RRB NTPC Admit Card 2026: CBT 1/CBT 2 Recap & Upcoming Undergraduate CBT 2 Call Letter

Exam Snapshot / परीक्षा अवलोकन

Important Dates & Event Schedule / तिथियां

Admit Card & City Intimation Schedule / प्रवेश पत्र हाइलाइट्स

Exam Shift Timings & Gate Rules / परीक्षा पाली एवं समय

Mandatory Documents Required / आवश्यक दस्तावेज

• ✓Printed copy of the CBT admit card
• ✓Original Aadhaar Card — compulsory for biometric verification at the centre, in addition to any other photo ID
• ✓One recent passport-size photograph matching the one used at registration

Aadhaar Biometric Verification Rules / बायोमेट्रिक नियम

Admit Card Download Instructions / डाउनलोड निर्देश

RRB released the Graduate CBT 2 city intimation slip on 1 July and the admit card on 6 July 2026, ahead of the exam held 10 July. Both Graduate CBT stages are now complete. This page recaps that process and covers the upcoming Undergraduate CBT 2 admit card for the 17 September 2026 exam.

Understanding the RRB NTPC admit card process for 2025-26 requires tracking two separate but structurally identical pipelines, since the Graduate (CEN 06/2025) and Undergraduate (CEN 07/2025) streams each generate their own city intimation slip and admit card ahead of every CBT stage they run. For the Graduate stream, which has progressed the furthest, both admit-card cycles are now complete: the CBT 1 admit card was released ahead of the 16-27 March 2026 exam window, and the CBT 2 admit card followed the same two-step pattern RRB uses across its exams — a City Intimation Slip issued roughly ten days out (1 July 2026, ahead of the 10 July CBT 2), telling candidates only their allotted exam city so they could plan travel, followed by the actual e-admit card with the precise venue, shift and reporting time released closer to the date, on 6 July 2026. Both documents were available only through candidate login on the regional RRB website or the shared candidate portal rrb.digialm.com, using a Registration Number and Date of Birth or password, and RRB has never issued either document by post or through any channel outside its own official portals — a point worth repeating given how frequently unofficial coaching-site links circulate during high-traffic admit-card windows. One feature of this particular recruitment cycle that candidates preparing for future RRB NTPC stages should note carefully is the introduction of mandatory Aadhaar-linked biometric verification at every CBT centre, layered on top of the standard photo-ID check; RRB's own notices explicitly instructed candidates to carry their original Aadhaar card and to ensure their Aadhaar biometric lock was deactivated ahead of exam day, since a locked Aadhaar can block the fingerprint or photo verification step and risk denial of entry regardless of how correctly every other document was in order. Both CBT 1 and CBT 2 ran for 90 minutes per sitting (extended to 120 minutes for PwBD candidates using a scribe), and — consistent with how RRB structures its large-scale CBTs — were conducted across multiple shifts per day at each centre to accommodate the sheer volume of candidates (over 28 lakh appeared in Graduate CBT 1 alone), meaning gate-closure times were enforced strictly and candidates were advised to report at least 90 minutes ahead of their allotted shift, since the specific reporting and gate-closure windows are printed only on each individual's own admit card rather than following one universal time across all shifts and centres. With the Graduate stream's CBT stages now fully behind it and the CBT 2 result awaited, the admit-card story for that stream effectively pauses here until a CBAT or Typing Skill Test call letter follows the result — a separate, later document not yet issued. The genuinely outstanding admit card right now belongs to the Undergraduate stream: CBT 2 for CEN 07/2025 has already been officially scheduled for 17 September 2026, meaning its city intimation slip should be expected roughly ten days prior, around the first week of September, with the full e-admit card following a few days closer to the exam, mirroring the same two-step release pattern the Graduate stream just went through. Candidates in the Undergraduate stream who cleared CBT 1 — whose result is itself still awaited as of this update, expected around the first week of August 2026 — should therefore watch for two sequential releases over the coming weeks: first the CBT 1 result confirming their advancement, then the CBT 2 city slip and admit card as the September exam approaches. Given how RRB has run this cycle so far, with reasonably tight windows between each stage's completion and the next document's release, candidates on either stream are well advised to check their regional RRB website and the rrb.digialm.com portal directly and regularly during these transition periods rather than relying on any single predicted date from aggregator sites, since RRB's own official notice remains the only authoritative source for exact release timing at every stage of this recruitment.

आरआरबी एनटीपीसी के लिए दो अलग-अलग प्रवेश पत्र चक्र चल रहे हैं — स्नातक स्तर (सीईएन 06/2025) और अंडरग्रेजुएट स्तर (सीईएन 07/2025)। स्नातक स्तर के दोनों सीबीटी चरण अब पूरे हो चुके हैं: सीबीटी-2 के लिए एग्जाम सिटी स्लिप 1 जुलाई 2026 को तथा प्रवेश पत्र 6 जुलाई 2026 को जारी हुआ था, परीक्षा 10 जुलाई 2026 को हुई। इस चक्र में एक महत्वपूर्ण बदलाव यह रहा कि हर केंद्र पर अनिवार्य आधार-लिंक्ड बायोमेट्रिक सत्यापन लागू किया गया, इसलिए उम्मीदवारों को मूल आधार कार्ड साथ लाने और आधार का बायोमेट्रिक लॉक पहले से खोलने की सलाह दी गई थी। अब अगला वास्तविक रूप से प्रतीक्षित प्रवेश पत्र अंडरग्रेजुएट स्तर की सीबीटी-2 परीक्षा (17 सितंबर 2026) के लिए है, जिसकी सिटी स्लिप सितंबर के पहले सप्ताह के आसपास और प्रवेश पत्र उसके कुछ दिन बाद जारी होने की उम्मीद है।

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