RRB Group D (Level 1)
Applications openYour signature, the PET, documents and medical — step by step
Where RRB Group D stands today
This round: CEN 09/2025 · 22,195 vacancies · 52,39,760 applications
- Apply
- Exam day (CBT)
- After the CBT
- Physical test (PET)
- Documents (DV)
- Medical
The blue stage is the one happening now; a stage outlined in blue is the next to start, with its date. A stage turns red — Closed — once its last date has passed. Green means you have finished every step in it.
Key dates
- Last day to apply · 9 March 2026
- Last day to pay the fee · 11 March 2026
- Correction window · 12 March 2026 to 21 March 2026
- CBT · 3 August 2026 to 25 August 2026
- Answer key and objections · 7 September 2026 to 17 September 2026
- Railway apprentices: NCVT marks · 22 October 2026 to 28 October 2026
Result, PET, document verification and medical: dates not announced yet.
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✍️ Your signature — the only file RRB asks every applicant for
JPG · 30–49 KB · at least 140 × 60 px · black ink on white paper, in running handwriting (joined letters) — not capitals
📸 Your photo is taken live in RRB's form — nothing to upload
- A webcam or your phone's front camera, at eye level
- Clothes that aren't white — dark colours are best
- Look straight at the camera, your whole face inside the frame the form shows
- No cap, mask or glasses
- Never photograph a printed or on-screen photo — the application is rejected
- You can retake it as often as you like before you submit
As in CEN 09/2025 — the next notice may change it.
At a glance
Apply only on rrbapply.gov.in, to one RRB. The ₹250 fee is for SC, ST, ex-servicemen, PwBD, women, transgender, minorities and EBC.
This stage has closed for CEN 09/2025. What it asked is kept here — for reference, and for the next round.
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RRB asks every applicant for one file: their signature. Sign on plain white paper with a black ink pen, in running handwriting (joined letters) — not in capital, block or separate letters.
Add a photo or scan of it in the signature box at the top of this page. We crop it, clean the background and save it as RRB asks: a JPG of 30 KB to 49 KB, at least 140 × 60 pixels. In the form it sits in a box 35 mm wide and 20 mm high.
RRB can reject an application at any stage for a background that isn't white, ink that isn't black, capital letters, a thumb impression or someone else's signature. Sign the same way at the exam, document verification, medical and joining — RRB matches them.
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The form takes your photograph live with a webcam or your phone's front camera. You don't upload one.
Wear clothes that aren't white — dark colours are best. Keep the camera at eye level, look straight at it, and keep your whole face inside the frame the form shows. No cap, mask or glasses.
You can look at the photo and retake it until you submit. Never photograph a printed or on-screen photo — that application is rejected. You must look like this photo at every stage.
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The form asks for the certificate's number, its date of issue and your caste as written on it.
It must be in RRB's format (Annexure II) and issued on or after 1 April 2025, and not after the last date to apply. Your caste must be in the central OBC list (ncbc.nic.in).
Without a valid certificate you are treated as General (UR), if you meet the General rules.
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It must be for the financial year 2024-25, in RRB's format (Annexure III).
EWS is for families not covered by SC, ST or OBC reservation, with a gross income below ₹8 lakh a year from all sources — and who don't own 5 acres of farm land, a flat of 1,000 sq ft, or a residential plot of 100 sq yards in a notified municipality (200 sq yards elsewhere), or more. "Family" means you, your parents, your spouse, and brothers, sisters and children under 18.
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SC and ST candidates can travel free (sleeper class) to the exam. Choose "Yes" for the free pass in the form, give your nearest railway station correctly, and upload your SC/ST certificate: a PDF under 400 KB, clear and readable, valid on the last date to apply.
The pass is printed on your e-call letter. Book your ticket with a self-attested photocopy of it and your certificate, and carry the original certificate and a photo ID on the journey.
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If you completed Act Apprenticeship in a railway establishment and hold the National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) from NCVT, part of the vacancies are kept for you, you don't take the PET, and one third of your final merit marks comes from your NCVT marks — or your CBT marks alone count, if that is better for you.
You count only if you had sat the NCVT exam before the last date to apply (its result may come later). Enter your marks in the form; if you leave them out you get zero for them.
