RRB NTPC CBT 2 Answer Key 2026: Objection Window, Score Calculation & What Comes Next

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RRB released the provisional CBT 2 answer key for Graduate posts (CEN 06/2025) on 15 July 2026, along with the response sheet, after the exam concluded on 10 July. The objection window closed on 22 July 2026. This page covers the answer key process and how to estimate your CBT 2 score.

RRB's answer key process for the NTPC Graduate CBT 2 followed the format the board has used consistently across recent NTPC and other CBT-based exams: rather than a single static PDF for public download, the provisional answer key was made available on 15 July 2026 at 4:00 PM through individual candidate login — either on a candidate's regional RRB website or the shared candidate portal rrb.digialm.com — alongside that candidate's own response sheet and the specific question paper used in their exam shift, since CBT 2 ran across multiple shifts on its single exam day with different question sets rotated between sessions. This personalised structure lets a candidate directly compare their marked answers against RRB's provisional key for their exact paper, which is a meaningfully more precise self-assessment tool than a single generic key would offer across a multi-shift exam. Accompanying the release was a formal objection window, open from 15 July at 4:00 PM through 22 July at 11:55 PM, during which any candidate who believed a specific question had an incorrect, ambiguous, or out-of-syllabus answer could submit a formal challenge online, backed by a fee of ₹50 per question challenged plus applicable bank charges; RRB's standard practice, consistent with prior cycles, is to refund this fee for any objection its subject-matter review panel ultimately upholds, while declining to entertain objections submitted after the deadline or through any channel outside the official online portal. It's worth being precise about exactly what the provisional key does and does not tell a candidate at this stage. On the calculation side, it allows a fairly confident estimate of raw score using RRB's standard, unchanged marking scheme: CBT 2 carries 120 questions across three sections — Mathematics (35 questions), General Intelligence and Reasoning (35 questions) and General Awareness (50 questions) — each worth 1 mark, with a flat one-third (0.33) mark deducted for every incorrect response and no penalty at all for questions left unattempted, giving a maximum raw score of 120 across the 90-minute paper. What the provisional key does not do is confirm whether a candidate has cleared the cutoff, both because RRB does not publish a cutoff figure alongside the answer key, and — more importantly for this specific exam — because the marks that ultimately decide Graduate merit are not raw scores at all but normalised scores, adjusted across the exam's multiple shifts to correct for difficulty variance between sessions using an equipercentile method; this adjustment can shift a candidate's effective standing somewhat compared to a purely raw-marks estimate, which is exactly why a strong self-calculated score from the answer key should be read as a directional signal of likely performance rather than a precise, guaranteed prediction of qualification. As of this update, RRB has not separately published a finalised, post-objection answer key as a standalone public document; based on how this board has handled the process in earlier NTPC cycles, the finalised key — incorporating whatever objections the review panel accepted during the 15-22 July window — is typically used internally to compute the result rather than being republished on its own, meaning the practical next milestone for candidates to actually watch for is the CBT 2 result announcement itself, not a separate 'final key' release. Most exam-preparation platforms have, in the meantime, used the 15 July provisional key to publish their own crowd-sourced expected-cutoff estimates, built from aggregated self-reported scores across the various shifts and zones, though — consistent with the caution that applies to any pre-official figure — none of these carry weight until RRB's own zone-wise, category-wise cutoff is published alongside the declared result, expected in the second week of August 2026. Candidates should also keep in mind that the Undergraduate stream (CEN 07/2025) went through its own, entirely separate CBT 1 answer key cycle earlier — released 27 June 2026 with objections closing 5 July 2026 — and that stream's CBT 1 result is itself still pending independently of the Graduate CBT 2 process described here, so candidates tracking both streams should be careful not to conflate the two timelines when checking for updates.

आरआरबी एनटीपीसी ग्रेजुएट सीबीटी-2 (सीईएन 06/2025) की अनंतिम उत्तर कुंजी 15 जुलाई 2026 (शाम 4 बजे) को उम्मीदवार लॉगिन के माध्यम से जारी की गई, साथ ही व्यक्तिगत रिस्पॉन्स शीट और प्रश्नपत्र भी उपलब्ध कराए गए। आपत्ति दर्ज करने की अंतिम तिथि 22 जुलाई 2026 (रात 11:55 बजे) थी, जिसके लिए प्रति प्रश्न ₹50 का शुल्क देना होता था — यदि आपत्ति सही पाई जाती है तो यह शुल्क वापस कर दिया जाता है। स्कोर गणना: सही उत्तर x 1 - गलत उत्तर x 0.33। सीबीटी-2 में कुल 120 प्रश्न होते हैं — गणित (35), सामान्य बुद्धि व तर्कशक्ति (35), और सामान्य जागरूकता (50)। चूंकि परीक्षा कई शिफ्टों में हुई थी, इसलिए अंतिम मेरिट नॉर्मलाइज्ड अंकों पर आधारित होगी, कच्चे अंकों पर नहीं। अंतिम उत्तर कुंजी अलग से जारी नहीं होगी — यह सीधे परिणाम की गणना में उपयोग होगी, जो अगस्त के दूसरे सप्ताह में आने की उम्मीद है।

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