RBI Grade-B Examination 2020-2021

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November 22, 2020

RBI Grade-B Examination

The Reserve Bank of India conducts an annual RBI Grade-B examination 2020 to
recruit Grade B officers (Manager level posts in commercial Banks). It is the most
esteemed, highest, and toughest level of examination in the banking and financial sector
in India.

The RBI Grade-B Examination is conducted to recruit candidates for the three Posts
which are

1. General – DR
2. DERP
3. DSIM in common Seniority Group (CSG)

The RBI Grade-B exam is conducted in Three Phases

1. Prelims-Qualifying Phase I
2. Mains Phase II
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 3. Interview Phase III

RBI Exam

RBI Grade B Official Soon

Notification

Online Registration Date Soon

Phase I exam Soon

Phase II exam Soon

Phase III interview Soon

Frequency Of Exam Soon

Number of vacancies Soon

Job location Pan India

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Eligibility
The Eligibility criteria are as follows:-

Nationality: The candidate must be a citizen of India, subject of Nepal or Bhutan,

Or a Tibetan refugee permanently settled in India.
Age limits: Candidate must have attained a minimum age of 21 years and must
not be more than 30 years in age. However, there are certain age relaxations for
candidates belonging to certain categories.
Educational qualification: The educational qualification differs for General,
DERP, and DSIM specializations.
General RBI Grade(B): A minimum of 60% marks in bachelor’s degree as well as
in 12th and 10th standard examinations.
DERP RBI Grade(B): A master’s degree in economics or finance with a minimum
of 55% marks from a recognized Indian or Foreign University.
DSIM RBI Grade(B): A master’s degree in statistics or mathematics with a
minimum of 55% marks.

Phase I Exam Pattern

Total No. of Questions Total No. Time

Subject Asked in Examination of Marks Duration

Total 200 200 120 min

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 Total No. of Questions Total No. Time
Subject Asked in Examination of Marks Duration

General 80 80 25 min
Awareness/General
Knowledge

Logical Reasoning 60 60 45 min

Quantitative Aptitude 30 30 25 min

English 30 30 25 min

Total 200 200 120 min

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Syllabus for Phase I

General Awareness/General Knowledge:- This section is not limited to any
specific number of topics as it is vast but the questions asked in the examination
are generally from Appointments/committees/constituencies, Sports, Financial
awareness, and also Awards/film festivals, Meetings/Submits,
Schemes/Campaigns/Portals, International News/India’s initiative with other
countries, Reports/Indices, Obituary, Banking terminology, Headquarters of
Banks, Economic and financial news, Monetary policy, Census Data, Socio-
Economic Caste census, Union Budget, Economic Survey.
Logical Reasoning:- Puzzles, Inequalities, Blood Relations, Input-output,
Machine input, ranking, Seating arrangements, Direction Test, and also Syllogism,
Data Sufficiency, Coding or Decoding, Alphanumeric series.
Quantitative aptitude:- Ratio Proportion, Percentage, Speed Time and
Distance, Permutation and combination, Data Interpretation, Number series,
Profit and loss, Mensuration and in conclusion Average, Time and Work, Mixture
and Alligations, Probability, Simplification, Inequalities, Upstream and
Downstream, SI and CI.
English:- Reading Comprehension, Fill in the blanks, Jumbled words, and
sentences, Sentence framing, Vocabulary, Tenses Rules, Cloze test,or Sentence
rearrangement, Error spotting, and in addition match the columns, Grammar,
Idioms, and phrases.

