Indian Railways has announced the technician grade 1 vacancy and started the application process for candidates. There are 9144 vacancies for technician posts for which candidates are applied. After the application process is over, the candidates now need to appear in the online exam.
The Railways recruitment board will soon conduct the RRB technician exam in October or November 2024. The exact exam date has not announced yet, but candidates will know it soon, after official notification out on website. All those candidates who apply for technician posts should appear in this exam to get a chance to get this railway job.
RRB technician exam date 2024
The RRB exam date for technician posts is expected to be October or November 2024. Indian Railways recruitment board will soon release the notification on the website and announce the exam date.
It is suggested to applicants of RRB technician exam 2024 to stay updated of official website, so they can get latest details regarding their exam. Moreover, it is expected that this RRB exam will conduct online mode.
RRB technician exam 2024 Overview
RRB has recently released the technician notification on website, and starts application process for candidates. It aims to fill 9144 vacancies by candidates. During this application process, many candidates fill out their applications for technician grade 1 signal and grade 3 posts
They all are waiting for their exam date. It is expected that RRB will conduct its technician 2024 exam in October or November 2024. For the exact exam date, candidates should wait for some time and visit the official website regularly
| Organization | RRB |
| Post Name | Technician (Grade 1 Signal & Grade 3) |
| Vacancies | 9144 |
| RRB Technician Exam Date 2024 | October/November 2024 |
| Mode of Exam | CBT |
| Official Website | https://indianrailways.gov.in/ https://www.rrbapply.gov.in/ |
RRB Technician 2024 Exam Pattern
Even RRB do not announced the exact technician exam date 2024. But they released the exam pattern on the website, so applicants can follow the latest exam pattern and prepare well for their technician exam.
According to the RRB technician exam pattern, there are a total of 100 questions in this exam. It is of 100 marks. The exam will held in computer-based mode. The exam patterns are different for grade 1 signal and grade 3 posts. The type of questions, number of marks, marking scheme, etc, are different in both of these papers. Candidates should follow the exam pattern according to the post for which they apply.
Exam pattern for grade 1 signal posts
Those applicants who applied for RRB technician grade 1 signal posts need to follow this exam pattern. This exam was conducted in online mode. Here are detailed exam patterns.
| Subjects | No. of Question | Total Marks | Time |
| General Awareness | 10 | 10 | 90 minutes |
| General Intelligence & Reasoning | 15 | 15 | |
| Basic of Computers and Applications | 20 | 20 | |
| Mathematics | 20 | 20 | |
| Basic Science and Engineering | 35 | 35 | |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
If the applicant gives a wrong answer to any question, then there is a negative marking of 1/3 marks. If the applicants do not answered any questions, then no marks are deducted.
Exam pattern for grade 3 posts
The candidates who applied for RRB technician grade 3 posts need to follow this exam pattern. This exam is also conducted in online mode. There are a total of 100 questions asked in this paper. It comprises 100 marks. All candidates can get 90 minutes to complete their exam. if any candidate gives the wrong answer, the 1/3 mark will be deducted
Here is a detailed exam pattern given below
| Subjects | No. of Question | Total Marks | Time |
| Mathematics | 25 | 25 | 90 minutes |
| General Intelligence & Reasoning | 25 | 25 | |
| General Science | 40 | 40 | |
| General Awareness | 10 | 10 | |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
Selection process
All the candidates who successfully give their exam and clear it, will go through selection process. Selection process is final stage through which candidate should passed and will select for technician role.
There are some phases in selection process, that decide whether you will suitable for technician job role or not. The first phase of the selection process is the CBT exam. The candidates who clear their CBT exam should called for verification of documents, and then for medical test. Here are all phases of the selection process mentioned below
- CBT
- Document verification
- Medical test
