RBI Assistant mock tests

Reserve Bank of India, Recruitment of Assistants

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About RBI Assistant

The Reserve Bank of India recruits Assistants for its offices by a country-wide examination. The advertisement dated 16 February 2026 (Panel Year 2025) invites applications for 650 posts. A candidate needs a bachelor's degree in any discipline with at least 50% marks in aggregate (a pass for SC, ST and PwBD candidates) and a working knowledge of word processing on a PC, and must be between 20 and 28 years of age on 1 February 2026, with the relaxations the advertisement lists. The candidate must also know the official or local language of the office applied for.

Selection has three stages. The Preliminary Examination is an online objective test of 100 questions and 100 marks in 60 minutes: English Language (30 questions, 20 minutes), Numerical Ability (35 questions, 20 minutes) and Reasoning Ability (35 questions, 20 minutes). Each test has its own clock. A candidate can attempt a test only during the time given to it, and cannot move to the next test until that time is over or go back. Every question has five options and one right answer. A wrong answer takes away one-fourth of a mark. About ten times the vacancies, category-wise and subject to availability, are shortlisted for the Main Examination. A candidate must qualify in each test separately as well as on the total; the Bank fixes those cut-offs.

The Main Examination is an online objective test of 200 questions and 200 marks in 135 minutes, again with a separate clock for each test: Reasoning (40 questions, 30 minutes), English Language (40 questions, 30 minutes), Numerical Ability (40 questions, 30 minutes), General Awareness (40 questions, 25 minutes) and Computer Knowledge (40 questions, 20 minutes). The same one-fourth negative mark applies, and each question has five options. About twice the vacancies are called, on the aggregate of the Main Examination, for a mandatory Language Proficiency Test in the official or local language of the State. No one is exempted from that test. Final selection follows merit in the online examination, qualifying the language test, medical fitness and document verification. Where a test is held in more than one session, scores are equated.

Selected Assistants start at a basic pay of ₹29,000 a month, in the scale given in the advertisement. The advertisement puts the initial monthly gross emoluments, without house rent allowance, at about ₹58,514. Staff are posted in the recruiting zone and can be transferred across the centres of that zone. Tests other than English are shown in English and in the language chosen for that office, including Hindi.

RBI Assistant Prelims exam pattern

60 minutes (extra time for eligible candidates as in the advertisement)

RBI Assistant Mains exam pattern

135 minutes