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● Previous Years’ Solved Papers

General Awareness……………………………………………………………… 1–96

General Science……………………………………………..…………………… 1–32

General Intelligence……………………………………………………………... 1–56

Arithmetic…………………………………………………………...…………… 1–48

● Technical Ability

Mechanical Engineering…………………………………………………...… 1–64

Electrical Engineering…………………………………………………..…… 1–32

Electronic Engineering………………………………………………….…… 1–32 General Information

● Educational Qualification Matriculation plus course completed Act Apprenticeship/ITI approved by NCVT/SCVT in the trades of (1) Fitter, (2) Electrician, (3) Instrument Mechanic, (4) Millwright/Maintenance Mechanic, (5) Mechanic Radio and TV, (6) Electronic Mechanic, (7) Mechanic (Motor Vehicle), (8) Wireman, (9) Tractor Mechanic, (10) Armature and Coil Winder, (11) Mechanic Diesel /Heat Engine, (12) Turner, (13) Mechanist, (14) Refrigeration and Air Condition Mechanic OR Diploma in Mechanical/ Electrical/Electronics/ Automobile Engg. recognized by AICTE in lieu of I.T.I. Note : Candidates having higher educational qualification in Electrical/Mechanical/Electronics/ Automobile Engineering recognized by AICTE are also eligible. ● Age A candidate must have attained the age of 18 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years. (The upper age limit is relaxable in respect of some reserved categories). ● Recruitment Process The candidates who have elected one of the regional language as medium of examination will be supplied question booklet in English, Hindi, Urdu & regional language of concerned RRB. Those who have not elected regional languages as medium of examination will be supplied question booklet in English, Hindi and Urdu only. Selection to the posts of Assistant Loco Pilots is done strictly as per merit, on the basis of Written Examination. First a written examination is conducted. Candidates found successful in the written examination are called for the Aptitude Test as per norms. Such shortlisted candidates should produce the vision certificate as per the prescribed format during Aptitude Test, failing which they will not be permitted for Aptitude Test. The standard of questions for the written exam will be generally in conformity with the educational standards and/or minimum technical qualifications prescribed for the posts. The questions will be of objective type with multiple choice and are likely to include questions pertaining to general awareness, arithmetic, general intelligence and reasoning, general science and relevant technical ability. The question paper will be in English, Hindi, Urdu and local languages. The duration of the 1 examination will be 1 hours with 100 to 120 questions. 2 There shall be negative marking in written examination and marks shall be deducted for each wrong answer@1/3 of the marks allotted for each question. Based on the performance of candidates in the written examination and Aptitude Test (ALP), candidates equal to the number of vacancies are called for document verification in the main list. In addition 30% extra candidates are also called as standby candidates and they are considered for empanelment only if there is shortfall in empanelment from the main list. During document verification, candidates will have to produce their original certificates. No additional time will be given and the candidature of the candidates not producing their original certificates on the date of verification is liable to be forfeited. ( vii )

Appointment of selected candidates is subject to their passing requisite Medical Fitness Test to be conducted by the Railway Administration, final verification of educational and community certificates and verification of antecedents/character of the candidates. ● Medical Fitness Test Candidates recommended for appointment will have to pass requisite medical fitness test(s) conducted by the Railway Administration to ensure that the candidates are medically fit to carry out the duties connected with the post. Visual Acuity Standard is one of the important criteria of medical fitness of railway staff. The medical requirements against the medical standards for A-1 category are outlined below : A-1 : Physically fit in all respects. Visual Standards Distance Vision : 6/6, 6/6 without glasses. Near Vision : Sn : 0.6, 0.6 without glasses (must clear fogging test) and must pass tests for Colour Vision, Binocular Vision, Field of Vision and Night Vision. Note : (i) Before indicating options for categories in the boxes against Item No. 1 of the Application Form, the applicants must ensure that he/she fulfills the prescribed medical standards for that category/post. (ii) Candidates qualifying examination for the post of Assistant Loco Pilot but failing in prescribed medical examination(s) will not under any circumstance be considered for any alternative appointment. (iii) Candidates who do not fulfil the prescribed medical standards need not apply. (iv) The above medical standard (Criteria) are indicative and not exhaustive and apply to candidates in general. (v) For Ex-Servicemen different standards apply.

