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RRB NTPC 2016 examination is due in a few months, after a gap of three years and at a scale not seen
for a long time. Any preparation for a competitive exam starts from an understanding of the syllabus
to prepare from. However, in this case, the RRB recruitment notication
(https://www.eclonline.com/government-exams/railway-recruitment/rrb-exams/ntpcgraduate/information) does not mention any details about the syllabus or the contents of topic areas
from which questions could be asked, apart from a general mention of subjects or areas from which
the exam paper of CBT (or Computer Based Test) will be set. These include : Arithmetic, General
Awareness and General Intelligence & Reasoning. These areas are just too broad to really start
preparing from. And the high amount of competition for the exam and a short notice calls for a really
targeted study to do well at this rst stage of Railway Recruitment Boards Non Technical Popular
Category recruitment drive.

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An analysis of previous year papers has led to the development of the below mentioned syllabus in
detail. The syllabus includes all the areas from which questions have been asked in the past. The
organization has also been made to make the preparation easier. The detailed syllabus is as follows:

General Awareness Syllabus for RRB NTPC exam

Unit
Current
Aairs

Chapter

Topic

Awards &
Honors in
India

Academics, Arts, Defence, Literature, Science & Technology,

Films & Music

Domestic
Economy

Demand & Supply, Foreign Direct Investment, Income Statistics

Domestic
Policies

Annual Budget, Commissions, Committee, Economic Policies

Games &

Heads of Indian Sport Organizations, Important Sporting

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General
Awareness

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Sports

Performances, Major Sporting Events, Major Sporting

Institutions, National Awards, Rules & Terminologies, Stadiums &
Locations

International
Awards &
Honours

Beauty Contests, International Film Awards, Major ranking lists,

Nobel Prizes

Major
International
Organizations

Formation & History, Heads, Location, Members, Summits &

Conferences

National
Aairs

Census Report, Constitutional Amendments, Industry News,

Joint Military Excercises, Major Cases & Rulings of Supreme
Court, Natural Tragedies, Terrorism and its impacts

National
Personalities

Authors

National
Politics

Elections & Formation of Government, Political Parties

New
Developments
in Science &
Technology

Energy, Health & Medicine, Social Technology, Space

World Aairs

Heads of the Countries

Health &
Environment

Causes of Pollution, Major Diseases, Types of Pollution

Indian
Railways

History

Indian
Railways

Manufacturing Units, Operations, Railway Training Institutes,

Railway Zones of India, Recent Developments in Railways

International
Awareness

Currencies of countries, International Days, Major Languages of

the world

National

Archeologists of Indian History, Introduction of new

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Geography

Indian
Geography

Indian
History

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Awareness

Technologies, Major Research Institutes, National Days or

Celebration, National Symbols, Ocial Languages, RBI

Terminologies

Computer and internet, Dierent Fields of Studies, Finance &

Economics

Who's Who

First of Indians, Founders of Important Organizations, Major

Contributions of Indians, Nobel Prize Winners

Atmosphere

Composition of Atmosphere, Elements of weather & climate

Earth
movements &
Major land
forms

Interiors of the Earth, Soil Erosion

Globe

Geographic Coordinate System, Rotation & Revolution

Agriculture &
Lifestock

Major Producers, Type of cultivation, Types of Crop

Art & Culture

Dance Forms, Festivals, Tribes or people

Flora & Fauna

Grassland, Parks, Sanctuaries

Indian States
& Union
Territories

Capitals, Population, Size, Symbols

Physical
Geography

Climate, Delta, Glaciers, Mangrove, Mines, Mountain Ranges,

Hills and Peaks, Oil Fields, Rivers, Soil, Types of Plains, Canals,
Dams, National Highways, Ports

Ancient

Harappan Civilization, Indus Valley Civilization

Major Battles
& Wars

Post - Independence, Pre-Independence

Major
Dynasties &
Religions

Administrative Structure, Founders & Famous Personalities,

Period

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Modern India

British Rule, Formation of Administrative Bodies, Formation of

the Indian State, Indian Freedom Struggle, Indian National
(Political) Movement, Social Reformation Movements

Personalities

Army Commanders, Authors, British Ocials, Close Relatives of

Historical Figures, Devotional Saints, Freedom ghters, Nation
Builders, titles given, Kings, Philosophers, Poets, Travellers and
Ambassdors to Indian Kingdoms

Structures

Caves, Forts, Gates, Inscriptions, Minar, Pillars, Temples, Tombs

Works of
Science & Art

Books on War, Legal books, Literatures, Paintings: Era, Patrons,

Painters, Vedic Literature

Bodies and
Functions

Economic Survey, Executive, Judiciary

Constitution of
India

Distribution of Power (State, Union, Concurrent), History of

Making the constitution, Important Ammendments, Important
Articles, Preamble, Schedules, Special Features

Duties,
Functions &
Appointments

Administrative Ocers, Cabinet of Ministers, Chief Election

Commissioner, Chief Justice, Elections, Governor, President,
Prime Minister

Parliament

Formation & Composition, Functions of Parliament, Operations :

