Exam Notification 2019-20
Vacancy 2019-20
Exam date
Eligibility Criteria
About Exam
Exam Pattern
Syllabus
Pre - Exam Training
Interview Details
Salary
How to Apply
Application Fees
Admit Card & Other Info
Result
How to Prepare
Previous Year Exam Analysis
Previous Year Exam Cut-off's
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RBI Assistant 2020 notification has been released by Reserve Bank of India to recruit 926 assistant vacancies. RBI is the main authority that conducts the national level exam for RBI assistant 2020 and the applicants who wants to secure a job in RBI, they must apply online from December 23, 2019 to January 16, 2020. The RBI Assistant exam is conducted in various shifts in different locations across India. RBI Assistant 2020 Prelims exam is held on 14th & 15th February 2020 while the mains examination will be conducted in the month of March 2020..
Interested and Eligible candidates can apply online for RBI Assistant 2019-20exam through the official website of RBI. The Official Notification for this exam will be updated here once the notification has been released by RBI.
Click here to Download official Notification RBI Assistant 2020
RBI Assistant Vacancy 2019-20:
State wise Vacancies:
|
Office |
|
Vacancies |
PWD |
EXS |
||||||||
|
SC |
ST |
OBC |
GEN |
EWS |
Total |
VI |
HI |
OH |
4th |
EX-1 |
EX-2 |
|
|
Ahmedabad |
1 |
2 |
4 |
11 |
1 |
19 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Bengaluru |
0 |
1 |
6 |
12 |
2 |
21 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Bhopal |
4 |
8 |
4 |
22 |
4 |
42 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
Bhubaneswar |
5(2) |
4 |
2 |
15 |
2 |
28 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Chandigarh |
6 |
0 |
7 |
19 |
3 |
35 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
|
Chennai |
11 |
0 |
15 |
35 |
6 |
67 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
|
Guwahati |
4(2) |
12(1) |
7 |
27 |
5 |
55 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
|
Hyderabad |
3 |
1 |
5 |
14 |
2 |
25 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Jaipur |
5 |
3 |
6 |
20 |
3 |
37 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
Jammu |
0 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
1 |
13 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Kanpur & Lucknow |
11 |
0 |
14 |
32 |
6 |
63 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
|
Kolkata |
2 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Mumbai |
34(1) |
46(17) |
101(2) |
199 |
39 |
419 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
4 |
16 |
39 |
|
Nagpur |
1 |
2 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
13 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
New Delhi |
6(1) |
0 |
7 |
18 |
3 |
34 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
Patna |
3 |
0 |
6 |
13 |
2 |
24 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Thiruvananthapuram & Kochi |
2 |
0 |
5 |
11 |
2 |
20 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Total |
98 |
80 |
192 |
473 |
83 |
926 |
11 |
17 |
12 |
11 |
34 |
84 |
No. of Vacancies: 926
| Category | Vacancies |
| SC | 98 |
| ST | 80 |
| OBC | 182 |
| Gen | 473 |
| PWD | 51 |
| Ex-Servicemen | 118 |
RBI Assistant Recruitment 2019-20: Important Dates
| Events | Important Dates |
|
Starting date for RBI Assistant Apply Online
|
23 December 2019
|
| Last Date for RBI Assistant Apply Online | 16 January 2020 (Extended to 20-01-2020) |
| RBI Assistant 2020 Exam Date | 14 &15 February 2020 |
| RBI Assistant Mains Exam Dat | 29 March 2020 |
RBI Assistant 2020 Eligibility Criteria:
Before applying candidates are required to go through the RBI Assistant 2020 eligibility criteria into two levels. To be qualified for the post of RBI Assistant students have to fulfill the following criteria:
1. Age Eligibility (as on 01.12.2020):
|
Category
|
Age Relaxation
|
| SC/ST | 5 Years |
| OBC | 3 Years |
| PwD | 10 Years for Gen, 13 years for OBC & 15 years for SC/ST |
| Ex-Servicemen | To the extent of service provided by them to Armed Forces+ 3 years additional (Up to 50 Years) |
| Divorced women/Widows/Women judicially separated and not re-married | 10 Years |
| Candidates who were domiciles in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in between the period 1st January 1980 to 31st December 1989 | 5 Years |
| Candidates, holding working experience of RBI | Years of Experience (Maximum 3 years) |
2. Educational Qualification (as on 01.12.2020):
Aspirants can check the educational criteria below:
RBI Assistant 2020 Exam Pattern:
The RBI Assistant 2020 Exam Pattern is same as other bank clerk exams followed by Preliminary, Main and Language Proficiency Test. Last year new changes were introduced in the exam pattern. But candidates also need to make sure the latest pattern details from the official announcement. Go through the Prelim & main exam pattern below:
