RRB NTPC Cut Off: RRB Chennai Marks for Graduate and Class 12 Posts

The Class 12 CBT-1 was held from 7 to 9 May and 13 to 20 June 2026. RRB Chennai's result of 24 August 2026 called 1,202 candidates to CBT-2 (RRB Chennai result notice, copy) for 80 posts: 21 Commercial cum Ticket Clerk, 58 Accounts Clerk cum Typist (56 in Southern Railway, 2 at ICF) and 1 Trains Clerk. It had no Junior Clerk cum Typist posts this time (CEN 07/2025, archived copy).

CBT-1 cut-offs as reported by Careerpower (RRB Chennai's PDF would not open for us):

Category 3 is Junior Clerk cum Typist, which RRB Chennai did not have. Trains Clerk had a single UR post, so its cut-off was decided within a very small group of candidates. At RRB Chennai the Class 12 cut-offs were mostly higher than the graduate ones, in this cycle and in the 2024 cycle below.

CBT-2 was held on 17 September 2026. The answer key was open for objections from 24 to 30 September (reported by CareerIndia), and the result had not been declared as of 11 October 2026.

These come from RRB Chennai's own notices (archived copies of the files on rrbchennai.gov.in).

Graduate, CEN 05/2024 (CBT-1, notice of 19 September 2025)

Source: RRB Chennai cut-off notice, archived copy. RRB Chennai had 436 posts in that notice, 155 of them CCTS.

Class 12, CEN 06/2024 (CBT-1, notice of 21 November 2025)

Source: RRB Chennai cut-off notice, archived copy. The Trains Clerk figure is 80.94703 in the notice; some coaching tables print it as 90.94703, so check odd-looking numbers against the RRB's own PDF.

That cycle has reached document verification. RRB Chennai's document verification cut-off, on CBT-2 marks out of 100, was 84.21 for UR and OBC, 82.75 for EWS, 81.87 for SC and 78.47 for ST in Commercial cum Ticket Clerk, and 86.84 for UR in Trains Clerk (DV notice of 26 May 2026, archived copy).

• CBT-1 shortlists; it does not select. RRB calls 15 times the community-wise vacancies of each RRB to CBT-2, in order of CBT-1 merit (CEN 06/2026, para 13.2), and RRB Chennai's result notices say your post preferences are taken into account. RRB Chennai's 2,814 calls for 187 graduate posts and 1,202 for 80 Class 12 posts fit that ratio.

• CBT-2 decides merit. CBT-1 marks do not count in merit. The document verification list is drawn from CBT-2 marks, together with the CBAT or typing test where a post has one.

• CEN 06/2026 drops both skill tests. The new graduate notice dispenses with the typing test, and it has no CBAT because Station Master, the post that needed one, is not in it. So CBT-2 alone will decide who reaches document verification.

• Document verification is 1:1. RRB calls as many candidates as there are vacancies.

• Reserved categories stay reserved. If you are shortlisted using OBC, SC, ST, EWS, PwBD or ex-servicemen reservation, you are considered only in that category at every later stage.

Why the cut-off has decimals: normalisation

Each CBT runs in several shifts with different papers. Whenever a CBT is held in more than one session, RRB shortlists on normalised marks, not raw marks (CEN 06/2026, para 13.2.4). That conversion is why RRB Chennai's GTM cut-off in CEN 05/2024 reads 76.86386 and not a round number. Your raw score from the answer key, right answers minus one third of a mark for each wrong one, is only a guide.

Minimum qualifying marks

PwBD candidates can get 2 marks of relaxation if there are not enough of them for the reserved posts. The real cut-offs are far higher: the lowest community cut-off in any table above is 56.81.

CEN 06/2026 changes the mix of graduate posts at RRB Chennai more than the total (CEN 06/2026):

Goods Train Manager goes from 3 posts to 72 and becomes the biggest group, while typist posts fall from 176 to 63. At 15 times the vacancies, about 2,115 candidates would be called to CBT-2, against 2,814 last time. How that moves each post's cut-off depends on how many people choose RRB Chennai, which posts they put first and how hard the papers are. We are not publishing an expected cut-off, because nobody can work one out honestly before RRB does.

For Class 12 posts, the CEN 07/2026 short notice lists about 1,688 posts across India (reported by Guidely); RRB Chennai's share will be in the detailed notice, expected around 14 October.

• Graduates: apply for CEN 06/2026 on rrbapply.gov.in by 6 November 2026 (23:59); the fee can be paid until 8 November. You can apply to only one RRB, so choose it, and the order of your post preferences, with the tables above in mind.

• Class 12 candidates: CEN 07/2026 applications are reported to run from 15 October to 13 November 2026. Watch for the detailed notice.

• Prepare for CBT-2 from day one. CBT-1 only gets you in; CBT-2 decides your rank and post.

The pattern and selection stages are in the RRB NTPC exam guide, the topics are on the RRB NTPC syllabus page, and what each post pays is in RRB NTPC salary. For other notices due this year, see upcoming government exams in Tamil Nadu.

Thervu's RRB NTPC mock tests are set in Tamil and English and marked the moment you submit, with the exam's one-third negative marking, so you can see how far your score is from the cut-offs above.