Warning

● Beware of Touts and job racketeers trying to deceive by false promises of securing job in Railways either through influence or by use of unfair and unethical means. RRB has not appointed any agent(s) or coaching center(s) for action on its behalf. Candidates are warned against any such claims being made by persons/agencies. Candidates are selected purely as per merit. Please beware of unscrupulous elements and do not fall in their trap. Candidates attempting to influence RRB directly or indirectly, shall be disqualified and legal action can be initiated against them. ● Candidates are advised to consult only the official website of RRBs as mentioned in advertisement. They should beware of FAKE websites put up by unscrupulous elements/touts. Indian Rail At a Glance

● Beginning of railway—In England, 1825. ● At present, diesel engines are manufactured in ● Two companies were established to develop Varanasi. railways in India—(i) East India Railway ● First locomotive factory was set up in Company, (ii) Great Indian Peninsula Rail- Chittaranjan of . This Industrial way Company. coach factory was based on the model of ● Afterwards, an another company was also set Switzerland. up—Madras Railway Company. ● The name of first electric train was Deccan ● Indian Railway started on 16 April, 1853. Queen, which ran between Pune and Mumbai. ● First train covered a distance of 34 km ● In 1929, it ran between Pune and Kalyan. between Mumbai and Thane. This train was ● New name of this train is Royal Oriental run by Great Indian Peninsula company of Express. Central Railway. ● Indian Railway is the biggest in Asia and ● The name of first rail engine was Beauty. second in the world. ● There were 400 passengers, in four-wheeler, ● India is the only country in the world which 14 bogies of the first train. has rails of different breadths. ● In 1854, second train ran between Hoogly and ● There are four types of widths of rail lines— . (a) Broad gauge—1676 mm — 1·676 metre. ● Metre gauge started functioning in 1870. (b) Metre gauge—1000 mm — 1 metre. ● In the first stage, railway was run by private (c) Narrow gauge—762 mm — 0·762 metre. sector, since Indian British Government did (d) Special gauge—610 mm—0·61 metre. not have fund. ● Main Railway factories : ● Lord Salisbury had issued three instructions regarding construction and expansion of (a) —Perembur in the states. (). ● Guarantee system in railway started in 1882. (b) Rail Coach Factory—Kapurthala. ● First electrified train ran on 5 February, 1925. (c) Wheel and Axle Plant—. ● Railway was nationalised in 1950. (d) Diesel Component Works—Patiala. ● Railway Board was set up in 1905 during the (e) Diesel Locomotive—Varanasi. period of Lord Curzon. (f) Chittaranjan Locomotive Works— ● At present, there is provision of a chairman, Chittaranjan. one finance commissioner and five members ● Biggest Yard of India—Mugalsarai (U.P.). in the Railway Board. ● Biggest railway crossing of India—Itarasi ● First diesel engine in India ran in 1957. (M.P.) ( ix )

