RRB NTPC typing test (English) practice

Copy a passage against the clock and get scored the way the examiners do it. Pass mark: 30 WPM · 10 minutes.

Start a mock test

Who takes the RRB NTPC typing test

The Railway Recruitment Boards hold a Computer Based Typing Skill Test (CBTST) for the typist posts of the Non-Technical Popular Categories: Junior Clerk cum Typist and Accounts Clerk cum Typist at the 12th-pass level, and Senior Clerk cum Typist and Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist at the graduate level. Candidates who clear the computer-based tests are called in about eight times the number of vacancies. The test is qualifying: you need the speed, but a higher speed does not add to your merit.

The rules in the notices

• Speed: 30 words per minute in English, or 25 in Hindi, on a computer. You choose the language when you apply; English is the default.
• Time: a one-minute warm-up, a short break, then the ten-minute test that is marked.
• No editing: the notices say the test runs "without editing tools and spell check facility", and using editing tools to fix mistakes is not allowed. Practise with Backspace turned off.
• At least 300 words: a transcript of fewer than 300 English words is not marked at all.
• Mistakes: up to 5% of the words you type are forgiven; each further mistake takes off ten words. Speed = (words typed − 10 × mistakes) ÷ 10.
• Finished early? If you reach the end of the passage, you may type it again from the beginning.

Candidates with some disabilities, such as low vision or a locomotor disability of 40% or more, can be exempted with a Medical Board certificate. These rules come from the notices for CEN 05/2024 and 06/2024, repeated in CEN 06/2025 and 07/2025; read the special instructions for your own test.

How to practise for it

Because every mistake beyond the allowance costs a whole word per minute, a typist at 40 WPM with sloppy typing can fail while a careful one at 34 WPM passes. Aim for about 35 WPM with no more than two or three mistakes per hundred words, always with Backspace off, and keep a steady pace for the full ten minutes rather than rushing at the end. The mock test here scores you the RRB way and shows every mistake word by word.

A worked example

A word here is five key depressions, so 400 words is 2,000 key depressions. Say you type 400 words in the 10 minutes and make 30 mistakes:

• Mistakes up to 5% of the words typed are forgiven: 5% of 400 is 20, so 10 mistakes count.
• Each counted mistake takes off ten words: (400 − 10 × 10) ÷ 10 = 30 WPM.

That passes. With 40 mistakes the same typing gives 20 WPM: every mistake beyond the allowance costs a whole word per minute, so accuracy matters far more here than in the SSC test. And at fewer than 300 words the typing is not marked at all.

How the mock test is scored

As in the RRB notices: words are five key depressions; mistakes up to 5% of the words typed are forgiven, and each further mistake takes off ten words over the ten minutes, so net speed = (words − 10 × mistakes) ÷ 10. Typing is not marked below 300 words. Backspace starts turned off, because the test allows no editing, and a finished passage starts again from the beginning. Each wrong, missing or extra word counts as a full mistake here; the official test counts some (such as spacing) as half mistakes, so your real result may be a little better. You get a word-by-word review of every mistake.

Three mock tests a day are free. Exam rules change between notices: always check the official notice for your post. See typing speed for government jobs for the requirements we track and their sources.