Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) releases various technical & non-technical vacancies from time to time. Offering a secure career, RRB exams are targeted by lakhs of aspirants. Since the competition is high, Railway exams have become a hard nut to crack. But with the right preparation and strategy, one can ensure guaranteed selection. The exam generally has 3 sections – General Awareness, General Science, General Intelligence & Reasoning, and Mathematics. The other section includes the test of professional knowledge if you are applying for any technical or trade-related ost. Check the exam pattern & syllabus before you apply for any exam.

Read on to get section-wise tips for various RRB exams like RRB JE, RRB NTPC, RRB ALP, etc.

Preparation Tips for Mathematics

• Be very thorough with formulae, tables, Squares, Cubes, square roots, cube roots, etc. so that you don’t have to think much during the exam.
• Prepare from NCERT to clear the concept of various topics like Ratio & Proportion, SI/CI, Profit/Loss, Arithmetic, Trigonometry, etc. Once the basics are done, then practice the Shortcut tricks.
• Categorize maths topics as easy, moderate and difficult. This categorization depends on the time you take in solving a problem and your comfort zone. Attempt easy questions first to gain confidence and score better in the exam.
• Go through previous years question papers to check what topics are getting repeated every year and then practice those topics more thoroughly.
• Quants is all about practice. The more you practice, the more expertise you’ll get. For this Oliveboard provides Quants Sectional Test apart from Full Mock Test that you can take frequently to gain mastery over it.
• Merely giving Tests won’t help if you are not spending quality time in analysing your performance. Oliveboard’s Free Analytics Feature will help you get an in-depth analysis of your strong and weak areas. Go through it properly.
• Identify your weak zones as quickly as possible and work extra hard on them.
• Most importantly, do not take Mathematics for granted even if you are good at it. You need to practice it a lot otherwise during exam time, you would fail to perform your best due to exam-pressure.

Preparation Tips for General Intelligence & Reasoning

• While starting the preparation of Reasoning, focus on understanding the basics of various question types. The questions will include both verbal and non-verbal type. For eg., analogies, similarities, differences, blood relation, arithmetical reasoning, alphanumeric series, coding-decoding, seating arrangement, Venn diagram, etc.
• There are numerous tricks for Reasoning. Master these tricks by solving as many questions as possible.
• Start with the easy questions and then move onto difficult ones.
• Give more time and practice for comparatively difficult topics like Coding-Decoding, Puzzles, etc.
• For Puzzles & Seating Arrangement, the best resource you can get is Reasoning Puzzle Mania Book by Oliveboard. Solve all the questions given in it to get acquainted with the latest question pattern.

Preparation Tips for General Awareness

General Awareness is a vast topic to cover, however it is also one of the high scoring sections in RRB Exam. It includes both static GK as well as current affairs.

• Questions asked in this section are direct factual questions, hence memorise important facts from history, geography, and current affairs, like important dates, battles, countries/Capitals/Currencies, etc.
• Check General Awareness Topics that needs to be covered
  Go through the basics of all the subjects from NCERT (especially Economics, Geography, History and Polity).
• Prepare current affairs of last 6 months.
• The more you practice, the better are your chances of getting success. Hence, Solve as many Previous Year Question Papers and Mock tests as you can.
• Read Newspaper daily to stay updated and jot down important points.

Preparation Tips for General Science

• Questions from Physics, Chemistry and Biology of 10th standard level would be included in this section.
• Learn the units of measurement, formulas, equations, chemical reactions, Periodic table, etc.
• Go through important inventions and discoveries of the past as well as latest breakthroughs in the field of science & technology.
• Go through Previous Year question papers to check the question types. A lot of questions are asked esp. from biology, hence allot extra time for it.

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