1st Stage CBT · Screening, common to all posts (90 min, 100 questions)
3 topics · 3 sections — from the official RRB syllabus. Study material lands topic by topic.
Mathematics (CBT1: 30 questions; CBT2: 35 questions)
- 1Mathematics, collapsed across CBT1/CBT2 -- Number System, Decimals, Fractions, LCM, HCF, Ratio and Proportions, 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 (CBT1: 30 questions; CBT2: 35 questions)
- 1General Intelligence and Reasoning, collapsed across CBT1/CBT2 -- Analogies, Completion of Number and Alphabetical Series, Coding and Decoding, Mathematical Operations, Similarities and Differences, Relationships, Analytical Reasoning, Syllogism, Jumbling, Venn Diagrams, Puzzle, Data Sufficiency, Statement-Conclusion, Statement-Courses of Action, Decision Making, Maps, Interpretation of Graphs
- 1.Coding-Decoding6 min
- 2.Number Series8 min
- 3.Analogies7 min
- 4.Syllogisms12 min
- 5.Mathematical Operations9 min
- 6.Alphabet Series9 min
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General Awareness (CBT1: 40 questions; CBT2: 50 questions)
- 1General Awareness, collapsed across CBT1/CBT2 -- Current Events, Games and Sports, Art and Culture of India, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places of India, General and Life Science, History of India and Freedom Struggle, Geography of India and World, Indian Polity and Governance, Scientific and Technological Developments, UN and World Organizations, Environmental Issues, Computers, Transport Systems, Indian Economy, Famous Personalities, Flagship Government Programs, Flora and Fauna, Government/PSU Organizations
- 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire24 min min
- 2.Rise of Regional States14 min
- 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy28 min
- 4.British Conquest of Bengal17 min
- 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)14 min
- 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)8 min
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- 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars23 min
- 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems14 min
- 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 185717 min
- 10.The Revolt of 185765 min
- 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)17 min
- 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India15 min
- 13.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)11 min
- 14.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)16 min min
- 15.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)24 min
- 16.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)18 min
- 17.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)18 min
- 18.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)26 min min
- 19.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)19 min
- 20.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)20 min
- 21.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)16 min
- 22.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)32 min
- 23.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)34 min
- 24.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)26 min
- 25.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)36 min
- 26.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)10 min
- 27.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)9 min
- 28.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture9 min
- 29.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)26 min
- 30.15. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Ancient India)16 min
- 31.25. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Medieval India)20 min
- 32.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down92 min
- 33.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is90 min
- 34.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason103 min
- 35.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them78 min
- 36.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth113 min
- 37.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts109 min
- 38.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island96 min
- 39.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do67 min
- 40.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It49 min
- 41.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them68 min
- 42.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them64 min
- 43.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People42 min
- 44.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went97 min
- 45.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is79 min
- 46.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired69 min
- 47.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is127 min
- 48.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide101 min
- 49.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number79 min
- 50.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic15 min
- 51.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter15 min
- 52.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution14 min
- 53.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States16 min
- 54.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project14 min
- 55.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India15 min
- 56.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution15 min
- 57.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived15 min
- 58.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution16 min
- 59.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy20 min
- 60.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment186 min
- 61.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates157 min
- 62.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking110 min
- 63.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation89 min
- 64.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector102 min
- 65.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets102 min
- 66.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inclusive Growth167 min
- 67.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Government Budgeting — Process, Instruments and Fiscal Policy146 min
- 68.Human Body Systems10 min
- 69.Cell Biology7 min
- 70.Plant Biology10 min
- 71.Diseases and Nutrition9 min