The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has announced the official exam schedule for NTPC Undergraduate CBT 1 Exam 2026 (CEN 07/2025) through an official notice on 13th April 2026. The candidates who have applied for 3058, 12th-level vacancies released under Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) have to appear for the examination from 7th May to 21st June 2026.
RRB NTPC UG Level Exam Date 2026 Out
As per the official notice, RRB NTPC Undergraduate CBT 1 Exam will be conducted on 11 days (7th, 8th, 9th May and 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st June 2026). Along with the exam dates, the officials have also announced the schedule for admit cards and exam city intimation slips. The exam will be held in 3 shifts each day. The duration of each shift will be 90 minutes, i.e. 1.5 hours.
RRB NTPC UG Exam Date Official Notice
The RRB NTPC Undergraduate CBT 1 Exam Date 2026 has been announced for candidates who have been applied for 3058 undergraduate-level posts (Commercial cum Ticket Clerk, Accounts Clerk cum Typist, Junior Clerk Cum Typist, Trains Clerk). The official notice has been released at the official website http://www.rrbcdg.gov.in/ and also attached below.
RRB NTPC UG 2026 Reporting Time and Exam Duration
The confirmed shift timings for the RRB NTPC Undergraduate Exam will be announced with the release of city intimation slips. The CBT 1 exam will be conducted by the Railway Recruitment Board, there shall be three shifts each day.
| Shifts | Reporting Time | Exam Duration |
| Shift 1 | 7:30 am | 9 am to 10:30 am |
| Shift 2 | 11:15 am | 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm |
| Shift 3 | 3 pm | 4:30 pm to 6 pm |
RRB NTPC CBT 1 Exam Pattern 2026
The RRB NTPC CBT 1 exam will consist of 100 objective-type multiple-choice questions. A total of 100 MCQ-type questions will be asked for a total of 100 marks. The time duration of the exam will be 90 minutes (1.5 hours). There will be a negative marking of 1/3rd mark for each incorrect answer.
| Sections | No. of Questions | Marks |
| General Awareness | 40 | 40 |
| Mathematics | 30 | 30 |
| General Intelligence and Reasoning | 30 | 30 |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
RRB NTPC CBT 1 Exam Centre List
The exam for RRB NTPC CBT 1 Undergraduate level posts will be conducted in the following exam cities. Candidates can check their RRB NTPC Exam City Intimation Admit Card to know the exam city they have been allotted to appear for.
| States/UTs | Exam City/Districts |
| Andaman & Nicobar | Port Blair |
| Andhra Pradesh | Amalapuram, Anantapur, Bhimavaram, Challapalli, Chirala, Chittoot, Eluru, Gooty, Gudivada, Gudur, Guntur, Kadapa, Kakinada, Kanchikachera, Kavali, Kurnool, Nandyal, Narasapuram, Narasaraopet, Nellore, Ongole, Proddatur, Puttur, Rajahmundry, Rajam, Rajampet, Srikakulam, Surampalem, Tadepalligudem, Tekkali, Tirupathi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar, Naharlagun |
| Assam | Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Kokrajhar, Silchar, Tezpur |
| Bihar | Arrah, Aurangabad, Bhagalpur, Bihar Sharif, Darbhanga, Gaya, Hajipur, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Purnea, Samastipur, Siwan, |
| Chandigarh | Chandigarh |
| Chhattisgarh | Bilaspur, Durg, Bhilai Nagar, Raipur, |
| Delhi/NCR | Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, New Delhi, Noida |
| Goa | Verma |
| Gujarat | Ahmedabad, Anand, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Dadra, Gandhinagar, Godhra, Himatnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Mehsana, Nadiad, Navsarim Rajkot, Silvassa, Surat, Surendranagar, Vadodara, Valsad, Vapi |
| Haryana | Ambala, Bahadurgarh, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mohindergarh, Panchkula, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonipat, Yamuna Nagar |
| Himachal Pradesh | Baddi, Bilaspur, Dharamsala, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, Palampur, Shimla, Sirmaur, Solan, Sunder Nagarm Una. |
| Jammu & Kashmir | Anantnag, Awantipora, Baramulla, Jammu, Kathua, Pulwama, Samba, Srinagar, Udhampur. |
| Jharkhand | Bokaro, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh, Jamshedpur, Ranchi |
| Karnataka | Bagalkot, Belgaum, Bellary, Bengaluru, Bidar, Bijapur, Chikballapur, Chikmagaluru, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Hubli, Kolar, Mangalore, Mysore, Puttur, Shimoga, Surathkal, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada. |
| Kerala | Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Idukki, Kannur, Kasaragod, Kollam, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Thrissur, Trivandrum. |
| Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Rewa, Sagar, Satna, Ujjain. |
| Maharashtra | Ahmednagar, Akola, Amravati, Aurangabad, Beed, Bhandara, Buldana, Chandrapur, Dhule, Gadchiroli, Gondia, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Latur, Madgaon, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nanded, Nandurbar, Nashik, Navi Mumbai, Pandharpur, Parbhani, Pimpri, Chinchwad, Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sangamner, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Sindhudurg, Thane, Wardha, Washim, Yavatmal |
| Manipur | Imphal |
| Meghalaya | Shillong, Ri-Bhoi |
| Mizoram | Aizwal |
| Nagaland | Dimapur, Kohima |
| Odisha | Angul, Balasore, Bargarh, Baripada, Berhampur-Ganjam, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Jeypore, Jharsuguda, Khurda, Rayagada, Rourkela, Sambalpur, |
| Puducherry | Puducherry |
| Punjab | Abohar, Amritsar, Banur, Barnala, Bhatinda, Fatehgarh, Sahib, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Khanna, Ludhiana, Malout, Moga, Mohali, Muktsar, Nawanshahr, Pathankot, Patiala, Phagwara, Ropar, Sangrur, |
| Rajasthan | Abu Road, Ajmer, Alwar, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Bikaner, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Hanumangarh, Jaipur, Jhunjhunu, Jodhpur, Kota, Pali Marwar, Sikar, Sriganagnagar, Tonk, Udaipur |
| Sikkim | Bardang, Gangtok |
| Tamilnadu | Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Kanyakumari, Krishnagiri, Madurai, Namakkal, Salem, Thanjavur, Thoothukudi, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tirupur, Tiruvannamalai, Vellore, Villupuram, Virudhunagar |
| Telangana | Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Kodad, Mahabubangar, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Ranga, Reddy, Secunderabad, Siddipet, Warangal. |
| Tripura | Agartala, Bisramganj, Khowai, Teliamura, Udaypur |
| Uttar Pradesh | Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Amroha, Banda, Barabanki, Bareilly, Bijnor, Bulandshahr, Faizabad, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Kaushambi, Lucknow, Mathura, Sitapur, Sultanpur, Varanasi |
| Uttarakhand | Dehradun, Haldwani, Nainital, Roorkee, Rudrapur, Udham Singh Nagar |
| West Bengal | Asansol, Bankura, Berhampore, Bishnupur, Burdwan, Durgapur, Haldia, Hooghly, Howrah, Kalyani, Kolkata, Kolkata/Greater Kolkata, Krishnanagar, Siliguri |
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