The Reserve Bank of India has released the notification for the Grade B Officers post on April 26, 2023. The total number of vacancies for the post is 291. The online registration process for the recruitment has commenced on May 9, 2023, and will continue till June 9, 2023.
IMPORTANT EXAM DATES
Events | Dates |
RBI Grade B Phase I exam for DR General | July 09, 2023 |
RBI Grade B Phase II exam for DR General | July 30, 2023 |
RBI Grade B Phase I exam for DEPR | July 16, 2023 |
RBI Grade B Phase II exam for DEPR | September 02, 2023 |
RBI Grade B Phase I exam for DSIM | July 16, 2023 |
RBI Grade B Phase II exam for DSIM | August 19, 2023 |
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RBI Grade B Officer Pre May 28, 2022 Overall Analysis
Section | Good Attempts | Difficulty Level |
General/ Financial Awareness | 41-43 | Moderate |
Reasoning Ability | 35-37 | Moderate |
English Language | 17-19 | Easy to Moderate |
Quantitative Aptitude | 15-17 | Moderate to Difficult |
Good Attempts | 109-117 | Moderate |
RBI Grade B Officer Pre March 6, 2021 Exam Analysis (1st Shift)
Section-wise Analysis
English Language
This section of RBI Grade B Phase 1 2021 consisted of 30 questions of 30 marks to be attempted in a time limit of 25 minutes. The difficulty level of this section was moderate. An attempt of 20+ questions is considered as a brilliant try. The topic wise break up of questions are as follows.
Important Topics | Number of Questions |
Cloze Test | 3-4 |
Reading Comprehension (3-4 Passage) | 15-20 |
Statement Error | 3-5 |
Antonyms and Synonyms | 5 |
Total | 30 |
Quantitative Aptitude
The overall level of the exam was between moderate to difficult. The data interpretation questions were lengthy but doable. The arithmetical problems were asked from Mensuration, Time and Work, Percentage Age Problems, etc. 15+ questions can be said to be a good attempt.
Important Topics | Number of Questions |
Quadratic Equation ( New Pattern) | 7 |
Quantity Comparison: column wise | 3 |
DI(Missing) : Veg Non Veg , A Hotel and B Hotel Day wise Menu: | 10 |
Caselet DI : Reading Book Pages : Page number : Complete 260 pages | 5 |
Arithmetic : SI & CI, Partnership, Mensuration (True, False), Average, Time & Work, | 5 |
Total | 30 |
Reasoning Ability
Overall this section could be considered of moderate to difficult level. 25+ questions can be said to be a good attempt. The topic wise breakup of the question is provided below.
Important Topics | Number of Questions |
Puzzle & Seating arrangement | 25 |
Inequality (Reverse) | 2-5 |
Alphabet Pair | 1-2 |
Logical Reasoning/Analytical | 10-12 |
Coding decoding | 1 |
Syllogism(Reverse) | 5-10 |
Alphabet Series | 1-3 |
Total | 60 |
General Awareness
The section was of moderate to difficult level . Anyone who attempted 50+ questions can be said to be on the safer side. Detailed RBI Grade B paper analysis for General awareness is provided below.
1- The majority of the questions were based on current affairs.
2- Current Affairs mainly from October 2020 till February 2021. The remaining 20 Questions were from Financial Awareness, Schemes, Static Awareness.
3- Static GK consisted of 5-6 questions
4- Banking awareness consisted of 6-7 questions based on the current budget and economic issues.
RBI Grade B Officer Pre March 6, 2021 Exam Analysis (2nd Shift)
Section-wise Analysis
English Language
The overall level of this section was moderate. And the reading comprehensions were based on the following themes:
1. Increasing cases of Tuberculosis and its preventions
2. Usage of the smartwatch to detect cardiac arrest remedy
The table given below gives an approximate distribution of questions asked on different topics in the two shifts of the Grade B Officer Phase I exam conducted on March 6, 2021
Important Topics | Number of Questions |
Reading Comprehension | 12-16 |
Sentence Rearrangement | 4 |
Cloze Test | 4-5 |
Error Spotting | 4-5 |
Idioms and Phrases | 3 |
Total | 30 |
Quantitative Aptitude
The overall level of the exam was between moderate to difficult. The data interpretation questions were in the format of caselets and pie charts. They were lengthy but doable. The arithmetical problems were asked from Mensuration, Time and Work, Percentage Age Problems, etc.
