Indian Railways conducts the RPF Constable Exam to recruit candidates (both male and female) for the post of Constables for the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF). The Ministry of Railways declares an official notification to fill candidates all over India through this exam. The selection process in this recruitment consists of multiple stages, such as an online exam, physical measurement, an efficiency test, document verification, and personal interview.
Aspirants who wish to join and work in the Government Sector, such as Indian Railway, must apply for this RPF Constable 2023 Exam. The aspirants must submit the application form online when the application window opens. The first stage of the exam will be conducted in an online mode. The candidates will get a total of 90 minutes duration for the RPF Constable 2023 online examination. Candidates who are in between 18 years and 25 years are eligible to apply.
Through the RPF Constable Exam, Indian Railways recruits male and female Constables for the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF). RPF Constable Notification is issued by the Ministry of Railways to fill many vacancies across India’s railway zones. Therefore, the exam is held at a single location, although recruiting for different railway zones is done independently. However, the RPF Constable Test Notification for this year’s exam will be released soon. As a result, applicants must understand all of the exam’s fundamentals.
| Organization | Indian Railways |
| Post Name | RPF (Railway Police Force) Constable |
| Vacancy | 9000 |
| Exam Date | To be declared later |
| Participating Body | Ministry of Railways |
| Application Mode | Online |
| Exam Mode | Online |
| Recruitment Process | Computer Based Test (CBT), Physical Efficiency Test (PET), Physical Measurement Test (PMT), Document Verification (DV), Personal Interview (PI) |
| Educational Qualification | 10th/ Madhyamik/ Secondary Pass |
| Age Limit | 18 to 25 in general |
| Salary | Rs. 26,200 – Rs. 32,000 |
| Official Website | https://indianrailways.gov.in/ |
Before starting the recruitment procedure, the Indian Railways will release a detailed notification. In this notification, all the important information regarding vacancies, eligibility, application procedure, application fees, mode of payment, and required documents will be mentioned. Apart from these, exam pattern, syllabus, application start and end date, exam date, etc. will also be mentioned.
The authority is yet to publish the notification in the form of pdf format as soon as possible. However, there is the previous year of notification pdf, which the candidate can go through but it’s not the final notification of 2021. So, the candidate must have to wait for it unless it gets published. Moreover, The notification will cover the details like eligibility criteria, selection procedure, exam pattern, exam dates, what you need to fill in the form, mode of payment, age relaxation, reservation, and many more. Due to the Covid pandemic, the authority is waiting for the right situation to announce all the information regarding their exam. However, they have published only some of the information.
Once the official notification is declared by the Ministry of Railway, the important dates regarding the RPF Constable 2023 recruitment procedure will be declared as well. Candidates must follow the official website regularly.
| Official Notification | July 2023 (To be Announced Soon) |
| Railway Police Constable Application Form 2023 Start Date | July 2023 (Announcing Soon) |
| Last Date to Register | 3rd Week of July 2023 |
| Correction in Application Form | July 2023 |
| Last Date to Pay Application Fees | July 2023 |
| Written Exam Date | August 2023 |
| Admit Card Release Date | August 2023 |
| RPF Constable Result Date | September 2023 |
| Physical Test Dates | October 2023 |
| Medical Test | October 2023 |
| DV List | November 2023 |
| Final Selection List | November 2023 |
| Joining Letter | December 2023 |
To take this RPF Constable exam, a candidate must pass few steps to be eligible. Age Limit, Educational Qualification, and Nationality are those criteria. These three are the mandatory criteria for every candidate to participate in the recruitment procedure. All the details regarding those eligibility criteria are mentioned below.
The age limit is one of the three criteria to take the RPF Constable 2023 Exam. On the official website, category-wise age limits will be mentioned. Here is the age limit for the different categories mentioned below.
| Category | Minimum age | Maximum age |
| General | 18 years | 25 years |
| OBC (Other Backward Classes) | 18 years | 25 years |
For the reserved category candidates, age relaxation will be there. Here are the details regarding the age relaxation mentioned below.
| Category | Age relaxation |
| OBC (Non-Creamy Layer) | 5 years |
| Scheduled Casts (SC) | 5 years |
| Scheduled Tribe (ST) | 5 years |
| Ex-Servicemen | General: 3 years, OBC (Non-Creamy Layer): 6 Years, SC/ ST: 8 years |
The authority will mention the required educational qualification for the RPF Constable 2023 Exam in the official notification. The candidates going to apply for this exam must pass the Secondary or 10th standard exam to be eligible.
