RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam Analysis June 17, 2017 - Afternoon 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. One RC passage was a comparative study between American and European banks. The second RC passage was on the value of currency in different countries. No vocabulary questions came from the RC passages. Most of the questions were inference based and so, took a long time to figure out the answer. 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

Moderate to difficult

Sentence Completion (Phrase based)

2

Moderate to difficult

Fill in the blanks (Two sentences)

3

Difficult

Statement Connection

3

Difficult

Idiom usage

3

Moderate to Difficult

Word replacement

5

Difficult

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

There were no questions based on Number Series and Comparison of Variables in this section. There were 15 questions on Data Interpretation which were split into three sets of 5 questions each. There were 5 questions on Comparison of 2 quantities 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 (Line Graph + Table -Missing Data- Based)

5

Moderate

Data Interpretation (Double Pie Chart Based)

5

Easy to Moderate

Data Interpretation (Case-Let Based: Revenue of railways for three financial years)

5

Moderate to difficult

Comparison of two quantities (Quantity I and Quantity II) – Topics were: Boat and Stream, Linear Equation, Quadratic Equation, Time and Work, Probability

5

Easy to Moderate

Time and Work

1

Easy to Moderate

Mensuration (Cone based)

1

Easy to Moderate

Percentage

1

Moderate

Boat and Stream

1

Easy to Moderate

Mixture and Alligation

1

Moderate

Profit, Loss and Discount

1

Difficult

Simple Interest/Compound Interest

1

Easy to Moderate

Time, Speed and Distance

1

Easy to Moderate

Probability

1

Easy to Moderate

Partnership

1

Difficult

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

This section comprised of 5 AR sets (Puzzles) which were of moderate to difficult in nature. Rest of the questions could have been attempted easily to maximize the score. However, the overall section was quite lengthy and time consuming.  

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Analytical Reasoning (Linear Seating Arrangement in Parallel Rows – 12 people, 12 companies based)

6

Difficult

Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement –  Floor based)

5

Moderate to difficult

Analytical Reasoning (Blood Relation – 7 people with their age based)

5

Easy to moderate

Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement – 12 professors teaching in six months based)

6

Difficult

Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement – 8 people, 8 cities, four classes based)

5

Moderate to difficult

Mathematical Inequalities

5

Easy

Input – Output

6

Easy

Data Sufficiency (Based on 6 people Circular Arrangement, 15 people Row Arrangement)

3

Easy to moderate

Directions Based

4

Moderate

Syllogism

5

Easy

Logical Reasoning (1.Q on Inference, 2.Q on CR, 2.Q on Decision Making, 1.Q on Strong & Weak Argument, 1. Q on Statement Conclusion, 1. Q on Statement and Course of Action and 2. Q on logical based)

10

Moderate to difficult


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