What was the RRB NTPC Graduate CBT-1 cut-off?

Each RRB publishes its own cut-off by post and category, on a 100-mark normalised scale. For Station Master, the UR cut-offs we read were 81.39941 at RRB Secunderabad, 83.14428 at Kolkata, 78.82045 at Ahmedabad and 88.21548 at Bhopal. There is no single all-India figure.

Is the CBT-1 cut-off the final cut-off?

No. CBT-1 cut-offs only decide who is called for CBT-2. The CEN says CBT-1 is of screening nature. Later stages (CBT-2, then CBAT or typing test, then document verification) have their own cut-offs, and the final list is built on CBT-2 and, for Station Master and Traffic Assistant, a 70:30 mix with the CBAT.

What is the minimum qualifying percentage in NTPC?

UR 40%, EWS 40%, OBC (non-creamy layer) 30%, SC 30%, ST 25%, as printed in both CENs. The published cut-offs were far above these floors, roughly 70 to 90 out of 100 for UR in the sheets we read.

How many vacancies are there in NTPC 2025-26?

CEN 06/2025 (Graduate) advertised 5,810 vacancies and CEN 07/2025 (Undergraduate) advertised 3,058, both provisional and spread across RRBs and zones. Per-RRB numbers are in Annexure B of each CEN.

Will the NTPC cut-off be the same next time?

No one can say. Cut-offs depend on paper difficulty, normalisation, the number of candidates and the vacancies of each RRB. The 2026 figures are a reference point, not a forecast.

RRB NTPC Cut Off: CBT 1, CBT 2 (Official 2026)

RRBs do not announce a cut-off in advance. Each Railway Recruitment Board publishes a result sheet and a cut-off sheet when a stage is declared, and each board does it for its own candidates. This page reproduces what we read in those official sheets up to 7 October 2026 and explains how to use them. Nothing here is estimated. Where a sheet's columns were not clear to us, we left the figure out.

How to read an RRB cut-off sheet

Marks are normalised and out of 100, even for CBT-2, which has 120 questions. The notices do not publish the conversion, so do not compare these numbers with your raw score.
The rows are category numbers (CAT_NO), which match the post list in each CEN: for Graduate, 1 Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor, 2 Station Master, 3 Goods Train Manager, 4 Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist, 5 Senior Clerk cum Typist, 6 Traffic Assistant. For Undergraduate, 1 Commercial cum Ticket Clerk, 2 Accounts Clerk cum Typist, 3 Junior Clerk cum Typist, 4 Trains Clerk.
The columns are UR, SC, ST, OBC, EWS, ESM and disability sub-categories. A blank cell means no cut-off was set (usually no candidates or vacancies in that cell) at that board.
Marks are applied board by board. The cut-off of one RRB says nothing about another.

Graduate CBT-1: RRB Secunderabad, full category row

CEN 06/2025, declared 11 June 2026. RRB Secunderabad shortlisted 5,951 candidates for CBT-2. There was no row for Traffic Assistant (category 6) at this board.

Post (CAT_NO)	UR	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	ESM
Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor (1)	86.98354	79.59904	79.68458	86.23643	84.89588	65.52309
Station Master (2)	81.39941	74.35977	74.86429	79.78276	78.3611	52.95553
Goods Train Manager (3)	78.65827	70.16282	69.32788	76.15728	74.78751	40.74945
Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist (4)	81.07364	73.26597	70.78216	79.40092	77.00882	47.78278
Senior Clerk cum Typist (5)	81.11183	75.42311	71.64335	80.42654	78.37122	52.6041

The same sheet also lists disability cut-offs, for example hearing impaired 59.58299 and locomotor disability 72.49586 for category 1.

Graduate CBT-1: UR cut-off at other boards

We read the UR column only where the sheet's row was unambiguous. "n/r" means not read: the row had blank cells that made the column unclear, or the board had no row.

Post	Secunderabad	Kolkata	Ahmedabad	Bhopal	Chennai
Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor	86.98354	n/r	n/r	89.56229	n/r
Station Master	81.39941	83.14428	78.82045	88.21548	n/r
Goods Train Manager	78.65827	79.55167	71.52854	80.09225	n/r
Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist	81.07364	84.01916	n/r	85.21254	75.20063
Senior Clerk cum Typist	81.11183	81.96423	n/r	85.89726	75.07613
Traffic Assistant	no row	80.00155	n/r	n/r	n/r

Our reading: the spread for the same post across boards is about 10 marks (Station Master UR from 78.8 to 88.2 here). That is why picking an RRB is as important as preparing well. These are the boards we checked; the other RRBs publish their own sheets on their pages of the unified RRB website.

