Various Jobs in Railways: Preparation Guidance Group C

Group C: The Posts are divided into two categories.

1. Non- technical popular category 2. Technical category
Recruitment Agency: RRB (Railway Recruitment Board)

Name of posts: ASM, Goods Guard, ECRC, TC, CA/TA Sr. clerks
Qualification: Any Degree

Mode of Selection: There are two stages.
Stage I - Common preliminary examination for all categories
Stage II - Main Examination

                                                Stage I

1. Preliminary exam will be held on same day by all RRBs
2. Common application for all categories
3.Based on performance of the candidate in the preliminary exam the candidates equal to 15 times of the number of vacancies will be short-listed. Written examination subjected to obtaining the prescribed minimum Qualification marks, in their respective community.

Exam pattern: One paper consists100 questions. Each Question carries 1 mark. And there is one third negative marking for each wrong answer.

The question paper divided into three parts,

Part-A: General awareness (40 Marks)
Part-B: Arithmetic ability (30 Marks)
Part-C: General Intelligence & Reasoning (30 marks)

Syllabus:
General awareness: In this part, questions appear relating to Indian history, geography, polity stock GK and current affairs.

Arithmetic Ability: It consists of the questions from the following topics like Number system, H.C.M &L.C.M , Percentage, Ratio & Proportion , Mensuration, time and work time and distance, pipes and cistern etc.

General Intelligence & Reasoning: The questions appear in this part from the following topics Number series,letter series, coding-decoding, classification, direction test, number test, Ranking test missing character finding etc.

Stage II (Main exam)

There shall be four main (second stage) examinations on different dates /shifts for the category grouping as indicated below one main exam for each group.

Groups of   Main Exam           Name of the Posts
Group I                                           CA&TA                      Single Application
Group II                                    JAA & Sr. clerk                        “
Group III                                ECRC/Goods guard                    “
Group IV                             ASM/Traffic Assistant                   “
 

Candidates who shall qualify preliminary exam will have the option to apply for one (or) all (or) any of the four groups.

For Group IV, candidates will be required to submit a medical certificate obtained form an eye specialist.
Candidates will have to submit separate detailed application form for each group.
It is compulsory for the candidates to give the priority of categories. Once the choice is made it shall be final.
Common examination will be conducted for such combined categories.

Syllabus: Stage II consists 100 -150 questions. It includes General English, Arithmetic, General Awareness, General Intelligence and Reasoning.

For “ASM” post, second stage exam followed by psychological test, certificate verification and medical test.

 Technical category Jobs: These Jobs are generally recruited in Engineering Department