RBI Assistant Exam Pattern for Prelims:
The RBI Assistant preliminary examination is of one hour duration and is conducted online. It has 3 sections with having 100 questions in total with a maximum score of 100 marks. There is negative marking in RBI Assistant Pre exam as 1/4th marks are deducted for every wrong answer. Candidates must clear the sectional cut-off to qualify for the RBI Assistant Main exam. The section-wise details are given below:
| Sr. No. | Subject | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Time |
| 1 | English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 3 | Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
RBI Assistant 2017 Memory Based Paper 1
RBI Assistant 2017 Memory Based Paper 1 - Solutions
RBI Assistant 2017 Memory Based Paper 2
RBI Assistant 2017 Memory Based Paper 2 - Solutions
RBI Assistant Exam Pattern for Main:
The mains exam has five sections: Reasoning, English Language, Numerical Ability, General Awareness and Computer Knowledge. The candidates must attempt the sections in the same order and within the allotted time fixed by the examining body. The candidate can’t leave the existing section before the time allotted. The next section can only be attempted after the current section is completed. There is a negative marking with a deduction of 1/4th marks for every mistake.
The section-wise details are given below:
|
Sr. No.
|
Subject
|
No. of Questions
|
Maximum Marks
|
Total
|
|
1
|
Reasoning Ability
|
40 | 40 | 30 minutes |
| 2 | Numerical Ability | 40 | 40 | 30 minutes |
| 3 | English Language | 40 | 40 | 30 minutes |
| 4 | Computer Knowledge | 40 | 40 | 20 minutes |
| 5 | General Awareness | 40 | 40 | 25 minutes |
| Total | 200 | 200 | 135 minutes |
RBI Assistant LPT (Language Proficiency Test) (Phase III):
The candidates provisionally selected from the main on-line examination will have to undergo a language proficiency test (LPT). The language proficiency test will be conducted in the Official / Local Language of the State concerned. Candidate not proficient in the Official/Local Language would be disqualified.
The Office wise local languages are as follows:
Important Note:
i) The above online test/s except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi.
ii) Candidates will have to pass in each of the objective tests of the online examinations
iii) A candidate has to qualify in Preliminary Examination for appearing in Main Examination.
iv) There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests (Preliminary and Main examination). 1/4th marks will be deducted for each wrong answer.
The RBI Assistant 2020 Syllabus has a defined syllabus for all the sections for both preliminary examination and mains examination. The major sections been asked are that of English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning. These three sections are common in both preliminary exam and mains exam. Apart from these three sections additional section of General Awareness and Computer Knowledge is added in Mains Exam. Candidates are required to clear the sectional cut-off as well the overall cut-off for each phase of examination in order to get selected for further round of RBI Assistant 2020 Exam.
RBI Assistant Syllabus for Prelims
This comprises of Reasoning Ability, Numerical Ability and English Language.
| Numerical Ability | Reasoning Aptitude | English Language |
| Number system | Series completion | Error locations |
| Data Interpretation | Syllogism and Inequality | Synonyms |
| Decimal fraction | Classification | Antonyms |
| Square root & cube Root | Coding-decoding | Phrasal |
| Percentage | Distance and direction | Verbs |
| Ratio and proportion | Ranking and number | Preposition |
| Average | Blood relation | Passage completion |
| Simplification | Mathematical operation | Fill in the blanks |
| Quadratic equations | Sitting arrangements | Reading comprehensive |
| Problems on ages | Puzzle test | Rearrangements |
| Partnership | Venn diagram | Sentence improvement |
| Profit and loss | Data sufficiency | Phrase Replacement |
| Simple and compound interest | Input and output | Word Usage |
| Allegation and mixture | Simplification/Approximation | Connectors |
| Time and distance | - | - |
| Trains | - | - |
| Boat and streams | - | - |
| Pipe and cistern | - | - |
| Mensuration 2D & 3D | - | - |
| Permutation & combination | - | - |
| Probability | - | - |
RBI Assistant Syllabus for Mains
The mains exam has five sections: Reasoning, English Language, Numerical Ability, General Awareness and Computer Knowledge. The candidates must attempt the sections in the same order and within the allotted time fixed by the examining body. The candidate can’t leave the existing section before the time allotted. The next section can only be attempted after the current section is completed. There is a negative marking with a deduction of 1/4th marks for every mistake.
