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Use the CRP RRBs-XV two-test and five-test pattern, your mock errors and a dated source ledger to build a stage-specific RRB Clerk revision queue.

RRB Office Assistant: Prelims-to-Mains Revision System

IBPS RRB Clerk and IBPS Clerk 2026 side by side from both notifications: age 18 vs 20, 80 vs 100 prelims questions, 8,222 vs 11,663 seats, language rules, and one calendar with both exams on it.

RRB Office Assistant vs IBPS Clerk 2026: Age, Pattern, Seats and Dates

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RRB Clerk (Office Assistant) pay from the documents: the 2024 DFS approval extending 12th Bipartite pay to RRB staff, the ₹24,050–₹64,480 clerical scale, HRA 10.25%, Special Allowance 26.5% and DA.

RRB Office Assistant Salary 2026: ₹24,050 Scale, Allowances by Stage

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IBPS RRB Clerk (Office Assistant) cut-offs State by State: IBPS’s own 2025–26 Mains minimum and maximum for all 28 States, the reported 2025 prelims out of 80 (not 100), and the 2020–2025 trend.

RRB Office Assistant Cut-Off by State: Official Mains, Prelims Out of 80

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The RRB Clerk language rule from the 2026 notification: Class VIII proficiency, six months to learn after joining, no language test, the exam medium in each State, and why the State is fixed.

RRB Office Assistant Local Language Rule, Exam Medium and State Choice

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IBPS RRB Clerk (Office Assistant) 2026 pattern from the notification: sectionally timed Prelims since 2025, Mains marks that are not one per question, what a wrong answer costs, and no interview.

RRB Office Assistant Pattern 2026: 25+20 Minute Prelims, 120-Min Mains

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RRB Clerk (Office Assistant) 2026 vacancies from IBPS’s Annexure I of 25.09.2026: 8,222 not 8,183, every State by category, 2024 to 2026 compared, Manipur at zero, and six renamed banks.

IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2026 Vacancies: 8,222 Across 28 RRBs by State

