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RBI Assistant Exam Pattern 2021

RBI Assistant Exam 2021: Aspirants are waiting for RBI to announce this year’s vacancy list for the RBI Assistant exam 2021. As per the speculations, RBI Assistant may come up with the official notification next month. If you will be pursuing this exam for the very first time then it’s quite critical for you to be well aware of the exam pattern. 

RBI Assistant Recruitment 2021
Conducting Body Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Post RBI Assistant
No of Vacancy To be released soon
Registration begins September 2021 (tentatively)
Last Date to Submit Application To be released soon
Category Regulatory Body/Bank Jobs
Exam Level National level Exam
Selection Process Prelims, Mains and Language Proficiency Test
Official Site www.rbi.org.in

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RBI Assistant Exam Pattern 2021

For Phase 1 – Prelims – RBI Assistant Exam Pattern 2021

Name of Tests No. of Qs Max. Marks Total Time
English Language 30 30 20 minutes
Numerical Ability 35 35 20 minutes
Reasoning Ability 35 35 20 minutes
Total 100 100 60 minutes

Note: This will be an Online Test (Objective Based) 

0.25 negative marking will be applicable for every wrong answer 

For Phase 2 – Mains – RBI Assistant Exam Pattern 2021

Name of Tests No. of Qs Max. Marks Duration
Test of Reasoning 40 40 30 minutes
Test of English Language 40 40 30 minutes
Test of Numerical Ability 40 40 30 minutes
Test of General Awareness 40 40 25 minutes
Test of Computer Knowledge 40 40 20 minutes
Total 200 200 135 minutes

Past RBI Assistant Vacancies for 2020 (2021 are awaited)

Office Vacancies PWD # EXS #
SC ST OBC GEN EWS Total VI HI OH 4th Category 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

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English & GA Exam Syllabus in RBI Assistant 2021

Sr. No. English Language
1 Reading Comprehension
2 Synonyms
3 Antonyms
4 Sentence Correction
5 Word Meanings

GA Exam Syllabus in RBI Assistant 2021

Sr. No. General Awareness (GA)
1 Current World News
2 Current India News
3 Concepts of Geography
4 Concepts of History
5 Political Science

Quantitative Exam Syllabus for RBI Assistant 2021

Sr. No. Quantitative Aptitude
1 Time & Distance Concept
2 Time & Work
3 LCM, HCF
4 Simple & Compound interest
5 Train and boat problems
6 Average
7 Allegations, Comparision
8 Probability
9 Permutation & Combination
10 Pipes & cisterns

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Phase 3 – Language Proficiency Test

The candidates which get shortlisted from the mains examination will undergo a Language Proficiency Test (LPT). The Language Proficiency Test will be conducted in the Official / Local Language of the State concerned as detailed below).  

Note: Candidate not proficient in the Official / Local Language shall be disqualified. 

The Office wise local language accepted by RBI 

  • Ahmedabad – Gujarati
  • Bengaluru – Kannada
  • Bhopal – Hindi
  • Bhubaneswar – Oriya
  • Chandigarh – Punjabi / Hindi
  • Chennai – Tamil
  • Guwahati – Assamese / Bengali / Khasi / Manipuri / Bodo / Mizo
  • Hyderabad – Telugu
  • Jaipur – Hindi
  • Jammu – Urdu / Hindi / Kashmiri
  • Kanpur & Lucknow – Hindi
  • Kolkata – Bengali / Nepali
  • Mumbai – Marathi / Konkani
  • Nagpur – Marathi / Hindi
  • New Delhi – Hindi
  • Patna – Hindi / Maithili
  • Thiruvananthapuram – Malayalam

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