IREL Tradesman Trainee 2026 — Skill/Trade Test and unit-specific CBT merit

What is announced

Only CBT qualifiers are considered for a further qualifying Skill Test: a Trade Test or Computer Proficiency Test where applicable. IREL says approximately 1:5 on CBT-merit ordering (five candidates per notified unit/trade vacancy), not a free-entry examination for every applicant. If the required skill test is failed, the applicant leaves the competition regardless of CBT score. Its result is go/no-go and the employer adds no skill-test marks to final rank. Final selection is based on CBT scores among skill-qualified candidates, using separately prepared trade + unit + category merit lists (Section 9, pp. 6–7).

Those 465/60/30/100 counts are hypothetical arithmetic (vacancies ×5), NOT employer-announced calls, capacity guarantees, or actual merit lists. They illustrate the scale of the published 1:5 ratio only; avoid interpreting them as applicant predictions.

Skill-test syllabus: only the announced scope is official

IREL has NOT released a numerical skill cutoff, individual instrument/tool exercises, examination-day task checklist, number of attempts, duration or topic-wise skill syllabus under CO/HRM/36/2026. There is also no final Trade Test schedule. Candidates should revisit their actual ITI/NAC professional competencies and safe industrial practice, but the company has not certified those editorial examples as a paper/skill blueprint.

Documentary checks before the trade test

Candidates shortlisted for Skill Test must submit or upload Aadhaar identity, age proof (birth or SSC/Matriculation), relevant educational/technical qualification and documentary proof of post-qualification trade experience, such as appointment orders, pay slips and experience certificates. The notice states that missing requisite documents can bar appearance in Skill Test and later stages (p. 11). Govt/PSU/autonomous body employees need proper-channel application or NOC at skill test and adequate relieving proof to join.

What comes afterward

Final unit/trade/category selection list on CBT marks only; original-document scrutiny; pre-employment medical fitness; antecedents and experience verification; subject to successful one-year ₹34,200/month training and possible later W-3 appointment. Unit-wise waitlists may be held for one year; no names, ranks, result, final cutoff or offer dates have been published in this source.

Official basis: IREL advertisement CO/HRM/36/2026, pp. 2–13. Official employer careers and updates. Jobs directory · Examination directory · Syllabus directory · ITI recruitment filter. The detailed appendix is an announcement for this recruitment, not a notification of a later CBT date or released answer key.