Get ready to prepare for SSE/JE RRB Competitive Examination

Last updated on June 29th, 2015 at 08:05 am

Advertisement for the competitive examination by different RRB to fill up Senior Section Engineer and Junior Engineer in different Railways is out on date 20th Sept. 2014. The examination will be held on 14th Dec. 2014 for Junior Engineer and 21st Dec. 2014 for Senior Section Engineer. Degree in Engineering is the minimum education qualification for SSE and also make you eligible for Junior Engineer whereas Diploma for Junior Engineer. This is  one of the best job option for Diploma Holders and not so for Degree holder, but OK if you are struggling to find suitable job in Government organisation.

Guidance for Preparation for SSE

There are large many vacancies Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineers of the order of 1700 spread all over RRB/Railways but major demand is over Northeast Frontier Railway for which the examination is being conducted by RRB/Guwahati. You may be finding difficulty in understanding the job profile of the designations mentioned in the advertisement, if so, click at Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics,  Metallurgical. Material Superintendent 

The question paper will have 150 objective type questions covering the following area

1. General Science and Technical Ability: 90 Marks
2. General Awareness: 20 Marks
3. Arithmetic: 20 Marks
4. General Intelligence and Reasoning: 20 Marks

Now the course is very wide and you have to prepare in just three months. You will be looking for  some guide-book/joining a crash course but will it help. I suggest you the following

1. Open your class XI and XII science books. Go through the content carefully making simple notes. This will take care of about 10 marks
2. Open your Engineering notes (if you have prepared any) or otherwise a simple text-book which you have followed and also did marking while preparing and studying the content for the engineering examinations. This is a step to refresh yourself, and refreshing will be difficult if you follow different book. This will take care of  about 80 marks. You should be careful that there is one examination paper for all streams of engineering mentioned by the side of the category as per notification and one has to get himself fresh up in all branches. You  study some aspects of all branches of engineering in 1st and 2nd year of engineering, and it should help. If you have not studied all branches or having doubt, better make a group of friends of different streams and help each other.
3. Study material and objective type questions for mock drill on few subjects  has been compiled  to help you in preparing for the examination.
4. Open your 6th to 8th class Mathematics book and go through chapter on Arithmetic, Algebra, trigonometry etc. and attempt minimum 6-8 questions ion each chapter. Event though it is mentioned arithmatic, but don’t be surprised to get questions of IX-XII class. Therefore, it is advised to glance through XI-XII mathematics for SSE and IX-X mathematics for JE. This will take care of 20 marks
5. Collect last 10-12 issues of Competitive Success or similar magazine and read the content for General Awareness and General Intelligence and Reasoning. You have to train your mind to attend General Intelligence and reasoning questions. The questions are always simple if you can crack the  logical link. This will take care 40 marks.
6. Plan at least 5 mock test during the period. Set the rules of the mock trial on lines similar to what you face during the real examination. You should tune yourself with the environment essential for the examination because at least you should not mark the answer wrong even when you know it. 

You should target about 120 marks in mock drill for sure shot success in regular examination. There is negative marking and for every wrong answer, 1/3 mark will be deducted. The questions where you know  at least the two answers which are not correct, it is better to attempt between the balance two answers  even if there is a negative marking.

SSE and JE –  RRB Test Preparation – Study Material and Mock Test

Visit

Railway Job Test Preparation

Guidance for preparation for Junior Engineer

There are large many vacancies Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineers of the order of 3000 spread all over RRB/Railways. This is a great job opportunity for Diploma Holders and one has to synergies  his energy, dedication, determination and three-month preparation for the examination. The examination is of 150 marks consisting on following subjects

1. General Science and Technical Ability: 90 Marks
2. General Awareness: 20 Marks
3. Arithmetic: 20 Marks
4. General Intelligence and Reasoning: 20 Marks

Now the course is very wide and you have to prepare in just three months. You will be looking for a some guide-book/joining a crash course but will it help. I suggest you the following

1. Open your class IX and X science books. Go through the content carefully making simple notes. This will take care of about 10 marks
2. Open your Diploma notes (if you have prepared any) or otherwise a simple text-book which you have followed and also did marking while preparing and studying the content for the course examinations. This is a step to refresh yourself, and refreshing will be difficult if you follow different book. This will take care of  about 80 marks. You should be careful that there is one examination paper for all streams of diploma course mentioned by the side of the category and one has to get himself fresh up in all branches. You must have studied all branches of diploma during your first year and also tit-bits in balance two years and should help.  If you have not studied all branches or having doubt, better make a group of friends of different streams and help each other.
3. The syllabus for Junior Engineer IT, Printing Press and Metallurgical Assistant is different and specific.
4. Open your 6th to 8th class Mathematics book and go through chapter on Arithmetic, Algebra, trigonometry etc. and attempt minimum 6-8 questions in each chapter. This will take care of 20 marks
5. Collect last 10-12 issues of Competitive Success or similar magazine and read the content for General Awareness and General Intelligence and Reasoning. You have to train your mind to attend General Intelligence and reasoning questions. The questions are always simple if you can crack the  logical link. This will take care 40 marks. There may not be any difference of the nature of marks as that in SSE examination.
6. Plan at least 5 mock test during the period. Set the rules of the mock trial on lines similar to what you face during the real examination. You should tune yourself with the environment essential for the examination because at least you should not mark the answer wrong even when you know it. This helps in improving  your time management an important step in writing your success story.

You should target about 120 marks in mock drill for sure shot success in regular examination. There is negative marking and for every wrong answer, 1/3 mark will be deducted. The questions where you know  at least the two answers which are not correct, it is better to attempt between the balance two answers  even if there is a negative marking. 

Best of luck and sincere advise

The RRB examination is very straight forward and  transparent with no opportunity for unfair means to work. Therefore, don’t get allured if any institute or person offering sure shot result on payment of money. Even the interview has been dispensed with to make sure equal opportunity to all. It will be in your interest not to spend any time, energy and money looking for  service agents.

RRB has advertised for about 2100 posts in 2015 and the content in the post may also interest you.

Understanding Basics of RRB advertised SSE vacancies on 26th June 2015. 

Understanding Basics of RRB advertised SSE vacancies on 26th June 2015