RBI Grade B Exam Analysis 2019; difficulty level was moderate

Deputy Manager – Editorial

Updated on Nov 9, 2019 19:44 IST

RBI Grade B 2019 exam was conducted on November 9. Candidates can check here RBI Grade B exam analysis 2019.

The overall paper of RBI Grade B 2019 was moderate. Read below the complete RBI Grade B 2019 exam analysis to know the section-wise and overall difficulty level of exam.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has conducted RBI Grade B Phase I exam on November 9, 2019. The question paper carried 200 questions which candidates had to answer within 20 minutes. The paper was divided into four sections- General Awareness, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning. According to the candidates who had appeared in the exam, the overall exam difficulty level was moderate. This year, separate time has been allotted for each section.

Few media also reported that RBI Grade B exam has been postponed due to the Ayodhaya verdict. However, there is no official confirmation from RBI regarding the same.

To know more on the overall and section-wise difficulty level, candidates must read the complete RBI Grade B exam analysis 2019 below.

Table of contents

RBI Grade B 2019 Exam Analysis – Overall Difficulty Level
RBI Grade B 2019 Exam Analysis – Section-wise
RBI Grade B 2019 Expected Cut off

RBI Grade B 2019 Exam Analysis – Overall Difficulty Level

All questions except English Language were available bilingually (that is English and Hindi). Each question had 5 options. Each question had 5 options and 1 mark will be awarded for every correct answer while 0.25 mark will be deducted for every incorrect answer. Check the overall difficulty level of exam:

Section	Total Questions	Level of difficulty	Good Attempts
General Awareness	80	Easy-Moderate	45 – 50
English Language	30	Easy-Moderate	23 - 25
Quantitative Aptitude	30	Easy -Moderate	20 – 22
Reasoning	60	Moderate- Difficult	32 – 35
Total	200	Easy-Moderate	120 – 135

RBI Grade B 2019 Exam Analysis – Section-wise

General Awareness

General Awareness section carried 80 questions. Total marks allotted to this section was 80. Questions were asked from the current affairs (both national and international). Around 10 to 12 questions were asked from static GK and banking awareness. There were questions from sports, business, science and technology, and books and authors. Overall, the difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.

English Language

This section comprised 12 questions from Reading Comprehension (RC). There were also two RC passages which had 6 questions. One RC was based on Financial Services and the second RC was based on extinction of bees. The length of the passages were 600 words. Questions were asked from Spot the Error, Idioms and Phrases, Jumbled Sentences and Cloze Test. The difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate. Candidates can check below the topic-wise break-up of this section:

Topic	Numberof questions	Level of difficulty
Data Interpretation (Bar graph)	5	Easy-Moderate
Data Interpretation (Caselet – Venn diagram based)	5	Easy–Moderate
Number Series (Missing numbers based)	6	Easy to Moderate
Simplification/Approximation	5	Easy
Time and Work – Pipes and Cisterns	1	Easy – Moderate
Mensuration – 2D (Perimeter and Area)	1	Easy –Moderate
Age based – Averages	1	Easy– Moderate
Equation based – Income Expenditure	1	Easy– Moderate
Time, Speed and Distance	1	Easy– Moderate
Time and work – Days and employees	1	Easy– Moderate
Mixture and Alligation	1	Easy– Moderate
Partnership – investment based	1	Easy– Moderate
Simple Interest and Compound Interest	1	Easy– Moderate

Reasoning

The section comprised of 6 sets of puzzles which were of moderate level. Five questions were based on machine input-output. This section was time consuming. The difficulty level of this section was moderate to difficult.

Topic	No of Questions	Level of Difficulty
Analytical Reasoning (Linear Seating Arrangement –single row + Blood relation based)	5	Moderate
Analytical Reasoning (Vertical Linear Arrangement – 7 boxes/different colored boxes)	5	Moderate
Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement – 7 people + 7 different cities + 7 birthdays on different days in a week )	5	Moderate
Analytical Reasoning (Circular Seating Arrangement – 12 people based)	5	Moderate
Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement – 8 people + Different fruits + birth year)	5	Moderate- Difficult
Analytical Reasoning (Data Arrangement – 9 people + interview dates + months + dates)	5	Difficult
Mathematical Inequalities	3	Easy
Coding-Decoding	5	Easy-Moderate
Machine input-output (based on only words)	5	Moderate
Miscellaneous (Alphabet based singlets)	4	Easy
Statement-Inference: Statements were of not more than 3-4 lines and were based on day-to-day life situations.	4	Moderate
Strong-weak Arguments	3	Moderate
Syllogism- (Syllogism comprised of 4 statements followed by 3 conclusions)	3	Easy to Moderate
Statement-Assumption	2	Easy
Cause and Effect	1	Easy

RBI Grade B 2019 Expected Cut off

RBI Grade B cut off 2019 is given below for different categories.

Subject	General/UR	OBC	SC	ST	PWD (OH/HI/VH)
General Awareness (Out of 80)	20 - 21	16 – 17	14 - 15	14 - 15	14 - 15
English language (Out of 30)	7 - 8	6 -7	5 – 6	5 – 6	5 – 6
Quantitative Aptitude (Out of 30)	7 – 8	6 -7	5 – 6	5 – 6	5 – 6
Reasoning (Out of 60)	15 - 16	12 – 13	10 – 11	10 – 11	10 – 11
Overall Phase I (Out of 200)	104 – 107	95 – 98	91 - 94	91 - 94	91 - 94

RBI Grade B exam was conducted to fill up 199 vacancies through direct recruitment in combined seniority group streams in Department of Economic and Policy Research (DEPR) & Department of Statistics and Information Management (DSIM).

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