The candidates who want to apply for the RPF Constable 2023 Exam must be Indian Citizens.
The RPF Constable 2023 Application procedure has not started yet. However, the candidates must follow the below-mentioned instructions during form filling. A wrongly filled application can be canceled by the authority. The entire application procedure regarding the RPF Constable 2023 Exam is mentioned below. All the information regarding application fees, steps to fill up an online application, required documents, etc. is mentioned below.
Candidates have to submit the application form online only. However, the payment of the application fees can be done both online and offline method. Candidates have to pay the application fees as per their category as the fees are not the same for everyone. Furthermore, the candidates can refer to the table provided below regarding the fees for the RPF Constable 2023 Application.
| Gender | Category | Application Fees |
| Female | OBC, General, SC, and ST | 250 |
| Male | General | 500 |
| Male | ST, SC, and OBC | 250 |
All the information and documents required for the online application will be mentioned in the official notification. Candidates need to fill out the application form properly, otherwise, it may get rejected. Candidates can follow the below-mentioned steps to fill up the online application form correctly.
| Candidate’s name | Phone number | Date of birth (as in birth certificate or admit card of the 10th standard) |
| Father’s name | Aadhar Card Number ( if required) | Education board |
| Mother’s name | Email address | 10th and 12th roll number |
| Category | Candidate’s state |
| Candidate’s gender | Religion |
| Economically backward group | Minority |
| ESM | Candidate’s qualifications |
| Age relaxation (for the eligible candidates) |
| Parameters | Details |
| Photograph | A recent color passport-size photograph with a white or light backdrop will be acceptable. The size of the photograph must be between 15 to 40 kb and the format of the photograph must be in JPG or JPEG. The mentioned dimension of the photograph should be 35 * 45 mm. |
| Statement | A handwritten declaration on white paper is required. It must be scanned and uploaded in the appropriate place with the appropriate size. |
Before submitting the application, candidates will be able to check all the information filled in the application form. They must cross-check it and submit it. However, candidates can take a printout of the filled-up application form for future reference.
The RPF Constable 2023 Admit Cards online test will be released a few days or a week before the exam. These admit cards will be available on the official website of the Indian Railways. All the eligible candidates who have successfully applied for the test, can log in to the exam portal and download their admit cards when they are available. Candidates who will pass the online test will be eligible to take the PET and PMT tests. There will be separate admit cards issued for those candidates who are going to take both these tests.
Admit Card is an important document for the RPF Constable 2023 Exam. If a candidate fails to show the hard copy of his/ her admit card, then the candidate will not be allowed to enter the exam center. The admit card for the RPF Constable Exam 2023 will contain a lot of information on it. Every candidate must check their individual admit card and mention information on it before the exam. Here the details which are printed on the admit card are as follows:
A candidate can log into the exam portal of the RPF Constable Exam 2023 using the required credentials and download the admit card. Here are the steps mentioned below to download the admit card are as follows:
| Railway Zones | Exam Centers |
| Southern Railway (SR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Chennai Madurai Palghat Trichy Thiruvananthapuram |
| South Western Railway (SWR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Hubli Bangalore Nagpur Raipur |
| South Central Railway (SCR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Secunderabad Hyderabad Guntakal Vijayawada Nanded |
| South East Central Railway (SECR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Bilaspur Nagpur Raipur |
| South Eastern Railway (SER) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Garden Reach, Kolkata Kharagpur Adra Chakradharpur Ranchi Shalimar |
| Central Railway (CR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Mumbai Nagpur Bhusawal Pune Sholapur |
| Western Railway (WR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Mumbai CST BCT Vadodara Ahmedabad Ratlam Rajkot Bhavnagar |
| Western Central Railway (WCR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Jabalpur Bhopal Kota |
| Eastern Railway (ER) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Kolkata Howrah – I Howrah – II Sealdah Malda Asansol Chittaranjan |
| East Central Railway (ECR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Hajipur Danapur Mugalsarai Dhanbad Sonpur Samastipur |
| East Coast Railway (ECoR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Bhubaneswar Khurda Road Waltair Sambalpur |
| Northern Railway (NR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Baroda House, New Delhi Delhi – I Delhi – II Ambala Moradabad Lucknow Firozpur |
| North Eastern Railway (NER) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Gorakhpur Izzatnagar Lucknow Varanasi DLW |
| North Central Railway (NCR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Allahabad Jhansi Agra |
| North East Frontier Railway (NEFR) Zone | Zonal Headquarters – Maligaon, Guwahati Katihar Alipurduar Rangiya Lumding Tinsukia |
The RPF Constable 223 Exam has 3 important stages. A candidate needs to pass through all 3 stages to be selected for this recruitment procedure. These are the Computer-Based Test (CBT), Physical Measurement Test (PMT), and Physical Efficiency Test (PET).