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    <h2>Updates as of September 22, 2026</h2>
    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>The TRE 4.0 Secondary subject table as reported lists nine subjects for classes 9 and 10: Hindi 361, English 696, Science 463, Mathematics 570, Social Science 756, Sanskrit 322, Urdu 660, Physical Education 47 and Music 2. Those add to exactly the published level total of 3,877, so no Bangla posts appear at Secondary level in this advertisement.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://notifyhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/BPSC-TRE-4.0-Vacancy-List-2026.pdf">NotifyHere vacancy list (unofficial)</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>The number of stages in TRE 4.0 is unresolved, and it is the single biggest open question in this cycle. BPSC's own exam calendar, dated 14 August 2026, lists TRE 4.0 at serial 30 with 32,388 vacancies under the heading 2 PHASE EXAMS (PT + MAINS), and records the exam date as TBD with the remark that the date of the PT shall be published after the completion of the advertisement period. On that document, TRE 4.0 is a two-stage recruitment with a screening preliminary test.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/exam-calendar/">BPSC Exam Calendar dated 14 August 2026 (official)</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>On 27 August 2026, nine days after Advertisement 14/2026 was issued, Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary announced that TRE 4.0 would be held in a single phase, scrapping the PT and Mains structure. The announcement followed a campaign by candidate representatives under the slogan One Exam, One Result. This is a state government statement rather than a BPSC order, and it directly contradicts the Commission's own calendar.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://testbook.com/news/bihar-teacher-tre-4-one-exam-rule-2026/">Testbook news report on the 27 August announcement (reported)</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>As of 22 September 2026, BPSC has published no corrigendum on the TRE 4.0 examination pattern. The Commission's notices page carries corrigenda for the 72nd CCE and notices on the Stenographer examination and the new fifth answer option, but nothing on TRE. The 14 August calendar still shows PT plus Mains and has not been revised. The unresolved pattern is the most plausible reason the application window was postponed for procedural changes, and candidates should expect the revised pattern and the reopened window to be announced together.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/">BPSC notices page, checked 22 September 2026 (official)</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>A second compilation of Advertisement 14/2026 reproduces the same nine-subject Secondary table and states that Bangla, Arabic, Dance and Persian are absent from it. The two transcriptions agree, but neither is the Commission's own roster and both should be checked against the official district-wise document.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://testbook.com/bihar-teacher">Testbook (coaching site)</a>
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        <p>Bangla remains a live TRE subject in two distinct ways. It is listed among the class 9 and 10 concerned subjects with a full published Part-III syllabus, and it is one of only four Part-I language options across the whole recruitment, alongside Hindi, English and Urdu.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.adda247.com/teaching-jobs-exam/bihar-teacher-syllabus/">Adda247 (coaching site)</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>Bengali carried posts in the previous cycle. Coaching-site compilations of TRE 3.0 in 2024 report a Secondary Bengali unreserved cut-off of 78 with 56 for the extremely backward class category, and 69 at Higher Secondary. A cut-off exists only where posts were filled, so the subject has recent recruitment history in Bihar.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.careerpower.in/blog/bpsc-teacher-cut-off">Career Power (coaching site)</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>Advertisement 14/2026 covering 32,388 posts was published on 18 August 2026. Applications opened on 21 September 2026 after a deferral from 1 September, with a closing date reported as 21 October 2026 that the Commission has not confirmed. No examination date has been announced for any subject or level.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://news.kollegeapply.com/news/bpsc-teacher-last-date-2026">KollegeApply (news site)</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>The district-wise vacancy roster for classes 9 and 10 published alongside the advertisement on the Commission's own site is the document that settles whether a Bangla line exists and, if so, in which districts. Bengali-medium schooling in Bihar is geographically concentrated, so the district split matters more here than the headline count.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/BPSC_content/Notices/Districtwise-Vacancies-Class-9-to-10_BPSC-20260818-eja4u7.pdf">BPSC district-wise vacancies, classes 9-10</a>
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    <div class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-card">
        <p>A vacancy figure of 46,595 is circulating on job-alert aggregators for TRE 4.0. None of the aggregators carrying it cites an advertisement number or a date, and it is contradicted by both official BPSC documents that do carry a number: Advertisement 14/2026 of 18 August 2026 and the exam calendar of 14 August 2026, which state 32,388. Until BPSC publishes a corrigendum, 32,388 is the figure to plan against.</p>
        <a class="bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla-updates-222026-cite" href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/exam-calendar/">BPSC Exam Calendar dated 14 August 2026 (official)</a>
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Bangla is the only minority language in this recruitment that can be taken in both Part-I and Part-III. Doing so makes the 30-mark qualifying hurdle trivial, but adds nothing to merit, because Part-I marks are not counted. The scoring total is 120: 80 Bangla and 40 General Studies. Read the structure below as the pattern for the written examination, not as a settled number of stages. BPSC's calendar of 14 August 2026 places TRE 4.0 under two-phase PT plus Mains exams; the Chief Minister announced a single-phase exam on 27 August 2026; and BPSC has published no corrigendum resolving the two as of 22 September 2026. The question paper described here is the one candidates must prepare for either way, because a single-phase exam would use it and a two-phase exam would use it as the main paper.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://www.adda247.com/jobs/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2026/08/19174212/TRE4_Secondary_Classes_9_10_Detailed_Syllabus_FIXED.pdf">Classes 9-10 detailed syllabus (reproduced)</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.adda247.com/teaching-jobs-exam/bihar-teacher-syllabus/">Adda247 TRE 4.0 syllabus and pattern</a> &middot; <a href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/exam-calendar/">BPSC Exam Calendar dated 14 August 2026 (official)</a> &middot; <a href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/">BPSC notices page, checked 22 September 2026 (official)</a></p>

