The RRB Group D answer key for CEN 09/2025 is out and objections close on 15 September 2026. The cut off is zone wise and category wise on normalised marks, and comes with the result expected in October 2026.
The RRB Group D cut off 2026 for CEN 09/2025 is not out yet: it comes with the CBT result, which is expected in October 2026 and still carries no official date. The provisional answer key and response sheet went live at rrb.digialm.com on 7 September 2026, and the objection window closes on 15 September 2026 at a fee of Rs 50 per question, refunded if your objection is upheld. The cut off is released zone wise and category wise on each regional RRB website, in normalised marks, never as one national number.
Reading this on 15 September 2026? That is the last day of the objection window, so download your response sheet and the provisional answer key from rrb.digialm.com, check every disputed question, and file your objection today.
Three things decide it: the Level-1 posts in your RRB zone against the candidates who appeared there, your category, and shift-difficulty normalisation across 16 exam days. The CBT ran from 3 to 25 August 2026 for 22,195 posts and 52,39,760 candidates appeared. Only twice-confirmed figures are printed below.
Because RRB Group D is 21 separate recruitments sharing one paper. Each Railway Recruitment Board fills its own Level-1 vacancies from its own applicant pool, so a zone with more posts relative to the candidates who chose it produces a lower line. Category reservation then splits each zone list into UR, OBC, EWS, SC and ST cut offs.
CEN 08/2024 shows how wide that gets: the RRB Bengaluru UR line was 70.29 while RRB Kolkata was 80.23, almost 10 marks apart on the same 100-mark paper, purely because the posts-to-candidates ratio differed. Zone choice is a strategic decision, not a formality.
Normalisation is the statistical correction RRB applies because the CBT ran in three shifts a day across 16 exam days, so no two candidates sat the same paper. Your raw score becomes a normalised score that places you within your own shift, and it is the normalised mark that meets the published cut off.
That adjustment is not small. In the published CEN 02/2022 cut off tables the RRB Kolkata UR line appeared twice: 96.62 in raw marks and 69.61 after normalisation, about 27 marks apart for one zone and category. Testbook carries that Kolkata pair, and pw.live shows the same two-column structure for RRB Mumbai, 96.77 raw against 64.11 normalised. Read any self-scored total as a position inside your shift.
Qualifying marks and the cut off are different things, and confusing them is the commonest RRB Group D mistake. The qualifying floor in the CBT is 40 per cent for UR and EWS, 30 per cent for OBC and SC, and 25 per cent for ST. The cut off is the far higher line that decides the PET shortlist.
In CEN 08/2024 the UR floor was 40 marks, yet no verified zone shortlisted a UR candidate below 70.29, so floor and shortlist stood about 30 marks apart. The Physical Efficiency Test that follows is purely qualifying: passing adds nothing, failing removes you. Document verification and the medical examination follow.
These are the last published RRB Group D cut off marks: normalised marks out of 100 from CEN 08/2024, released with the result on 1 July 2026 to shortlist candidates for the PET. That cycle offered 32,438 Level-1 posts and drew over one crore applications. Every cell below is one that at least two of the tracker cut off tables published by Testbook, Adda247, Oliveboard and Careerpower agree on.
| Zone (RRB) | UR | OBC | EWS | SC | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad | 72.16 | 71.14 | 67.67 | 66.06 | 62.13 |
| Ajmer | 79.70 | Not confirmed | 70.90 | 71.50 | 71.53 |
| Bengaluru | 70.29 | 64.87 | 60.40 | 62.28 | 60.43 |
| Bhopal | 77.73 | 77.41 | 75.07 | 73.66 | 67.67 |
| Bhubaneswar | 76.69 | 75.43 | 69.81 | 67.15 | 58.19 |
| Bilaspur | 76.14 | 75.04 | 69.91 | 67.53 | 62.23 |
| Chandigarh | 72.21 | 70.30 | 66.69 | 65.86 | 60.70 |
| Chennai | 78.01 | 76.66 | 71.11 | 70.63 | 63.00 |
| Gorakhpur | 76.49 | 75.75 | 70.01 | 68.70 | 61.26 |
| Guwahati | 77.63 | 76.97 | 74.73 | 73.86 | 66.06 |
| Kolkata | 80.23 | 76.98 | 72.02 | 73.58 | 63.27 |
| Mumbai | 77.90 | 77.13 | 74.10 | 71.31 | 65.24 |
| Patna | 78.45 | 78.28 | 75.19 | 67.60 | 61.40 |
| Prayagraj | 78.13 | 77.32 | 74.15 | 72.41 | 66.66 |
| Ranchi | 72.86 | 71.82 | 61.64 | 58.94 | 61.96 |
| Secunderabad | 76.99 | 76.94 | 69.43 | 68.93 | 65.80 |
Five RRBs are missing on purpose. No CEN 08/2024 figures could be confirmed for RRB Siliguri, Malda, Muzaffarpur, Jammu-Srinagar or Thiruvananthapuram, and the Ajmer OBC cell was blank or disputed everywhere, so they are left out rather than filled with a plausible-looking number. Across the 16 verified zones the UR line averaged about 76.35, OBC stayed within about 5 marks of UR, SC ran 58.94 to 73.86 and ST 58.19 to 71.53, roughly 8 to 19 marks below its zone UR.