The table given below shows the distribution of questions in the quantitative aptitude section for the two shifts in which the exam was conducted on March 6, 2021:
Important Topics | Number of Questions |
Data Interpretation | 10-12 |
Number Series | 5-6 |
Data Sufficiency | 5-6 |
Quantity Comparison | 3-4 |
Arithmetic Questions | 4-5 |
Quadratic Equations | 4-5 |
Total | 30 |
Reasoning Ability
Overall the level of this section was moderate to difficult. Given below are the type of puzzles and seating arrangement questions which were asked in the reasoning section:
1. Linear Seating Arrangement
2. Blood Relations based puzzle
3. Tabulation based puzzle
4. Schedule based puzzle
5. 2 Parallel Rows with 6 people in each row
6. Floor based puzzle
7. Box based puzzle
The table given below shows the distribution of questions from different topics of the reasoning ability syllabus that were asked in the RBI Grade B phase I examination:
Important Topics | Number of Questions |
Reasoning Puzzles | 25-30 |
Machine Input and Output | 5 |
Logical Reasoning | 5-10 |
Alphanumeric Series | 2-3 |
Syllogism | 2-3 |
Direction Test | 3 |
Data Sufficiency | 2-3 |
Coding-Decoding | 1-3 |
Miscellaneous | 8-10 |
Total | 60 |
General Awareness
The General Awareness section was moderate. Candidates were able to attempt the majority of the questions. Most of the questions were asked from Current affairs. there were 4-5 questions on a budget (Current +Static).
Given below are a few memory-based questions which were asked in the RBI Grade B Phase I examination in the general awareness section, based on the two shifts combined together:
1. First Novel of Amitav Ghosh
2. Question on Indian Innovation Index
3. When is the International Tea Day observed?
4. Question on Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
5. Pradhan Mantri Kushal Yojana
6. When is the Good Governance Day observed?
7. Questions based on Union Budget 2021
8. Questions on RBI Financial Report
9. West Indies and Bangladesh Series
Note: Apart from these, 8-10 questions were based on Static GK and the section was moderate in terms of its level of difficulty.
Overall Difficulty Level & Good Attempts of the exam
The exam was conducted in two shifts and given below is the overall RBI Grade B exam difficulty level & good attempts for the phase I examination 2021:
Shift | Level of Exam | Good Attempts |
Shift 1 | Moderate to Difficult | 100-106 |
Shift 2 | Moderate to Difficult | 102-107 |
Section-wise Difficulty Level & Good Attempts of the exam
The section-wise RBI Grade B exam analysis has been discussed below:
Shift | Subject | Level of Exam | Good Attempts |
Shift 1 | English Language | Moderate | 23-25 |
Quantitative Aptitude | Moderate | 21-22 | |
Reasoning Ability | Moderate to Difficult | 24-25 | |
General Awareness | Moderate | 32-34 | |
Shift 2 | English Language | Moderate | 23-24 |
Quantitative Aptitude | Moderate | 23-25 | |
Reasoning Ability | Moderate to Difficult | 29-30 | |
General Awareness | Moderate to Difficult | 27-28 |
RBI Grade B 2021 Cutoff
Section-wise Cutoff
Section | General | EWS | OBC | SC | ST | PwBD (OH/HI/VH/MD) |
General Awareness | 16.00 | 16.00 | 12.00 | 10.25 | 10.25 | 10.25 |
Reasoning | 12.00 | 12.00 | 9.00 | 7.75 | 7.75 | 7.75 |
English Language | 6.00 | 6.00 | 4.50 | 3.75 | 3.75 | 3.75 |
Quantitative Aptitude | 6.00 | 6.00 | 4.50 | 3.75 | 3.75 | 3.75 |
Overall cutoff marks
Category | Cutoff Marks (Out of 200) |
General | 66.75 |
EWS | 66.75 |
OBC | 63.75 |
SC | 53.50 |
ST | 52.75 |
PwBD | 52.75 |
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