RRB Non-Technical Popular Categories

Mathematics (CBT1: 30 questions; CBT2: 35 questions)

• Mathematics, 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)

• General 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. 1.Coding-Decoding
  2. 2.Number Series
  3. 3.Analogies
  4. 4.Syllogisms
  5. 5.Mathematical Operations
  6. 6.Alphabet Series
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  1. 7.Bar Graphs
  2. 8.Pie Charts
  3. 9.Table-Based Data Interpretation
  4. 10.Line Graph Data Interpretation
  5. 11.Puzzles (Logical)
  6. 12.Data Sufficiency
  7. 13.Statements & Conclusions

General Awareness (CBT1: 40 questions; CBT2: 50 questions)

• General 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. 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire
  2. 2.Rise of Regional States
  3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy
  4. 4.British Conquest of Bengal
  5. 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)
  6. 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)
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  1. 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  2. 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems
  3. 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 1857
  4. 10.The Revolt of 1857
  5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)
  6. 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India
  7. 13.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)
  8. 14.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)
  9. 15.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)
  10. 16.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)
  11. 17.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)
  12. 18.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)
  13. 19.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)
  14. 20.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)
  15. 21.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)
  16. 22.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)
  17. 23.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)
  18. 24.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)
  19. 25.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)
  20. 26.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)
  21. 27.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)
  22. 28.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture
  23. 29.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)
  24. 30.15. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Ancient India)
  25. 31.25. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Medieval India)
  26. 32.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down
  27. 33.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is
  28. 34.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason
  29. 35.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them
  30. 36.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth
  31. 37.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts
  32. 38.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island
  33. 39.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do
  34. 40.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It
  35. 41.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them
  36. 42.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them
  37. 43.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People
  38. 44.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went
  39. 45.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is
  40. 46.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired
  41. 47.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is
  42. 48.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide
  43. 49.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number
  44. 50.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic
  45. 51.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter
  46. 52.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution
  47. 53.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States
  48. 54.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project
  49. 55.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India
  50. 56.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution
  51. 57.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived
  52. 58.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution
  53. 59.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy
  54. 60.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment
  55. 61.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates
  56. 62.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking
  57. 63.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation
  58. 64.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector
  59. 65.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets
  60. 66.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inclusive Growth
  61. 67.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Government Budgeting — Process, Instruments and Fiscal Policy
  62. 68.Human Body Systems
  63. 69.Cell Biology
  64. 70.Plant Biology
  65. 71.Diseases and Nutrition