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You need your own mobile number and email address. Made an account for an RRB notice in 2024 or 2025? Log in with it — don't make another.
What you enter here can't be changed later, so type your name and date of birth exactly as in your 10th certificate. Name changed? Enter both names.
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Choose one RRB — it can't be changed. Applying to two RRBs, or twice to one, gets every application rejected and can bar you from all RRB and RRC exams.
List every post you are eligible for, in your order of preference. A post you leave out counts as "not interested", and your choices are final. Pick your exam language from 15.
The form checks your Aadhaar. RRB advises a desktop or laptop — some parts don't work properly on a phone.
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The fee is ₹500. After you sit the CBT, ₹400 comes back (less bank charges). For SC, ST, ex-servicemen, PwBD, women, transgender, minorities and EBC (not the same as OBC or EWS) it is ₹250, all of it back after the CBT.
Pay online only — net banking, card or UPI. The refund goes to the bank account linked to your Aadhaar, which the form shows you to confirm; no account of your own? A family member's Aadhaar-linked account can be given.
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Anything except your account details and your chosen RRB can be corrected, for ₹250 each time (not refunded).
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Blind candidates, those with both arms affected and those with cerebral palsy may have a scribe if they wish; others need a certificate from a government hospital that a scribe is essential. You choose and pay your own scribe.
Your scribe must register on rrbapply.gov.in. In this window, log in, enter their registration number, and confirm it with the OTP sent to their phone. With a scribe you get 120 minutes instead of 90.
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About 10 days before your exam, your city and date show on the RRB websites (SC/ST candidates download the free pass with it). About 4 days before, download your e-call letter. Nothing comes by post.
The centre, date and shift can't be changed for any reason. RRB puts mock tests on its websites to practise on.
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Bring your e-call letter, two original photo IDs — one of them the ID you gave in the form — and a colour passport photograph not older than two months.
Keep your Aadhaar unlocked in UIDAI's system before you go. A phone or any wireless device, even switched off, gets your candidature cancelled.
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100 questions: General Science 25, Mathematics 25, General Intelligence and Reasoning 30, General Awareness and Current Affairs 20 — 90 minutes (120 with a scribe). A wrong answer costs 1/3 of a mark.
At the venue you write a self-declaration paragraph on the e-call letter and sign it — in front of the invigilator, not in advance, and not in capital letters.
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RRB showed every candidate their questions, their answers and the keys. An objection cost ₹50 a question, refunded if it was upheld. RRB's decision is final.
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This window is for apprentices trained in a railway establishment who sat the CBT, didn't give their NCVT marks in the form, and gave the date of their last NCVT exam. Log in and fill in your certificate details and marks.
If you don't, you get zero for your NCVT marks and are not treated as a railway apprentice. No request afterwards, or by any other route, is considered. Your marks are checked at document verification.
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If you sat the CBT, ₹400 of your ₹500 (or all of your ₹250) comes back, less bank charges, to the Aadhaar-linked bank account you confirmed in the form. Nothing is refunded if you didn't sit it or the application was rejected.
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RRB hasn't announced the result date. It comes on the RRB websites, by SMS and by email.
To pass you need at least 40% (General and EWS) or 30% (OBC, SC and ST); for PwBD it can be 2 marks lower. Marks across shifts are normalised. On merit, candidates are called for the PET at three times the vacancies, category by category.
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You don't take the PET as PwBD (you take the PwBD medical instead), as a railway apprentice (CCAA) or as an ex-serviceman.
Men: lift and carry 35 kg for 100 m within 2 minutes, in one go without putting it down; then run 1,000 m in 4 minutes 15 seconds.
The weight is a sandbag with no handle, lifted from a bench at about waist height; carry it any way you like, but don't let it touch the ground. It comes first — fail it and the PET ends there. The run follows after a rest. Make sure you are fit for it: the Railways aren't responsible for an injury.
Women: lift and carry 20 kg for 100 m within 2 minutes, in one go without putting it down; then run 1,000 m in 5 minutes 40 seconds.
The weight is a sandbag with no handle, lifted from a bench at about waist height; carry it any way you like, but don't let it touch the ground. It comes first — fail it and the PET ends there. The run follows after a rest. Make sure you are fit for it: the Railways aren't responsible for an injury.
