SCRA Exam & Recruitment

SCRA Exam

Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination is a national level recruitment exam conducted under the supreme authorization of the Union Public Service Commission. The test is conducted once a year for the recruitment of officials in the mechanical department of the Indian Railways. The SCRA exam will be conducted once every two years, as per the railway ministry’s new rules.

The official notification and other details are published in Rozghar Samachar and the SCRA entrance exam is held
accordingly. UPSC conducts the examination in two stages i.e. written test and personality test. The written test carries 600 marks while the interview/personality test carries 200 marks. Sarkari Naukri seekers need to clear both the rounds.

Eligibility for SCRA Examination:-

The candidate must be an Indian citizen.
The candidate must fall between the age limit of 17 and 21 years.
Upper age limit relaxation- SC/ST- 5 years and OBC- 3 years.
The aspirant must have passed 12th or any equivalent exam with first or second division from recognized Board or University.
For applying for the SCRA exam the candidate must be physically fit.

Written Examination:-

The written examination includes three papers.

Subject	Marks
Paper I:- General Ability	200
Paper II:- Physical Science	200
Paper III:- Mathematics	200
Total	600

The question booklet consists of objective type questions only.
The question paper is in English only.
The use of calculators and mathematical tables are not allowed.
The total time given for each paper is two hours.

Paper I – General Ability:-

English	General Knowledge	Psychological Test
Grammar	Seasons	Introduction to psychology
Unseen passages	Climate	Reasoning
Jumbled sentences	Money	Methods of psychology
Punctuation	Man and his environment	Motivation and emotion
Sentence correction and paragraph completion	Solar system and the earth	The bases of human behavior
Passive nouns	Weather	Language and thought
Idiomatic usage	India’s foreign policy and non- alignment	Human development
Adjectives verbs and proverbs	History	Human memory
Subject and verb agreement	Politics and society in India	Learning
Articles direct and indirect speech	Broad features of Indian social system	Sensory and perceptual processes
Advertisement and notices	Constitution of India and its characteristic features	Sensory and perceptual processes
Invitations and replies business or official letters
Vocabulary

Paper-II – Physical Science:-

Physics	Chemistry
Length and measurements	Atomic structure
Radioactivity	Esters, Polymers, Nonstructural treatment of Carbohydrates
Time and mass	Chemical bonding
Properties and uses of x-rays	Carboxylic acid
Velocity and acceleration	Energy changes in a chemical reaction
Production	Nitro compounds amines
Newton’s law of motion	Chemical Equilibria and rates of reactions
Chemical effects of current	Aldehydes and ketones
Coefficient of friction	Solutions
Magnetic effect of current	Ethers, Diethyl ether
Equilibrium of bodies under the action of forces	Electro-chemistry
Electric current	Hydroxy compounds
Mass and weight	Oxidation
Temperature and its measurement	Halogen derivatives
Reflection and refraction of light	Natural and artificial radioactivity
	General methods of preparation
	Metallurgical Processes
	Hydrogen
	Tetrahedral nature of carbon

Paper III – Mathematics:-

Algebra

Probability

Matrices
and determinants

Statistics

Trigonometry

Vectors
and its applications

Analytic
geometry

Integral
calculus and differential equations

Differential
calculus

Interview/ Personality Test:-

Shortlisted govt job aspirants will be called for the personality test/ interview. This round carries 200 marks. The questions based on general interest are asked to assess the suitability of candidates as probationary officers.