RBI stands for Reserve Bank of India, it’s the central bank of India. The Reserve Bank of India conducts the
RBI Grade B Officer Exam every year to identify qualified candidates for Grade B officer positions in its many branches across the country.
RBI Grade B Exam Pattern consist of online exam and interview:
- Preliminary Exam
- Mains Exam
- Interview.
The RBI Grade B syllabus and exam pattern differ depending on the stage of selection:
- First, Candidates who qualify for the prelim’s exam called for the mains exam.
- Candidates based on their mains exam’s score called for interview.
- Candidates are selected based on their performance in the main exam and interview.
First, let’s discuss the RBI Grade B Syllabus for prelims and mains exam, then we will discuss the pattern of the exams. Finally, we will discuss the total marks held by each section and what are the time allotted.
RBI Grade B Officer Exam Syllabus
The syllabus is almost the same as other banking exams.
RBI Preliminary Exam
RBI Grade B syllabus for preliminary exam has four parts General Awareness, Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English Language. Candidates must go through the grade B officer syllabus.
The detail of the syllabus is given below.
| Reasoning |
Quantitative Aptitude |
General Awareness |
English Language |
| Puzzle |
Simplification & Approximation |
Current Affairs |
Reading Comprehension |
| Alphabets/ Alphanumeric Series/ Numeric Series |
Number Series |
Banking Awareness |
Cloze Test |
| Direction sense |
Inequality (Quadratic & Quantity based) |
Indian Financial System |
Para jumbles |
| Data Sufficiency |
Ratio & Proportion, Partnership |
Indian Banking System |
Vocabulary Based |
| Inequalities |
Percentage |
Banking History |
Multiple Meaning/Error Spotting |
| Syllogism |
Mixtures & Allegations |
Monetary Plans |
Paragraph Completion |
| Input-Output |
Average & ages |
National and International Institutions |
Fill in the blanks |
| Seating Arrangement |
Profit & Loss |
Bank Terms & Abbreviations |
Spelling Errors |
| Blood Relation |
Time and work & Pipe and cistern |
Economic News |
Word Replacement |
| Order and Ranking |
Simple Interest & Compound Interest |
Banking Agreements |
Column based Fillers and Sentence Connectors |
| coding-decoding |
Data Interpretation |
Government Schemes |
Word Usage |
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Data sufficiency |
Awards |
Idioms and Phrases |
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Time & Distance, Boat & stream |
Books and Authors |
Sentence Completion |
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Mensuration (2D&3D) |
Sports News |
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Permutation, Combination &Probability |
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RBI Grade B Mains Syllabus
The Mains Exam 2021 will be divided into three sections: Economic and social issues, Finance, and Management. RBI Grade B syllabus has 3 subject economics and social sciences, English, finance and management. In this section questions are objective and subjective as well.
The following is the overall syllabus:
| Subject |
Syllabus |
| Economic & Social Issues |
Social Structure in India
Economic Reforms in India
Growth and Development
Globalization |
| Finance |
Risk Management
Basics of Derivatives
Financial System & Markets
Development in Financial Sector
Union Budget
Inflation |
| Management |
Communication
Corporate Governance
Role of Manager
Human Resource Development
Motivation, Morale, and Incentives |
RBI Grade B Exam Pattern
RBI Grade B Officer exam pattern is divided into three parts, Phase I, Phase II, and interview. Therefore, the exam pattern is different for different stages of selection.
Candidates who successfully qualify in the phase I exam called for the phase II exam. Candidates, based on their phase II exam score, are called for an interview. The final selection of candidates is made based on their performance in the main exam and interview.
RBI Grade B officer exam pattern provides details regarding the overall structure of the exam, such as marking scheme, total marks, number of sections, and time duration. Therefore, before beginning with the RBI Grade B Officer exam preparation, it is advised that candidates must go through the exam pattern thoroughly to understand how they should utilize their time and secure a good ranking.
The structure of the Examination, which will be conducted online, are as follows:
Prelims Exam Pattern
The RBI Grade B Officer 2021 prelims exam is an online examination with four sections in total.
The total number of marks allotted for all sections is 200, and the total time to complete all sections of the Preliminary exam is 120 minutes. In the RBI Grade B Prelims 2021 exam, 0.25 marks will be deducted for each incorrectly attempted question.
In short, Candidates must obtain the minimum marks required by the Board.
Mains Exam Pattern
The mains exam has total marks of 300.
There are two papers in the mains (Phase-II) exam (Paper-I, Paper-II, and Paper-III). All shifts must be covered by the candidates. Each shift will obtain a letter of admission. Only candidates who have been shortlisted based on Phase I and the Board’s cut-off will be eligible to take the Phase-II online Examination on April 1, 2021.
The Phase-II Examination will be in shifts. Therefore, candidates are required to appear for all shifts.
Note: Candidates from the unreserved, i.e. General Category, who have previously appeared six times for the Phase-I Examination for this post/s are not eligible to apply.
RBI Grade B Response Sheet
The RBI Grade B response sheet is totally different from the answer key as these sheets help a candidate to estimate total marks. By cross-checking, the answer opted for an actual answer. Response sheets are available a few days after the exam. The candidate needs to log in with the login credentials and click on the response sheet.
Tips for preparing RBI Grade exam
Candidate preparing himself for RBI Grade 2021 then should remember certain things carefully. Ask and the candidate preparing for the RBI Grade examination need to be very serious and sincere.
- One Candidate should go through the RBI Grade B syllabus and pattern well and know in detail about the chapters and sections
- Time management, candidates should give proper time to each section of the questions so that all the sections are balanced properly during the exam.
- The candidate should solve regularly all numerical and mathematical problems.
- A lot of practice can only help a candidate to get qualified in the examination.
- Set for self-assessment set test and this will help a candidate to analyze once performance and that will bring good result during the examination.
- Take care of the time wisely so that all sections get equal importance without being biased.
RBI Grade B Books
Few books are good for the examination that can be found online as well as offline stores. RBI Grade B objective question pattern books by best authors are easily available in the market Books such as Fast Track Objective Arithmetic by Rajesh Verma, Verbal and Nonverbal Reasoning by R.S Agarwal, Lucent’s General Knowledge, Banking Awareness by Arihant Publications, Indian Financial System by M.Y Khan, Banking and Finance and Other Financial Institutes by Arun Arora and many more books are available for this exam.
Know More –
RBI Officer Grade B Admit Card and Interview Call Letter
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FAQs
Q.1 How many vacancies have been released?
Ans. The total number of vacancies in 2021 is 322.
Q.2 Can a final year graduation student apply for RBI Grade B?
Ans. No, the final-year student can not apply for RBI Grade B, but the minimum qualifications require candidates to have a graduation degree or equivalent from a recognized university.
Q.3 What is the Application fee for RBI Grade B?
Ans. The application fee is Rs. 100 for SC/ST/PWBD candidates and Rs. 850 for all others.
Q.4 Where all details regarding RBI Grade B is available?
Ans. All details are available on the official website of the Reserve Bank Of India.
Q.5 Exam for RBI Grade B is conducted offline or online?
Ans. The exam is conducted in an online mode. Throughout process is online.
Q.6 What are the total marks of the exam?
Ans. There are 200 questions total time is 2 hours or 120 minutes