Graduate CBT-2: shortlisting for CBAT and typing test

Declared 27 August 2026. Candidates were shortlisted on CBT-2 marks, provided they had scored above the CBT-1 cut-off of their community. At RRB Secunderabad, 1,544 candidates were shortlisted for CBAT and typing test. The CBT-2 cut-off sheets list rows by category number plus a short suffix (for example 2scr, 4scr, 5scr at Secunderabad; 2er, 4ser, 5er at Kolkata). The sheets do not expand the suffixes; they look like railway zone codes, so cut-offs appear to be set zone by zone within a board.

UR cut-offs, out of 100:

Stage and post	Row as printed	UR
CBAT, Station Master, Secunderabad	2ecor	79.77208
CBAT, Station Master, Secunderabad	2scr	75.78348
CBAT, Station Master, Kolkata	2er	75.86207
CBAT, Station Master, Kolkata	2ser	76.63818
Typing test, Junior Accounts Assistant, Secunderabad	4scr	75.49858
Typing test, Senior Clerk cum Typist, Secunderabad	5scr	75.21368
Typing test, Junior Accounts Assistant, Kolkata	4er / 4ser	77.58621 / 75.49858
Typing test, Senior Clerk cum Typist, Kolkata	5er / 5ser	76.63818 / 74.42528

For Goods Train Manager and Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor, which have no further test, the next list is the document-verification shortlist, which we did not find on 7 October 2026.

Undergraduate CBT-1: RRB Secunderabad

CEN 07/2025, declared 24 August 2026. RRB Secunderabad shortlisted 4,090 candidates for CBT-2 (scheduled 17 September 2026). Rows present on the sheet:

Post (CAT_NO)	UR	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	ESM
Commercial cum Ticket Clerk (1)	82.17356	75.46728	72.6637	80.03367	77.91432	50.78974
Junior Clerk cum Typist (3)	83.66373	76.87723	72.27659	84.67464	78.74681	57.68782
Trains Clerk (4)	85.37959	blank	72.60622	blank	blank	blank

There was no row for Accounts Clerk cum Typist (2) at this board. We have not read the other boards' Undergraduate sheets.

Vacancies advertised

Cycle	Posts	Total (all RRBs, provisional)
Graduate, CEN 06/2025	Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor 161; Station Master 615; Goods Train Manager 3,416; Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist 921; Senior Clerk cum Typist 638; Traffic Assistant 59	5,810
Undergraduate, CEN 07/2025	Commercial cum Ticket Clerk 2,424; Accounts Clerk cum Typist 394; Junior Clerk cum Typist 163; Trains Clerk 77	3,058

Each CEN says vacancies may rise or fall. Selection is made on merit with candidates called for document verification equal to the number of vacancies (1:1).

How to use this page

Do not read CBT-1 as the goal. It only decides who sits CBT-2. The CEN sets the CBT-2 shortlist at 15 times the community-wise vacancies, so CBT-1 is a screening step.
Use your category's number, not the UR number. In the Secunderabad sheet, the UR and ST cut-offs for Station Master differ by about 6.5 marks.
Look at your RRB and post together. The tables above show how much both change the number.
Check your percentile. Raw marks hide the paper's difficulty. 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

Earlier cycles (CEN 05/2024 and 06/2024 and before). We did not read those results.
Cut-offs of RRBs we did not open, and the Undergraduate sheets of boards other than Secunderabad.
Final (post-document-verification) cut-offs and the results of the Graduate typing test and CBAT, and of Undergraduate CBT-2. As of 7 October 2026 we did not find them posted.
The normalisation formula and the raw-to-100 conversion. RRB's CENs say marks are normalised; they do not publish the method in the sections we read.

Practise for the real format: a free 10-question mini-mock is available; full mocks, previous-year papers (PYQs) and topic practice are Pro.

RRB NTPC Cut-Off: CBT-1 and CBT-2 Marks from the Latest Official Result Sheets