Special class railway Apprenctices (SCRA)

SCRA 2011 Eligibility Criteria

Age Limit

• 17-21 years on 1st august of the year of examination. Certain reserved categories are eligible for age relaxation.

Educational qualification

• For admission to the examination, a candidate must have passed in the first or second division, the Intermediate or an equivalent examination of a university or board approved by the Government of India with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination.

SCRA 2011 Application procedure

• The UPSC have developed an application form common for all their examinations which will be processed on computerized machines.

• This application form along with an Information Brochure containing general instructions for filling up the form, an acknowledgement card and an envelope for sending the application is obtainable from the designated Head Post Offices/Post Offices throughout the country as listed below of Notice against cash payment of a requisite amount.

• Form should be purchased from the designated Post Offices only and not from any other agency.

• Since this form is electronically scanable, due care should be taken to fill up the application form correctly.

• The candidates should also fill up in the relevant places of the Acknowledgement Card, their Application Form Number (8-digit) and the name of the examination. The applicants are required to affix the postage stamp on the Acknowledgement Card and send the same along with application form to UPSC. 

• The duly filled in application form and the acknowledgement card should then be mailed in the special envelope supplied with the Information Brochure. You should also write the name of examination viz. "Special Class Railway Apprentices' Examination, (& Year in which examination is held )" on the envelope before despatching it to "Secretary, Union Public Service Commission, Dholpur House, New Delhi-110069".

SCRA 2011 Examination Pattern

Part I: Written examination ( 600 marks)

Paper I:

General Ability Test ( English, General Knowledge and Psychological Test): 200 marks

Paper Ii:

Physical sciences ( Physics and Chemistry) : 200 marks

Paper III:

Mathematics: 200 marks

Part II:

Personality test carrying a maximum of 200 marks in respect of only those candidates who are declared qualified on the results of written examination.

SCRA 2011 Important dates

• Date of notification: 19.03.2011

• Last date for receipt of applications: 18.04.2011 ( Monday)

• Date of commencement of exam: 31.07.2011 Sunday)