RRBs do not announce a cut-off in advance. Each Railway Recruitment Board publishes a cut-off sheet with its result, for its own candidates. This page reproduces what we read in those official sheets up to 13 November 2026. Nothing here is estimated.
Which cycle these figures are from. The newest notified cycle is CEN 04/2026. Its CBT-1 was held on 27 and 28 October and 2 November 2026 and its result is not out yet. The latest declared cut-offs are therefore from the previous cycle, CEN 05/2025: CBT-1 held on 19, 20 and 25 February 2026, result on 13 May 2026, CBT-2 on 2 July 2026, CBT-2 result on 16 September 2026.
How to read an RRB JE cut-off sheet
- CBT-1 cut-offs are titled "Cutoff Marks (Out of 100)". The CEN says multi-session papers are normalised, so do not compare these numbers directly with a raw mock score.
- Rows are category numbers (CAT_NO) from Annexure A of that cycle's CEN. They are not the same in every cycle. In CEN 05/2025 the list had 26 categories; CEN 04/2026 has 38 with different numbering.
- Columns are UR, SC, ST, OBC, EWS, ESM and disability sub-categories. A blank cell means no cut-off was set in that cell at that board, usually because there was no vacancy or no candidate.
- Marks are applied board by board. One RRB's cut-off says nothing about another's.
- A board lists only the categories it has vacancies for, so rows are missing at many boards.
CEN 05/2025 category numbers used below: 2 JE Electrical (EMU and TRS), 3 JE Electrical TRD, 4 JE Electrical General Services, 5 JE Electrical (Workshop), 6 JE Civil (P.Way and Bridge), 7 JE Civil (Design, Drawing and Estimation), 8 JE Civil (Works), 11 JE Carriage and Wagon, 14 JE Diesel Mechanical, 16 JE Mechanical and Mechanical (Workshop), 18 Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant, 19 JE Diesel Electrical, 21 JE S and T Signal, 22 JE S and T Telecommunication, 26 Depot Material Superintendent.
CBT-1, CEN 05/2025: RRB Secunderabad, community-wise
Declared 13 May 2026. RRB Secunderabad shortlisted 1,560 candidates for CBT-2. A dash is a blank cell on the sheet.
| Post (CAT_NO) | UR | SC | ST | OBC | EWS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE Electrical, EMU and TRS (2) | 74.00599 | 66.84172 | - | 72.41197 | 67.39606 |
| JE Electrical TRD (3) | 71.6254 | 64.93055 | - | 70.96975 | 65.44796 |
| JE Electrical General Services (4) | 76.27418 | 68.90262 | 65.84483 | 74.60997 | 69.74709 |
| JE Electrical Workshop (5) | 80.48105 | - | - | - | - |
| JE Civil, P.Way and Bridge (6) | 72.4643 | - | 55.90278 | 69.3063 | 62.27478 |
| JE Civil, Design, Drawing and Estimation (7) | 72.22133 | 63.31101 | 56.04917 | - | 63.32723 |
| JE Civil Works (8) | 68.05555 | - | - | 67.01012 | 56.71201 |
| JE Carriage and Wagon (11) | 73.68673 | - | 62.5 | - | 63.22767 |
| JE Diesel Mechanical (14) | 73.60015 | 64.93055 | - | 72.91667 | 64.20059 |
| JE Mechanical and Mechanical Workshop (16) | 76.36792 | 64.82588 | 64.74137 | 76.04167 | 65.78577 |
| JE Diesel Electrical (19) | 72.06408 | 64.29026 | - | 71.91967 | 63.33854 |
| JE S and T Signal (21) | 72.70649 | 67.99151 | 59.87452 | 71.09526 | 64.58333 |
| JE S and T Telecommunication (22) | 74.65628 | 65.73356 | - | 73.79909 | - |
The sheet also has ex-servicemen and disability columns, which are much lower (for example ESM 45.22748 for category 16). There was no row for DMS or CMA at this board.
CBT-1, CEN 05/2025: UR cut-off at seven boards
All sheets are dated 13 May 2026 and are out of 100. "no row" means the board's sheet has no row for that category; "blank" means the row exists but the UR cell is empty.
