RRB NTPC Graduate CBT 2 Result 2026: Expected Date, Cutoff Basis & Direct Login Steps

Exam Snapshot / परीक्षा अवलोकन

Important Dates & Event Schedule / तिथियां

Result & Shortlisting Highlights / परिणाम हाइलाइट्स

CBT-1 Category Cutoff Marks / श्रेणीवार कटऑफ मार्क्स

Score Normalization Formula / नॉर्मलाइजेशन प्रक्रिया

Result Check Instructions & Next Steps / परिणाम निर्देश

RRB conducted the NTPC Graduate CBT 2 (CEN 06/2025) on 10 July 2026, released the provisional answer key on 15 July, and closed objections on 22 July 2026. As of this update, the CBT 2 result — which actually decides Graduate merit — has not been declared, though multiple sources place it in the second week of August 2026.

The wait for the RRB NTPC Graduate CBT 2 result has now entered its most anticipated phase, and it's worth being precise about exactly where things stand as of this update, because the timeline for this particular cycle has been unusually well-telegraphed by RRB's own notices. The Graduate-level Computer Based Test 2 under CEN No. 06/2025 was conducted in a single day, 10 July 2026, for the roughly 87,000 to 88,000 candidates who had been shortlisted out of the more than 28 lakh who appeared in CBT 1 back in March. Unlike CBT 1, which functions purely as a screening filter with its marks discarded the moment shortlisting is complete, CBT 2 is the stage that genuinely decides Graduate merit — every mark scored here, once normalised, carries forward into the final ranking, which is precisely why the result of this particular exam matters so much more than the CBT 1 result did. Following the exam, RRB moved through its standard post-exam sequence at a fairly brisk pace: the provisional answer key and individual response sheets were released on 15 July 2026, giving candidates the ability to compare their marked responses against RRB's official key, and the formal objection window — where candidates could challenge a specific question for a fee of ₹50 each, refundable if the challenge was upheld — ran through 22 July 2026. Based on RRB's own historical pattern for this exam, the finalised, post-objection answer key typically follows within one to two weeks, and the result itself usually lands a short window after that; multiple independent exam-preparation and exam-news platforms, tracking this specific timeline, have converged on the second week of August 2026 as the expected release window for the CBT 2 result — a window that has already opened as of this update, meaning candidates should be checking daily rather than waiting for a single predicted date, since RRB has not issued a formal, official result-date announcement as of this page's last update. It's worth being equally precise about what remains genuinely unknown right now: RRB has not released the actual CBT 2 cutoff, and the only cutoff figures currently public are the statutory minimum qualifying percentages that apply uniformly across RRB exams — 40% for General and EWS candidates, 30% for OBC (Non-Creamy Layer) and SC candidates, and 25% for ST candidates — which represent a floor a candidate must clear to remain in contention, not the substantially higher, zone-and-category-specific actual cutoff that RRB publishes alongside the real result. For reference, the CBT 1 cutoff for this cycle was released zone-wise and category-wise on 11 June 2026 alongside that stage's result, and a broadly similar release pattern — cutoff figures published simultaneously with the result PDF, not before it — should be expected for CBT 2 as well. Once declared, the CBT 2 result will not be a simple raw-marks ranking: because the exam ran across multiple shifts on its single exam day, RRB applies an equipercentile normalisation process that adjusts each candidate's raw score based on how their specific session's mean and spread of marks compared to the exam overall, correcting for the reality that different shifts inevitably carry marginally different difficulty levels; the normalised score, not the raw score, is what determines both the cutoff and the eventual merit position. Candidates will be able to check their status through two parallel channels once the result goes live: a public, roll-number-based result PDF published zone-wise (since each of the 21 RRB zones — from Ahmedabad and Ajmer through to Thiruvananthapuram — releases its own regional result independently, meaning the rollout can stagger by a day or two across zones even after the first regions go live) and an individual scorecard accessible by logging into the candidate portal with a Registration Number and Date of Birth, which typically shows the normalised score and category-wise cutoff in more detail than the headline PDF. What happens immediately after the result is declared depends on which post a candidate applied for, and this is a structural point worth understanding clearly before the result lands: candidates who opted for Station Master or Traffic Assistant move into the Computer-Based Aptitude Test (CBAT), a psychometric-style test with no negative marking where a minimum T-score of 42 is required in each test battery, and where the eventual merit for these two posts specifically combines 70% weightage from the CBT 2 score with 30% weightage from the CBAT score — meaning a strong CBT 2 rank alone does not guarantee selection for these particular posts without also clearing the CBAT threshold. Candidates who applied for Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist or Senior Clerk cum Typist instead move to a qualifying-only Typing Skill Test, requiring 30 words per minute in English or 25 words per minute in Hindi, with no marks added to the merit score but disqualification on failure. Candidates who applied for Goods Train Manager — the single largest post in this cycle at 3,416 vacancies — or Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor skip both the CBAT and typing stages entirely and proceed straight from the CBT 2 result to Document Verification and a Medical Examination, making CBT 2 itself the last written or skill-based hurdle for these two posts. Given how tightly the past few weeks of this cycle have been sequenced — a 10 July exam followed by a 15 July answer key and a 22 July objection close, all pointing toward an August result — candidates who cleared CBT 1 and sat CBT 2 should treat the coming days as the genuinely live window to watch, and, if applying for Station Master or Traffic Assistant, should already be brushing up on CBAT-style aptitude and psychometric practice rather than waiting for the CBT 2 result to start that preparation, since the gap between a CBT 2 result and the subsequent CBAT call has historically been measured in weeks rather than months for this exam.

आरआरबी एनटीपीसी ग्रेजुएट सीबीटी-2 परीक्षा (सीईएन 06/2025) 10 जुलाई 2026 को आयोजित हुई थी, जिसमें सीबीटी-1 से क्वालीफाई हुए लगभग 87,000-88,000 उम्मीदवारों ने भाग लिया। अनंतिम उत्तर कुंजी 15 जुलाई 2026 को जारी हुई और आपत्ति दर्ज करने की अंतिम तिथि 22 जुलाई 2026 थी। इस अपडेट तक, सीबीटी-2 का परिणाम — जो वास्तव में स्नातक स्तर की मेरिट तय करता है — घोषित नहीं हुआ है, हालांकि कई विश्वसनीय स्रोत अगस्त के दूसरे सप्ताह में इसके आने की उम्मीद जता रहे हैं। आधिकारिक तौर पर अभी केवल न्यूनतम अर्हता प्रतिशत ही सार्वजनिक है — सामान्य/ईडब्ल्यूएस के लिए 40%, ओबीसी/एससी के लिए 30%, और एसटी के लिए 25% — जबकि वास्तविक क्षेत्र-वार और श्रेणी-वार कट-ऑफ परिणाम के साथ ही जारी होगी। सीबीटी-2 कई शिफ्टों में आयोजित हुई थी, इसलिए नॉर्मलाइज्ड अंकों के आधार पर ही मेरिट सूची तैयार होगी। परिणाम के बाद स्टेशन मास्टर व ट्रैफिक असिस्टेंट के लिए सीबीएटी (70% सीबीटी-2 + 30% सीबीएटी), टाइपिस्ट पदों के लिए टाइपिंग स्किल टेस्ट, तथा गुड्स ट्रेन मैनेजर व सीसीटीएस के लिए सीधे दस्तावेज़ सत्यापन होगा।

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