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Railway Recruitment Boards 2014 Recruitment Exam
Written test Tips
Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs)
under Government of Ministry of Railway has issued centralized Employment Notification for filling up vacant posts
of Assistant Loco Pilot and Technicians.
Number of Vacancies: 26567 in various categories
Date of Written examination: 15 June
2014
Selection procedure:
Written exam, PET and medical test
Common written test Syllabus for RRB 2014
Examination for all posts:
Testing Area:-
1. General Awareness
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2. Arithmetic
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3.Technical Ability
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4. Reasoning Ability
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5. General Intelligence
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1. General Awareness : This part of question paper gauges the candidates is up to date with surrounding and includes the following:
Current Affairs (National and
International), Major Financial/Economic News, Budget and Five Year Plans, Who is
Who? , Sports, Books and Authors, Awards and Honours, Science - Inventions and
Discoveries, Abbreviations, Important Days, International and National
Organisations
2. Arithmetic Ability: This part of exam is usually checks the
quantitative and mathematical skills of the candidates and following is the
topics from which the questions asked:
Number System, HCF, LCM, Simplification,
Decimal and Fractions. , Ratio and Proportions, Unitary Method, Percentage, Time
and Distance, Time and Work, Profit and Loss, Average, Simple and Compound
Interest, Mensuration (2D and 3D), Algebra, Data Interpretation
3. Technical Ability – This section will comprise Intelligent questions
to test candidate’s knowledge about the profession and some other technical
questions that may be tricky in nature.
4. Test of Reasoning/Mental Ability/Aptitude: This part usually
tries to test the reasoning abilities and Gauges aptitude of the person. It
includes the following:
VERBAL
VERBAL
Number Series, Alphabet Series, Test
of Direction Sense, Coding-Decoding, Number Ranking, Arithmetical Reasoning, Problem
on Age Calculation, Blood Relations, Analogy, Decision Making etc.
NON-VERBAL
Non Verbal Series, Mirror Images, Cubes
and Dice, Grouping Identical Figures, Embedded Figures etc
5. General Intelligence
Tips to Ace the RRB 2014 Written Exam:
- First of all, there is no shortcut to success, especially in such a highly competitive exam. You need to focus on your seriousness, to get selected for this job and work accordingly with persistence.
- First Pick the areas out of the prescribed exam syllabus, you have more interest in and work on it to achieve perfection. The subjects of interests, tend to fetch more marks.
- Read and stick to NCERT books thoroughly for general ability and mathematic section and focus onlearning fundamentals.
- Memorize names and formulas on regular basis, save them in your smartphone notepad or make a handy sheetnote of all important names, formulas etc, so that you can carry it along and scan your eyes on it to revise them during free time, such as traveling, eating, in toilet etc.
- The fun part is reasoning ability, which is no less than an interesting mental game, riddle, puzzle etc. Project your attitude as fun activity towards reasoning ability section and make sure to attempt it for a minimum of 30 minutes daily. Pick a good complete book for it, which must have both verbal and non-verbal question banks. The more you solve the more acquainted you will be with such questions during exams and will be able to solve them in a jiffy.
- Create a time-table for preparing each section, as every section is equally important to reach to the cut-off for next round. Doing a section for one day in wek and not touching it again for weeks is to cheat yourself and will ruin all your hard-work till date. So persistently each section must be attempted without a long gap
- After you thought that you have learnt enough and are well-prepared, you must then assess yourself. A person with the right attitude toward success always tests itself by attempting mock tests and solving question banks, while sticking to the prescribed syllabus. It is sensible to buy few good books, containing model test papers, that must belong to different authors and publishing houses. Attempt questions from them to see if you are scoring well in all sections, if not then that indicates you need to prepare more in a particular section you are scoring less in or are weak at.
Few good RRB Books and mock tests, recommended by
experts to make you well-prepared for RRB 2014 examinations are:
1. Railway Recruitment Board Exam Asst Loco Pilot Technician III Hindi (Paperback), by Author: R Gupta
2. RRB CC/TC Exam Solved Papers (Paperback), by Author: RPH Editorial Board
3. Railway Bharti Board Pariksha: Solved Papers (Paperback), by Author: Upkar Prakashan
4. Railway Bharti Board Pariksha Practice Set: Assistant Loco Pilot(Paperback), by Author: Upkar Prakashan
5. Railway Assistant Loco Pilot Exam. (Paperback), by Author: Dr. Lal & Jain
1. Railway Recruitment Board Exam Asst Loco Pilot Technician III Hindi (Paperback), by Author: R Gupta
2. RRB CC/TC Exam Solved Papers (Paperback), by Author: RPH Editorial Board
3. Railway Bharti Board Pariksha: Solved Papers (Paperback), by Author: Upkar Prakashan
4. Railway Bharti Board Pariksha Practice Set: Assistant Loco Pilot(Paperback), by Author: Upkar Prakashan
5. Railway Assistant Loco Pilot Exam. (Paperback), by Author: Dr. Lal & Jain
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