RBI Grade B Officers Exam-2015 flagged off on 22nd November, 2015. The 120 minutes test is being conducted in two time slots- morning and evening. 1 mark will be awarded for every correct answer while 0.25 marks will be deducted for every incorrect answer. All the sections, save English Language section, were available both in English and in Hindi.
The detailed break down of the paper is as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Level of difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Good Score |
Approximate time taken (in Minutes) |
General Awareness |
80 |
Easy - Moderate |
40-42 |
38-40 |
25 |
Reasoning (Verbal) |
60 |
Difficult |
24-27 |
20-22 |
50 |
English Language |
30 |
Moderate |
22-24 |
18-20 |
15 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
30 |
Moderate |
18-20 |
16-18 |
30 |
Total |
200 |
|
110-120 |
102- |
120 |
Expected Cutoffs
Subject |
General |
OBC |
SC |
ST |
General Awareness (Out of 80) |
32-34 |
28-30 |
26-28 |
26-28 |
Reasoning (Verbal) (Out of ) |
18-20 |
15-17 |
13-15 |
13-15 |
English language (Out of 30) |
12-14 |
10-12 |
9-11 |
9-11 |
Quantitative Aptitude (Out of 30) |
12-14 |
10-12 |
9-11 |
9-11 |
Overall Phase I (Out of 200) |
95-98 |
85-88 |
80-85 |
-63 |
General Awareness
There were about 25-27 questions from basic Banking Awareness that the candidates would not have found difficult to attempt. The rest were from Current Affairs and Static G.K. This section was easier as compared to the last year's RBI Grade B Officer's Exam.
The breakdown of the section is as follows:
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Banking Awareness |
25-27 |
Current Affairs |
10-15 |
Business Economics (Static + Current) |
35-45 |
English Language
The RC had 10 questions, out of which 4 questions were vocab based. None of the questions were direct. There was a 10 blank Cloze Test, which was easy and a student shouldn't have taken more than 3 minutes to fill in the ten blanks. The 7 sentence Para Jumble set comprising 5 questions was moderately difficult. Sentence Formation questions that made an appearance last year were scrapped off this year. Instead the students were asked questions based on Error Spotting.
The breakdown of the section is as follows:
Topic |
Number of Questions |
RC |
10 (4 Vocab based) |
Para Jumble |
5 |
Cloze Test |
10 |
Error Spotting |
5 |
Quantitative Aptitude
This section saw questions from varied topics. A question each was based on Mixtures, Percentage, Simple Interest, Age, Mensuration, Profit and Loss, Time and Work, Partnership, Time, Speed and Distance, Boats & Stream. 3 sets of 5 questions each were based on Data Interpretation. 5 questions based on number series were also asked.
The breakdown of the section is as follows:
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Number Series (Wrong number in the series) |
5 |
Data Interpretation - Table based |
5 (1 set) |
Data Interpretation - Caselet Based |
5 (1 set) |
Data Interpretation - Pie Chart (Two) |
5 (1 set) |
Partnership |
1 |
Ages |
1 |
Profit and Loss |
1 |
Mensuration |
1 |
Mixture & Alligation |
1 |
Simple Interest & Compound Interest |
1 |
Time, Speed and Distance |
1 |
Boats & Stream |
1 |
Percentages |
1 |
Time & work |
1 |
Reasoning
This section was dominated by questions based on Arrangement. 5 sets were based on arrangement alone. The other types of questions were based on critical reasoning, inequalities, Coding - Decoding, Syllogism, Input - Output and Data Sufficiency. Compared to the last year, this section was a tad bit difficult.
The breakdown of the section is as follows:
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Critical Reasoning |
8 |
Coding - Decoding |
5 (1 set) |
Input - Output |
5 (1 set) |
Syllogism |
5 |
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Inequalities |
5 |
Data Arrangement Puzzle |
11 (5 +6) |
Circular Arrangement |
6 |
Linear Arrangement - Floors |
5 |
Linear Arrangement - Two Rows |
5 |
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