RBI Grade B Officers 2014 Exam Analysis (Phase I)

RBI Grade B Officers Exam -2014 on 2rd August, 2014. The 130 minutes test is being conducted in two time slots  morning and evening. It was span over a period of two weeks, ending on 10th August, 2014. 1 mark will be awarded for every correct answer while 1/4th marks will be deducted for every incorrect answer.

The detailed break down of the paper is as follows:

Section	Total Questions	Level of difficulty	Good Attempts	Good Score	Approximate time taken (in Minutes)
General Awareness	80	Easy – Moderate	46-48	42-44	30
English Language	30	Moderate	22-24	20-22	20
Quantitative Aptitude	30	Moderate	22-24	20-22	25
Reasoning	60	Easy – Moderate	48-52	46-49	55
Total	200		138-148	128-137	130

Expected Cutoffs

Subject	General	OBC	SC	ST
General Awareness (Out of 80)	38-40	32-35	30-32	30-32
English language (Out of 30)	15-17	12-15	11-14	11-14
Quantitative Aptitude (Out of 30)	14-16	12-15	11-14	11-14
Reasoning (Out of 60)	29-32	24-27	22-24	22-24
Overall Phase I (Out of 200)	124-127	113-116	106-109	96-99

General Awareness
This section was dominated by questions on Economics.  There were about 25-30 questions from basic Banking Awareness that the candidates would not have found difficult to attempt. There were around 10-15 questions from Current Affairs.

Topic	Number of Questions
Banking Awareness	25-30
Current Affairs	10-15
Business Economics (Static + Current)	35-45

English Language
This section was largely on expected lines, except for the five questions on Sentence Formation which featured in this year’s exam. A sentence followed by 3 statements was given. The statements had to be combined in such a way that they represent the meaning of the sentence. The RC had 10 questions, out of which 4-5 questions were vocab based.  There was also a 10 blank Cloze Test and a 7 sentence Para Jumble set comprising 5 questions.

Topic	Number of Questions
RC	10
Para Jumble	5
Cloze Test	10
Sentence Formation	5

Quantitative Aptitude
Questions were asked from varied topics. There were 5 questions each on Series, Comparison of Quadratic Equations and Data Sufficiency. A total of 10 questions were based on Data Interpretation, which was divided into two sets – one table based and the other pie chart based. One question each was asked from Ratio, Percentage, Time, Speed and Distance, Mensuration and Algebra.

Topic	Number of Questions
Series	5
Data Interpretation	10
Comparison of Quadratic Equation	5
Data Sufficiency	5
Ratio, Percentage, Mensuration, Algebra and Time, