RRB Ministerial and Isolated Categories Syllabus

Sections, for every post except Junior Translator (Hindi)

The CEN calls this split indicative, so expect small variations. Professional Ability comes from the post's own annexure (VII to XIV).

Junior Translator (Hindi) sits a different paper

Para 13.11 gives it 30 Hindi, 20 English and 50 general questions (General Knowledge, General Intelligence, Simple Arithmetic, basics of computer). The language part is at Standard 12th level and isn't translated. A separate translation test follows for 10 times the vacancies, qualifying at 60 per cent. Merit is the CBT alone.

Minimum qualifying marks

These can drop by 2 marks for PwBD candidates if there aren't enough of them for the reserved vacancies.

The RRB can hold additional CBTs if it needs to. If a second stage is held, the first may be treated as qualifying for shortlisting.

Professional Ability is 50 of the 100 marks, and each post's syllabus is in its own annexure of the CEN. Most give a question count or range per topic.

Chief Law Assistant, Annexure-IX

Public Prosecutor, Annexure-XII

Staff and Welfare Inspector, Annexure-VIII

Senior Publicity Inspector, Annexure-X

Lab Assistant Grade III (Chemist and Metallurgist), Annexure-XI

Scientific Assistant (Training), Annexure-XIII, and Scientific Supervisor, Annexure-XIV

Both are 50-question psychology papers sharing six topics at 5 to 8 questions each: Basic Psychological Processes, Psychology of Personality, Research Methodology, Test Construction, Statistical Method in Psychology and Applied Psychology. The seventh differs. Scientific Assistant adds Counselling and Training (6 to 8). Scientific Supervisor adds Bio-Physiological Processes (7 to 8): nervous systems, brain localisation, hemispheric specificity, nerve impulses, receptor and endocrine systems, sleep and arousal.

Junior Translator (Hindi), Annexure-VII

Thirty Hindi questions across ten topics (three each) and twenty English questions across ten topics (two each), plus the 50 general questions. Language difficulty is Standard 12th, the +2 stage.

The general half

Qualification, by post

You must hold it by the closing date, 29 January 2026. If your final result is declared after that, don't apply. If your certificate is dated later, bring a marks sheet or a Board or University certificate showing the date of declaration to DV.

Age, as on 1 January 2026

Nobody born after 1 January 2008 is eligible. The dates already include the community relaxation.

Other age relaxations

Staff of railway canteens, co-operative societies and institutes get their length of service or 5 years, whichever is less. SC, ST and OBC-NCL candidates applying against unreserved vacancies get no relaxation. If you qualify on more than one ground you get the highest single relaxation, not the sum. Your date of birth must match your Matriculation or SSLC certificate exactly; any difference disqualifies you.

Medical standard and disability

C1 for the two law posts, Senior Publicity Inspector and Staff and Welfare Inspector; C2 for Junior Translator; B1 for the two scientific posts and Lab Assistant Grade III. Check you meet it before you apply.

PwBD suitability differs by post (Annexure-A). Junior Translator is open to the widest range, including visual, hearing, locomotor, ASD(M), SLD, MI and multiple disabilities. The law posts take visual and locomotor; Lab Assistant takes hearing and locomotor. Senior Publicity Inspector, Staff and Welfare Inspector and both scientific posts are identified for locomotor disability only. Scribe users get 120 minutes and must enter scribe details between 11 and 15 February 2026; the forms are at Annexures V(A) to V(G).

Reservation

Vertical reservation for EWS, SC, ST and OBC-NCL; horizontal for ex-servicemen and PwBD, counted inside the total. Backlog PwBD vacancies shown separately are from past years. Every category claim is judged as on 29 January 2026, with originals at DV in the Annexure I to III formats.

1. Computer Based Test, a single stage, 100 questions in 90 minutes.
2. Translation Test, Junior Translator (Hindi) only: 10 times the vacancies are called on CBT merit, 60 per cent to qualify, no effect on merit.
3. Document Verification, for candidates equal to the number of vacancies, by merit and options.
4. Medical Examination at the post's standard. Everyone who clears DV goes.

No physical test, interview or skill test.

Ties (Para 13.12)

The older candidate ranks higher. If the age is the same, it goes by alphabetical order (A to Z) of the given name, not the surname.

At Document Verification

Bring the qualifying certificate plus whatever professional addition your post needs (Bar standing, translation diploma or experience, the publicity or labour diploma, testing experience), your Matriculation certificate, and original category certificates. Minority candidates who took the fee concession need the Minority Community Declaration affidavit on non-judicial stamp paper; EBC candidates need the income certificate, BPL card or Izzat MST. If you can't back a category claim, your candidature is cancelled, and a false claim gets you debarred from RRB and RRC recruitment.

After DV

The RRBs only recommend names. The Railway Administration makes the appointment, subject to the medical, certificate checks and antecedent verification. Vacancies can rise, fall or go to nil, and if they're cancelled the fee is not refunded. Unfilled PwBD vacancies are carried forward as backlog.

Selection is on the CBT alone. Anyone promising a railway job for money is a tout.

These are starting basic pay, not take-home. On top come Dearness Allowance, House Rent Allowance by city class, Transport Allowance and any railway allowances for the post. National Pension System and health scheme contributions come off.

You'll serve in a Zonal Railway or Production Unit. Junior Translator is 202 of the 312 vacancies; with Lab Assistant, Staff and Welfare Inspector and Chief Law Assistant, four posts make 287, leaving 25 for the other four.

Apply online at rrbapply.gov.in, to one RRB only. List every post you're eligible for in order of preference in that single application. The RRB choice is final and can't be changed in the modification window. Applying to more than one RRB gets all your applications rejected. Check the RRB-wise and zone-wise vacancies at Annexure-B of the CEN before you choose.

Your mobile number and email can't be changed once the account is created, and all communication comes by SMS and email. If you made an account for a 2024 or 2025 CEN, use the same one. Authenticate with DigiLocker or Aadhaar while creating the account, because Aadhaar biometric checks happen at the exam centre.

Fee

Pay online by net banking, card or UPI. No fee means rejection. No refund on incomplete or rejected applications, and you're responsible for giving correct bank details.

• Minorities: Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Zoroastrians (Parsis).
• EBC: annual family income below ₹50,000, shown by income certificate, BPL card or Izzat MST. It gives the fee concession only, not reservation. EBC, EWS and OBC are three different categories.

Key dates are under Important Dates. If you need a scribe, scribe details had their own window after corrections closed,, and the forms (including one for under 40 per cent disability with difficulty writing) are at Annexures V(A) to V(G).

The employer is Indian Railways, for posts in its Zonal Railways and Production Units. The recruiter is the Railway Recruitment Boards under the Ministry of Railways, twenty-one Boards running one common notice. Each Board's site is reached from rrb.indianrailways.gov.in.

• Chief Law Assistant and Public Prosecutor: the legal side, including the railway statutes (RPF Act, Railways Act, Railway Property Act).
• Junior Translator (Hindi): official-language work, and most of the vacancies.
• Senior Publicity Inspector: publicity and public relations.
• Staff and Welfare Inspector: labour and welfare administration.
• Lab Assistant Grade III: materials testing for coaches and components.
• Scientific Assistant and Scientific Supervisor: occupational psychology, meaning aptitude testing of running staff and cab ergonomics.

You apply to one Board only. Annexure-B shows how each post's vacancies split across Boards, and for several posts a given Board has one vacancy or none.

The CBT is tentatively on 14 and 15 July 2026, per the schedule notice of 29 June 2026. Your exam city and date, and the free travel authority for SC and ST candidates, appear on rrb.indianrailways.gov.in 10 days before the exam. The e-call letter follows 4 days before.

Aadhaar-linked biometric checks happen before you enter the hall. Bring your original Aadhaar or an e-verified printout, make sure it's unlocked in the UIDAI system, and check its name, date of birth (as per Class 10), photo, address and father's name are right.

Dates and venues for the translation test, DV and medical are announced later. Requests to change date, shift or venue are not entertained.

Age is counted as on 1 January 2026. Qualifications and category claims are counted as on the closing date, 29 January 2026. The modification window couldn't change the Create an Account details or the chosen RRB.

The e-call letter is downloadable from 4 days before your exam date, on rrb.indianrailways.gov.in. The city and date link, with the SC and ST travel authority, opens 10 days before. For this cycle the e-call letter link went up on 10 July 2026.

Carry it with your original Aadhaar or an e-verified printout for the biometric check. Your login uses the mobile number and email from account creation, which can't be changed.