Transgender candidates take the women's standard: carry 20 kg for 100 m within 2 minutes, then run 1,000 m in 5 minutes 40 seconds.
The weight is a sandbag with no handle, lifted from a bench at about waist height; carry it any way you like, but don't let it touch the ground. It comes first — fail it and the PET ends there. The run follows after a rest. Make sure you are fit for it: the Railways aren't responsible for an injury.
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Women declare in writing whether they are pregnant when they report for the PET. If you say you are, a test confirms it; if it does, you are declared temporarily unfit and your place is held until after the birth, under the Railway Board's rules.
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The PET date and e-call letter come on the RRB/RRC websites, by SMS and email — an SMS can fail, so check yourself. Bring the e-call letter, your original photo ID and a colour passport photograph not older than two months. No date or venue can be changed.
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RRB asks those called for DV to upload true-colour scans of their photo and signature at oirms-ir.gov.in/rrbdv before their DV date.
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Bring the certificate for the qualification you applied with — 10th, ITI or the National Apprenticeship Certificate. It must show its date of issue. Issued after the last date to apply? Bring the mark sheet(s) showing the date the result was declared, or a letter from the board or institute saying when.
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The original certificate in the format annexed to the notice (Annexure I). In any other format it isn't accepted, and you are considered as General (UR) if eligible.
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The original OBC (NCL) certificate (Annexure II), issued on or after 1 April 2025, and a self-declaration in Annexure IIA that you weren't in the creamy layer on the last date to apply.
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The original EWS Income & Asset Certificate for 2024-25 in RRB's format (Annexure III).
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If you paid the lower fee as Economically Backward Class, bring the original EBC certificate (Annexure IIIA), BPL card, Izzat MST or central poverty-programme certificate — issued on or before the last date to apply. Without it your candidature can be rejected.
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The disability certificate from the competent authority, for the sub-category you declared in the form, and your Unique Disability ID (UDID). Without them your candidature is cancelled.
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Your discharge certificate. Already in a central government civil job after using ex-serviceman benefits? You get only the age relaxation now, and need a No Objection Certificate.
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Bring the NAC issued by NCVT. Without it you aren't eligible for the apprentice quota. The marks you gave are checked against it.
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RRB asks for a declaration in Annexure VII at DV about Lasik or any other surgery to correct your eyesight — such surgery rules out Pointsman B and Assistant Track Machine (see the medical stage).
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If you work for the central or state government or a PSU, bring a No Objection Certificate from your employer.
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The gazette notification or other legal document for your change of name.
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Certificates must be in English or Hindi. For any other language, bring a self-attested translation into English or Hindi.
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The button below makes one PDF of everything in your DV folder. Print it twice and sign each copy. Bring a colour passport photograph not older than two months.
No extra time is given for a missing original, and a candidate absent from DV is out.
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Every post needs you physically fit in all respects. The standards are set out in Chapter 5 of the Indian Railway Medical Manual, Vol. I; PwBD and ex-servicemen have their own.
A-2 (Pointsman B): distance 6/9, 6/9 without glasses; near Sn 0.6, 0.6 without glasses; and colour, binocular, night and mesopic vision tests.
A-3 (Assistant Track Machine): distance 6/9, 6/9 with or without glasses (lenses up to 2D); near Sn 0.6, 0.6; and colour, binocular, night and mesopic vision tests.
B-1 (your post): distance 6/9, 6/12 with or without glasses (lenses up to 4D); near Sn 0.6, 0.6 for reading or close work; and colour, binocular, night and mesopic vision tests.
C-1 (your workshop post): distance 6/12, 6/18 with or without glasses; near Sn 0.6, 0.6 for reading or close work.
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Anyone who has had Lasik or any other surgery to correct their eyesight can't be taken for the A-2 and A-3 posts (Pointsman B and Assistant Track Machine). For B-1 and C-1 posts it is allowed under the Railway Board's conditions.
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You may get one last chance to appeal, for a fee and within the time allowed; the appeal's result is final. If you don't appeal in time, the first result stands. No other post is offered if you are found unfit.
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Who could apply
Age: 18 to 33 on 1 January 2026 — born between 2 January 1993 and 1 January 2008 (both included). With the community relaxation, OBC-NCL candidates could be born on or after 2 January 1990 and SC/ST on or after 2 January 1988. For others, see Age relaxation.
