Essential booklist/Preparation sources for RBI Grade “B” officer’s Exam

Free

1. NCERT Economy Class 11,12

2. NIOS studymaterial on Economy

3. Pagalguy.com forum (particularly for grammar, comprehension.)

4. Mrunal.orgNot Free but recommended

1. Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh (TMH

Publication) 

2. Lucent’s General knowledge

3. R.S Agarwal’s book on Verbal Reasoning

4. Any one newspaper (Hindu / Indianexpress) [Free if you read online]

5. Any one magazine.  (Pratiyogita Darpan / CST/ Chronicle/ Wizard)

[Pratiyogita can be read online for free, on its official site)

6. (optional) Previous years’ Bank PO / IBPS paperset for practicing aptitude

7. (optional) GS Manual for practicing Economy and Yearbook questions.Not free AND Not recommended

1. Mishra Puri

2. Dutt Sundaram

3. Uma Kapila

4. Any readymade book from any jholachhap publisher/coaching class titled

“RBI all in one guide/study material”.

Appendix:Topicwise Breakup of RBI 2011 Paper.

Here is the Breakup of questions from 2011’s RBI Grade “B” officer’s

exam

You can download the the prelims (phase 1) papers of RBI 2011 and 2010

by clicking me

Section 1: General Awareness

Economics

1. meaning of least developed countries

2. statement about India’s GDP

3. persons associated with reserve bank of India

4. reforms needed after Satyam scandal 2009

5. International commodities responsible for cost push inflation

6. features of special economic zone act

7. definition of GDP

8. components of human development index

9. how to measure economic growth of a country

10. contribution of agriculture sector in total GDP of India

11. contribution of service sector in the total GDP of India

12. how is India’s national income majored

13. Fiscal reforms adopted by government of India

14. component of current account and capital account

15. What is the purpose of know your customer scheme?

16. Name of the organisation responsible to promote micro, small

and medium industrial sector in India.

17. Why market borrowings of the union government have gone up

in the year 2011?

18. Which of the following, is not an example of core industry?

19. What is the full form of DEPF scheme

20. recently, coal Ministry of India has allocated some coal blocks in

four states. Which of the following are not among those four states?

21. Which of the following is an example of nontax revenue?

22. Full form of MRTP act.

23. Which of the following is not an industrial sector?

24. Who among the following is a deputy governor of RBI?

25. Which of the following acts, helps a bank in its day to day

activities?

26. Lack of access to financial services, is technically known as.

27. Which of the following is not a function of NABARD?

28. Banks in India required to maintain a portion of their demand

and time liabilities with the reserve bank of India. What is the

technical term for this portion?

29. Example of major risks faced by the bank in their daily business.

30. Which of the following schemes was launched by RBI in 2004,

under which government of India stated that securities could be

issued to absorb surplus or durable liquidity?

31. What amount was allocated for raising credit to farmers in union

budget 2012

32. full form of MFI.

33. What is the size of women’s self-help group development fund

created by government of India?

34. Which of the following statement is true about International

monetary fund.

35. Definition of bank rate.

36. Which of the following term is associated with banking and

finance.

37. Which of the following is a millennium development goal?

38. Which of the following countries got a new bailout package with

the help of private sector?

39. Goods and services tax will be implemented from which year?

40. Full form of TIEA

41. Which of the following, is not a credit rating agency?

42. Who is the president of the World Bank?

43. Which of the following is a contentious issue between WTO and

India?

44. Who is the head of National Manufacturing competitiveness

council?

45. Member of G8 among following

46. major issue emphasised by Mohan in his UN speech

47. what is Robin Hood tax.

48. Features of 12th FYP

49. the central banks of five developed countries came together

recently and decided to provide unlimited dollar loans to banks in their

areas. What was the purpose of this?

50. Name of the payment and settlement system used by banks in

India.

51. Federal reserve is the central Bangkok which country?

52. Why was FH Malegam committee constituted?

53. The controller and auditor general of India recently got appointed

an external auditor of which international organisation?

54. The special drawing rights are provided by which international

organisation?

55. Indian citizen is allowed to invest overseas freely accept which

country?

56. Who got the Nobel Prize for economics in 2011?Yearbook

57. MNREGA definition

58. statements from Census 2011

59. scheme launched for school children

60. name of government act related to sustainable growth.

61. Which of the following is a woman empowerment program?

62. Full form of AAY.

63. Which of the following organisation of women in India,has arisen

out of the confluence of three moments – labour movement,

cooperative movement and the women’s movement is on Gandhian

philosophy.

64. Second Green Revolution will be launched in north-eastern states

to increase production of which crop?

65. Which of the following factors as now a check on migration of

agricultural labourers from one place to another place in India?

66. Which of the following is not a program launched by government

of India?

67. Name of the scheme launched to provide prenatal and postnatal

care to mother and child.

68. Name of the scheme for improving the desert areas.

69. Name of the scheme to make Indian cities, free from slums.International affairs

70. Function of high IAEA.

71. South China Sea dispute (why China raised objection against

India).

72. India entered into an agreement to purchase LNG from East

Asian nations, under which policy?

73. G-7 summit of 2011, was held in which city?

74. Which of the following organisation gave warning tp the nations

that there may be increased risk to global financial stability in the

world?

75. Which of the following agency did pollution survey and found

that Indian cities are most polluted in the world

76. Who represented in India in the first South Asia Forum meeting

held in 2011?Geography

77. Sardar Sarovar dam is built on which river?

78. Rashidpur Gas fields are located in which country?

79. Which country is the largest producer of chemical fertilisers in

the world?Science and technology

80. greenhouse gases are responsible for what?Section 2: Maths / quantitative aptitude

Topic

81.Operation on Brackets e.g. 27^2×5-31+4=??

2. Solve the Linear equations, find values of x,y and z and find relation between them (e.g. is x<y=z? etc)

3. series of numbers is given, you’ve to find the next number.

4. Data interpretation case based on Venn Diagram concept.

5. Data interpretation case based on Radar graph.

6. Data interpretation case based on huge table of yearwise animal population.

Total

Section 3: English grammar and comprehension

Comprehension.

Sentence Rearrangement

Fill in the Blanks

Sentence Correction

Total

Section 4: Logical reasoning

Topic

Blood relation

Inference and assumption based on paragraph

Coding – decoding

Data sufficiency

All cats are dogs

Seating arrangement (two cases are given)

Weight arrangement (Abhishek is heavier than..) case

Inequality based statement-conclusions (i.e N<O<R and R>A)

Input output

Logical reasoning based on paragraph.

Find the odd words in the group

Total

Cut off for RBI Prelims 2010 (Phase I)

This is provided by my friend from Pagalguy Mr.CSL80, through RTISectional Cutoffs

(minimum marks / sectional cut-offs) Number indicates correct questions.

Section SC ST

GA 8 8

English 7 7

Quant 3 3

Reasoning 11 11

Total cut off score for selection to phase 2

SC ST  OBC

85 93 94

Highest marks scored by individuals in different category

SC ST OBC

122 122 132

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