No result has been published for CEN 08/2025 yet. Results, the DV list, medical calls and the selection list will appear on your chosen RRB's site via rrb.indianrailways.gov.in, under Exam Results and the headings that follow it, and you'll get an SMS and email.

Merit is the CBT score for every post. Once empanelled, posting depends on merit, medical standard and vacancies, and an appointment letter depends on vacancies still being available.

No cut-off exists for this cycle yet; the CBT is scheduled for 14 and 15 July 2026. Any figure going around belongs to an older notice with different vacancies and, for the law posts, a syllabus written before the 2023 sanhitas.

The floor is the minimum qualifying percentage under Exam Pattern. Above it, the bar is the last candidate within the vacancy count for your post, category and RRB, because DV calls only as many as there are vacancies. For Junior Translator, about 2,020 candidates (10 times 202) go to the translation test first. Results and any marks published appear on rrb.indianrailways.gov.in.

Work from your post's annexure

Professional Ability is 50 of the 100 marks, and most annexures tell you how many questions each topic carries. Split your time accordingly.

For the law posts, study the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita and Sakshya Adhiniyam, not the codes they replaced. The Public Prosecutor paper gives the BNSS alone 5 to 7 questions.

The general half

Fifty marks shared by seven posts. Science stops at 10th standard CBSE; maths stops at mensuration, time and work and interest. Any RRB non-technical practice material is close enough in level. Don't go beyond it.

Pace and penalty

That's 54 seconds a question, and three wrong answers cancel a right one. Practise full papers at that pace with the penalty applied, and try the RRB mock test link before the day; it uses the real interface.

Before you apply

Check the professional part of your eligibility (Bar standing, diploma, experience) first. It's what ends candidatures at DV. Choose your RRB from Annexure-B: Scientific Supervisor has one vacancy nationally and Public Prosecutor seven. Give correct bank details or lose the ₹400 or ₹250 refund.

No previous year papers are available for this exam. The RRBs don't keep a past-paper archive for it, and CEN 08/2025 provides no answer key window.

The closest thing is the free mock test link the RRBs post on rrb.indianrailways.gov.in about ten days before the CBT (4 July 2026 this cycle). It runs on the actual interface. The syllabus annexures VII to XIV in the CEN give the per-topic question counts.

• rrb.indianrailways.gov.in: the RRB websites, carrying the notification, exam schedule, city intimation, e-call letters, mock test link, results, DV, medical and selection list
• Detailed CEN No. 08/2025, Isolated Categories (29 December 2025): vacancies, eligibility, fee, CBT pattern, Annexure-A (post parameters), Annexure-B (vacancies by RRB) and Annexures VII to XIV (syllabus)
• Tentative CBT schedule notice (29 June 2026)
• FAQs on CEN 08/2025 (30 December 2025), on the RRB websites
• rrbapply.gov.in: the common application portal

Which posts does CEN 08/2025 cover?

Chief Law Assistant (22), Public Prosecutor (7), Junior Translator Hindi (202), Senior Publicity Inspector (15), Staff and Welfare Inspector (24), Scientific Assistant Training (2), Lab Assistant Grade III (39) and Scientific Supervisor (1). 312 in all.

Does it include stenographers, clerks or teachers?

No. It has no ministerial post. Those come in a separate notice.

What's the exam pattern?

One CBT, 100 questions in 90 minutes: Professional Ability 50, General Awareness 15, Reasoning 15, Maths 10, General Science 10. One third of a mark off per wrong answer. Junior Translator sits a different paper.

Is there an interview or skill test?

No. CBT, a translation test for Junior Translator only, DV and medical.

What qualification do I need?

Six posts need more than a degree: Bar standing, a translation or publicity diploma, a labour or personnel qualification, or testing experience. Lab Assistant Grade III needs 12th with Physics and Chemistry.

Can I apply to more than one post or RRB?

More than one post, yes, in one application in order of preference. More than one RRB, no; that rejects all your applications.

What's the fee?

₹500, with ₹400 back if you sit the CBT. ₹250 for PwBD, women, transgender, ex-servicemen, SC, ST, Minority and EBC candidates, all of it back if you sit.

When is the exam?

Tentatively 14 and 15 July 2026, all eight posts. City details come 10 days before and the e-call letter 4 days before.

How many are called to DV?

As many as there are vacancies. Ties go to the older candidate, then alphabetical order of the given name.

Can I change my mobile number or email?

No, not once the account is created.