RBI Grade B Officers Phase I Exam Analysis June 17, 2017 - Morning Shift

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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. No vocabulary questions came from the RC passages. Most of the questions were inference based and so, were not easy. The second Reading Comprehension passage was lengthy. 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)	4-5	Moderate to difficult
Sentence Completion (Phrase based)	2	Moderate to difficult
Fill in the blanks (Two words)	3	Difficult
Statement Connection	3	Difficult
Idiom usage	3	Difficult
Identify correct statements	4	Difficult

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

This time there were no questions based on Number Series and Quadratic Inequalities in this section. There were 15 questions on Data Interpretation which were split into three sets of 5 questions each. While one set was based on Incomplete Table and additional information, the remaining two were calculative in nature. There were 5 questions on Data Sufficiency 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 (Table + Additional Information on Time and Work)	5	Moderate to difficult
Data Interpretation (Double-Pie Chart; Population and Literacy Based)	5	Difficult
Data Sufficiency	5	Easy to Moderate
Data Interpretation (Case-Let Based)	5	Moderate to difficult
Mixtures/Alligation	1	Difficult
Percentage	1	Moderate
Simple Interest/Compound Interest	1	Moderate
Quadratic Equation	1	Moderate
Mensuration	1	Moderate
Profit, Loss and Discount	1	Moderate
Time and Work	1	Difficult
Partnership	1	Difficult
Probability(Balls based)	1	Moderate
Boat and Stream	1	Difficult

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

This section comprised of 4 AR sets (Puzzles) which were of moderate to difficult in nature. Rest of the questions could have been attempted. The overall section was quite lengthy and time consuming.  

Topic	Number of Questions	Level of Difficulty
Analytical Reasoning (Circular Seating + Additional Information)	6	Difficult
Analytical Reasoning (Linear Seating / North-South)	5	Moderate to difficult
Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement: 4 Information Based)	5	Moderate to difficult
Floor Arrangement (Additional Information)	5	Moderate to difficult
Data Sufficiency	5	Easy to moderate
Mathematical Inequalities	5	Easy
Input – Output	6	Easy
Blood Relation	3	Easy to moderate
Direction	4	Easy to moderate
Syllogism (Statement Conclusion)	5	Moderate
Logical Reasoning (Cause and Effect, Course of Action, Inference, Strong and Weak Argument etc.)	11	Moderate to difficult

Source: CL

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