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RBI Assistant exam Pattern, Papers, Books & Interview Questions
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March 06, 2012
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 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) written exam for selection of 1000 Assistants is on the anvil – scheduled to be held on 29th April, 2012. How do you prepare for this exam? This is the focus of this article – which points you to the sample papers for the exam as well as prep books along with a discussion on the pattern of this exam. Towards the end of the article, you can also find the materials to prepare for RBI Interview.
If you are a graduate with 50% marks and would like to apply for this exam but have not applied so far, please go through my previous blog post titled: RBI Recruitment 2012 (Assistants) Notification, Eligibility & Forms. This exam prep material is also posted for future RBI exams – say for suppose RBI written exam 2013/2014, as the pattern of material is not expected to change so much.
At first let me tell you that RBI Office Assistant is a clerical post – the qualification required for this job, the salary offered as well as exam pattern is same. Hence although no specific information on RBI Assistants exam could be found on the net, you can bank upon bank clerical exam papers and books of other bank exams such as IBPS Clerk exam, SBI Clerk exam etc.
First let us start that with the pattern of RBI Assistant written exam.
RBI Assistant exam pattern:
 As per the notification, the written exam for Assistants consists of five test sections with 40 marks each – thus totaling 200 marks. The questions are going to be Objective type. With this, the format/pattern of RBI exam is as given at right.
In the notification, RBI has not specified what is the duration of the exam. But I expect the same to be of about 2 hours. It has also not specified if there would be negative marking. But you can expect negative marking of 0.25 for each wrong answer.
 This exam pattern is exactly similar to IBPS Clerk CWE exam – you can just have a look of the pattern of IBPS exam as given at left. All the exam sections are similar – the only difference is there are 50 marks for each test section in IBPS CWE, while there are 40 marks in RBI Assistants exam.
So your exam preparation plan should be test section-wise - i.e. take one test section (say Test of Reasoning), gain confidence over it and than go for the next test section. Let me tell you that if you prepare accordingly, in case if you do not qualify in RBI Assistant exam - you can appear for 19 other PSU banks with this preparation through IBPS CWE.
Sample/Previous years Papers for RBI Assistant exam:
Your first study material for the RBI Assistant exam should be the online papers test-section wise available in various websites. Since you may be having limited time, I searched in the net to find these free online papers for the RBI Assistant exam The findings are as follows:
I found that Competition Master is an excellent resource which has good collection of online papers for Bank Clerical exams:
This booklet provides you GK in banking industry in glance and gives a mock test paper.
Click here to find an bank exam paper on Computer Knowledge from upscportal.
Apart from Competition Master, I also found these websites offering sample papers for Bank Clerical exams:
Allexam: It gives 25 SBI Bank Clerk GK model questions with answers.
Upscportal: It gives you 20 Allahabad Bank model questions.
Upscportal: General Awareness sample Question Paper 2008: 40 Q
Edutalkindia: Numerical Ability/Maths samle Paper: 40 Q
Prep Books for RBI Assistant exam:
Although above sample papers gives you an exposure to what questions you may expect in the RBI Assistant exam, your actual preparation should be based on books as the contents are more reliable. Following books can be used for your preparation. You should buy test-section specific books according to the area where you are weak at and therefore you want to improve.
 These books are available in most of the bookstores, but you can also order them online by clicking the links below, from Flipkart.com which offers huge discounts up to 38%, apart from free shipping/postage in India if the order exceeds Rs. 200/=. You can choose to pay through Credit Card/Debit Card/Internet Banking. You can also choose to pay through “ Cash-on-Delivery” i.e. you pay in cash only when the same is delivered at your doorstep:
List Price: Rs.295, Offer Price: Rs.221, Discount: Rs. 74 (25%)
Prep material for Interview of RBI Assistant:
To prepare for RBI Interview, click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the requirements an interviewer looks for in you. It also gives you an interesting YouTube video telling you how you can also analyze an interviewer and hence be prepared for it. And than it gives you a list of 99 interview questions, which are most repeated in every other interview! These questions helps you prepare yourself.
Hope this blog post answers your all questions on the RBI Assistant exam. I would post more info on this RBI Assistant exam. So just keep visiting. Also, you are requested to put your questions as comments below, so that another among you can answer it, if not I.
Best wishes!
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posted by
Prasanta Bora on
March 06, 2012
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Sir, Your Article is really helpful. I have a question., I.e What standard of question Do I expect in the Exam?I have gone throigh the RBI gade B officer papers and they are more or less similar to bank PO. But since for the Assistant' Post there is only 1 round of exam and that will supposedly be the elimination round, Do I expect Harder questions?(If so what standard?) If not, Will practice from bank clerical papers Suffice? Kindly help. Susmita
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sir i've attended ibps s.o xam last sunday... it requires lot of calculations to ans each n evry ques in numerical part.. will rbi also tough lik tat?? pls give me some suggestions sir
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Thanks Sir, this sir really the best blog I've been through. Sir I too have this same query as the person above me has asked. IBPS S.O. exam was really length, that had 200 questions in 2 hr with each question having five options so u cant go with searching ans from available options either, also the type of questions they've asked were time taking. Does these exams also the same pattern of lengthy questions ?
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Dear Shringi, Rizwana,
Yes, I think the RBI Exam questions will be as tough as IBPS CWE or may be more tough for following two reasons:
1.0 RBI is the apex bank of India. So the cometition is more to get a RBI job.
2.0 Salary offered for RBI clerks is more compared to PSU banks : starting basic pay is Rs. 8860/= with two increments, while for the clerks in PSU banks, starting basic pay is Rs. 7200/=.
But that should not discourage you. Try to learn time management through mock tests..
Best wishes!
Prasanta Bora
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Dear Prasanta Sir,
Your blog really helped alot and made clear understanding. As RBI has openings this year 2012 and Written exam is april ending. I have applied and preparing for it, as this is first time, i have some question below.
1. As many question need lots of calculation, will they provide extra rough papers to work on questions.
2. what should be min marks in each sections as it consist of 40 mark each.
3. After RBI, i have IBPS, SBI CW exams ahead, so will this preparations for RBI helps me for further situations.
Kindly help ASAP. thanks
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Dear Sir,
I want to inform that lot of persons are applying in EX SM category.
However, they did not get NOC from defence services. They are simply blocking the vacancies.
It is my humble request kindly demand NOC/Discharge certificate during written exam only.
Thanks,
S Kumar
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Sir, Your Article is really helpful. I have a question., I.e What standard of question Do I expect in the Exam?I have gone throigh the RBI gade B officer papers and they are more or less similar to bank PO. But since for the Assistant' Post there is only 1 round of exam and that will supposedly be the elimination round, Do I expect Harder questions?(If so what standard?) If not, Will practice from bank clerical papers Suffice? Kindly help. Susmita