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RRB Section Controller Syllabus 2026
The complete RRB Section Controller syllabus for 2026 — 3 sections and 46 topics in all, organised exactly as the Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) prescribes. Use it as your revision checklist, then test yourself with a free RRB Section Controller mock below.
General Awareness (CBT 1 + CBT 2) — Railway-operations heavy15 topics
- Indian Railways structure (18 zones with headquarters, 70+ divisions, Railway Board hierarchy, current Railway Minister and CRB)
- Railway signalling basics (Absolute Block System, Automatic Block System, semaphore vs colour-light signals, home/starter/distant signals)
- Types of trains (Vande Bharat, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Tejas, Duronto, Antyodaya, MEMU/EMU, Garib Rath, parcel and goods rakes)
- Train control terminology (block section, station section, control telephone, line clear, caution order)
- Important railway organisations (RDSO Lucknow, IRCTC, CRIS, IRFC, DFCCIL, RVNL, IRCON)
- Railway milestones (first train 1853 Bombay-Thane, electrification, gauge conversion, longest/highest bridges, fastest trains)
- Recent railway schemes (Kavach ATP, Mission Raftaar, Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, PM Gati Shakti, Vande Bharat expansion)
- Indian History (Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Freedom Struggle 1857 onwards)
- Indian Polity and Constitution (Fundamental Rights and Duties, Articles 14/19/21/280/324, Constitutional bodies — ECI, CAG, Finance Commission, UPSC)
- Indian and World Geography (states, rivers, mountains, climate, soils, major railway routes)
- Indian Economy (RBI, Budget, NITI Aayog, Indian Railways Budget historical merger 2017)
- General Science (NCERT Class 9-12 Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
- Current Affairs (last 12 months — schemes, ISRO, defence, awards, appointments, sports)
- Static GK (national symbols, dance forms, books and authors, important days)
- Computer fundamentals and basic IT awareness
Mathematics (CBT 1 + CBT 2)16 topics
- Number system, LCM and HCF, divisibility, simplification (BODMAS, surds, indices)
- Percentages
- Profit, loss and discount (single and successive)
- Simple and compound interest
- Ratio, proportion and partnership
- Average and ages
- Time, work and wages
- Time, speed and distance (trains, boats and streams, relative speed)
- Pipes and cisterns
- Mixtures and alligation
- Basic Algebra (linear, quadratic equations, identities)
- Geometry (triangles, circles, polygons — basic properties)
- Mensuration 2D and 3D (perimeter, area, volume of standard shapes)
- Trigonometry basics (ratios, identities, complementary angles)
- Data Interpretation (tables, bar charts, pie charts, line graphs)
- Statistics (mean, median, mode) and basic probability
General Intelligence & Reasoning (CBT 1 + CBT 2)15 topics
- Number / letter / alphanumeric series (next, missing, wrong term)
- Coding-decoding (letter shift, mathematical, fictitious language, conditional)
- Analogies (semantic, symbolic, numeric, word-pair relations)
- Classification and odd-one-out (numbers, letters, words, figures)
- Blood relations (descriptive and symbol-based)
- Direction sense (multi-step paths)
- Syllogisms (2-3 statement, possibility cases)
- Statement-conclusion and statement-assumption
- Ranking and order
- Seating arrangement (linear and circular — basic)
- Calendar (day from date, odd days, leap year)
- Clock (angle between hands)
- Mathematical operations (symbol substitution, BODMAS)
- Venn diagrams (2-3 set logic)
- Decision making and data sufficiency
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