Sessions & Bills

Public
Administration

Panchayat System, Supreme Court & Its Functions

World
Geography

Physical
Geography

Continent, Flaura & Fauna, Islands, Lakes, Ocean Current, Rivers,

Straits, Tribes or people, Canal, Cities, Country

World
History

Change of
Names

Cities, Country, Kingdoms

Eras

Ancient World, Medieval World, Modern World

Firsts in
History

Art & Architecture, Discoveries, Inventions, Records

Indian
Polity

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General
Science

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Personalities

Famous Scientists, Famous Traveller, Kings

Physics

Units & Dimensions, Motion, Force & Laws of Motion, Gravitation,

Work & Energy, Sound, Light & Human Eye, Electricity, Magnetic
Eects of Electric Current, Sources of Energy, Atomic & Nuclear
Physics, Electronics, Scientic Instruments

Chemistry

Atomic Structure, Periodic Classications of Elements, Chemical

Bonding, Oxidation & Reduction, Acids, Bases & Salts, Behaviour
of Gases, Electrolysis, Carbon & its Compounds, Fuels,
Metallurgy, Metals & Non-Metals

Biology

Fundamental Unit of Life, Tissues, Diversity in Living Organisms,

Food Resources, Life Processes, Control & Coordination,
Organisms, Heredity & Evolution, Natural Resources

Computer
Science

Computers & Communication Technology (CCT), Components of

CCT, Word Processing Tool, Electronic Spreadsheet , Electronic
Presentation Tool, Convergence of CCT, The Internet

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Arithmetic Syllabus for RRB NTPC exam

Unit
Number
System

Numerical
Aptitude

Chapter

Topic

Types of
Numbers

Natural Whole, Even Odd, Rational Irrational, Integers,

Decimals, Fractions, Real & Imaginary Numbers

Counting,
Reading and
Writing of
Numbers

Place Value, Face Value, Indian Numeration System

Operations on
Numbers

Operations on Integers, Operations on Decimals,

Operations on Fractions, VBODMAS, Approximations,
Factorial

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Ratios &
Percentage

Measurement
& Rates

Algebra

Mensuration

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Operations on
Integers

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplications, Division

Operations on
Decimals

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplications, Division, Conversion

into Fractions, Conversions into Percentage

Operations on
Fractions

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplications, Division, Conversion

from Mixed to Proper, Conversion into Decimals,
Conversions into Percentage

Factors &
Multiples

Factors & HCF, Multiples & LCM, HCF*LCM, Primes,

Composites, Co-primes, Divisibility Rules

Powers and
Roots

Squares & Cubes, Square Roots & Cube Roots, Logarithms,

Laws of exponents, Cyclicity

Averages

Average of Numbers or Groups, Added or Excluded,

Average of Speed

Percentage & its

applications

Percentage, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Ination,

Prot & Loss, Discounts

Ratio, Proportion
& Partnership

Ratios, Proportions, Mixtures, Simple Partnership,

Compound Partnership

Units

Time, Length, Weight, Money

Time

Ages, Work, Work & Wages

Speed & Travel

Time, Distance & Speed, Trains, Boats & Streams, Pipes &
Cisterns

Basic Concepts

Formulating equations, Formulas, Binomial Theorem

Solving
Equations

Degree of equations, Roots, Linear Equations, Graph of

Linear Equations, Quadratic Equations, Inequalities

Progressions

Arithmetic Progression, Geometric Progressions

Units

Area, Volume

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Data
Interpretation

2D

Triangle, Parallelogram, Rectangle, Square, Rhombus,

Trapezium, Circle, Semi- Circle, Inside/Outside Path,
Polygon

Tables

Table, Form Tables

Graphs

Pie Graph, Bar Graph, Line Graph

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General Intelligence & Reasoning Syllabus for RRB NTPC exam

Unit
General
Mental
Ability

Chapter

Topic

Analogy

Number Analogy, Alphabet Analogy, Word Analogy, Image

Analogy

Classication

Letter Based, Meaningful Word Based, Digit Based, G.K Based

Series

Complete the Series, Find Missing Number, Find Wrong Number,

Number Series, Alphabet Series, Mixed Series, Repetition Patterns

CodingDecoding

Rule Coding, Direct Letter Coding, Message Coding, Jumbled

Codes

Blood
Relations

Jumbled Descriptions, Relation Puzzle, Family Members

Direction &
Distance

Directions, Degrees, Distance, Pythagoras Theorem

Sequences

Time Sequences, Number Sequences, Alphabet Sequences,

Mixed Sequences, Logical Sequences, Dictionary Type, Make the
Correct Word, Match Address, Ranking

Puzzles

Number Puzzles, Matrix Based Reasoning, Seating Arrangement,

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Increasing/Decreasing Order, Jumbled Puzzle, Comparison

Logical
Reasoning

Clock &
Calendar

Units of Time, Clocks, Calendars

Venn
Diagrams

Relationships to Venn, Analyze Venn Diagrams

Mathematical
Operations

Comprehensive, Interchanging of Operators

Statements

Conclusions, Cause & Eects, Data Suciency, Arguments,

Assumptions

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This syllabus provides the areas that you need to prepare for to crack this exam. But even this is too
vast and it is not easy to prepare the entire set of above mentioned topic areas. If you are starting
your preparations, the better strategy is to start with taking a practice test and then analyzing your
performance to assess a few chapters that you need to concentrate on to improve your performance
the most and take another practice test to ascertain improvement and a new set of chapters to study.
We follow the same principle in providing you with your performance analysis after you have taken a
test through our website. Thus, you can study step by step and maximize your improvement. To help
you get started, a free practice test is available to get you going, along with many videos, and tips and
tricks all for free when you login to your account.

Click here for RRB NTPC Exam2016 Notication

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