| Numerical Ability | Reasoning Aptitude | English Language | General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness | Computer Awareness |
| Number system | Series completion | Error locations | Current affairs | History of computer |
| HCF & LCM | Analogy | Synonyms | International economy | Computer Organization |
| Decimal fraction | Classification | Antonyms | UNO | Computer Memory |
| Square root & cube Root | Coding-decoding | Phrasal | Marketing | Computer Network |
| Percentage | Distance and direction | Verbs | Award & honors | Number System |
| Ratio and proportion | Ranking and number | Preposition | Sports | MS Word |
| Average | Blood relation | Passage completion | Finance | MS Excel |
| Simplification | Mathematical operation | Fill in the blanks | Agriculture | DBMS |
| Quadratic equations | Sitting arrangements | Reading comprehensive | History of banking | - |
| Problems on ages | Puzzle test | Rearrangements | Country currency capital | - |
| Partnership | Venn diagram | Sentence improvement | Books & authors | - |
| Profit and loss | Data sufficiency | Phrase Replacement | Banking terms | - |
| Simple and compound interest | Input and output | - | Dams/Rivers/Temples | - |
| Allegation and mixture | Eligibility test | - | Nuclear/thermal power plant | - |
| Time and distance | Statement conclusion | - | Banking Instruments | - |
| Trains | Statement course of action | - | - | - |
| Boat and streams | Statement assumptions | - | - | - |
| Pipe and cistern | - | - | - | - |
| Mensuration 2D & 3D | - | - | - | - |
| Permutation & combination | - | - | - | - |
| Probability | - | - | - | - |
RBI Assistant 2020 Pre - Exam Training:
The Pre Exam Training is conducted for the candidates who belongs to SC/ST and Minority Communities. The main aim of the Pre Exam Training is to provide training facilities to improve the abilities and to enhance the capabilities of under privilege candidates. The training is free of cost, but all the other expenses like travelling, accommodation, food etc. must be paid by the candidates themselves. Pre Exam Training for rbi assistant exam is specially conducted for candidates who could not afford to take admission in private coaching institutes.During the training, candidates will get to know the exam pattern, expected questions, tips & techniques to solve the problems, how to manage time during rbi assistant exam and how to prepare for the Exam. Training is conducted for five days just before the start of Preliminary Exam. Candidates who wish to appear Pre Exam Training must select the relevant option at the time of Online Registration. Administrative body has all the rights to cancel the program anytime at any of the centers, depending upon the response and feasibility or add some more centers or make alternate arrangements.
RBI Assistant 2020 Interview Details:
Since 2017, RBI Assistant exam has only two stages i.e Prelims and Mains, interview procedure has been scrapped. Therefore, aspirants need not worry about the interview as it will not be there in the forthcoming notifications.
RBI Assistant 2020 Application Fees:
The application fee should be paid through credit/debit card or using net banking.
| Category | Amount |
| OBC/General | Rs. 450/- |
| SC/ST/PWD/EXS | Rs. 50/- |
RBI Assistant 2020 Admit Card & Other Info:
The aspirants who will successfully submit their application form will be eligible to download the RBI Assistant 2020 admit card from the official website before the examination date. The admit card is issued for all three phases of the exam. To download the admit card candidates are required to enter the following details:
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released the admit Cards of RBI Assistant prelims exam. RBI Assistant prelims 2020 will be held on 14th/15th February 2020. Candidates can download the RBI Assistant Admit Card from the official site.
Steps to donwload the RBI Assistant Admit Card
Get the information about RBI Assistant 2020 Cut Off. RBI releases cut off marks before the announcement of result declaration. Cut offs helps you to give a basic idea to identify a minimum number of questions that you should attempt in the exam.
