Exam review RRB NTPC 28th April 2016
The RRB NTPC Exam 28th April 2016 exam is over and we have contacted many students regarding the difficulty level of question papers and the subject topics emphasized on. The overall question paper was easy. Recent news for you that a lot more will come in the upcoming shifts but this shift is over with a lot of new scopes. Let us discuss below with exam review analysis 2016.
Exam Review of RRB NTPC 2016 till date
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Common Computer Based Test: The question paper will be in English, Hindi, Urdu and regional languages and the duration of the examination will be 90 minutes which consists 100 questions. Every question carries 1 marks. Negative marking in tunes of 1/3 marks is also applicable on the examination. Around 92 Lac aspirants have filled forms for 18252 different posts. This is one of the largest exam happening in the country in terms of candidates who enrolled for the exam.
Complete analysis of Exam:
In RRB NTPC exam, 100 questions were asked which were not segregated and the questions were scattered. Overall the exam was Easy from a student’s point of view but as the number of applicants are huge so the cutoff will remain high.
| Session of Exam | Arithmetic | General Intelligence and Reasoning |
General Awareness and General Science | Average Attempt |
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| Session 1: (9:00 to 10:30) |
Easy | Easy | Easy to Moderate | 80 -85 | |
| Session 2: (12:30 to 14:00) |
Easy | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | 78-83 | |
| Session 3: (16:00 to 17:30 pm) |
Easy | Easy to Moderate | Easy | 77-80 |
Detailed Sectional Analysis:
Arithmetic: The section was in line with Pattern of banking exams with a link to SSC CGL with trigonometry and Mensuration in small numbers. Questions were there from Time Speed and Distance, Profit and Loss, Speed maths were common.The questions were covered from topics like Simple Interest, Average(5-6), Time and Work, Ratio and Proportion, and rest were from remaining portions of Arithmetic.
General Intelligence & Reasoning: If we specifically talk about Reasoning the questions were similar to SSC and topics like Analogy, Classification, Blood Relation, Syllogism, Non Verbal Reasoning ,
Syllogism based question, arrangement questions, input-output, Direction based questions were asked.This section was quite typical and the students who have appeared for recent exam will not take much time in solving these questions.
General Awareness and General Science: Questions were related to railways, Railway Budget, Economics, history and geography based questions, constitution based questions.Around 15 questions will be asked of Common General Science.
As we all know that it is impossible to cover each and every aspect of general knowledge but from the type of questions we have seen in this shift will help you guess the questions to be asked in upcoming shifts.
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The above analysis has been written based on preliminary information we have received.
Do not get panicked students, who are going to appear in next shifts. All the sections were easy except General Awareness. You can easily attempt above 70 but the attempts will vary from zone to zone. The cutoff will remain different for each zone and the cutoff will depend on the number of vacancies reported by each RRB.
