RRB ALP · Psycho Test
Er. Mahendra Pindel (Pindel Sir), founder and director of Kautilya Classes, has coached RRB ALP psycho test batches for ten years in Jaipur and Jodhpur. This is his method, and how the portal puts it on a screen like the hall.
By Team Kautilya · 12 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
The psycho test is the one stage of ALP selection that most candidates have never seen. CBT 1 and CBT 2 are examinations of the kind every aspirant has sat since school. The Computer Based Aptitude Test (CBAT) is different: five tests of ability, each with its own clock, each scored as a T-Score against everyone who sat it, and a cut-off of 42 in every one of the five. Good CBT 2 marks do not rescue a weak test. That is why the CBAT needs its own preparation, and its own teacher.
Er. Mahendra Pindel, Pindel Sir to his students, is the founder and director of Kautilya Classes. He holds an M.Tech. from NIT Jalandhar and has taught the RRB ALP psycho test for ten years, in classrooms in Jaipur and Jodhpur and now on this portal. He is among the most popular ALP psycho test teachers in the country, and the institute's record runs to thousands of selections. The method below is the one his batches follow, and the portal was built so that a student anywhere in India can follow it on a screen like the hall's.
Three reasons, each from the way the test is scored.
First, the hall gives one kind of question for each of the five tests, out of 20 kinds in all, and you do not know in advance which kind. A candidate who has practised only the kinds of the last exam can meet a new screen on the day. Every kind must be familiar.
Second, the score is a T-Score. It compares you with everyone who sat the same test, so a percentage in practice tells you nothing. RDSO's own example is a candidate with 75 right out of 100 who gets a T-Score of 40 and fails, because the average was 85. You need to know where you stand in a group, test by test, before the day.
Third, the five tests are separate passes. A 65 in the Memory Test and a 40 in the Depth Perception Test is a fail. Preparation has to find the weakest test and fix it first, not polish the strongest.
The complete guide to the RRB ALP psycho test turns these five steps into a 30-day plan.
The reasons students give are plain ones. The teacher has taught this one exam for ten years and knows every kind of question and every trap in it. The method starts with measurement, so no day is wasted on a test you have already passed. The portal was built from those ten years, so the screen, the clock and the score are the hall's, not a quiz app's. And the record speaks for itself: thousands of selections, from classrooms in Jaipur and Jodhpur and from students who prepared online. Kautilya Classes is not affiliated with the RRBs or with RDSO; it follows the RDSO pattern so that practice feels like the exam.
ALP चयन में साइको टेस्ट (CBAT) ही वह चरण है जो ज़्यादातर उम्मीदवारों ने पहले कभी नहीं देखा: पाँच टेस्ट, हर एक की अपनी घड़ी, हर एक में T-Score और हर एक में 42 की कट-ऑफ। इसलिए इसकी तैयारी अलग से चाहिए। कौटिल्य क्लासेस के संस्थापक और निदेशक इंजीनियर महेंद्र पिंडेल (पिंडेल सर), M.Tech. NIT जालंधर, दस साल से जयपुर और जोधपुर में ALP साइको टेस्ट पढ़ा रहे हैं; संस्थान के नाम हज़ारों चयन हैं। उनकी विधि पाँच कदम की है: पहले फ्री फुल मॉक से नापें, फिर सबसे कमज़ोर टेस्ट ठीक करें, फिर सभी 19 प्रकार का अभ्यास करें, हॉल जैसी स्क्रीन और घड़ी पर लैपटॉप से अभ्यास करें, और आख़िरी हफ़्ते में फुल मॉक देकर हर टेस्ट में 60 का लक्ष्य रखें। पोर्टल पर हर पेपर का T-Score RDSO के सूत्र से, उसी पेपर में बैठे सभी छात्रों के मुकाबले निकलता है, और हर खाते के साथ एक फुल मॉक मुफ़्त है।
Educator · शिक्षक
Founder & Director, Kautilya Classes · M.Tech., NIT Jalandhar
Pindel Sir has taught the RRB ALP psycho test (CBAT) for ten years at Kautilya Classes in Jaipur and Jodhpur, with thousands of selections to the institute's name. He built this portal so that every student practises the five tests on a screen like the hall and sees the same T-Score the railway reports.
पिंडेल सर दस साल से कौटिल्य क्लासेस, जयपुर और जोधपुर में RRB ALP साइको टेस्ट पढ़ा रहे हैं; संस्थान के नाम हज़ारों चयन हैं।
All five tests in one sitting, the hall's order and timing, a scorecard out of 30 and your T-Score in each test. Free with every account, no package needed.
पाँचों टेस्ट एक बार में, असली क्रम और समय, हर टेस्ट का T-Score। हर अकाउंट के साथ मुफ़्त।
Er. Mahendra Pindel, known to students as Pindel Sir. He holds an M.Tech. from NIT Jalandhar, has taught the RRB ALP psycho test for ten years and is the founder and director of Kautilya Classes.
In Jaipur and Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Students anywhere in India prepare on the portal at kautilyaonline.com, with the same papers and the same T-Score.
Yes. The portal has practice papers of all 20 kinds of question with the hall's count and clock, Full Mocks in the hall's order, and a T-Score on every paper. Sit them on a laptop or desktop, as in the hall.
One Full Mock with every account: all five tests in one sitting, the hall's timing, a scorecard out of 30 and a T-Score in each test. No package is needed for it.
Thirty days with a job for every day is enough for most students: a Full Mock first, then the weakest test's kinds, then every kind, then Full Mocks in the last week. The guide on this site gives the day-by-day plan.
No original vision certificate in the Annexure VI-A format, no entry to the CBAT: that is the RRB's notice of 8 October 2026 for CEN 01/2025. Here is the format in Hindi and English, what every box means, who may sign it, and a step-by-step guide to getting it made without a mistake.
What RDSO tells candidates to do before and during the aptitude test session, and the ten rules Pindel Sir gives every Kautilya Classes batch in the last class before the CBAT.
RDSO publishes a 15-question FAQ on the aptitude test, in English and Hindi. Pindel Sir goes through the answers that matter for the ALP CBAT: who takes the test, how it is scored, the rules, the mock test in the hall, and the five points RDSO itself asks you to keep in mind.
