RRB Asst Loco Pilot, Technician Recruitment Exam Syllabus, Previous year papers, Exam pattern, Books, Sample questions

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Exam review: Exam is easy but it is a speed based test 
So here are the exam details this year Candidates who all appeared or are looking to be appeared are to be informed that the examination will have 100 to 120 questions with a time duration of 90 minutes so candidates need to be really quick in answering the question but their is a negative marking too of 1/3 marks. So keep that in mind too. Candidates having more accuracy and speed will defiantly clear this exam.

RRB Assistant Loco Pilot and Technical post Recruitment Exam Schedule

Candidates who all have applied for the above post are to be informed that the written examination has been scheduled between 15th June to 20th July at various places across India. Overall 32 Railway recruitment Board(RRB) will be conducting the examination. 

Candidates can download the duplicate admit card for the same form their respective official website which will be available 3 days prior to the date of the examination. 

Candidates need to carry all the relevant documents while appearing in the examination. 

RRB Assistant Loco Pilot & Technician recruitment Exam details
Railway recruitment Board(RRB) of various states is conducting the recruitment examination for 26567 post of Assistant Loco Pilot & Technicians. This is a mass recruitment hence candidates who are looking for the job in Indian Railway this is a big opportunity for all of them to get this Government Job. This employment notification is centralized hence various RRB's are participating in this recruitment drive. Now since their are huge number of vacancies then their will be huge number of competitors as well.

You have to compete with them in order to get selected. We have provided details as well as sample papers of the examination. Candidates who want to prepare for the examination than you are at the right page. We will keep updating this page with more and more information as well as previous year papers so that you can score well in the examination. Since the recruitment examination will be conducted on 15th June 2014 hence you have a lot of time to prepare for the examination. We have described the exam pattern below


Exam pattern
This examination will have four sections including General knowledge, Maths i.e aptitude part, reasoning part and the Technical section which will test your technical ability.

• General Awareness
• Arithmetic (Quantitative aptitude)
• Reasoning ability
• Technical part and General Science

Recommended Books: 
We have provided books related to Assistant Loco Pilot & Technician Exam which contains previous year papers & solved sample papers. We recommend you to buy these books to prepare for the examination. Buy as early as possible as only limited sock is available for these books!!

Part I : General Awareness: This part will test your General Knowledge as well as knowledge of current affairs. Candidates who keep themselves up to date as well as read newspapers will be directly benefit some how. We have provided the list of current affairs topic which are listed below.

Sample Questions
Ques: Arvind Kejriwal launched his political party on which date ?
A) 2nd October 2014
B) 2nd November 2014
C) 20th September 2014
D) 20th November 2014
Answer is A) 2nd October 2014

Ques: Ambedkar memorial is to come up which city ?
a) Mumbai
b) Delhi
c) Pune
d) Ahmedabad
Answer is a) Mumbai

(NEW: added on 11.03.2014) Interim Budget 2014-15 related questions may ebe asked in the General Awerness, Few Important points in this are 
Agriculture: Agriculture credit target hiked to Rs 8 crore
Banking Rs 11,200 cr capital infusion in PSB's
Service tax in Rice processing abolished
Education: Subsidy scheme on Education loan announced
Defence: Hike in alocation: Ok for one rank one pension
Indirect Taxes: Uniform excide duty on all mobile phones
Excise duty on capital good reduced
Excise duty on cars reduced
Health: Health Ministry gets 30,145 crore
No service tax on unbilical cord blood
Rural Development: Rural development Ministry gets Rs 82,202 crore

Current Topics
Ten years of Manmohan Singh’s rule: A mixed legacy
Judicial Appointments Bill
Agusta Westland deal cancelled
Bureaucrats set to face trial in Adarsh scam
Bharat Rang Mahotsav organised
Justice Ganguly resigns as West Bengal Rights Panel Chief
CCTVs, GPS in public transport for women’s safety
Government approves 58 new medical colleges
Shah Commission indicts Odisha for illegal mining
PM lays foundation stone of Punjab cancer hospital
Indigenous cervical cancer screening device launched
AAP wins floor test in Delhi State Assembly
Environment Minister Natarajan resigns
Yuvraj to spread cancer awareness in schools
Formation of AAP Party
Arvind Kejrival, New era of Politics
Narendra Modi, the rising Star
Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor found dead in a Delhi hotel
Famous Bengali Actress Suchitra Sen died
Sirajuddin Qureshi elected as the President of IICC
Deepika and Farhan won best actors at Screen Awards
NASA discovered potentially hazardous asteroid 2013 YP139
Goa Government approved the proposal to increase Reservation for OBC to 27%
Indian economy to grow by just over 6% in 2014-15: WB forecast
Army Day observed across India on 15 January

Part II: Quantitative Aptitude: This section contains questions related to general maths which we studied in 8th & 9th standard. Hence candidates who have good command in mathematical section will find this section easier as compared to other sections and can score more. Candidates who find this section tough don't worry we have provided sample questions and will keep adding more to make you comfortable in this section. We have also provided books which will help you practice Maths individually.