● Biggest railway station of India—Kharagpur. ● Name of the insurance company—United ● Longest railway river bridge of India—Nehru India Insurance Company. Setu Bridge near Dehri-on-Sone (). ● Present cost of platform ticket— 5. ● Railway station on maximum height—Jhum ● Sub-urban trains—Electrical trains which (Darjeeling). connect metropolitan cities like Mumbai, ● First rail museum in India—. Chennai and Kolkata to their neighbouring sub-urban cities. ● The biggest diamond crossing of India— ● Dhanbad (Jharkhand). Railway budget was separated from the general budget since 1924-25. ● First computerised railway reservation of ● India—New Delhi. Rail budget is presented by the railway minister, a few days before the general ● First rail-bus service in India—Meratapur, budget. (12th October, 1994; its speed was ● First live-telecast of rail budget took place on 80 km/hr. Total number of passengers was 71, 24 March, 1994. including driver, among whom-15 were ● standing.) Railway minister, Jagjivan Ram presented the rail budget for the maximum number of times, ● First rail minister of India—Asaf Ali. that is, continuously seven times. ● First woman rail driver of India—Mumtaz ● There is no first class compartment in Janata Kathwala. Express. ● There is no railway line in Meghalaya, ● 13·28 lakh people are employed in Indian Lakshadweep, Sikkim, Andaman and Nicobar Railway, which is the highest number in any Islands, Dadar and Nagar Haweli. enterprize of the world. This is 40% of total ● First rail agent—Sir Roland Mcganal employees of union government. Stephen. ● Indian Railway started unigauge scheme in ● First person who got the train reserved— 1992. Under this plan, narrow gauge and Jamashedji G. G. Bhai. metre gauge rail lines are to be converted into ● First rail auditor—Lt. Col. Chesney. broad gauge. ● Beginning of A.C. Coach in India—In 1936. ● Bandra (Mumbai) was the first railway station ● Beginning of Fairy Queen—In 1855. of the country, where a private company was ● First electrical engine of India—Mahalakshmi. authorised to display the advertisement. ● Name of first private train—Deccan Queen. ● Hazarat Nizamuddin was the first railway ● Second private train—Palace-on-Wheel. station of India, the maintenance of which was handed over to a private company—The ● First railway postal service in India—1907. J.K. Tyres. ● The longest distance train in India—Vivek ● Mrs. Indira Gandhi had started Metro rail Express (from Debrugarh to Kanyakumari, (underground rail or tube rail) scheme in 4,286 km.) 1972. Now metro rail is well developed in ● Superfast train of narrow gauge—Pink City Kolkata. It started on 24 October, 1984. Its Express (Delhi—Jaipur) total length is 25 km. Professional metro rail ● Beginning of insurance in railway—1 April, line continues from Dumdum to New 1994, with the name ‘train passenger insu- Garia. rance scheme’. ( x )

● After Kolkata, metro rail plan was accepted ● Rail-fare tribunal started functioning in on 17th September, 1996. March, 1924. ● The then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari ● Assam was linked by railway in 1950. Vajpayee, inaugurated formally the Delhi ● During 1943-44, at the time of draught, two Metro Railway on 24 December, 2002. slogans about railway were very famous : (A) Production of railway wagons should ● The trains running between India and continue without any hindrance. Pakistan are ‘Samajhota Express’ and ‘Thar (B) Travel, only when it is inevitable. Express’. ● At the dawn of independence in 1947, total ● Maitri Express is running between India and length of railway line was 54532 km. In 1947, Bangladesh. only 388 km railway line was electrified. ● started in 1988 on the ● 760 km long is the first occasion of Pt. Nehru’s birth centenary. The railway of the country which was constructed first Shatabdi Express ran between Delhi and with public fund. This railway line joins Roha Bhopal. (Apta) and Mangalore. It passes through ● Steam engines were manufactured in comparatively backward areas of the three Chittaranjan. states—Maharashtra (382 km), Goa (105 km) ● After 1971, production of steam engines was and Karnataka (273 km). On this line, closed. maximum speed of a train is 160 km/hr. ● Railway staff college is situated in Varodara. Under this scheme, there are 53 railway ● Indian Railway Institute of Advance Tech- stations, 1930 bridges and 92 tunnels. nology—Pune. ● Fairy Queen, running on the main rail road, is ● Signal Engineering and Telecommunication the oldest locomotive of the world. Thompson Institute—Secunderabad. and Hevypson Company of Britain has manufactured this locomotive for East India ● Indian Railway Institute of Electrical Engi- Company. This train runs between Delhi neering—Nasik. Cantt and . There are 60 seats in the ● Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical and train. Electrical Engineering—Jamalpur. ● By 31st March, 2011, total railway stations in ● Railway Service Commission—Allahabad. India is about 7,133. ● Public enterprizes under Indian Railway— ● By 31st March, 2011, the length of traffic 1. Rail India Technical and Economic railway line was 64,460 km. Services, Ltd. (RITES) ● By 31st March, 2011, length of electrified 2. Indian Railway Construction Company Track (Route) is 19,609 km. Ltd. (IRCON) ● Total railway engines (As on 31st March, 3. Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd. 2011) — 9,213 (IRFC) Steam engines — 43 4. Container Corporation of India Ltd. Diesel engines — 5,137 (CONCOR) Electric engines — 4,033 5. Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. (KRC) ● Number of wagons are 2,29,381 (As on 31st ● Before Independence, maximum development March, 2011). of railway in India took place during 1900– ● The then railway minister, Prakash Chandra 1914. Viceroy Lord Curzon played significant Sethi, had started ‘Palace on the Wheel’ train role in development of railway. in 1982. ( xi )

