RPF SI 2024 Exam

RPF Recruitment 2023: Railway Recruitment Board organizes RPF (Railway Police Force) Recruitment Examination nationally to select eligible candidates for the post of Constables and Sub-Inspectors. Both Male and Female candidates are eligible to apply for the available post in Railway Police Force. RPF Recruitment Notification will be released announcing RPF Exam dates, Exam Pattern, Syllabus & More. 

Railway Recruitment Board will release RPF 2023 Exam Dates for the posts of Constable & Sub-Inspector along with its RPF Notification. The complete schedule for RPF Recruitment 2023 will be updated here as soon as announced officially. 
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The eligibility criteria for this exam usually remain the same every year. These include:

• Candidates should fall in the age of 18-25 years. Age relaxation is available for students belonging to reserved categories.
• Individuals who have qualified for their 10th/12th/Diploma/Graduation from a recognised board/university/institution in any stream can apply for Railway Protection Force Exam. Candidates who have not received their final certificates will not be considered eligible.
• A Candidate should be an Indian Citizen.

Applying candidates qualifying for this exam will need to get a copy of their admit card before the exam in the following way:

Step 1: Visit the official Indian Railways website and click on the ‘Admit Card’ tab.

Step 2: Enter your application ID/Registration ID and password.

Step 3: Download your admit card.

Step 4:Finally, take a print out and make multiple copies of this document for future reference.

• Computer Based Test (Stage I) - The written exam shall begin with this computer based test with 120 questions for 90 minutes. The CBT exam is an objective type paper which comprises 3 different subjects namely - General Awareness, Arithmetic section, and General Intelligence and Reasoning session. 
• The standard of questions in the examination shall be of graduation level. Each question shall carry 1 mark. And there shall be negative marking in case of wrong answers which shall be about 1/3rd of the marks. 
• No marks shall be awarded or deducted in case of questions which are not attempted by the candidates. Candidates shall be required to score around 35% marks (30% marks in case of SC & ST candidates) in order to clear the CBT exam.

Note: Candidates shall have the options for choosing a language for CBT from among Hindi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Konkani, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Odia, Assamese, Manipuri as well as Punjabi.

The CBT exam is for a total of 120 marks and below mentioned table has the details of subject-wise weightage. Candidates can make a note of this and accordingly prepare a strategy before the examination. 

Depending on the merit list of the CBT exam, candidates will be short listed for this stage and they shall be called for PET (Physical Efficiency Test) or PMT (Physical Measurement Test). The number of candidates appearing for this stage are usually around 10 times the number of vacancies. It is essential that the aspirants clear the PET as well as it is qualifying in nature as well. Candidates shall need to pass all the tests to be considered for selection in the RPF SI 2023 exam. The complete RPF SI Exam Pattern 2023 for PET is given below:

• When it comes to the Physical Efficiency Test, candidates have to make sure they are well prepared. You have to be physically fit as well in numerous categories like a 1600/800 metre run as well prove yourself in terms of long jump and high jump as mentioned in the table below. 
• However, criteria varies in case of male & female candidates. The following table has the details of the PET exam.

RPF SI Cut off 2022 will be released along with the scorecard separately for Computer-Based Test (CBT) and final selection. To qualify the CBT, candidates need to secure the category-wise qualifying marks and overall cutoff marks. There is no qualifying marks for PET/PMT, however, it is mandatory to qualify it. The cutoff is released separately for male and female candidates.

To apply for the RPF SI 2022 test, competitors needed to follow the step given below.

• Visit the official website.
• Fill information including name, date of birth, parent's name, classification, training board, class 10 move number, versatile number and email ID
• Subsequent to filling all information, click on 'Submit'
• On submitting, enrollment number and secret word was created alongside OTP which are sent to registered contact number and email ID
• Login to outfit data, for example, instructive capability, sex, religion, and so on.
• Subsequent to giving imperative subtleties, applicants needed to make fee payment.
• Having effectively made payment of a charge, aspirants need to fill 'Section 3' of the application form.
• Section 3 comprises of detail of education, the decision of the group, inclination of zone/RPSF, the decision of test language
• Competitors currently need to transfer filtered duplicates of photo in recommended measurements
• Subsequent to transferring pictures, applicants needed to sign the statement
• Subsequent to marking the statement, applicants can check filled application structure
• Subsequent to affirming, applicants can print a duplicate of the application for future reference