This schedule is common to every subject and level in TRE 4.0; there is no separate Bangla sitting. For Bangla the open question is not when the exam falls but whether a Secondary allocation is added by corrigendum before the window closes.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://news.kollegeapply.com/news/bpsc-teacher-last-date-2026">KollegeApply TRE 4.0 deadline report</a> &middot; <a href="https://notifyhere.com/bpsc-tre-official-apply-link/">NotifyHere TRE 4.0 schedule</a> &middot; <a href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/exam-calendar/">BPSC Exam Calendar dated 14 August 2026 (official)</a> &middot; <a href="https://bpsc.bihar.gov.in/">BPSC notices page, checked 22 September 2026 (official)</a> &middot; <a href="https://testbook.com/news/bihar-teacher-tre-4-one-exam-rule-2026/">Testbook news report on the 27 August announcement (reported)</a></p>

Bangla candidates routinely conflate two different roles the language plays in this recruitment. Bangla is a Part-I language option available to every candidate in every subject, and it is separately a Part-III concerned subject for teaching posts in Bengali-medium schools. Choosing Bangla in Part-I does not make anyone a Bangla teacher candidate, and it earns no merit marks. The reported TRE 4.0 Secondary table shows no Bangla teaching posts at classes 9 and 10 in this cycle, so the first task is to verify the vacancy on the Commission's own roster.

Verify the Secondary allocation before preparing

The nine subject counts reported for classes 9 and 10 add to exactly 3,877, the published Secondary total, which leaves no arithmetic space for a Bangla line in Advertisement 14/2026. Bengali did carry Secondary posts in TRE 3.0, where a cut-off was published, so the subject is not retired; it simply has no visible allocation this time. The check that settles it is the district-wise vacancy document for classes 9 and 10 posted with the advertisement on 18 August 2026. That matters more for Bangla than for a large subject because Bengali-medium secondary schooling in Bihar clusters in a handful of districts, and a small allocation can be entirely confined to them.

Graduate entry at Secondary, post-graduate at Higher Secondary

Classes 9 and 10 require a graduate degree with 50 per cent in the concerned subject plus B.Ed and Bihar STET Paper I. Classes 11 and 12 require a post-graduate degree with 50 per cent plus B.Ed and STET Paper II, and CTET does not substitute at that level. Language subjects carry the additional condition that the language was studied at graduation under the prescribed honours or subsidiary rules, so a Bangla candidate needs Bengali in the degree and not merely as a mother tongue. Reported basic pay is Rs 31,000 at Secondary and Rs 32,000 at Higher Secondary, with gross figures reported around Rs 55,000 to Rs 59,860 and Rs 58,000 to Rs 61,690 respectively.

The published Part-III Bangla outline for classes 9 and 10 has three blocks. The first is reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure and error correction. The second is word-level formation: sandhi, samasa, word formation, synonyms, antonyms, idioms, proverbs and usage. The third is literature: prose, poetry, fiction, drama, prescribed Bengali texts, literary devices and interpretation. The first two blocks are closed sets and repay systematic drilling, particularly sandhi and samasa, which convert cleanly into objective items. The literature block is the wider one and rewards knowing the standard Bengali prose and drama canon at school prescription level rather than reading widely at university depth.

For TRE 3.0 in 2024, coaching-site compilations report a Secondary Bengali unreserved cut-off of 78 with 56 for the extremely backward class category, and 69 for Higher Secondary Bengali. At Secondary that placed Bengali just below Urdu at 80 and Hindi at 87, and far above Arabic at 50 and English at 61. Bengali has therefore behaved like a mainstream language subject rather than a soft minority option: the applicants who sit it are competent in it, so the paper does not separate them and the threshold rises. A Bangla candidate should plan for a mainstream-language threshold, not a minority-subject one.

General Studies decides the Bangla ranking

Because the Part-I language paper is qualifying at 30 per cent and does not count towards merit, the counted total is 120 marks: 80 Bangla and 40 General Studies. A Bangla candidate who also chooses Bangla in Part-I has secured the qualifying hurdle at negligible cost, which is the right move, but the freed time should go to Part-II rather than to more literature. Part-II covers elementary mathematics, mental ability, general awareness, general science and social science. With Bengali thresholds historically near 78 out of a reported maximum, the marks that separate candidates come from the General Studies third, where a one-third negative marking rule also punishes speculative answering hardest.

<a href="/exam/bpsc-tre-secondary-bangla">This article has been published in BPSC TRE Secondary Bangla. Explore everything related to it here.</a>

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