Phase I Previous Year Cut-off

Year – 2019

Section Gen/Un OBC SC ST

Total 122 115 108 108

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General Awareness/General 20 16 14.5 14.25

Knowledge

Logical Reasoning 15 12 10.75 10.75

Quantitative Aptitude 7.5 6.0 5.25 5.25

English 7.5 6.0 5.25 5.25

Total 122 115 108 108

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Year – 2018

Section Gen/UN OBC SC ST

General Awareness/General 20 16 14.25 14.25

Knowledge

Logical Reasoning 15 12 10.75 10.75

Quantitative Aptitude 7.5 6.0 5.25 5.25

English 7.5 6.0 5.25 5.25

Total 105.75 95.75 91.75 91.75

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Syllabus for Phase II

Economics and Social Issues:- Growth and Development, Economic Reforms

in India, Social Structure in India Corporate Governance, Development in the
Financial Sector, Export-Import Policy, Illiteracy, Balance of Payments, Rise in
Inequality Rigid Labour Law, Human Resource, Development, Inflation,
Regionalism, and Language Conflicts, Poor Education Standards
Globalizations, Social Structure in India, Employment Generation in India
Sustainable Development, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Social Sectors in India,
Benefits of International Trade, Direct and so Indirect Taxes, Insurance and
Capital Marketing, Government debt.
Finance and Management:- Union Budget, Regulation of Banks, Risk
Management in Banking Sector, Technology in Finance, Corporate Governance, in
addition with Human Resource Development, Motivation and Incentives,
Regulators of banks and financial institutions, Development in the Financial
Sector, Financial sector Regulations, Monetary Policy, Union Budget, Inflation.
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 The Managing Process, Career Planning Role of Incentives, Role of Information
Technology, Communication Channels, Leadership, Nature, and also their Scope
of Management.
English:- Reading comprehension, Precis writing, and also Article writing.

Type of the Duration(in

Name of the Paper Paper minutes) Marks

Paper I Economic & Social Issues MCQ based 90 100

Paper-II English (Writing Skills) MCQ based 90 100

Descriptive

Paper III Finance & Management Or MCQ based 90 100

Economics for DERP
Or Statistics for DISM

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Economics For DERP

(a) Microeconomics
Consumers behaviour and firms, the value of resources like land, labour and
capital.
Markets-monopoly, perfect and imperfect competition.
In addition, General Equilibrium of price and activity, economic welfare and also
case for regulatory / policy interventions.

(b) Macroeconomics
Measuring national income and its components; basic macro identities and the
idea of macro-balance, Goods and Financial Market Equilibrium (ISLM
Framework).
Major macro-economic school of thoughts, or Classical, Keynesian and
Monetarist.
Consumption and Investment demand management policies and also their
effectiveness.
And also Money demand and supply; monetary and fiscal policies.

(c) International Economics

Firstly, the benefit of international trade, comparative and absolute advantage;
effect of International trade on resources allocation and factor price equalization,
non-conventional trade barriers, optimum currency areas and effect of the
customs union.
Secondly, International finance and exchange rates issues in an open economy,
benefits and their costs of interconnected financial markets; the evolution of
international financial architecture.

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(d) Public Economics
Firstly, Public Goods, instruments of financing, government tax and non-tax
revenue.
Secondly, Direct and Indirect taxes, efficiency costs of commodity taxes, income
taxation, labour supply and savings, corporate taxation and corporate behaviour.
In addition, Government expenditure policy-various components, deficit
financing and its impact on the economy, government debt and crowding out of
private capital.

(e) India’s Economy and Development Issues

India’s experimentations with planned development models and the outcomes,
structural issues-savings and investment, demography, urbanization, productivity,
etc., issues with poverty, inequality and also with employment.
Agriculture policy and also its developments, manufacturing competitiveness;
what is holding India back, the role of public sector enterprises in the key
economic sectors, India’s resilient service sector; trade, tourism, communication,
ITES, etc.
Financial sector regulation and also reforms-banking, insurance and capital
market, fiscal policy and the changing priorities of the government, emergence of
monetary policy and its new role.

Statistics For DISM

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Year – 2019

Stage Gen/UN OBC SC ST

Cut-Off(paper I+II+III) out of 300 193.25 188.00 172.25 172.25

Total out of 350 (paper I+II+III+

Interview) 238.25 215.50 206.50 194.00

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Year – 2018

Stage Gen/UN OBC SC ST

Cut-Off(paper I+II+III) out of 300 201.25 186.25 180.25 180.25

Total out of 350 (paper I+II+III+

Interview) 248.50 235.50 221.25 219.50

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