RBI Assistant Prelims Cut-Off 2017
|
Centre wise/Category wise cut off in respect
of the preliminary online examination for the post of Assistant held on 27 & 28 November 2017 |
||||
| Office | SC | ST | OBC | GEN |
| Ahmedabad | – | 69.75 | 74.00 | 80.00 |
| Bengaluru | 68.75 | 68.25 | 74.75 | 77.75 |
| Bhopal | 78.00 | 63.75 | – | 83.25 |
| Bhubaneswar | 71.25 | 68.50 | 82.25 | 84.50 |
| Chandigarh | 77.00 | 70.25 | 81.75 | 87.50 |
| Chennai | 76.00 | – | 81.75 | 83.50 |
| Guwahati | 71.00 | 63.75 | 73.50 | 77.25 |
| Hyderabad | 80.50 | 74.50 | 84.25 | 87.00 |
| Jaipur | 74.50 | 67.50 | 81.75 | 85.75 |
| Jammu | 70.25 | 56.25 | 72.25 | 80.00 |
| Kanpur & Lucknow | 72.75 | 64.25 | 78.50 | 85.00 |
| Kolkata | 74.50 | – | 78.50 | 86.50 |
| Mumbai | 70.00 | 56.50 | 68.25 | 74.25 |
| Nagpur | – | 54.00 | 75.75 | 80.00 |
| New Delhi | 74.75 | – | 79.25 | 85.75 |
| Patna | 69.75 | 72.50 | – | 86.25 |
| Thiruvananthapuram & Kochi | 76 | – | 84.25 | 87.25 |
As per the exam syllabus and pattern for RBI Assistant Examination, there were 5 sections and 200 questions in total. Each question carried 1 mark.
The overall difficulty level of the paper was Moderate. The expected section-wise cut off has been mentioned in the section below:
RBI Assistant Mains Cut Off 2017
|
Name of the Section
|
Expected Cutoff Marks
|
|
English
|
11-13
|
|
Quantitative Aptitude
|
11-13 |
| Reasoning Ability | 12-14 |
| General Awareness | 17-19 |
| Computer Knowledge | 14-16 |
| Overall | 121-130 |
RBI Assistant Prelims Exam Analysis & Review:
RBI‘s recruitment of Assistant is the much-anticipated opportunity for every banking aspirant and with the Preliminary exam, you are now a step closer to achieve your goal. Today's (27th November' 2017) RBI Assistant Pre exam 2nd shift is over now, and it is the time for its Exam Analysis. All those aspirants who are yet to appear for RBI Assistant Prelims Exam can benefit from this exam analysis as here we provide you with an insight on the types and levels of questions being asked in this year's RBI Assistant Pre exam. The level of this shift's examination was Very Easy. You can expect this year's cut off to be high in comparison to last year's RBI Assistant Precut off. In the second shift, the exam pattern was same as compared to first shift except for Reasoning ability Section.
RBI Assitant Prelims Analysis: Overall
The preliminary exam for RBI Assistant was conducted online and had 100 questions for 60 minutes. Candidates have to manage those 60 minutes themselves while dealing with three sections- Reasoning Ability (35 Ques), Numerical Ability (35 Ques), and English Language (30 Ques).
| Subject | Good Attempt | Time (in min.) |
| English Language | 16-19 | 15 |
| Reasoning Ability | 29- 32 | 20 |
| Numerical Ability | 22-24 | 25 |
| Total | 81-85 | 60 |
English Language (Easy-Moderate )
The level of English Language was Easy-Moderate. The topic of reading comprehension was based on a story. There were 4 questions of Antonyms and synonym with the passage.
| Topic | No. of Question | Level |
| Reading Comprehension | 12 | Moderate |
| Single Filler | 6 | Easy |
| Error Detection | 7 | Easy-Moderate |
| Spelling | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 30 | Esay-Moderate |
Numerical Ability (Easy-Moderate)
The level of Numerical Ability section was Easy-Moderate. The number of questions from arithmetic (word problems) was significantly high as 15 out of 35 questions were from the arithmetic portion There was only 1 set of DI:
|
Topics
|
No. of Question
|
Level
|
| Tabular DI | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Simplification | 10 | Easy |
| Number Series (Missing) | 5 | Easy |
| Average | 1 | Moderate |
| Profit & Loss | 2 | Easy |
| Compound Interest | 1 | Moderate |
| Discount | 2 | Easy |
| Problem on Ages | 1 | Moderate |
| Ratio and Proportion | 1 | Moderate |
| Time and Work | 1 | Moderate |
| Boat and Stream | 1 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 35 | Easy-Moderate |
Reasoning Ability (Very Easy)
There were 2 puzzles and Seating Arrangement which are given below:-
• Linear (Facing North) - 1 Variable
• Day Based (Monday to Sunday)- 1 Variable
|
Topics
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
|
|
Coding Decoding
|
1
|
Easy
|
|
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement
|
10
|
Easy-Moderate
|
|
Inequality
|
4
|
Easy
|
| Number Series | 5 | Easy |
| Order and Ranking | 2 | Easy |
| Blood Relation | 2 | Easy |
| Alphabet Series | 5 | Very Easy |
| Miscellaneous | 4 | Very Easy |
| Alphabets | 2 | Very Easy |
| Total | 35 | Very Easy |
RBI Assistant Mains Exam Analysis, Review: 20th Dec 2017
RBI Assistant Mains 2017 Recruitment Exam is over, Now it's time for the much awaited RBI Assistant Mains Exam Analysis & Review (20th Dec 2017). Many students have appeared for this exam today and this brings them to a step closer in their journey of getting a Job in govt. sector. Without wasting any moment, let's get straight to the analysis for which you are all waiting for. Overall exam was moderate to difficult and students difficulty mainly in General awareness and Reasoning Section. 5 puzzles of difficult type was asked in the Reasoning Section exam.
