Reserve Bank of India – Assistant Posts Syllabus, Exam Pattern & Eligibility Criteria

RBI RecruitmentRBI Assistant Exam Pattern :

  • Type of Questions : Objective
  • No. of Questions : 200
  • Time Duration : 2 Hours
  • Negative Marking : 1/4th marks will be deducted for each wrong answer.

This time the exam is going to be online. This exam consists of the following sections. Each sections consists of 40 Questions .

Reserve Bank of India Assistant Mains Syllabus
S.No Type of Exam Name of the Subjects No.of Questions Marks Exam Duration
1 Objective Type Reasoning 40 40 2 Hrs
2 English Language 40 40
3 Numerical Ability 40 40
4 General Awareness 40 40
5 Computer Knowledge 40 40
Total 200 200

Syllabus For RBI Assistant Exams : The Reserve Bank of India Assistants Exam is the most popular exam among the all exams conducted by RBI. Now lets have a look at the detailed syllabus of Assistants Exam….

Numerical Ability:

  • Simplifications (Very very important for clerical level exam)
  • Mathematical Operations
  • Squares
  • Cubes
  • Square Roots
  • Cube Roots
  • Decimals
  • Percentages
  • Time and Work
  • Time and Distance
  • Ratio and Proportions
  • Mixture and Allegation
  • Number Systems / Series
  • Profit and Loss
  • Simple Interest and Compound Interest
  • Probability
  • Partnership
  • No Data Interpretation will be there for Clerical Level.

Reasoning :

  • Introduction
  • Series Completion
  • Analytic Reasoning
  • Classification
  • Coding Decoding
  • Blood Relations
  • Direction Sense
  • Logical Venn Diagrams
  • Syllogisms
  • Number, Ranking & Time Sequence Test
  • Decision Making
  • Series
  • Pay less attention on Non Verbal Reasoning.

Computer Knowledge :

  • Basic Hardware and Software
  • Uses of Computer
  • Generations of Computer
  • Basic Computer Operations / Shortcut Keys
  • MS Office (Word, Excel, Power point)

English Language :

  • Reading Comprehension (Simple Level)
  • Spotting Errors
  • Sentence Correction
  • Sentence Completion
  • One Word Substitution
  • Synonyms
  • Antonyms

General Awareness:
For Current Affairs you should concentrate all important events occurred for last 6 months (excluding 15 days before the exam). You should concentrate on….

  • Summits
  • New Appointments
  • Deaths
  • Visits / Visitors
  • Days
  • Books and Authors
  • Important Events
  • Countries / Heads / Currencies
  • For Banking Awareness you should focus on (basic knowledge is enough)
  • History of Banking
  • Banking Terms

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Candidates have Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks (pass class for SC/ST/PWD candidates) in the aggregate and the knowledge of word processing on PC.
  • Candidate belonging to Ex-servicemen category should either be a graduate from a recognized University or should have passed the matriculation or its equivalent examination of the Armed Forces and rendered at least 15 years of defence service.
  • Candidates applying for post in a particular state should be proficient in the language of the state i.e. know to read, write, speak and understand the language.
  • Knowledge of Computer skills.