Job Work: RBI assistant job involves file work, analyzing and generation of reports, initialization of notes, collection of receipts, balance tally, maintenance of ledger, etc.
Many people prefer RBI Assistant job over Bank PO as it involves lesser transfer 5 years instead of 3 years, work 5 days a week
RBI Assistant Salary: Approximate of RBI assistant salary is At present, initial monthly Gross emoluments for Assistants approximately ₹ 36091/-. per month including all the perks and allowances.
RBI Assistant Vacancies: There are total 926 RBI assistant 2020 vacancies (473 in general category), around 6 lakhs candidates appeared for the RBI assistant exam.
RBI Assistant Eligibility:
Age: Between 20 and 28 years
Education: At least a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks (pass class for SC/ST/PWD candidates) in the aggregate and the knowledge of word processing on PC.
Language Proficiency: Candidates should be proficient in the language (i.e. know to read, write, speak and understand the language) of the state/ any of the states falling under the recruiting office.
a. RBI Assistant Preliminary Examination Online Classes
- Online, Objective Type, in Hindi/English
- Objective test Marks: 100
- Objective test Qs: 100
- Objective test Time: 60 Minutes
Preliminary Examination consisting of Objective Test for 100 marks will be conducted online. The test will be of 3 Sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:
| Name of the Test | No. of Qs. | Max. Marks | Duration |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 1 hour (60 min) |
No sectional cut-off, ¼ negative marking, this is a qualifying exam for RBI assistant, marks are not counted for merit list.
b. RBI Assistant Mains Exam
- Online, Objective Type MCQ, in Hindi/English
- Objective test Marks: 200
- Objective test Qs: 200
- Objective test Time: 135 Minutes
| Name of the Test | 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 |
Negative Marking (both –Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations)
-0.25 (or -1/4) for every wrong answer
c. RBI Assistant Language Proficiency Test (LPT)
The candidates provisionally shortlisted from the main on-line examination will have to 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). Candidate not proficient in the Official / Local Language shall be disqualified.
The Office wise local language/s is/are as follows:
- 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
RBI Assistant Prelims Syllabus
| Reasoning | Quantitative Aptitude | English Language |
| Alphabetical Series
Numeric Series Figure Series Analogy Blood Relation Causes and Effects Coding-Decoding Decision Making Direction Sense Odd man out Ranking Sitting Arrangements Statement and Arguments Statement and Assumption Statement and Conclusion Syllogism Clocks & Calendars Situation Reaction Test |
Age & Averages
Time& Distance-Boat & Stream Simple & Compound Interest Data Interpretation – Bar graph, Line, tabular, pie chart HCF and LCM Number System Percentage Permutation and Combination Pipe & Cistern Probability Profit and Loss Inequality -Quadratic Equation Ratio, Proportion, Partnership Mixtures& Allegations Simplification Time and Work Mensuration (2D&3D) Roots, Surds & Indices Logarithms Decimal and Fraction Heights & Distances |
Antonym & Synonym HomonymsCloze Test Fill in the Blanks Grammar based Idioms and Phrases Jumbled Words One-word Substitution Para Jumbles Paragraph completion Phrase Substitution Qs on Vocabulary Reading Comprehension Sentence Completion Spotting Errors Passage Correction Sentence Re-arrangement Shuffling of Sentence parts |
RBI Assistant Mains Syllabus
| Reasoning | General/Economy
/Banking Awareness |
English Language | Data Analysis | Computer Aptitude |
| Puzzle | Overview of Indian Financial System Current Affairs, Recent Banking Updates | Sentence Improvement | Statistics (Averages, Mean, Median etc.)
Representational Statistics (Graphs and Charts) |
Internet |
| Blood Relations | Current Affairs | Error Detection | Inequality (Quantity based) |
Memory |
| Seating Arrangement | General Knowledge (Static) | Vocabulary | Probability | Keyboard Shortcuts |
| Input-Output | Financial Committees | Phrase Replacement | Percentage | Computer Abbreviation |
| Syllogism | Financial Markets | Word Association | Population-based Bar Graph | Microsoft Office |
| Data Sufficiency | Currency and Capital, Awards and Honors | Reading Comprehension | Data interpretation Tabular Graph
Line Graph Pie Chart Bar Graph Radar Graph Caselet |
Computer Hardware |
| Coding-Decoding | Credit and monetary policies (Recent), | Word Usage | Computer Software | |
| Inequalities | Indian Economy | Fill in the blanks | Operating System | |
| Logical Reasoning | Financial Sector Regulators | Spelling Errors | Networking | |
| Order and Ranking | RBI and its Functions | Word Replacement | Computer Fundamentals/Terminologies | |
| Direction sense | National and International Matters | Column Based Fillers | Number System | |
| National Income and expenditure | Sentence Connectors | Logic Gates | ||
| Monetary Policy | Cloze Test | Security Tools, virus | ||
| World Financial Institutions | Para Jumbles | |||
| Sentence Rearrangement | ||||
| Sentence Completion | ||||
| Spelling |
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