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For RRB NTPC aspirants

An NTPC plan built for the section that decides it.

General Awareness is the largest, most forgettable part of NTPC. Lighthouse Prep keeps it in your daily routine and brings topics back automatically.

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NTPC has three sections, and candidates usually treat them as equals. They are not.

Mathematics and Reasoning are skills. Once you can solve a topic, you can mostly still solve it months later. General Awareness is recall across an enormous surface — history, geography, polity, economy, science, current affairs — and it disappears if you do not keep returning to it.

That asymmetry should shape the plan, and in most candidates' preparation it does not.

How the planner builds your NTPC plan

You tell it:

  • The exam you're preparing for
  • Your exam date
  • How many hours a day you can study, and when you usually study

The AI builds a daily routine of timed sessions across Mathematics, General Intelligence and Reasoning, and General Awareness, weighted towards the topics that appear most in previous papers. Because the routine repeats every day, General Awareness gets contact every day.

A typical NTPC study day

  • Maths block — one topic in depth: percentages, time and work, profit and loss, mensuration, DI.
  • Reasoning block — series, coding-decoding, syllogism, puzzles, Venn diagrams.
  • General Awareness — a short daily block on one area, plus older topics resurfacing automatically.
  • Current affairs — brief, daily.
  • Timed set — a fixed number of questions against the clock, once or twice a week.

Why GA needs daily contact, not long sessions

Sitting down for a three-hour General Awareness marathon feels productive and achieves very little. The syllabus is too wide to be absorbed in blocks and too shallow to reward deep study.

What works is small, frequent, repeated exposure. Twenty minutes a day, every day, with topics automatically returning after 1, 3, 7, 14, 30 and 60 days, will hold far more of the syllabus by exam day than the same total hours spent in weekend marathons.

The gap between CBT 1 and CBT 2

The waiting period after CBT 1 is where NTPC preparations quietly collapse. Momentum goes, the routine breaks, and CBT 2 preparation starts from a colder place than it should.

Plan for it. Keep a light CBT 2 session in your routine while you prepare for CBT 1, then switch to a CBT 2 plan under the same exam the day after the exam. The gap becomes planned time.

Features for NTPC prep

  • GA every day — your plan is a daily routine, so the section that decides the exam gets contact every day.
  • Spaced revision — automatic, and built for exactly this kind of wide recall syllabus.
  • CBT 1 mock tests — full-length, on the real pattern with negative marking. Your first test is free.
  • Post-specific skill tests — typing or aptitude added as sessions of their own.
  • More than one exam — add Group D or ALP as separate exams, each with its own date and plan.
  • Focus timer — measures real study time, not desk time.
  • Wastage report — shows, session by session, how much of your planned time you actually studied.
  • Lumi, your AI mentor — remembers your exam and weak subjects, and checks in when you've gone quiet.

Who this is for

  • First-attempt candidates facing the GA syllabus for the first time
  • Repeat candidates who clear CBT 1 and lose ground before CBT 2
  • Working candidates fitting railway prep around a job
  • Anyone preparing for several railway exams in the same cycle

Build your RRB NTPC plan today

Open the app, set your exam date, and start with today's first session.

Frequently asked questions

General Awareness feels impossible. How does the planner help?
GA is not hard, it is just wide and it fades. The fix is not longer sessions but repeated exposure. Your plan is a daily routine, so a GA session comes round every day, and every topic you study comes back after 1, 3, 7, 14, 30 and 60 days. History covered in month one returns in months two and three, which is the only reliable way to hold a syllabus that broad.
How long is the wait between CBT 1 and CBT 2?
It varies by cycle and is often long, which is the real planning problem. Candidates clear CBT 1, lose momentum during the gap, and arrive at CBT 2 having forgotten what got them through. Keep a CBT 2 plan under the same exam and switch to it the day after CBT 1, so the gap becomes preparation time rather than dead time.
Is the maths in NTPC the same as in Group D?
The topics overlap but NTPC sits at a higher level and the competition is different — NTPC targets graduate posts like Station Master and Goods Guard. If you are preparing for both, add each as its own exam, each with its own date and plan.
Does it cover the typing and aptitude tests for specific posts?
Post-specific stages such as the typing skill test or the aptitude test can be added to your routine as sessions of their own. They are easy to postpone until after results, and that is exactly when there is no time left for them.
I'm preparing while working. Is this realistic?
You set the hours you actually have and the plan is built for them. NTPC cycles run long, so consistency across months matters far more than long days.
Is it free?
Yes. You can build a plan, run the session timer, revise on a spaced schedule and see where your study time went without paying. AI features such as generating study material use credits, and every account starts with 50,000 free.