RBI Grade B Officers Exam - 2015 Phase II Analysis 7 December, 2015



RBI Grade B Officers Exam (Phase II) - 2015 was conducted on December 7, 2015. Only the candidates who were shortlisted on the basis of results of Phase-I could appear in this exam. The examination was in two shifts. Candidates were required to appear for both the shifts.

Each question in Paper I and Paper III had four options. An incorrect answer will reduce a candidate’s score by 1/4 of the marks allotted to the question.

Phase-II online examination consisted of three papers as under:

Name of Paper

Max. Marks

No. of Questions

Time (in minutes)

Paper-I:
Economic and Social Issues (Objective Type)

100

40

90

Paper II:
English (Writing Skills) (Descriptive Type)

100

2

90

Paper-III: (Optional)
Finance and Management (Objective Type)

100

51

90

Paper I

Paper I was divided into 3 sections. Look at the table below:

Section

Number of Questions

Marks per question

Total Marks

A

15

1.5

22.5

B

19

2.5

47.5

C

6

5

30

Total

40

 

100

An interesting thing to note in section B was that out of 19 questions, 12 questions were divided into two parts and the options called for a consolidated answer. So, effectively, even when there were two parts of a question, a candidate had to mark one option. For example: The first part of a question had four statements - ‘a’ ‘b’ ‘c’ and ‘d’ while the second part had statements - ‘e’ ‘f’ ‘g’ and ‘h’ Now the options were in the form of a and e, b and f, and so on. Same thing was done in Section C. The difference being that in this section, all six questions were divided into three parts.

Apart from this, Section B saw one question from Data Interpretation, which was divided into two parts. The data was represented through a bar graph.

Paper II

There were only two questions in this section. One required the candidates to write an essay and the other to write a precis.

Candidates had to write a 400 words essay on any one of the five choices given to them. Four of the five choices were as follows:

  • Indian government’s gold scheme
  • Climatic catastrophe due to man’s wild construction
  • India needs bold capital investment
  • Is progress possible without peace?

For Precis writing, the paper setter had picked an article from The Economic Times. It had to be shortened into 110 words.

 

Paper III

Paper III again was divided into three sections. Look at the table below:

Section

Number of Questions

Marks per question

Total Marks

A

20

1

20

B

25

2

50

C

6

5

30

Total

51

 

100

Candidates were allowed to use non programmable electronic calculators in Paper III.

Questions based on Finance were from the areas like Stock Market, Technical Analysis, etc. Several numerical questions were also asked.

In management, the questions were based on corporate governance, basic management principles, marketing management, etc.

In this paper, it appeared that the length of the questions had unnecessarily been increased. The paper setter could have done away with some information in the questions.

The overall difficulty level of the paper was easy as compared to previous years, solely because until last year, this exam was subjective type. As a result, the cut-off is expected to drop this year.


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All the best! 
  Team CL