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[Studyplan] RBI Grade B O cers (Preliminary) Objective Phase-I Exam :
Booklist, Strategy, Previous question Paper
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1. Reserve bank of India 2011
2. RBI Preliminary exam: structure
3. Section #1: General Awareness (GA)
How to prepare Economy for RBI exam?
How to prepare Static Economy (theory)?
How to prepare Dynamic Economy (Current Affairs)?
How to prepare Yearbook
How to prepare International Affairs
How to prepare everything else!
4. Section #2: Quantitative Aptitude (QA)
Priority areas in Quantitative aptitude (QA)
Non priority areas in QA
Data Interpretation (DI)
How to get speed for DI?
5. Section #3: English Grammar and Comprehension
Priority Areas of English Section
6. Section #4: Logical Reasoning
How to approach LR?
Priority areas for Logical reasoning
7. To sum up
8. Essential booklist/Preparation sources for RBI Grade B officers Exam
9. Appendix:Topicwise Breakup of RBI 2011 Paper.
RBI Grade B officers exam, follows the same structure of UPSC Civil service exam.
No of questions= 200
Sectional Passing marks = yes. (just like bank exam. It means Candidates have to secure minimum
marks separately for each section.)
Negative marking = yes (minus 1/4th of the marks allotted to a question)
English 30 30 20mins
Reasoning 60 60 45mins
Let us look at the topic wise breakup of General Awareness, in 2011s RBI preliminary exam.
Topic No. of Questions in 2011s Exam
Economy 56
Yearbook 13
Diplomacy 7
Geography 3
Science 1
Total 80
You can find the actual questions in the appendix below. Even 2010s exam had more or less the same
breakup: heavy emphasis on Economy and Yearbook type of questions. So now let us see how to
approach each of above topics.
As you look in the last paper, youll see some questions are based on static (theory) portion and rest
are based on dynamic (current affairs). Ive given the reading list accordingly.
There are mainly 5 type of questions that can be asked in economy related MCQs.
1. Youre given a term and four definitions. Youve to find the correct definition. (or vice versa)
2. Youre given a 4-5 organizations and their functions, and youve to match the following.
3. Name of some person and which organization hes related with. (or vice versa)
4. Name of some Government policy/ Act is given, and some statements are given. Youve to find the
correct statements associated with that policy/act.
5. Trivial: Absolute dates and numbers. For example How much money did Government allot in xyz
fund sector? Or what was the repo rate in xyz month? or In which year NABARD was established?
Problem:
Students devote all their energy in mastering 5th type of questions. But youve to bow down to the
fact that there can be no end to trivial question. What if you prepared NABARDs establishment
year but they asked about LICs year? So the Cost:Benefit ratio is not good.
Therefore Donot get obsessed with trival facts. Because no war is won without sacrificing a few
soldiers. And Nobody expects you to score 100/100 marks whether it is UPSC, RBI or CAT.
Now here is the reading list/ suggested books.
2. NIOS (National Open School) study material for Economy (can be downloaded for free by clicking
ME (http://files.secureserver.net/0fdAWETp4sONW5)
3. Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh (TMH Publication) (http://www.flipkart.com/indian-economy-
civil-services-examinations-5th/p/itmdfgb8bvemvqvw?pid=9781259064289&affid=mrunalrugm)
4. For practice-Mock questions given at the end of General studies (GS) manual.
Dont try to get in minute details (for example many topics in NCERT Class 12
Micro economic.)
As I keep saying, no point in wasting time in Mishra Puri, Dutt Sundaram,
Uma Kapila etc. books theyre written from academic point of view = not very
helpful in competitive exam, time is luxery we dont have.
Once this is done, use the General Studies manual, and solve all the mock
questions given at the end of its Economy chapter.
Prepare highlights of budget 2013 + Economic Survey (lot of content already covered in
Mrunal.org/economy
Any one magazine
I assume youre in the competition business since many months. So youd have a good collection
of current affairs magazines @home. Whether it is CST or Pratiyogita Darpan, Chronicle or Wizard
doesnt matter. Just go through its monthly Economy portion.
Following are the Priority areas in a magazine in descending order of their importance.
1. Economy
2. International
3. National
4. Science tech
5. Persons in News
If you dont have magazine, no worries, go to Government library of your city, all of these
magazines will be available. You dont have to read all of them, just pick any one and go through it.
You can also visit Competitionmaster.com (he gives monthly current affairs)
You can also read Pratiyogita Darpan online for free: http://pdeng.pdgroup.in/Index.aspx
(http://pdeng.pdgroup.in/Index.aspx)
Question: which magazine to refer? If your sole aim is IAS exam then go for Civil Services Times.
But if youre simultaneously preparing for IAS+State PSC+Bank/RBI/SSC type of exams= go for
Pratiyogita Darpan. Because he also provides papers for those exams.
I mean to say the miscellaneous topics for RBI exam (seeing last two years papers): history,
polity, geography, science = these are all non-important miscellaneous topics.
