The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has released an important notice regarding the Computer Based Typing Skill Test (CBTST) for recruitment of various NTPC graduate and Under Graduate posts.
As per the latest RRB notice, the CBTST is scheduled to be held on August 12, 2022. The city intimation slip will be live by August 3 and the candidates are required to type at least 300 words in English or 250 words in Hindi.
The exam session consists of three parts:
(i) Typing practice for one minute to warm up and familiarize with key board.
(ii) Break of 30 seconds.
(iii) Typing Test for 10 minutes which will be taken for evaluation.
“As the skill test is to determine the speed, candidates who have completed the passage can retype passage from the beginning within the duration of test i.e. 10 minutes. Candidates who do not type the whole passage at least once in 10 minutes will be treated as disqualified,” the RRB notice read.
Evaluation of the passage:
The mistakes will be classified as full mistakes and half mistakes. 5% mistakes of the total words typed may be ignored.
The minimum speed should be 30 words per minute in English and 25 words per minute in Hindi.