Appendix2 IREM Exam - CBT pattern - Salient features

 

Appendix2 IREM Exam – CBT Pattern – Salient Feature

Source: Railway Board Letter No. 2025/ACII/20/12/e 3493745 dated 17.06.2025 (RBA 19/2025)

• CBT (Computerised Based Test) mode 

• Conducted twice in a year for a calendar cycle  

• Conducted by ECA - Examination Conducting Agency 

• ECA engagement by RRB (to be decided by E(RRB)

• Conducted through single Nodal Zonal Railway (nominated by the Railway Board) 

• Nodal Zonal Railway - shall be decided by the Railway Board for each Calendar Year. 

• Two Question Papers instead of Three Question Papers

• 100% Objective mandatory papers

• Paper 1 – Elementary Bookkeeping, English Comprehension and Reasoning.  

• Paper 2 - GRP - General Rules & Procedure (consists of Traffic Accounts, General Expenditure, Stores and Workshop, Books and Budget etc)  

• English Comprehension and Reasoning  - Added to the Syllabus first time. 

• The optional paper was deleted.  

• The question paper setter shall be nominated by the PFA as per extant rule and shall ensure that the paper submission is done to the ECA appropriately.  

• The Question paper tracker and result of Exam to be arranged by ECA.

• The Examination Calendar, along with the details of Nodal Zonal Railway, shall be issued separately. 

Appendix4 IREM Exam  

• Single paper (MCQ based) - 100 marks - 40% passing. 

• Other conditions as per Appendix2 Exam pattern only

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Deleted Questions Procedure in CBT conducted by NAIR for LDCE and 70% Selection Examinations

 

Deleted Questions Procedure in CBT 

Source: Railway Board Letter No.  E(GP)2022/2/4 dated 26.10.2022  (RBE No.134/2022) Click for download  and dated 28.11.2022 Click for download

SN	Example	Applicable / Not Applicable	Final Score calculation
1	Answered 150 questions or less than 150 questions, but the deleted question is not one of the attempted question	Not Applicable	Out of 150
2	Answered 150 questions and 5 questions of these have been deleted	Applicable	Out of 145 (recalculated out of 150)
3	Attempted 130 questions (out of required 150 questions) and 2 questions of 130 questions have been deleted	Applicable	Out of 148 (recalculated out of 150)

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES

SN 1 - Answered 150 questions or less than 150 questions, but the deleted question is not one of the attempted questions :  

Candidate A answered 140 Questions. Out of  140 questions, 120 are Correct  and 20 are incorrect.  His score is as follows.

	No. of Questions	Marks
Correct answers	120 x 1	120
Incorrect answers	20 x ⅓	Minus 6.67
Net Marks		113.33

Net score:  113.33 out of 150

SN 2 - Answered 150 questions and 5 questions of these have been deleted   :  

Candidate B answered 150 Questions. Out of  150 questions, 141 are Correct,4 are incorrect and 5 are deleted  His score is as follows.

	No. of Questions	Marks
Correct answers	141 x 1	141
Incorrect answers	4 x ⅓	Minus 1.33
Net Marks		139.67

Provisional Score:  139.67 out of 145 

Now recalculate the same for out of 150

145      —----------  139.67 

150     —------------   ?

= 150 / 145 x 139.67  = 113.45

So Net Score = 144.49 out of 150 

SN 3 - Attempted 130 questions (out of required 150 questions) and 2 questions of 130 questions have been deleted   :  

Candidate C answered 130 Questions. Out of  130 questions, 100 are Correct,28 are incorrect and 2 are deleted  His score is as follows.

	No. of Questions	Marks
Correct answers	100 x 1	100
Incorrect answers	28 x ⅓	Minus 9.33
Net Marks		90.67

Provisional Score:  90.67 out of 148 

Now recalculate the same for out of 150

148      —----------  90.67 

150     —------------   ?

= 150 / 148 x 90.67  = 113.45

So Net Score = 91.90 out of 150 

Disclaimer:  

• Some questions in the CBT for LDCE conducted on 20 November 2022 are deleted by the Railway Board . 

• The above write up just throws light on the Railway Board’s Policy of deleted questions.  The blogger tried to explain in simple manner the Railway Board’s policy regarding the same.

• The blogger is not responsible for the mistakes or discrepancies in the above calculations or method of calculation if any.

• The candidates need to go through the Railway Board letters cited above (hyperlinks provided for download) and calculate their score accordingly. 

Note: Any mistakes in the above calculations may please be brought to the notice of the blogger for correction. Thank you

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Results of CBT LDCE conducted by NAIR on 20.11.2022

1	NR				Result	Result			Result		5
2	NCR				Result						3
3	NER	Result	Result					Result			7
4	NFR								Result		7
5	NWR								Result		2
6	WCR		Result		Result	Result					5
7	WR					Result		Result			2
8	ECR	Result	Result								6
9	ER	Result	Result		Result		Result		Result	Result	8
10	ECoR				Result						2
11	SER										5
12	SECR				Result	Result	Result				4
13	CR										2
14	SCR		Result							Result	6
15	SR	Result					Result				4
16	SWR			Result	Result				Result	Result	7
17	RCF	Result									2
18	PLW										4
19	CLW										6
20	ICF										2
21	RWF										2
22	RWP										2
23	MCF										1
24	BLW										NIL
25	RDSO										NIL
Result	Total	14	11	8	12	15	9	6	9	10	94

Key points - CBT - LDCE by NAIR 20.11.2022

• 16 Zonal Railways and 7 Production Units has covered

 

• BLW and RDSO have not been covered. 

 

• AME Post - Highest - 15 Zonal Railways / PUs 

 

• ASTE Post - Lowest - 6 Zonal Railways / PUs 

 

• Eastern Railway - Highest Departments - 8  (except ASTE) 

 

• Approximately 15k candidates appeared the LDCE Examination