22/06/2025
🟧 RBI Grade -B:: Recruitment Test Syllabus 🟧
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The recruitment exam for RBI Grade B consists 3 phases:
Phase-I :: Prelims :: 200 MCQ :: 120 Min
Phase-II :: Mains :: 300 Marks :: 330 Min
Phase-III :: Interview :: 75 Marks
🟢 Phase-I :: Prelims Syllabus 🟢
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1️⃣ General Awareness 1️⃣
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The major topics of General Awareness revolve around the Indian Economy and Financial Systems.
RBI Grade B syllabus for General Awareness is given below:
a) Banking, Financial & Economic News, Banking Terminology, Recent RBI News like Monetary policies, Important guidelines, Financial & Economics News, Economics terms, etc.
b) Current Affairs: both national and international, sports, awards, summits & conferences, schemes, agreement & deals, etc.
c) Static GK: like Parks, Dam, Thermal Power Plants, Mountains, Temples, Stadiums, Airports, etc.
2️⃣ English Language 2️⃣
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Topics in the English Language section are given below:
1. Reading Comprehension
2. Cloze Test
3. Para jumbles
4. Spotting Error
5. Phrase Replacement / Error Spotting
6. Paragraph Completion
7. Fill in the Blanks (Vocabulary)
3️⃣ Quantitative Aptitude 3️⃣
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Topics in the QA section are given below:
Simplification
Profit & Loss
Mixtures & Alligations
Ratio & Proportion
Simple Interest & Compound Interest
Surds & Indices
Work & Time
Time & Distance
Train, Boats & Streams
Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere
Percentage
Number Systems
Number Sequence & Series
Permutation, Combination & Probability
Data Interpretation (Missing DI, Pie Chart, Caselet DI, Mix DI)
Data Sufficiency
4️⃣ Reasoning Ability 4️⃣
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RBI Grade B Reasoning Ability syllabus is given below:
Syllogism
Seating Arrangement
Linear Arrangement
Puzzle
Input-Output
Logical / Analytical Reasoning
Data Sufficiency
Inequality
Coding-Decoding
Miscellaneous Questions
🔵 Phase-II :: Mains Syllabus 🔵
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Paper 1: Economic and Social Issues ::Syllabus
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1️⃣ Growth and Development: Measurement of growth: National Income and per capita income-Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India-Sustainable Development and Environmental issues.
2️⃣ Indian Economy: Economic History of India-Changes in Industrial and Labour Policy, Monetary and Fiscal Policy since reforms of 1991-Priorities and recommendations of Economic Survey and Union Budget-Indian
3️⃣ Money and Financial Markets: Linkages with the economy-Role of Indian banks and Reserve Bank in the development process, Public Finance - Political Economy, Industrial Developments in India, Indian Agriculture-Services sector in India.
4️⃣ Globalization: Opening up of the Indian Economy, Balance of Payments, Export-Import Policy, International Economic Institutions, IMF and World Bank, WTO, Regional Economic Cooperation; International Economic Issues.
5️⃣ Social Structure in India: Multiculturalism, Demographic Trends, Urbanisation and Migration,
6️⃣ Gender Issues-Social Justice: Positive Discrimination in favour of the underprivileged, Social Movements, Indian Political System, Human Development, Social Sectors in India, Health and Education.
🟠 Paper 3 :: Finance and Management🟠
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🅰️ Finance
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The questions on Finance will be asked from the following topics:
1️⃣ Financial System
Regulators of Banks and Financial Institutions
Reserve Bank of India- functions, and conduct monetary policy
Banking System in India
Structure and concerns
Financial Institutions-SIDBI, Exim Bank, NABARD, NHB, etc
Changing landscape of banking sector
Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and the Indian response
2️⃣ Financial Markets
Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments.
3️⃣ General Topics
Risk Management in Banking Sector
4️⃣ Basics of Derivatives
Global financial markets and International
Banking-broad trends and latest developments
Financial Inclusion
Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership
5️⃣ Corporate Governance in Banking Sector, the role of e-governance in addressing issues of corruption and inefficiency in the government sector
The Union Budget-Concepts, approach, and broad trends
6️⃣ Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI -components, and trends
Striking a balance between inflation and growth through monetary and fiscal policies
7️⃣ FinTech
🅱️ Management
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1️⃣ Fundamentals of Management & Organizational Behaviour:
Introduction to management,
Evolution of management thought: Scientific, Administrative,
Human Relations and Systems Approach to Management;
Management functions and Managerial roles;
Nudge Theory,
2️⃣ Meaning & Concept of Organizational Behaviour;
Personality: Meaning, Factors Affecting Personality, Big Five model of Personality,
Concept of Reinforcement, Perception: Concept, Perceptual Errors.
Motivation: Concept, Importance, Content theories (Maslow’s need theory, Alderfers’ ERG theory, Mc Cllelands’ theory of needs, Herzberg’s two-factor theory) and Process Theories (Adams equity theory, Vrooms expectancy theory).
3️⃣ Leadership:
Concept, Theories (Trait, Behavioural, Contingency, Charismatic, Transactional and Transformational Leadership;
Emotional Intelligence: Concept, Importance, Dimensions.
Analysis of Interpersonal Relationship: Transactional Analysis, Johari Window,
Conflict: Concept, Sources, Types, Management of Conflict;
4️⃣ Organizational Change: Concept, Kurt Lewin Theory of Change,
5️⃣ Organizational Development (OD): Organisational Change, Strategies for Change,
6️⃣ Theories of Planned Change (Lewin’s change model, Action research model, Positive model).
7️⃣ Ethics at the Workplace and Corporate Governance: Meaning of ethics, why ethical problems occur in business.
8️⃣ Theories of ethics: Utilitarianism: weighing social cost and benefits, Rights and duties, Justice and fairness, ethics of care, integrating utility, rights, justice and caring,
9️⃣ An alternative to moral principles: virtue ethics, teleological theories, egoism theory, relativism theory,
🔟 Moral issues in business: Ethics in Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, etc.
1️⃣1️⃣ Ethical Principles in Business: introduction, Organization Structure and Ethics, Role of Board of Directors, Best Practices in Ethics Programme, Code of Ethics, Code of Conduct, etc.
1️⃣2️⃣ Corporate Governance: Factors affecting Corporate Governance, Mechanisms of Corporate Governance
1️⃣3️⃣ Communication: Steps in the Communication Process, Communication Channels, Oral Vs Written Communication, Verbal versus non-verbal Communication, upward, downward and lateral communication; Barriers to Communication,
1️⃣5️⃣ Role of Information Technology.
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