| Post (CAT_NO) | Secunderabad | Kolkata | Chennai | Bhopal | Ahmedabad | Bengaluru | Bilaspur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE Civil, P.Way and Bridge (6) | 72.4643 | 72.1786 | 65.70764 | 65.07349 | 71.82787 | 63.51623 | 65.97063 |
| JE Civil Works (8) | 68.05555 | 76.50501 | 67.88427 | 67.95601 | 76.50327 | 63.19445 | 72.00169 |
| JE Carriage and Wagon (11) | 73.68673 | 74.65776 | 71.97933 | 68.55335 | 74.16052 | 66.35565 | blank |
| JE S and T Signal (21) | 72.70649 | 81.25 | 75.67187 | 68.40278 | 71.34502 | 69.98261 | 73.61111 |
| JE S and T Telecommunication (22) | 74.65628 | 75.25079 | 77.62684 | 73.45094 | 71.875 | 72.09891 | 71.52778 |
| Depot Material Superintendent (26) | no row | 79.49535 | 76.89593 | 81.57693 | 83.24957 | blank | 75.62816 |
| Chemical and Metallurgical Assistant (18) | no row | 86.63766 | 83.11915 | no row | no row | 82.02981 | 80.59728 |
Our reading of these seven sheets:
- The same post closes at very different marks in different RRBs. JE Civil (P.Way and Bridge) UR runs from 63.5 at Bengaluru to 72.5 at Secunderabad, and JE Signal from 68.4 at Bhopal to 81.25 at Kolkata.
- DMS and CMA close higher than most JE categories at the boards that list them: DMS UR between 75.6 and 83.2, CMA UR between 80.6 and 86.6. DMS is open to a diploma in any discipline, and CMA had very few posts.
- These are seven of the RRBs. The others publish their own sheets on their pages of the RRB website.
CBT-2, CEN 05/2025: Merit Index cut-off at RRB Secunderabad
Declared 16 September 2026, for the CBT-2 held on 2 July 2026. RRB Secunderabad shortlisted 103 candidates for document verification and medical examination. The result notice says the number shortlisted for DV equals the number of vacancies, subject to availability of eligible candidates.
The sheet is titled "Cutoff Merit Index". It is not out of 100 or 150. The CEN's formula puts the general qualifying mark (40) at 350 and the mean of the top 0.1% of a paper at 900 (see exam pattern). Rows are a category number plus a short suffix (scr, ecor). The sheet does not expand the suffixes; they look like railway zone codes, so the cut-off appears to be set zone by zone within the board.
| Row as printed | Post category | UR Merit Index |
|---|---|---|
| 2scr | JE Electrical, EMU and TRS | 795.19766 |
| 3scr | JE Electrical TRD | 783.8983 |
| 4scr | JE Electrical General Services | 764.12432 |
| 4ecor | JE Electrical General Services | 806.49726 |
| 5scr | JE Electrical Workshop | 761.80906 |
| 6ecor | JE Civil, P.Way and Bridge | 735.84621 |
| 7ecor | JE Civil, Design, Drawing and Estimation | 752.76929 |
| 8ecor | JE Civil Works | 744.30775 |
| 11scr | JE Carriage and Wagon | 764.57293 |
| 14scr | JE Diesel Mechanical | 761.80906 |
| 16scr | JE Mechanical and Mechanical Workshop | 803.26637 |
| 19scr | JE Diesel Electrical | 747.98992 |
| 21scr | JE S and T Signal | 747.17521 |
| 22scr | JE S and T Telecommunication | 742.3374 |
We read only the UR column here. The result notice adds one more condition: a candidate is eligible for a post only if their CBT-1 score was at or above that post's community-wise CBT-1 cut-off. So both sheets matter.
The qualifying floor, and what is known for CEN 04/2026
| UR | EWS | OBC (NCL) | SC | ST | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum percentage for eligibility, CBT-1 and CBT-2 | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 25% |
For CEN 04/2026 the notices give the inputs but not the outcome:
- Vacancies: 4,487 after Corrigendum-2 (CEN 05/2025 was notified with 2,569).
- CBT-2 shortlist: 15 times the community-wise vacancies of the RRB, which Railways can raise or lower.
- Applications submitted: 5,64,350 (tentative).
- CBT-1 cut-off: not published as of 13 November 2026.
We do not predict the 2026 cut-off from these.
How to use this page
- Do not read CBT-1 as the goal. It only decides who sits CBT-2, and it does not count in the final merit.
- Use your own community's column and your own RRB. In the Secunderabad sheet, UR and ST for JE Civil (P.Way and Bridge) differ by about 16.5 marks.
- Map the category number to the right cycle. Category 6 in CEN 05/2025 is not category 6 in CEN 04/2026.
- Compare percentile, not raw marks. On Pareeksha everyone in a cohort sits the same fixed paper, so percentile is a like-for-like comparison. See how fixed-paper percentile works.
What this page does not have
- CEN 04/2026 cut-offs. They did not exist on 13 November 2026.
- CBT-1 sheets of the RRBs we did not tabulate, and the SC, ST, OBC and EWS columns of boards other than Secunderabad.
- CBT-2 Merit Index cut-offs of boards other than Secunderabad, and the reserved-community columns of that sheet.
- Final (post-medical) panel cut-offs of CEN 05/2025, and anything from CEN 03/2024 or earlier. We did not read those.
- A conversion between raw marks, normalised marks and Merit Index for any candidate. It depends on the session and on the top scorers of each paper.
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