This is guidance, not a prediction of record, and no honest source can give the real figure before RRB publishes it. Reasoning from the verified CEN 08/2024 lines and this cycle supply and demand, a sensible UR planning band is roughly 76 to 82 normalised in high-competition zones like Kolkata, Patna and Prayagraj, and roughly 72 to 78 in lower ones like Bengaluru, Chandigarh and Ranchi.
The basis, so you can judge it. Posts fell from 32,438 to 22,195, about 32 per cent fewer, while 52,39,760 candidates appeared, roughly 236 for every post, and tighter supply pushes lines up. Shift analyses from Adda247 and Testbook rated the August 2026 paper easy to moderate, with good-attempt estimates spread from about 60 to 80 out of 100, which also pushes lines up. Against that, normalisation compresses the top, so expect a few marks of movement, not a jump.
| Category | Planning band, normalised marks (guidance only) |
|---|---|
| UR, high competition zones | 76 to 82 |
| UR, lower cut off zones | 72 to 78 |
| OBC | within about 5 marks of your zone UR |
| EWS | about 3 to 11 marks below zone UR |
| SC | about 4 to 14 marks below zone UR |
| ST | about 8 to 19 marks below zone UR |
Use the band as intended. If your self-scored position sits comfortably above your zone likely line, start PET training now; if you are within a few marks, train anyway. Full-length practice on the exact 100-question, 90-minute, 1/3-negative pattern is the only honest gauge, and a free RRB Group D mock test applies that penalty for you.
Your response sheet and the provisional answer key are already live at rrb.digialm.com, released on 7 September 2026, so you can compute your raw score now. Log in with your registration number and date of birth, download both, then mark each of the 100 questions correct, wrong or blank against the key and apply the scheme: 1 mark for a correct answer, 1/3 deducted for a wrong one, nothing for a blank.
| Correct | Wrong | Blank | Raw score out of 100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 18 | 2 | 80 minus 6.00 = 74.00 |
| 75 | 15 | 10 | 75 minus 5.00 = 70.00 |
| 65 | 30 | 5 | 65 minus 10.00 = 55.00 |
Two cautions. This is a raw score while the published cut off is normalised, so use it to place yourself inside your shift. And the objection window, open from 7 to 15 September 2026, is the only chance to fix a wrong key: objections cost Rs 50 per question plus bank charges, refunded if your objection is upheld.
Our RRB Group D syllabus and exam pattern guide has the full section split, and the RRB Group D salary and job profile guide covers what a Level-1 posting pays. In the blueprint behind our own RRB Group D question bank, Reasoning is the largest block at 30 of 100 marks, General Science and Mathematics take 25 apiece, General Awareness 20, and 5 of the 30 reasoning items are non-verbal.
Before you move on: take a free RRB Group D mock test to see your net score with 1/3 negative marking applied, then browse the full RRB Group D test series.
No official figure exists yet, so any exact number is invention. As reasoned guidance from the verified CEN 08/2024 lines, a UR planning band of roughly 76 to 82 normalised marks fits the high-competition zones and roughly 72 to 78 the lower ones, with OBC within about 5 marks of UR and ST roughly 8 to 19 marks below. Posts fell to 22,195 this cycle, which pushes lines up.
For CEN 08/2024, declared on 1 July 2026, the verified UR lines ran from 70.29 at RRB Bengaluru to 80.23 at RRB Kolkata in normalised marks out of 100, averaging about 76.35 across the 16 zones with published figures. Reserved lines were lower: SC ran 58.94 to 73.86 and ST 58.19 to 71.53. Five RRBs published no confirmable figures.
The qualifying floor in the CBT is 40 per cent for UR and EWS, 30 per cent for OBC and SC, and 25 per cent for ST. That floor is not the cut off. In CEN 08/2024 no verified zone shortlisted a UR candidate below 70.29 normalised marks, so the real shortlisting line sat about 30 marks above the qualifying minimum.
It is zone wise and category wise, never all India. Each of the 21 Railway Recruitment Boards fills its own Level-1 vacancies from its own pool, so the line moves with the posts-to-candidates ratio inside that zone. In CEN 08/2024 the UR figures spanned almost 10 marks, from 70.29 at RRB Bengaluru to 80.23 at RRB Kolkata, on an identical paper.
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The provisional answer key and response sheet for CEN 09/2025 went live at rrb.digialm.com on 7 September 2026, and the objection window runs from 7 to 15 September 2026 at Rs 50 per question, refunded if the objection is upheld. The final answer key and then the result are expected in October 2026, though RRB has announced no official date. The zone-wise cut off is published alongside the result itself.