Education: 10th pass, or ITI, or the National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) from NCVT — already passed by the last date to apply. Those waiting for a result couldn't apply. An engineering diploma or degree doesn't count in place of ITI or apprenticeship.
Date of birth: as in your 10th certificate — any difference disqualifies you.
Age relaxation
| Who | Upper age |
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| OBC-NCL | +3 years |
| SC/ST | +5 years |
| Ex-servicemen (6 months' service or more) | +3 (UR/EWS), +6 (OBC-NCL), +8 (SC/ST) years, after deducting service |
| PwBD | +10 (UR/EWS), +13 (OBC-NCL), +15 (SC/ST) years |
| Railway Group C / erstwhile Group D staff with 3 years' service | up to 40 (UR/EWS), 43 (OBC-NCL), 45 (SC/ST) |
| Widowed, divorced or judicially separated women, not remarried | up to 35 (UR), 38 (OBC-NCL), 40 (SC/ST) |
| Railway apprentices (CCAA) | by the length of apprenticeship — at most 3 (UR/EWS), 6 (OBC-NCL), 8 (SC/ST) years |
| Started Act Apprenticeship before 25 | up to 35 (UR/EWS), 38 (OBC-NCL), 40 (SC/ST) |
Only the largest relaxation you qualify for counts — they don't add up. SC, ST and OBC candidates applying against unreserved vacancies get none.
The posts and their medical standards
| # | Post | Medical | Suits PwBD |
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| 1 | Assistant TRD (Electrical) | B-1 | Yes |
| 2 | Assistant Operations (Electrical) | B-1 | Yes |
| 3 | Assistant TL & AC (Electrical) | B-1 | Yes |
| 4 | Assistant (S&T) | B-1 | Yes |
| 5 | Pointsman B | A-2 | No |
| 6 | Assistant Track Machine | A-3 | Yes |
| 7 | Track Maintainer Gr. IV | B-1 | No |
| 8 | Assistant Bridge | B-1 | No |
| 9 | Assistant Carriage & Wagon | B-1 | Yes |
| 10 | Assistant Loco Shed (Electrical) | B-1 | Yes |
| 11 | Assistant P. Way | B-1 | No |
| 12 | Assistant Operations (Electrical) — Workshop | C-1 | Yes |
| 13 | Assistant Loco Shed — Diesel Shed | B-1 | Yes |
| 14 | Assistant (S&T) — Workshop | C-1 | Yes |
All are Level 1 posts, starting at ₹18,000 a month; 22,195 vacancies in all. Vacancies by railway are in Annexure B of the notice.
The CBT
90 minutes (120 with a scribe), 100 questions of one mark: General Science 25, Mathematics 25, General Intelligence and Reasoning 30, General Awareness and Current Affairs 20. 1/3 mark off for each wrong answer.
The pass mark is 40% for General and EWS and 30% for OBC, SC and ST, and up to 2 marks lower for PwBD.
Questions
When is the Group D result?
RRB hasn't announced it. It comes on the RRB websites, by SMS and email. Then three times the vacancies are called for the PET.
RRB's FAQ gives different photo and signature sizes. Which is right?
The notice. It takes your photo live in the form — nothing to upload — and the signature is a JPG of 30–49 KB; the SC/ST certificate for the free pass is a PDF under 400 KB. RRB says the English notice and its corrigenda are final.
Do women and transgender candidates take the PET?
Yes, to a lighter standard: carry 20 kg for 100 m within 2 minutes, then run 1,000 m in 5 minutes 40 seconds. PwBD candidates, railway apprentices and ex-servicemen don't take the PET.
I'm a railway apprentice. When do I give my NCVT marks?
From 22 October 2026 to 28 October 2026, apprentices trained in a railway establishment who sat the CBT but didn't give their NCVT marks can fill them in. Miss it and you get zero for them and aren't treated as an apprentice.
Can I apply to more than one RRB?
No. One application, to one RRB. Applying to more than one RRB, or twice to the same one, gets every application rejected and can bar you from all RRB and RRC exams.
Official documents: Centralised Employment Notification 09/2025 and its corrigenda — last checked 18 October 2026