RBI Assistant syllabus

Recruitment of Assistants in RBI offices: a 100-mark Preliminary Examination with 20 minutes for each test, then a 200-mark Main Examination and a Language Proficiency Test.

RBI Assistant Preliminary Examination

English Language

30 questions, 30 marks · 20 minutes

Set in English only. One mark for a right answer. One-fourth of a mark is taken away for a wrong answer. Five options, one of them correct.

  • Reading comprehension
  • Cloze passage
  • Error spotting
  • Sentence completion and vocabulary
  • Rearrangement of sentences

Numerical Ability

35 questions, 35 marks · 20 minutes

In English and the language of the office, including Hindi. One mark for a right answer. One-fourth of a mark is taken away for a wrong answer. Five options, one of them correct.

  • Simplification
  • Number series
  • Data interpretation from a table
  • Percentage, profit and loss, interest
  • Time and work, speed, ratio

Reasoning Ability

35 questions, 35 marks · 20 minutes

In English and the language of the office, including Hindi. One mark for a right answer. One-fourth of a mark is taken away for a wrong answer. Five options, one of them correct.

  • Seating and floor puzzles
  • Syllogism
  • Inequality
  • Coding-decoding
  • Blood relation
  • Direction sense

RBI Assistant Main Examination

Test of Reasoning

40 questions, 40 marks · 30 minutes

In English and the language of the office, including Hindi. One mark for a right answer, one-fourth taken away for a wrong answer. Five options.

  • Puzzles and seating
  • Syllogism
  • Inequality
  • Coding-decoding
  • Input-output and logical reasoning

Test of English Language

40 questions, 40 marks · 30 minutes

Set in English only. One mark for a right answer, one-fourth taken away for a wrong answer. Five options.

  • Reading comprehension
  • Cloze
  • Error spotting
  • Fill in the blanks
  • Para jumbles

Test of Numerical Ability

40 questions, 40 marks · 30 minutes

In English and the language of the office, including Hindi. One mark for a right answer, one-fourth taken away for a wrong answer. Five options.

  • Data interpretation
  • Simplification and number series
  • Arithmetic word problems

Test of General Awareness

40 questions, 40 marks · 25 minutes

In English and the language of the office, including Hindi. One mark for a right answer, one-fourth taken away for a wrong answer. Five options.

  • Banking and financial awareness
  • Current affairs
  • Static general knowledge

Test of Computer Knowledge

40 questions, 40 marks · 20 minutes

In English and the language of the office, including Hindi. Counted in the 200 marks. One mark for a right answer, one-fourth taken away for a wrong answer. Five options. The Bank also requires a candidate to qualify in this test separately.

  • Computer basics
  • Hardware and software
  • Internet, networking and MS Office