RRB JE — Civil Engineering
Railway Recruitment Board Junior Engineer, Civil. This page carries the CBT structure and the subject route through the technical syllabus. As with SSC JE, there is no dedicated RRB JE series yet — the note under the tests says exactly what is and is not served.
Subjects
Choose a subject to see its tests and notes.
Mock Tests
RRB JE runs in two computer-based stages: CBT 1 is general (maths, reasoning, general awareness and science), CBT 2 adds the discipline's technical paper. Mock Test Mitra serves the Civil technical subjects through the shared banks, written at ESE and GATE depth. CBT 1's general sections are not served today.
Study Material
RRB JE — the two computer-based tests
| Stage | Content | Questions | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| CBT 1 | Mathematics, General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, General Science | 100 | 90 minutes |
| CBT 2 | General Awareness, Physics & Chemistry, Basics of Computers, Environment | 50 | 120 minutes (whole paper) |
| CBT 2 | Technical Abilities — Civil Engineering | 100 | — |
Mock Test Mitra is a practice platform, not a conducting authority. The RRB sets the pattern, marking and normalisation, and these vary between notifications — verify against the current RRB JE notification.
Syllabus coverage
- Building Materials — Cement, concrete mix design (IS 10262), mortar, lime, timber, bricks and stones.
- Strength of Materials — Stress-strain, SFD/BMD, bending and shear stresses, deflection, torsion, columns, Mohr's circle.
- Theory of Structures — Determinate and indeterminate analysis, influence lines, energy methods, matrix stiffness.
- Design of Structures — RCC limit state design (IS 456:2000) and steel design (IS 800:2007) — beams, slabs, columns, footings.
- Geotechnical Engineering — Soil classification, permeability, consolidation, shear strength, bearing capacity, pile foundations.
- Hydraulics & Fluid Mechanics — Fluid properties, hydrostatics, Bernoulli, pipe flow, open channel flow, hydraulic machines.
- Engineering Hydrology — Precipitation, runoff, hydrographs, flood routing, groundwater.
- Irrigation Engineering — Crop water requirements, canal design, cross-drainage works, dams.
- Environmental Engineering — Water quality, coagulation, filtration, chlorination, sewage treatment and disposal.
- Transportation Engineering — Highway geometric design, pavement design (IRC:37, IRC:58), traffic engineering, railways.
- Surveying — Levelling, theodolite, traversing, triangulation, curves, total station and GPS.
- CPM & PERT — Network diagrams, critical path, float, crashing and PERT probabilistic timing.
- Reasoning — Analogies, series, coding-decoding, classification and non-verbal reasoning.
- General Awareness — Current events, history, polity, geography, economy and everyday science.
About RRB JE — Civil Engineering
Does Mock Test Mitra have RRB JE mock tests?
Not a dedicated series. The Civil Engineering subject banks cover the CBT 2 technical topics, but at ESE and GATE depth rather than RRB JE's. They build concepts; they do not simulate the paper. A dedicated series is in preparation.
Is RRB JE the same as the railway departmental promotion exams?
No, and the difference matters. RRB JE is a recruitment exam for candidates outside the railways. LDCE and GDCE are promotion exams for serving employees, examined on the railway's own manuals — those are covered separately on the Railway Promotional hub.
What does RRB JE CBT 2 contain for Civil candidates?
A general section (general awareness, physics and chemistry, basics of computers, environment) plus a 100-question Technical Abilities section on Civil Engineering. Confirm the current structure against the RRB notification.
Which Civil subjects should I start with?
Building Materials, Surveying, Hydraulics and Soil Mechanics carry the most conceptual, one-liner questions — closer in shape to what the technical section asks than long derivations are.