NRA CET

After qualifying NRA CET, you have to appear for the next stages of your respective recruitment exams conducted by your respective recruitment agencies such as SSC, RRB and IBPS. Through NRA CET candidates are screened/shortlisted for certain categories of posts in Central Government for which the recruitment is carried out through Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) and Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS). On the basis of CET scores, candidates are considered for the further rounds of selection. The final selection is done through separate exams, to be conducted by the respective recruitment agencies.

NRA CET syllabus will be announced once the National Recruitment Agency is set up. However, the syllabus is expected to be in line with the current syllabus of the various tier-I IBPS, SSC and RRB exams. NRA CET syllabus is given below:

Reasoning Ability

1. Seating arrangements
2. Puzzles
3. Inequalities
4. Syllogism
5. Input and output
6. Data sufficiency
7. Blood relations
8. Order and ranking
9. Alphanumeric series
10. Distance and direction
11. Verbal reasoning
12. Classification
13. Analogy
14. Coding and decoding
15. Clock and calendar
16. Non-verbal reasoning

General Awareness

1. Current affairs
2. Banking awareness
3. General knowledge
4. World currency
5. Important locations
6. Books and authors
7. Awards
8. Headquarters
9. Prime minister schemes
10. Significant days
11. Computer knowledge
12. General science

Quantitative Aptitude

1. Number series
2. Data interpretation
3. Simplification and approximation
4. Quadratic equation
5. Data sufficiency
6. Mensuration
7. Average
8. Profit and loss
9. Ration and proportion
10. Work, time and energy
11. Time and distance
12. Probability
13. Relations
14. Simple and compound interest
15. Permutation and combination
16. Algebra
17. Trigonometry
18. Geometry

English Language

1. Cloze test
2. Reading comprehension
3. Spotting errors
4. Sentence improvement
5. Sentence correction
6. Jumbled paragraphs
7. Fill in the blanks
8. Para completion
9. Sentence completion
10. Spellings
11. One word substitution
12. Phrases and idioms
13. Active and passive voice
14. Narrations

NRA CET exam dates are yet to be announced by the NRA. Last year, the Minister of State, Jitendra Singh said that the exam will be conducted in May-June this year. However, there is no any update yet regarding the exam dates. According to the media reports, NRA is in the final stage of designing the computer based test. NRA CET exam will be conducted in more than 1000 exam centres in 117 districts spread throughout the country. NRA CET score will be valid for three years and it will be conducted every year. Besides, Central and State Government departments, public and private sectors enterprises will accept the score of CET.