RRB NTPC Last Minute Preparation Tips: The Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) are all set to conduct the RRB NTPC UG CBT 1 exam. During the days leading to the exam, candidates must focus on revision. These RRB NTPC last minute preparation tips will give you motivation and boost your confidence during the days leading up to the exam. Read below to check RRB NTPC last-minute preparation tips 2025.
Mathematics
For Mathematics, you need to prepare for topics as per the trends of previous years’ papers. Apart from practicing the chapters thoroughly, learn to know the shortcut tricks that will help you to solve the sums. You need to be very thorough with formulae, tables, squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots. Apart from this, you can refer to NCERT books to clear the basic concepts.
Also Read: How to Prepare for RRB NTPC Mathematics?
General Intelligence and Reasoning
You must give time to practice. Coding-Decoding, Puzzles are the most difficult topics in this section. For puzzles, you can follow books such as A Modern Approach to Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning by RS Aggarwal, New Approach to Reasoning Verbal, Non-Verbal and Analytical by BS Sijwali and Indu Sijwali. To perform well in this section, you should solve mock tests.
Also Read: How to Prepare for RRB NTPC General Intelligence and Reasoning?
RRB NTPC 2025 Last Minute Preparation Tips: General Tips and Tricks
Candidates can check below few general tips and tricks to crack Railway NTPC exam:
- Go through all the RRB NTPC previous years’ question papers. Analyse yourself where you stand in terms of preparation
- There are certain questions that are sure-shot asked in the exam. Identify those topics based on the previous years’ question papers trend. Prepare the topics thoroughly before appearing in the exam
- Get all the Mathematical formulae at your fingertips
- Take practice or mock tests to improve speed and accuracy
- Do not hurry to complete the uncovered portions. This is the time to strengthen the topics that you have already learned
- Brush up everything you have studied before the exam
- Try to attempt questions with accuracy in the exam. Remember there is negative marking. Solving 70-80% questions with 100% accuracy is better than solving 100% questions with 70-80 per cent accuracy
- Do not attempt questions that you are not sure of
- Do not spend much time in one section
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RRB NTPC Graduate Level CBT 2 hall ticket was released on October 9. The admit card can be downloaded by logging with the required credentials.
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RRB NTPC Undergraduate question paper was released on September 15, 2025. The question paper was released in PDF form for sets A, B, C, D. Candidates can download their question papers by logging with the required credentials. Candidates can even challenge the RRB NTPC question paper by paying INR 5
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Answered 2 months ago
The tips and tricks to excel in RRB NTPC General Intelligence & Reasoning are given below:
- Candidates must build logical thinking skills through daily puzzles and series
- Candidates must practice topics such as coding-decoding, seating arrangements, syllogisms, etc.
- To solve questions better, candidates
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The tips and tricks to prepare for RRB NTPC Maths are given below:
- Candidates must master the basic concepts before learning shortcuts techniques of solving questions
- Candidates must daily practice topics such as Profit & Loss, Time & Work, Geometry, etc.
- Candidates must maintain notebook for jotting d
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 months ago
The effective tips to prepare for RRB NTPC exam are given below:
- Understand the complete RRB NTPC syllabus and exam pattern
- Create a good study plan
- Take a mock test and analyse the performance and focus on improving the weak areas
- Practice the previous years' question papers
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 months ago
Candidates should focus on RRB NTPC preparation for four to six hours daily. This also depends on the current level of preparation and familiarity with the subjects. It is with hardwork and determination that candidates will be able to crack the exam.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 months ago
Students can start preparing for RRB NTPC exam by going through the exam pattern and syllabus. It is important to make a realistic study plan an follow that dilligently. Candidates must also follow good study material. They should practice previous years' question papers and mock tests to improve th
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 months ago
Yes, each post has its own medical standard (A?2, B?2, C?2, etc.). You must meet the medical requirements for every post you prefer. The post-wise medical standard is given below.
Post Name | Medical Standards |
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Commercial Apprentice (CA) | B2 |
Station Master | A2 |
Goods Guard | A2 |
Junior Accounts Assistant Cum Typist | C2 |
Senior Clerk-Cum-typist | C2 |
Senior Commercial cum Ticket Clerk | B2 |
Senior Time Keeper | C2 |
Traffic Assistant | A2 |
Commercial cum Ticket Clerk | B2 |
Accounts Clerk Cum Typist | C2 |
Junior Clerk Cum Typist | C2 |
Junior Time Keeper | C2 |
Trains Clerk | A3 |
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 months ago
The final RRB NTPC post allotment depends on the CBT 1 and 2 scores, order of post preference, availability of vacancies in chosen zones. Candidates are required to enter their RRB NTPC post preferences while filling the application form. The eligibility attached to various posts are different.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 months ago
Candidates change but only for the specifc zones and posts they have listed. Candidates indicating partial prefetrences are considered only for those choices and not for others.
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