Sample Questions

Ques: The percentage increase in the area of a rectangle, if each of its sides is increased by 20% is:
A. 40%
B. 42%
C. 44%
D. 46%
Ans is: C:  44%
Hint: you can also use successive increase formula i.e (a+ b + ab/100) where a and b both are 20

Ques: The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than zero?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 10
D. 19
Ans is : C 10


Ques: A is thrice as good as workman as B and therefore is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. Working together, they can do it in:
A. 20 days
B. 22 1\2 days
C. 25 days
D. 30 days

Ques: . Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728
(a) 12
(b) 20
(c) 8
(d) none of these
Ans. (c)

Ques: If selling price is doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent.
A) 66 2\3
b) 100
c) 105 1\3
d) 120

Ques: How much time will it take for an amount of Rs. 450 to yield Rs. 81 as interest at 4.5% per annum of simple interest?
A. 3.5 years
B. 4 years
C. 4.5 years
D. 5 years
Ans is: B

Ques: What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 have 1 or 9 in the unit's digit?
A. 1
B. 14
C. 20
D. 21
Ans is: C

Ques: Find the ratio in which rice at Rs. 7.20 a kg be mixed with rice at Rs. 5.70 a kg to produce a mixture worth Rs. 6.30 a kg.
A. 1 : 3
B. 2 : 3
C. 3 : 4
D. 4 : 5
Ans is B

Part III: Arithmetic Reasoning: This section will test your reasoning ability. This section might be new for you but the questions related to this topic are relatively easy. We will make you familiar with this section  with the help of questions which are given below.

Sample questions: 
Ques 1: A man is facing north - west. He turns 90 degree in the clockwise direction, then 180 degree in the anticlockwise direction and then 90 degree in the same direction. Which direction is he facing now ?
a) South b) South-West c) West d) South-west

Ques 2 : I am facing east: I turn 100 degree in the clockwise direction and then 145 degree in the anticlockwise direction. Which direction I am facing now ?
a)  East b) North -East c) North d) South-west

Ques 3: A and B are brothers. C and D are sisters. A's son is D's brother. How is D related to C ?
a) Father b) Brother c) Grandfather d) uncle
 Answer is: d

Ques 4 : A and B are married couple. X and Y are brothers. X is the brother of A, How is Y related to B
a) Brother-in law b) Brother c) Son-in law d) Cousin
Answer is: a

Ques 5 : What will be the missing number ?

Option: a) 10 b) 8 c)15 d) 4
Answer is  b
Hint: Third number - second number + first number is the answer in triangle

Option: a) 8, b) 2 c) 7 d) 9
Answer is 2
Hint : 63 makes 6-3 = 3, 37 makes 7-3 = 4, 42 makes 4-2 - 2

Ans is: 35
Each number is sum of above 2 numbers is sum of 22 + 13 is 35

Answer is 16
Solution: All the numbers are square starting from 1 to 9, the missing block is square of 4 i.e 16.

Part IV: Technical Section: This section will have technical questions related to your field. Hence candidates needs to be thorough with the concepts in order to clear this section
Syllabus for the Technical Paper is given below.

Mechanical: Dimensions, Heat, Engine, Thermo Dynamics, Energy, Material, Energy Conservation, Management, Applied Mechanics, Turbo Machinery, Production Engineering, Automation Engineering, Kinetic Theory, The Strength Of The Material, Metallurgical, Metal Handling, Refrigerators And Air Conditioned, Transformation Of Heat, etc.
Sample Questions
Ques: The efficiency and work ratio of a simple gas turbine cycle are
A. low
B. very low
C. high
D. very high
Ans is: B

Ques: The neutral axis of the cross-section a beam is that axis at which the bending stress is
A. zero
B. minimum
C. maximum
D. infinity
Ans is A

Ques: The coefficient of restitution for elastic bodies is ?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 0
d) infinity
Ans is 1

Ques: In a refrigerating machine, heat rejected is __________ heat absorbed.
A. equal to
B. less than
C. greater than
d) none of these
Ans is C

Ques: In a coupling rod of a locomotive, each of the four pairs is a __________ pair.
A. sliding
B. turning
C. rolling
D. screw
Answer is B

Ques: A transmission shaft includes
A. counter shaft
B. line shaft
C. over head shaft
D. all of these

Answer is : D

Automobile: Machine Design, System Theory, IC Engines, Heat Transfer, Thermo Dynamics, Materials Applying Motion, The Power Plant Turbines And Boilers, And Metallurgical Production Technology, etc.

Ques: The firing order for an in-line four cylinder I.C. engine is
A. 1-2-3-4
B. 1-3-4-2
C. 1-2-4-3
D. 1-3-2-4
Ans is : B

Ques: The tilting of the front wheels away from the vertical, when viewed from the front of the car, is called
A. camber
B. caster
C. toe-in
D. toe-out

Ques: The action of steam in a steam turbine is
A. static
B. dynamic
C. static and dynamic
D. neither static nor dynamic
Answer is: B

Ques: The maximum temperature in a gas turbine is
A. 200°C
B. 500°C
C. 700°C
D. 1000°C
Answer is: C

Ques: When a body moves with simple harmonic motion, the product of its periodic time and frequency is equal to
A. zero
B. one
C. π/2
D. π
Answer is :  B

Electrical: Electrical India, Rolls, Cables, Transfers, Proved To Be The Fundamental Electrical System, An Alternative System Single Phase Motor, Three Phase Motor System, Light, Magnetism, Motors, etc.
Ques: If 60 J of energy are available for every 15 C of charge, what is the voltage?
A. 4 V
B. 60 V
C. 15 V
D. 0.25 V


Ques: The battery symbol is:

a) 

b) 

c) 

d) 

Electronics and Communication: The Transistor, Dias, Digital Electronics, Networking And Industrial Electronics, Electronic Tube, Semi-Conductor Physics, Robotic Radio Communications Systems And Satellite Matters, Computer And Micro Processor, etc.

Ques: What are the unit and symbol for current?
A. Ampere, A
B. Coulomb, I
C. Ampere, Q
D. Ampere, I

Ques: If 40 C of charge flow past a point in 20 s, what is the current?
A. 2 A
B. 0.5 A
C. 20 A
D. 40 A

Ques: In which of the following are operational amplifiers (op-amps) used?
A. Oscillators
B. Filters
C. Instrumentation circuits
D. All of the above