But still itd be mistake to go completely blank on other topics. What if some really easy 3-4
questions come?
Therefore I suggest you go through Lucents General Knowledge book.
(http://www.flipkart.com/lucent-s-general-knowledge/p/itmdyqgpdahtxcyp?
pid=9785111109682&affid=mrunalrugm)
With this I conclude how to prepare the General Awareness (GA) portion of RBI Grade B officers
exam.
Now let us move to the aptitude part.
Aptitude
(I put Maths, logical reasoning and English all three into aptitude)
The maths is more oriented towards data interpretation rather than conventional profit-loss type
stuff. Go through the old papers (posted at bottom), and prepare topics accordingly. And to clear the
basic concepts of maths, you may use the approach shown in the RBI Assistant exam articleclick me
(http://mrunal.org/2013/06/studyplan-rbi-assistant-exam-topicwise-booklist-strategy-free-
studymaterial-previous-years-paper-cut-offs.html#454)
1. Operation on brackets
2. Linear equations
3. Average + alligiation
4. Ratios
5. Profit, Loss, %, SI and CI : all can be solved if youve clear concept of % calculation.
6. Arithmetic and Geography progression.
7. TSDW (Time speed distance and Work): all can be solved using the STD table, if you go through
my old articles on Mrunal.org/aptitude
8. Permutation, Combination, Probability : all can be solved without problem, if you go through my
old articles.
9. Geometry: Area and Volume
10. Venn Diagrams
^these topics are important for SSC exam but not much for RBI
In this QA (maths) portion, they also asked Data interpretation (DI) questions worth 15 marks, in 2011.
There is hardly any theory in DI, all youve to do is practice. Speed (quick calculation) is extremely
important here, otherwise you might end up wasting 20+ minutes in doing barely 5 sums of DI.
Basically DI requires speed in Addition and % calculation and lot of practice from old Bank/IBPS
papers.
Reading comprehension
I feel the best way to master it = Pagalguy forums CAT thread for it.
For grammar book, If you already have grammar book (R.S.Agarwal, A.P.Bhardwaj) etc. use it. If you
dont have any book, I suggest you go for objective general English by SP Bakshi (Arihant
Publication) (http://www.flipkart.com/objective-general-english/p/itmdyuqqgafhtehp?
pid=9788183480000&affid=mrunalrugm).
Vocabulary
If you donot practice enough at home, the Logical reasoning questions can be Sitters (i.e. you waste
lot of time trying to figure out blood relation and sitting arrangement etc)
(http://www.flipkart.com/modern-approach-verbal-non-verbal-reasoning-
8121905516/p/itmdytg8ghhmrq75?pid=9788121905510&affid=mrunalrugm)
Solve the sums given in this book: Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning by Dr. R S Aggarwal
(http://www.flipkart.com/modern-approach-verbal-non-verbal-reasoning-
8121905516/p/itmdytg8ghhmrq75?pid=9788121905510&affid=mrunalrugm)
Problem: the book has about 600 pages and you dont have that much time.
Well atleast do 10-10 questions from each variety. + ignore the non-verbal
portion because it is not that important for RBI (although important for
IBPS).
To sum up
Free
1. Mishra Puri
2. Dutt Sundaram
3. Uma Kapila
4. Any readymade book from any jholachhap publisher/coaching class titled RBI all in one
guide/study material.
Here is the Breakup of questions from 2011s RBI Grade B officers exam
You can download the the prelims (phase 1) papers of RBI 2011 and 2010 by clicking me
(https://files.secureserver.net/0fdsEEYy0oxCJK)
Economics
Yearbook
1. MNREGA definition
2. statements from Census 2011
3. scheme launched for school children
4. name of government act related to sustainable growth.
5. Which of the following is a woman empowerment program?
6. Full form of AAY.
7. Which of the following organisation of women in India,has arisen out of the confluence of three
moments labour movement, cooperative movement and the womens movement is on
Gandhian philosophy.
8. Second Green Revolution will be launched in north-eastern states to increase production of
which crop?
9. Which of the following factors as now a check on migration of agricultural labourers from one
place to another place in India?
10. Which of the following is not a program launched by government of India?
11. Name of the scheme launched to provide prenatal and postnatal care to mother and child.
12. Name of the scheme for improving the desert areas.
13. Name of the scheme to make Indian cities, free from slums.
International a airs
Geography
number of
Topic
questions
2. Solve the Linear equations, find values of x,y and z and find relation
5
between them (e.g. is x<y=z? etc)
Total 30
Comprehension. 8
Sentence Rearrangement 5
Sentence Correction 5
Total 30
Blood relation 9
Coding decoding 7
Data sufficiency 5
Input output 5
Total 57
Sectional Cuto s
GA 8 8 8 12
English 7 7 7 11
Quant 3 3 3 6
Reasoning 11 11 11 17
SC ST OBC GEN
85 93 94 104
SC ST OBC GEN
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