SCRA was earlier conducted by UPSC, for the selection of higher railway officials but now UPSC has stopped conducting it and now the selection only done on a promotional level

Hello Rohan, UPSC SCRA is a recruitment examination conducted on a national level to select student for recruitment of Special Class Railway Apprentices (SCRA) under Indian Railways. The examination is conducted by UPSC on behalf of the Indian Railways every year.

Apprentices selected through UPSC SCRA exam will be commissioned as Class I officers in the Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineering or ISRME, after the completion of four years long apprenticeship.

The exam will be conducted in two stages – written test and personality test . The written test will consist of three papers (each paper 200 marks) of multiple type questions covering topics from General Knowledge, English Language to Mathematics, Psychological test, Physics and Chemistry. And personality test is interview stage.

For more detail Go to the link - http://indianrailwayemployee.com/content/special-class-railway-apprentice-scra-exam

All the best

Hi Rohan,

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), exam conducting authority has scrapped the Special Class Railway Apprentice Examination (SCRA) railway exam in 2015.
Started in 1927, the SCRA, was one of the oldest programme in India which involved selection of about 30 candidates by the UPSC to the undergraduate programme in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur.
However, UPSC scrapped the exam and now conducts Indian Engineering Services (IES) or Engineering Services Exam (ESE) for selection to Indian Railway Services in Mechanical Engineering (IRSME). The application process IES 2018 has ended and you can apply for IES 2019 when the application process opens next year.

Good luck!