RRB Technician Grade 3 Previous Year Question Paper: How to Use It

Before you open an RRB technician grade 3 previous year question paper, check its pattern

Recent technician CBTs (CEN 02/2024 onwards) follow one format for each grade, so make sure the old paper you pick matches it:

Papers from the 2018 recruitment were part of a combined Assistant Loco Pilot and technician exam with a different, shorter first stage. They are still useful for topic practice, but do not use them to judge timing. Every chapter is listed on our RRB technician syllabus page.

What past technician papers show

Reports from candidates after the CEN 02/2024 shifts and later shifts point to a few steady habits of the paper setters:

• Science is NCERT based. Grade III science questions are mostly one line facts or short numericals from class 9 and 10 physics, chemistry and biology: laws of motion, mirrors and lenses, electric circuits, acids and bases, human organs, tissues.
• Maths is arithmetic, with a little algebra and geometry. Percentages, ratio, time and work, speed, mensuration and simplification appear in almost every shift.
• Reasoning is easy to moderate but seating arrangement and puzzles take time.
• General awareness tilts to current affairs, roughly half the 10 questions in recent shifts.
• Signal papers give their largest science share to circuits, current and magnets, while the computer part sticks to terms, hardware, networks, operating systems and office software.

These patterns come from candidate feedback, not from RRB, so use them as a guide rather than a promise.

How to practise with a technician grade 3 previous year paper

1. Week 1, untimed: solve one paper section by section with notes open. Circle each one that stumped you and note which chapter it belongs to.
2. Weeks 2 to 6, sectional: take only the science part of two or three papers at a time, 30 minutes for 40 questions, then only maths and reasoning.
3. From week 7, full timed papers: 90 minutes, no breaks, one each weekend. Score yourself with the 1/3 penalty.
4. After every paper: write the wrong and skipped questions in one notebook, grouped by chapter. Revise that notebook, not the whole book.

Five original practice questions

Each item below is original, pitched at the level technician aspirants report from the hall; none is lifted from an RRB paper. Check your picks against the key below.

1. (Grade III, physics) The image formed by a convex mirror for any position of the object is: (a) real and inverted (b) virtual, erect and diminished (c) virtual and enlarged (d) real and of the same size
2. (Grade III, chemistry) Which gas is given off when zinc granules react with dilute hydrochloric acid? (a) Oxygen (b) Chlorine (c) Hydrogen (d) Carbon dioxide
3. (Maths) One pipe fills a tank in 12 hours and another empties it in 18 hours. If both are opened together on an empty tank, it fills in: (a) 30 hours (b) 36 hours (c) 24 hours (d) 6 hours
4. (Reasoning) Find the next number: 3, 7, 15, 31, ? (a) 47 (b) 61 (c) 63 (d) 62
5. (Grade I Signal, basic science) A 2 kW heater runs for 3 hours. The energy used is: (a) 1.5 kWh (b) 5 kWh (c) 6 kWh (d) 0.6 kWh

Answers: 1 (b), 2 (c), 3 (b), 4 (c), 5 (c).

Using a technician grade 1 previous year paper

Grade I Signal papers are fewer, because the post has far fewer vacancies, so stretch each one further. Solve the 35 basic science and engineering questions twice: once for marks, and again a month later to check whether the weak chapters have improved. The 20 computer questions reward plain recall, so turn every wrong one into a flash card. Since this grade also shares maths and reasoning topics with Grade III, Grade III papers make good extra practice for those two sections.

Official sources for the railway technician previous year question paper

RRB does not run a public archive of old papers, but it does release them in one official way:

• When the provisional answer key is published, each candidate can log in through the link on the RRB websites and see the full question paper of their own shift, with their responses and the official key. Download and save it while the link is open, as it is taken down after the objection window.
• The CEN and later notices are on the regional RRB websites, for example RRB Chandigarh.

Copies circulating later are usually built from these response sheets or from memory. Check that any copy you use has 100 questions in the official section order before trusting it. Once you are scoring steadily, compare yourself with the RRB technician cut off for your trade.

Common mistakes when solving old papers

• Checking answers after every question. You lose the feel of time pressure.
• Ignoring the 1/3 penalty while scoring yourself, which makes your scores look higher than they would be on the day.
• Practising only maths because it feels productive, while 40 science marks wait.
• Using papers from the wrong grade. A Grade III aspirant gains little from Grade I computer questions.

If you have not yet confirmed you qualify, read the eligibility rules for both grades first.