RBI Grade B Syllabus 2023 PDF: Download RBI Grade B Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2023, RBI Grade B Phase I & II Syllabus

• Total Questions – 200
• Total Marks- 200
• Total time- 120 minutes/2 hours
• Negative Marking-0.25 Marks
• There will be a sectional cut off for each section so to proceed to the next stage, candidates will have to clear both the sectional as well as the overall cut off.
• Marks obtained by the candidates in RBI Grade B Prelims Examination will not be considered in the final merit list.

RBI Grade B Prelims Exam Pattern 2023
Department Name	No. of questions	points	duration
English language	30	30	25 minutes
General awareness	80	80	25 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	30	30	25 minutes
reasoning	60	60	45 minutes
Total	200	200	120 minutes

RBI Grade B Mains Exam Pattern 2023

Marks obtained by the candidates in RBI Grade B 2023 Main Examination will be added to the final merit list. RBI Grade B Exam Pattern is Objective and Descriptive. Candidates can check the RBI Grade B Mains Exam Pattern from the table below.

RBI Grade B Mains Exam Pattern
Paper Name	Type of paper	time	No. of questions	points
Paper-I: economic and social problems	50% objective	30 minutes	30 objective questions	50
	50% descriptive	90 minutes	4 Descriptive questions	50
Paper-II: English (Writing Skills)	Descriptive	90 minutes	3	100
Paper-III: Finance and Management	50% objective	30 minutes	30 objective questions	50
	50% descriptive	90 minutes	4 Descriptive questions	50

* Type answers with the help of keyboard in descriptive test. Candidates typing answers in Hindi can type with the help of Inscript or Remington (GAIL) keyboard layout.
* In Papers 1 and 3, out of 6 descriptive questions, candidates will have to answer 4 questions.

RBI Grade B Syllabus 2023: Prelims

The first phase of RBI Grade B 2023 is an objective type exam consisting of four sections:

1. English language
2. General awareness
3. Quantitative Aptitude
4. Ability to reason

RBI Grade B Syllabus for English Language

• Reading Comprehension
• closed test
• fillers
• Sentence errors
• Vocabulary based questions
• Sentence correction
• Confused paragraph
• Paragraph Based Questions (Paragraph Filler, Paragraph Conclusion, Paragraph/Sentence Replacement)

RBI Grade B Syllabus for Reasoning Ability

• puzzles
• Seating arrangements
• sense of direction
• blood relation
• Syllogism
• Order and Ranking
• Coding-decoding
• Machine input-output
• Inequality
• Alpha-numeric-symbol series
• Data Sufficiency
• Logical Reasoning (Inferences from a passage, Statements and Hypotheses, Conclusions, Arguments)

RBI Grade B Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude

• Data Interpretation (Bar Graph, Line Chart, Tabular, Caselet, Radar / Web, Pie Chart)
• Inequalities (quadratic equations)
• number series
• Approximations and simplifications
• Data Sufficiency
• Various Arithmetic problems (HCF and LCM, Profit and Loss, SI and CI, Age, Work and Time, Velocity Distance and Time, Probability, Periodicity, Permutation and Combination, Average, Ratio and Proportion, Partnership, Boats and Streams) Problems, Train problems, mixing and charging, pipes and seams)

RBI Grade B Syllabus for General Awareness

• Banking awareness
• Financial awareness
• Government Schemes and Policies/Govt. Plans and policies
• Current Affairs / Current Affairs
• stable consciousness

RBI Grade B Syllabus 2023 for Main

RBI Grade B Officer Phase 2 Exam has 3 Papers. Paper I – Economic and Social Issues, Paper II – English Writing Skills and Paper III – General Finance and Management. We have shared detailed updated RBI Grade B Syllabus for Phase 2.