● Swarna Jayanti trains were started on the ● Indian Railway was divided into nine zones. golden jubilee day of independence. Two new zones, with headquarters in Hazipur ● Steam engine was invented by Thomas in and Jaipur, started functioning since 1698 (U.K). 1 October, 2002. Headquarters of rest five new zones are : East-Coastal Railway ● Steam engine piston—Thomas Newcamen (Bhubaneshwar), North-Central Railway 1712 (U.K.). (Allahabad), South-Western Railway (Hubli), ● Steam condenser—James Watt, 1765 (U.K.). West-Central Railway (Jabalpur) and South- ● Locomotive—Richard Ivachick, 1804 (U.K.). East-Central Railway (Bilaspur). These five new zones started functioning from 1 April, ● Diesel engine—Rudolf Diesel, 1895 2003. At present, there are 17 working zones (Germany). in India. ● For National hospital the Life Line Express ● Sampurna Kranti Express between Patna and started from Bombay on 16 July, 1991. It was Delhi was started on the occasion of birth the first train of its kind in the world. Centenary of Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan. ● First railway minister to tender resignation ● During the year 2009-10, total running track due to rail accident was Lal Bahadur Shastri. length was 87,087 km. Route Year of Zone (in km) Headquarters Establishment (As on 31st March, 2011) 1. Central Railway (C.R.) 3,905 Mumbai (Chatrapati 5 November, 1951 Shivaji Termi.) 2. Southern Railway (S.R.) 5,102 Chennai 14 April, 1951 3. Northern Railway (N.R.) 6,968 New Delhi 14 April, 1952 4. Western Railway (W.R.) 6,440 Church Gate, Mumbai 5 November, 1951 5. Eastern Railway (E.R.) 2,435 Kolkata 14 April, 1952 6. South-Eastern Railway (S.E.R.) 2,632 Kolkata 1 August, 1955 7. South-Central Railway (S.C.R.) 5,810 Secunderabad 2 October, 1966 8. North-East Frontier Railway 3,908 Maligaon (Guwahati) 15 January, 1958 (N.E.F.R.) 9. North-Eastern Railway (N.E.R.) 3,721 Gorakhpur 14 April, 1952 10. East-Central Railway 3,656 Hazipur 8 September, 1996 11. North-Western Railway 5,464 Jaipur 17 October, 1996 12. East-Coast Railway 2,646 Bhubaneshwar 8 August, 1996 13. North-Central Railway 3,151 Allahabad 28 August, 1996 14. South-Western Railway 3,177 Hubli 1 November, 1996 15. West-Central Railway 2,965 Jabalpur 8 December, 1996 16. South-East Central Railway 2,455 Bilaspur 20 September, 1998 17. Rail — Kolkata 29 December, 2010 Total 64,460 Railway Assistant Locol Pilot Exam

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