| Topics | Expected number of questions | Marks |
| General Awareness | 50 | 50 |
| Basic Arithmetic | 35 | 35 |
| Logical Reasoning | 35 | 35 |
| Total | 120 | 120 |
| Bengali | Assamese | Malayalam |
| Telugu | Urdu | Odia |
| Tamil | Marathi | Gujarati |
| Hindi | Kannada | English |
| Konkani | Punjabi | Manipuri |
Candidates who qualify for the Computer Based Test will have to go through the Physical Measurement Test (PMT). There are several requirements for the candidates to pass this test. Those are as follows.
| Category | Height | Chest (for Male candidates only) | ||
| Male | Female | Normal | Expanded | |
| Unreserved Category/ OBC | 165 cm | 157 cm | 80 cm | 85 cm |
| SC/ ST | 160 cm | 152 cm | 76.2 cm | 81.2 cm |
| Garhwalis, Gorkhas, Marathas, Dogras, etc. | 163 cm | 155 cm | 80 cm | 85 cm |
All the candidates who will take the online test for the RPF Constable 2023 Exam and clear it will have to appear in the Physical Efficiency Test (PET). In this test, candidates have to prove their efficiency for the job role of a Constable. The exam pattern for the Physical Efficiency Test (PET) for male and female candidates will be mentioned in the official notification. Candidates can also refer to the table mentioned below for the Physical Efficiency Test (PET).
| Category | Run with Time | High Jump | Long Jump |
| Male | 1600 meters in 5 minutes 45 seconds | 4 feet | 14 feet |
| Female | 800 meters in 3 minutes 40 seconds | 3 feet | 9 feet |
Candidates who pass all three stages of the RPF Constable 2023 Exam will have to go through the final interview round. It is a personal interview round and the candidates have to answer the questions asked by the interviewers in this round. After the interview round, candidates will be called for Document Verification and Medical Examination.
The syllabus of the online CBT test for the RPF Constable 2023 Exam will have various topics. However, most of the questions in this test are from the Secondary standard. There are 3 main parts of the CBT Exam syllabus. Those are as follows:
Candidates have to answer questions from the Basic Arithmetic section in this part of the online CBT exam. The questions mainly come from the class 10th standard mathematics. However, those mathematics questions are competitive-level questions. The topics covered in the Basic Arithmetic section have several topics. Those are as follows:
| Relationships between numbers | Number system | Decimal and fraction |
| Profit and loss | Ratio and proportion | Mensuration |
| Percentage | Interest | Averages |
| Time and distance | Discount | Fundamental arithmetic operations |
The next part of the RPF Constable 2023 Syllabus is the General Knowledge. The authority will declare an official notification that has the detailed syllabus for this online CBT exam. The topics in the second part of the online CBT exam for this exam are as follows:
| Environmental issues concerning India | Current affairs | Specialized growths comprising space and |
| Economics | India’s history, art, and culture | The nuclear strategy of India |
| Sports | General awareness of the events and | Developments in the society |
| Life science | Common abbreviations | General Science |
| Geography | General politics | The Indian constitution. |
The third part of the online CBT Exam is General Intelligence. All the topics from this section for the RPF Constable 2023 Exam are as follows:
| Coding | Syllogistic Reasoning | Visual memory |
| Decoding | Spatial Orientation | Problem-Solving Analysis |
| Non-verbal series | Verbal and figure classification | Statement conclusion |
| Analogies | Arithmetic Number Series | Spatial Visualization |
| Relationship concepts | Discriminatory observation | Similarities and differences |
The Indian Railways will conduct the RPF Constable 2023 Exam for the recruitment to the post of constable in Indian Railways all over India. The result of each stage of the entire recruitment procedure will be released separately. A candidate needs to clear all the stages to be recruited as a constable in the Indian Railways. Indian Railways will release the answer after the exam. Candidates who will appear for the exam will be able to check their results when they are published on the official website.