Paper-I – economic and social problems (Economic and Social Problems):

• Growth and Development – Measuring Growth: National Income and Per Capita Income – Poverty
• Segregation and Employment Generation in India – Sustainable Development and Environmental Issues.
• Economic Reforms in India – Industrial and Labor Policy – ​​Economic and Fiscal Policy – ​​Privatization –
• Role of Economic Policy – Globalization – Beginning of Indian Economy – Balance of Payments,
• Export-Import Policy – ​​International Economic Organization – IMF and World Bank – World Trade Organization – Regional-Economic Cooperation – Social Structure in India – Multiculturalism – Demographic Trends – Urbanization and Migration – Gender Issues – Social Justice: Disadvantaged in Positive Discrimination –
• Social Movements – Indian Political System – Human Development – ​​Social Sector, Health and Education in India

Paper-II -English (Writing Skills):

The English paper will be designed to assess writing skills along with expression and comprehension of the topic.

Paper-III – Finance and Management:

(me) finance/finance

(a) financial system/financial system

• Regulators of Banks and Financial Institutions
• Reserve Bank of India – Monetary Policy, Functions and Conduct of Banking System in India
• Financial Institutions – SIDBI, EXIM, NABARD, NHB, etc.
• India’s Response to the Global Economic Impact of 2007-08

(b) financial market/financial markets

Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bonds, Equity etc.), Instruments, Current Affairs.

(c) general subjectgeneral subject

• Risk Management in Banking Sector
• Derivative Basics: Forwards, Futures and Swaps
• The changing landscape of the banking sector
• Recent developments in the financial sector, portfolio investment, public sector reforms, disinvestment
• Financial Inclusion – Use of Technology
• Alternative sources of finance, private and social cost-benefit, public-private partnerships
• Role of e-Governance in solving problems of corporate governance in banking sector, corruption and inefficiency in government sector.
• Union Budget – Direct and Indirect Taxes; Non-Tax Sources of Revenue, GST, XIII
• Finance Commission and GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM)
• Inflation: Definition, Trends, Forecasts, Implications and Diagnosis (Control): WPI, CPI -Components and Trends

(II) management/Management:

Fundamentals of Management and Organizational Behavior

• Introduction to Management; Evolution of Management Thought: Scientific, Administrative, Human Relations and Systems Approaches to Management; management functions and managerial roles; Nudge theory
• Meaning and concepts of organizational behavior; Personality: Meaning, Factors Affecting Personality, Big Five Models of Personality; Reinforcement concept; Perception: Concepts, perceptual errors. Motivation: concept, significance, content theory (Maslow’s need theory, Alderfers’ ERG theory, McClelland’s theory of needs, Herzberg’s two-factor theory) and process theory (Adams’ equity theory, Vroom’s expectancy theory.
• Leadership: Concepts, Theory (trait, behavior, contingency, charismatic, transactional and transformational leadership; Emotional Intelligence: Concept, Importance, Dimensions. Interrelationship Analysis: Transactional Analysis, Johari Window; Conflict: Concept, Sources, Management, Types of Conflict, Organizational Change : Concept Kurt Lewin Change Theory
• Organizational Development (OD): Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Theory
  Planned change (Lewin’s change model, action research model, positive model).

Ethics and Corporate Governance in the Workplace

• Meaning of ethics, why ethical problems arise in business. Theories of Ethics: Utilitarianism: Social Costs and Benefits, Rights and Duties, Justice and Fairness, Ethics of Care, Integration of Utility, Rights, Justice and Care, Alternative Ethical Principles: Virtue Ethics, Television Theory, Ego Theory, Relativism Theory, Ethical Issues in Business : Ethics in Compliance, Finance, HR, Marketing etc. Ethical Principles in Business: Introduction, Organizational Structure and Ethics, Role of Board of Directors, Best Practices in Ethics Program, Code of Ethics, Code of Ethics etc.
• Corporate Governance: Factors Affecting Corporate Governance; Mechanisms of Corporate Governance
• Communication: Stages in communication process; communication channels; oral versus written communication; verbal versus non-verbal communication; upward, downward and lateral communication; Communication barriers, role of information technology.