Railway TTE Syllabus: Subjects and Topic Checklist

The Railway TTE syllabus is a question many aspirants ask first, and the honest answer needs a small clarification. Travelling Ticket Examiner is a Commercial Department post that is filled mainly through promotion, so there is no single official "TTE syllabus" published by the Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs). What the RRBs do publish, in the current NTPC notifications (CEN 06/2026 and CEN 07/2026), are the test subjects for the computer-based tests (CBTs) that lead into commercial roles.

This page gives you a working topic checklist for those subjects, explains how to read it, and shows how to cover it in a sensible order. Departmental selections for ticket examiner posts follow the notice issued by the concerned railway, so check that notice if you are a serving employee.

Table of Contents

• A note on what is official

• Syllabus at a glance

• Key points to know before you start

• General Awareness syllabus

• Mathematics syllabus

• General Intelligence and Reasoning syllabus

• Overlap between CBT 1 and CBT 2

• Departmental route and commercial rules

• How to cover the syllabus

A note on what is official

The RRB names the tests and gives the number of questions for each subject, but it does not publish a topic-wise syllabus for the NTPC CBTs. The topic lists below are built from the official subject headings and from areas that have been asked in earlier NTPC papers. Use them as a working checklist, not as an official list.

Syllabus at a glance

The subjects are the same for both stages. Only the number of questions changes. The figures below are for CEN 06/2026, the graduate-level notification, and the pattern is reported to be the same structure for the 12th-level notification. Confirm on the official site.

Key points to know before you start

• No separate TTE paper: Be careful with pages that list a fixed "TTE syllabus" with technical or electrical sections. We found no official notice that supports that format for the current cycle.

• Same subjects, deeper questions in CBT 2: The topics repeat, but CBT 2 has more questions and tends to test them in more depth.

• General Awareness is the largest section: It carries 40 of 100 marks in CBT 1 and 50 of 120 in CBT 2, so it should never be left for the last month.

• No typing test in the graduate cycle: The CEN 06/2026 notification dispenses with the computer-based typing skill test. Check the CEN 07/2026 notification for the clerk posts, as reports differ.

General Awareness syllabus

General Awareness questions are factual and are usually asked in a direct format. The topic list below is a checklist, with a suggested starting point.

Railway awareness is a smaller part of the paper, but it is the part where commercial-department aspirants should be most comfortable. Revise it in short, repeated rounds.

Mathematics syllabus

The Mathematics section is built around class 10 level arithmetic, with some algebra, geometry and data handling. Speed matters more than difficulty here.

Percentage, profit and loss and time-and-work questions form the base for many other chapters. Lock these in first, then add the rest.

General Intelligence and Reasoning syllabus

Reasoning questions reward practice more than reading. A steady daily set is more useful than long weekend sessions.

• Verbal reasoning: Analogies, classification, coding-decoding, blood relations, syllogism, statements and conclusions, statements and arguments.

• Series and arrangements: Number and alphabet series, direction sense, ranking and order, jumbled arrangements.

• Logic and visuals: Venn diagrams, mathematical operations, similarities and differences, data sufficiency and basic puzzles.

• Decision making: Analysing information, drawing conclusions and checking consistency.

Overlap between CBT 1 and CBT 2

You do not need to study twice. The syllabus is shared, so your plan should cover it once and raise the level over time.

Departmental route and commercial rules

If you are already in a railway commercial or clerical grade and are preparing for a departmental selection, the syllabus will come from your zonal railway's notice and is likely to include ticketing and commercial rules of your department. We have not found an official topic list for the ticket examiner selection, so we do not list one here. Collect the latest notice and the relevant departmental manuals from your office.

How to cover the syllabus

1. Weeks 1 to 6, build the base: Cover arithmetic basics and reasoning types, and start a daily 30 minute General Awareness reading habit.

2. Weeks 3 to 8, add current affairs: Make monthly notes, and keep static topics such as polity and geography in separate notes.

3. Weeks 6 to 10, topic and sectional tests: Take topic-wise tests and 20 minute sectional tests, and record your errors.

4. Weeks 10 onward, full mocks: Attempt full-length tests in the 90 minute format and spend the next day analysing them.

5. Last two weeks, revise: Revisit your error log, formula sheet and current affairs notes.

Check the final subject list and any change on the official RRB website before you finalise your plan.