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Anangsha Patra
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Updated on Aug 5, 2025 18:08 IST

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.

RRB NTPC Last Minute Preparation Tips

RRB NTPC Last Minute Preparation Tips

RRB NTPC 2025 Last Minute Preparation Tips: With few days away for the RRB NTPC UG CBT 1 exam, candidates must be on their leg of their preparations. Candidates appearing for the RRB NTPC 2025 exam should focus on revision. They should not touch any new topic other than brushing up on those that they have learned so far. Candidates must attempt mock tests and analyse their performance in the test.

Candidates must try to improve their scores in every mock test by rectifying the mistakes made in the previous tests. Candidates should stay focused and calm and believe in their preparation. Besides studies, candidates must indulge themselves in activities that they like the most to keep away from the exam day stress. In this article, we have provided RRB NTPC last minute preparation tips. 

RRB NTPC 2025 Last-Minute Preparation Tips

Here are a few tips and tricks to prepare for the different sections of the RRB NTPC exam.

General Awareness

This section is vast to cover, however, it is also one of the high scoring sections in the RRB exam. As the questions are factual, you need to memorise important topics such as History, Geography, and Current Affairs. For Science, Economics and Polity, you should go through the basics from NCERT books

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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.

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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.

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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:

  1. Go through all the RRB NTPC previous years’ question papers. Analyse yourself where you stand in terms of preparation
  2. 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
  3. Get all the Mathematical formulae at your fingertips
  4. Take practice or mock tests to improve speed and accuracy
  5. Do not hurry to complete the uncovered portions. This is the time to strengthen the topics that you have already learned
  6. Brush up everything you have studied before the exam
  7. 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
  8. Do not attempt questions that you are not sure of
  9. Do not spend much time in one section

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