The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) conducts recruitment of
the technical categories in class III through a Civil Services Examination. It
is located at Allahabad, Ahmedabad,
Ajmer, Chandigarh,
Jammu, Gorakhpur,
Patna, Guwahati, Calcutta,
Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Trivandrum,
Bangalore, Secunderabad, Mumbai, Bhopal,
Malda, Ranchi, etc.
RRB usually advertises its vacancies in Employment News /
Rojgar Samachar, Newspaper or Website. The Board conducts both written
Examinations and Interviews.
All the positions are filled on the basis of written tests
and interviews. Sometimes, more than one round of Tests & Interviews might be held to make the final selections.
Aptitude and/or translation tests are held to determine the rankings of the
candidates in the merit list.
All questions are multiple-choice objective type questions.
The tests are designed according to the educational standards prescribed for
the post. If the number of applicants is large, qualifying tests are held in
two stages: preliminary stage and main stage.
For a few specific categories, the written exam is followed
by a viva, and for certain other categories a skills test is conducted. For
operational safety category, a psychological test is conducted. After the tests,
the application details furnished by the candidates are verified.
The successful applicants are called for counseling and
scrutiny of original documents .A panel of names is then recommended to zonal
railway / production unit, depending on the number of vacancies. Finally, the
qualifying candidates are required to pass a medical examination before their
appointment.
