RBI has conducted Grade B Officers Phase I exam for this year on 17th June 2017. Candidates appeared in the examination, finds the paper was difficult and lengthy. Approx 2 lakh candidates appeared in the examination. As per feedback received by the candidates, the examination was difficult if compared with last year. The Phase I exam consist 200 questions comprises of 4 sections which include General Awareness, Reasoning (Verbal), English Language, & Quantitative Aptitude with a composite time of 120 minutes.
Analysis of Examination: The Banking team of Jagranjosh.com has come up with a comprehensive analysis of the question paper and the expected cut off for the examination.
| Section | No. of question | Level of Difficulty |
| General Awareness
| 80 | Moderate to Easy |
| Reasoning Ability | 60 | Moderate to Difficult |
| English Language | 30 | Difficult |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 30 | Difficult |
| Total | 200 |
The section wise details are as follows:
General Awareness: This section was Moderate to easy. Economy, Banking, finance dominated this section. 70 percent of questions asked in this section were form Banking Awareness and Economy.
Reasoning Ability The level of difficulty for this section was Moderate to Difficult. There were 2 sets of Puzzle and 2 sets of seating arrangement.
| Topic | No. of Questions (60) | Level of difficulty |
| Syllogism | 5 | Moderate |
| Input/output | 5 | Difficult |
| Seating arrangement (Linear arrangement+ Circular arrangement) | 10 | Difficult |
| Puzzle (based on blood relation + scheduling based) | 10 | Difficult |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Difficult |
| Analytical Reasoning | 10 | Difficult |
| Inequality | 5 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 10 | Moderate |
| Total | 60 |
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English Language: This was difficult. There were 2 sets of Reading Comprehension. The pattern of one set of Reading Comprehension was similar to SBI PO Mains exam 2017.
| Topic | No. of Questions (30) | Level of difficulty |
| Reading Comprehension (2 sets) | 12 | Moderate to Difficult |
| Idioms and phrases | 3 | Difficult |
| Sentence Correction | 5 | Difficult |
| Para completion | 5 | Difficult |
| Double fillers | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 30 |
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Quantitative Aptitude: The level of this section was difficult. Questions were calculative. There were 3 sets of Data Interpretation.
| Topic | No. of Questions (30) | Level of difficulty |
| DI (Based on Time and Work + Double Pie Chart+ Based on Water and Tank) | 15 | Difficult |
| Inequalities (New Pattern) | 5 | Difficult |
| Miscellaneous (CI and SI, Time & Work, Time and Distance, Mixture, Profit & Loss, Ratio and Proportion, Averages, Ages) | 10 | Difficult |
| Total | 30 |
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Expected Cutoff marks: - As per our analysis and difficulty level of the examination, the following Cutoff marks are expected for different category.
| General | 90-95 |
| SC | 58-63 |
| ST | 20-55 |
| OBC | 88-93 |
Note: The candidates should note that the above cut offs may vary as it depends upon various factors hence, it is not possible to predict the exact cut off marks until RBI declared it on its website. The RBI will announce cut off marks, when the process of selection is over.
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