The result of the RPF Constable 2023 online CBT exam will be declared within 3 to 4 weeks after the commencement of the exam. The result will be published online on the official website of the Indian Railways. Candidates will have to download the pdf of the result and search according to their roll number or registration number.
Candidates will be able to check the RPF Constable 2023 Result on the official website of the Indian Railways. Candidates may check their individual results by following the below-mentioned steps.
The final cut-off for the RPF Constable 2023 Result will be published with the result. The cut-offs for different categories will be different and they will depend upon a lot of factors. The level of difficulty of the questions, the total number of vacancies, the total number of candidates, etc. are the important factors to determine the cut-off for each category.
| Category | Expected Cut-off |
| General | 45% |
| OBC | 40% |
| SC/ ST/ PWD | 30% |
The candidates who are selected for the post of the RPF Constable will be divided into their classes such as Class X, Class Y, and Class Z. This division will be according to the cities they will be posted in. The salary of the RPF Constable will be according to the 7th pay commission.
In general, the RPF Constables pay scale is Rs. 5200/- to Rs. 20200/-. The grade pay for this post is Rs. 2000/-. However, the final salary will be according to the posting of the candidates in the city class. The average approximate starting salary in this post will be Rs. 26,000/- to Rs. 32,000/- per month.
| Part of the Salary | Amount of Pay |
| Basic Pay | Rs. 21,700 |
| HRA (House Rent Allowance) | Rs. 5,200 |
| DA (Dearness Allowance) | Rs. 870 |
| TA (Transport Allowance) | Rs. 3,600 |
| Total Amount | Rs. 31, 370 |
| Part of the Salary | Amount of Pay |
| Basic Pay | Rs. 21,700 |
| HRA (House Rent Allowance) | Rs. 3,470 |
| DA (Dearness Allowance) | Rs. 870 |
| TA (Transport Allowance) | Rs. 3600 |
| Total Amount | Rs. 29,640 |
| Part of the Salary | Amount of Pay |
| Basic Pay | Rs. 21,700 |
| HRA (House Rent Allowance) | Rs. 1,730 |
| DA (Dearness Allowance) | Rs. 870 |
| TA (Transport Allowance) | Rs. 3600 |
| Total Amount | Rs. 28,000 |
All the candidates who will appear in this RPF Constable 2023 Exam, need to study with a proper study plan to crack the test at the very first time. A large number of candidates will take this exam. However, a few candidates will get the job done. Hence, candidates who will be more precise during their preparation will be recruited as a constable in the Indian Railways. Candidates can follow some important tips are mentioned below to get better results. Those are as follows:
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The application fee for the male candidates in the SC and ST category Male is Rs. 250.
The age limit to take the RPF Constable 2023 Recruitment procedure is 18 to 25. However different age relaxation will be there for candidates of different categories (such as OBC Non-Creamy Layer, SC, ST, PWD, Ex-Servicemen, etc.).
No, the RPF Constable 2023 Application form is not released this year yet. It is expected to be released soon.
There will be three different subjects from which questions will come in the online CBT exam for the RPF Constable 2023 exam. These are General Knowledge, Basic Arithmetic, and General Intelligence and Reasoning.
For each correct answer, one mark will be awarded to the candidate. However, for each wrong answer, a negative marking of 1/3 will be awarded to the candidate.
First, candidates applying for the exam must take the online CBT exam. Candidates who will qualify for the CBT exam will be able to take part in the PET and PMT exams. Here, the PET and PMT exam is qualifying in nature. After that, candidates who qualify in this stage will be called to participate in the interview and document verification procedure. Successful candidates will be appointed in the post of constables in different categories in the Indian Railways.
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