Cutoff for RBI Grade B- Phase 1

While the sectional cut-off remained same for all section and for all the categories, but there is a uniform increase of 10 marks in over all cut-off for all category.  (What is the reason behind so smooth change in cut-off?? – “One can only guess or can file an RTI”)

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General Awareness

Question can be divided into following category

Major classifications

• Banking Awareness (major portion)
• Current Affairs
• General

Further Subtopic Classification

• Currencies
• Headquarters of FIs
• Regulation of FIs
• Social Sector Schemes
• Amendment in any scheme
• Important Days
• Awards
• Important Places
• Books & Authors

Few salient points about the question asked

1. As the exam was on Sept 4, most of the current affairs were from month of July or at most last 3-months (June, July and Aug).
2.  Any of serious candidate which has done the current affairs of months of June, July and till mid August can easily secure around 40-45 marks out of 80.
3. Further, one or two questions were about government scheme launched with in last one year.
4. Few questions were from the some changes in current schemes like in Gold Monetizing schemes etc.
5. Few questions were from Budget. Whoever listen the budget speech carefully can easily answer those question. The full budget speech and text available at following link.

http://indiabudget.nic.in/

If observed, overall it is at moderate level and not difficult to clear the cut-off for phase I exam for General Study section. In fact it can help in clearing the overall Cut-off.

Detail strategy about general Study preparation is discussed in separate article.

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Reasoning

1. Aspirants rated overall difficulty level moderate.

Topics	Number of Question
Syllogism	5
Seating Arrangement	5
Puzzle	10 ( 2 sets)
Input Output	5
Data Sufficiency	5
Inequality	5
Coding Decoding	5
Miscellaneous Questions	5

1. 2. This one is scoring section and can help in clearing the overall cut-off.

3. Detail strategy about this section preparation is discussed in separate article

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Quantitative Analysis

1. Aspirants rated overall difficulty level moderate to high
2. Question Classification

Data Interpretation

Partnership

Profit & Loss

Sequence and Series

Average

Time, Speed & Distance

Boats & Streams

Simple Interest & Compound Interest

Ratio & Proportion

Time & Work

1. 3. Question was on higher difficulty level if compared with other banking exams.

1. 4. As in all exams here the game is to complete question in minimum possible time which can be gained only through practice.

1. 5. So if one have serious prepared even half of the above topics can easily get 15 questions correct within half an hour.

1. 6. One quick preparation tip to aspirants who cannot devote much time to preparation
      1. while preparing for this section rather than targeting to all the topics of quantitative section target few  topic first
      2. Practice many question on these topics to be able to do the question quickly.
      3. Then proceed on further topics.

7. Detail strategy will be discuss in  separate article

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English

1. Student rated the English paper easier compared to last year paper.
2. Question Classification

Spotting Error – 5 Questions

Reading Comprehension – 2 passages

Cloze Test  – 10 Questions

Fillers – 5 Questions

1. 3. Very less grammar was asked.

1. 4. Comprehension was not that difficult. Spotting error was very easy

1. 5. Even one with little preparation for English can easily get 10-15 questions right and with practice one can easily get 20-25 questions right in less than 15 min.

6. Easier question does not mean that one should not prepare for English, as you never know about examiner mood he can throw difficult question in next exam. And you also have to be prepared for other exams as well.

Detail strategy for all the exam will be discussed in different section