Appendix-3 IREM Results 2024: Pass Rate by Zone and by Paper

The June 2024 sitting was the first under the merged, objective-plus-subjective pattern. The Railway Board's result of 07.08.2024 lists every nominated candidate with the marks in each paper, which is unusual for a departmental examination. We counted that list: by zone and production unit, by paper, and by where each candidate fell short. This page publishes counts only. The official list carries names and roll numbers, and none of them appears here. Every number below is our count over the official list unless it says otherwise.

Railway Board result A(E)/A3/2024/5/2 dated 07.08.2024, exam of 18-19 June 2024.

Among the large zones, Eastern Railway (50.6% of 160) and West Central Railway (49.6% of 129) did best. Northeast Frontier Railway (30.7% of 88) and North Western Railway (32.6% of 86) did worst. The spread is wide, and a zone's number is a small sample of its accounts staff, not a verdict on its training. Absence varied just as much: Western Railway had 67 of its 214 nominees miss every paper, while East Central Railway had 23 of 318 (our counts). The list does not say why anyone was absent.

Paper II had a mean of 38.5 and a median of 36.5, so the typical candidate was below the pass mark. Paper I was the friendliest paper, with 39% of candidates scoring 60 or more. We also sorted the 1,276 candidates who failed at least one objective paper by which papers they failed. Paper II was among the failed papers for 1,174 of them (92%), and it was the only failed paper for 308. Paper I alone sank just 14. The 1,276 are those who fell below the mark in a paper they sat. Another 38 did not clear the objective stage in other ways: 16 were absent from one or two papers, 20 missed only the aggregate, and 2 have no subjective mark. Over all 1,314, Paper II's share is 89.3% (our counts).

What this means for revision is covered in the pattern and syllabus guide. On these numbers, stores and workshop accounting probably deserves more than an equal third of your objective study time, and more still if you hold a Paper I exemption from 2024. That is our reading of one sitting, not a rule; your own weak paper may differ.

The previous full sittings, for 2017 and 2018, were combined and their result was issued in 2019 on the old pattern. That pattern had compulsory and optional papers and with-books parts, with pass marks of 40% a paper and 45% aggregate in the optional subjects. Its list gives a result code for each candidate. We counted 523 passed and 1,982 failed across the 2,505 serial numbers printed, after joining one row that is split across two lines. The list does not separate absentees. The 2022 special sitting was also on the old pattern and open only to candidates who already held an exemption. The list has 437 serial numbers. Two results were withheld for unfair means (the list's own note). We read the other 435 from the shading of the result cell, which the scan carries instead of legible text: 154 passed and 281 failed. That count is ours and could be off by a few.

The pass rate roughly doubled between the old-pattern 2017-18 list and the 2024 list. We cannot say how much of that is the new pattern. The objective format, the lower subjective weight and the 30/35% relaxation for PwBD candidates all changed at once. The long gap between sittings may also have built up a pool of better-prepared candidates. What the 2024 list does show is that about three candidates in five who sit do not pass, and the next sitting will include many of them again.