RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam Analysis June 17, 2017 - Morning Shift



RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam was conducted today (June 17, 2017). There were 200 questions, which had to be answered in 120 minutes. There were four sections – General Awareness, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning. All the sections except English Language were available bilingually, that is, both in English and in Hindi. Each question had 5 options and 1 mark will be awarded for every correct answer while 0.25 marks will be deducted for every incorrect answer.

Break-up of the RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam 2017 was as follows:

Section

Total Questions

Level of difficulty

Good Attempts

Good Score

Approximate time taken (in Minutes)

General Awareness

80

Easy – Moderate

46 – 48

40 – 45

30

English Language

30

Moderate – Difficult

20 – 22

18 – 21  

20

Quantitative Aptitude

30

Difficult

16 – 18

13 – 15

20

Reasoning

60

Moderate – Difficult

32 – 34

31 – 33

50

Total

200

Moderate – Difficult

115 – 120

105 – 112

120

Sectional and Overall Expected Cut-offs of RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam 2017:

Subject

General

OBC

SC

ST

PWD (OH/HI/VH)

General Awareness (Out of 80)

19 - 22

15 -18

13-16

13-16

13-16

English language (Out of 30)

6.5 - 9.5

5 – 8

5 - 7

5 - 7

5 - 7

Quantitative Aptitude (Out of 30)

6.5 - 9.5

5 – 8

5 – 7

5 – 7

5 - 7

Reasoning (Out of 60)

14 -17

11-14

9 -12

9 -12

9 -12

Overall Phase I (Out of 200)

95 -103

85 - 93

81-88

81-88

81-88

Section-wise analysis of RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam 2017:

General Awareness section of RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam 2017:  

The section had about 30 questions on Banking Awareness and Monetary Policy of RBI. Some of the questions were fundamental questions on banking terminology. Apart from that, there were about 40 questions from Current Affairs which were basically from the months of May and June. There were also about 10 questions from miscellaneous General Knowledge. This section was difficult when compared to the last year’s RBI Grade B Officer’s Exam.

Topics

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Banking Awareness, Monetary Policies

~ 30

Easy to moderate

Current Affairs

~ 40

Easy to moderate

Miscellaneous General Knowledge

~ 10

Easy to moderate

English Language section of RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam 2017:

The section comprised 10 RC questions in total. There were two RC passages which had 5 questions in each passage. No vocabulary questions came from the RC passages. Most of the questions were inference based and so, were not easy. The second Reading Comprehension passage was lengthy. Other topics that came in the exam included Sentence correction, Idiom usage, Fill in the blanks, Sentence improvement, Statement Connection, etc. No para jumble and cloze test questions came this time. One of the things which were unique in this year’s paper was that the topics were jumbled. A student after attempting one Fill in the Blank question had to solve the next question from another topic. Overall, the level of difficulty of the questions was moderate to difficult.

Topics

Number of questions

Level of difficulty

Reading Comprehension (5X2)

10

Moderate to difficult

Sentence Correction (Spot the Error)

4-5

Moderate to difficult

Sentence Completion (Phrase based)

2

Moderate to difficult

Fill in the blanks (Two words)

3

Difficult

Statement Connection

3

Difficult

Idiom usage

3

Difficult

Identify correct statements

4

Difficult

Quantitative Aptitude section of RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam 2017:

This time there were no questions based on Number Series and Quadratic Inequalities in this section. There were 15 questions on Data Interpretation which were split into three sets of 5 questions each. While one set was based on Incomplete Table and additional information, the remaining two were calculative in nature. There were 5 questions on Data Sufficiency as well.

Apart from that, there were 10 quantitative aptitude questions which were lengthy, calculative and time consuming.

Topic

Number of questions

Level of difficulty

Data Interpretation (Table + Additional Information on Time and Work)

5

Moderate to difficult

Data Interpretation (Double-Pie Chart; Population and Literacy Based)

5

Difficult

Data Sufficiency

5

Easy to Moderate

Data Interpretation (Case-Let Based)

5

Moderate to difficult

Mixtures/Alligation

1

Difficult

Percentage

1

Moderate

Simple Interest/Compound Interest

1

Moderate

Quadratic Equation

1

Moderate

Mensuration

1

Moderate

Profit, Loss and Discount

1

Moderate

Time and Work

1

Difficult

Partnership

1

Difficult

Probability(Balls based)

1

Moderate

Boat and Stream

1

Difficult

Reasoning section of RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam 2017:

This section comprised of 4 AR sets (Puzzles) which were of moderate to difficult in nature. Rest of the questions could have been attempted. The overall section was quite lengthy and time consuming.  

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Analytical Reasoning (Circular Seating + Additional Information)

6

Difficult

Analytical Reasoning (Linear Seating / North-South)

5

Moderate to difficult

Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement: 4 Information Based)

5

Moderate to difficult

Floor Arrangement (Additional Information)

5

Moderate to difficult

Data Sufficiency

5

Easy to moderate

Mathematical Inequalities

5

Easy

Input – Output

6

Easy

Blood Relation

3

Easy to moderate

Direction

4

Easy to moderate

Syllogism (Statement Conclusion)

5

Moderate

Logical Reasoning (Cause and Effect, Course of Action, Inference, Strong and Weak Argument etc.)

11

Moderate to difficult


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