RBI Assistant Mains 2017 exam had 5 sections in the objective test of 200 marks - Test of Numerical Ability, Test of English Language, Test of Reasoning, Test of Computer Knowledge, and Test of General Awareness for Each section had its particular time limit and overall the RBI Assistant Mains Paper was 135 Minutes.
RBI Assistant Mains 2017-18 Exam ANALYSIS (OVER-ALL):
|
SECTIONS
|
GOOD ATTEMPTS
|
Duration
|
|
Test of Reasoning
|
13-16
|
30 minutes
|
|
Test of Numerical Ability
|
21-24
|
30 minutes
|
| Test of Computer Knowledge | 29-32 | 20 minutes |
| Test of General Awareness | 17-21 | 25 minutes |
| Test of English Language | 21-24 | 30 minutes |
|
TOTAL
|
117-128
|
135 minutes
|
TEST OF NUMERICAL ABILITY( Moderate )
This section had 40 questions for 40 marks. The questions of Data Sufficiency were also there.The level of Numerical Ability was moderate and there were 3 sets of Data Interpretation Questions. Following were the types of DI:
• Bar Graph
• Caselet
• Tabular
The questions were:
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Data Interpretation | 15 | Moderate |
| Quadratic Equation | 5 | Easy |
| Data Sufficency | 5 | Moderate |
| Probability | 2 | Moderate |
| Mixture and Allegation | 1 | Moderate |
| Time and Work | 2 | Moderate |
| Ratio and Proportion | 1 | Moderate |
| Partnership | 2 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 2 | Moderate |
| Approximation | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate |
TEST OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Moderate-Difficult)
This section had 40 questions for 40 marks. The level of English Language section was Moderate-Difficult. There were a set Reading Comprehension consisting 12 questions comprising 4 vocabulary based questions.
|
Topic
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
|
|
Reading Comprehension
|
12
|
Difficult
|
| Cloze Test | 6 | Moderate |
| Error detection | 5 | Moderate |
| Paragraph Starter | 7 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
| Phrase Replacement | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate-Difficult |
TEST OF REASONING (Moderate- Difficult)
The level of reasoning was Difficult. Following were 5 types of puzzles asked:
• Box based Puzzle (2 Variable)
• Blood Relation with age (2 Variable)
• Scheduling (Month, Date) Based Puzzle
• Linear Seating Arrangement (2 Variable)
• Date of Birth and Year Based Puzzle
The questions were:
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles | 25 | Moderate- Difficult |
| Data Sufficiency (2 statement) | 5 | Moderate |
| Inequality | 2 | Moderate |
| Machine Input Output | 5 | Moderate |
| Misc | 2 | Moderate |
| Alphabet Position | 40 | Moderate- Difficult |
TEST OF GENERAL AWARENESS (Moderate-Difficult)
Bankersadda's G.K Power Capsule for helped students a lot as many questions asked were covered in the capsule already. Most of the questions were from banking, Static and current affairs mostly from October- November 2017. 10-12 Questions were of static Awareness, 10-12 current affairs and rest were from Banking Awareness. There were also few questions from basic banking awareness and surprised students a bit as the level was a bit high.
TEST OF COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE (Easy)
The section was very basic and most of the questions were from basics of Software,Hardware,Port, Internet, Network etc.
