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SCRA 2012
Date of Notification: 22/10/2011
- Examination Notice No: 01 / 2012 - SCRA
- Last Date for receipt of application: 21/11/2011 , 11: 59 PM
- Date of Exam: 29/01/2012
- Number of vaccancies: 42 - 4vaccancies reserved for physically challenged candidates. Reservation to SC, ST and OBC as per rules.
- Application Form Only through Online from 22nd October 2011 - 21st Nov 2011.
- How to apply: Online Application only. Form available at http://www.upsconline.gov.in . Detailed instruction to fill form online are given on the website.
- Before filling the form online students should have the following: 1 scanned photograph 2: scanned signature . The scanned copy should be in jpg format only. Size of each file should not be more than 40 kb and not less than 3kb.
- Negative Marking
- UPSC Website: www.upsc.gov.in
- Exam Centres: Click here
- Age Limit: Candidate must have attained the age of 17 years and must not have attained the age of 21 years on 1st Jan 2012. i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd Jan 1991 and and not later than 1st Jan 1995
- Upper age relaxation of 5 years to student of SC/ST. Age relaxation of 3 years to OBC students.
- Education Qualification: Second division with mathematics in class 12th. For more about eligiility go through the employment news of 22nd October 2011.
- Fee: Females / SC / ST and PH exempted from payment of fee. Other students have to pay the fee of Rs 100. Many students have informed us that while submitting the form, challan receipt generated by the UPSC website is of Rs 50 and not Rs 100. Lot of students have confirmed this. This may be due to reduction in fee (more probable)or due to website error (least probable). -
Fee later on updated by UPSC as Rs 50 (1st Dec 2011).
- How to pay fee by challan: Visit the SBI Bank and ask the person that yuou have to pay the fee by challan. Fillt he form accordingly.
- How to pay the fee: Either by remitting the money in branch of SBI by cash or by using net banking facility of SBI or by using Visa/MASTER Credit/Debit card.
- No Fee exemption to OBC candidates
- If by mistake student submit more than 2 applications online, then the application with higher registration number (known as RID) would be considered valid.
- Result in March / April 2012
- Online Admit card, 3 weeks before the exam.
- Written Exam: Paper 1 (2 hrs): 200 Marks , Paper 2(2 hrs) 200 marks, Paper 3(2 hrs) 200 Marks = 600 Marks. All the three Paper on a single day.
- Paper 1: General Ability Test
- Paper 2: Physical Sciences (Physics + Chemistry)
- Paper 3: Mathematics
- All question would be objective, MCQ.
- Paper in English only
- UPSC has discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all the subjects of the examination
- Syllabus: Click here
- Download Complete SCRA Notification: Click here
List of students whose fee have not been received by the UPSC for the SCRA: Click here
NOTE: SCRA would not be conducted in July 2012. In 2012 only opportunity for SCRA candidates is the one which would be conducted in Jan 2012. - As per UPSC Calendar 2012.
The SCRA Exam was started in 1927 by the Britishers to manage the Indian Railways network. Selected students are given Mechanicl Engineering by IRIMEE, Jamalpur. Students complete their course at BIT Mesra and IRIMEE Jamalpur.
SCRA exam is conducted byUPSC on behalf of Railway Board / Ministr
- Students - SCRA Selected
- The selected candidates undergo a four-year training programme in Mechanical Engineering, for which the Institute has a Memorandum of Understanding with BIT, Mesra, Ranchi.
- The apprentices get a stipend, Dearness Allowance, medical benefits, privelege passes etc.
- After completion of four years of training, the candidates join as Indian Railway Services of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) Officers in Indian Railways.
- Download Aryan Classes Admission Form for SCRA Correspondence Course (pdf file)
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