing aids. Candidates shortlisted at 8x vacancies (community-wise) from CBT 2 merit. Exemption available for PwBD candidates with Blindness/Low Vision, Cerebral Palsy or Locomotor Disability ≥40%, on producing an exemption certificate. Does not add to merit.

  4. Document Verification & Medical Examinationदस्तावेज़ सत्यापन एवं चिकित्सा परीक्षा

    MedicalQualifying only

    Candidates called at 1:1 of vacancies per RRB, strictly by merit, subject to the community-wise minimum qualifying marks (UR/EWS 40%, OBC-NCL/SC 30%, ST 25%; relaxable by 2 marks for PwBD if insufficient PwBD candidates are otherwise available).

Final merit
CBT 2 marks only (normalised across shifts). CBT 1, the Typing Skill Test (where applicable), DV and medical are all qualifying stages.

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Exam pattern & pay

1st Stage Computer Based Test (CBT 1) pattern
SectionQuestionsMarks
General Awareness40Not stated
Mathematics30Not stated
General Intelligence & Reasoning30Not stated
Total—100
  • Marking: +1 for each correct answer · -0.33 for each incorrect answer · 0 for unattempted
  • Shortlisted for next stage: 15× the number of vacancies

Common for all notified posts (CEN §13.1, confirmed from the notification's own page image). 90 minutes / 100 questions / 100 marks (40 GA + 30 Maths + 30 GI&R — indicative, may vary slightly in the actual paper); 120 minutes for candidates eligible for a scribe. Qualifying/screening only; normalised score used to shortlist for CBT 2 at 15x the community-wise vacancies. Candidates shortlisted for CBT 2 under OBC(NCL)/SC/ST/EWS/PwBD/ExSM reservation continue to be considered only against that same category for all subsequent stages.

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Qualifying marks — 1st Stage Computer Based Test (CBT 1)

CategoryMinimum
General / EWS40%
OBC30%
SC30%
ST25%

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2nd Stage Computer Based Test (CBT 2) pattern
SectionQuestionsMarks
General Awareness50Not stated
Mathematics35Not stated
General Intelligence & Reasoning35Not stated
Total120120
  • Duration: 90 minutes, no sectional timing
  • Marking: +1 for each correct answer · -0.33 for each incorrect answer · 0 for unattempted

CEN §13.2.1, confirmed from the notification's own page image: 90 minutes / 120 questions / 120 marks (50 GA + 35 Maths + 35 GI&R — indicative, may vary slightly in the actual paper); 120 minutes for candidates eligible for a scribe. CBT 2 marks (normalised across shifts) are the sole basis of the final merit list, including for typist posts — the Typing Skill Test that follows is qualifying only.

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Qualifying marks — 2nd Stage Computer Based Test (CBT 2)

CategoryMinimum
General / EWS40%
OBC30%
SC30%
ST25%

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In-hand salary figures are not on record for this exam yet — the pay level and scale below are what the record carries.

PostPay levelPay scale (₹)In-hand (₹/month, approx.)
Commercial cum Ticket ClerkLevel-321700 (starting/initial pay, 7th CPC Level-3; top of band not stated in source)—
Accounts Clerk cum TypistLevel-219900 (starting/initial pay, 7th CPC Level-2; top of band not stated in source)—
Junior Clerk cum TypistLevel-219900 (starting/initial pay, 7th CPC Level-2; top of band not stated in source)—
Trains ClerkLevel-219900 (starting/initial pay, 7th CPC Level-2; top of band not stated in source)—

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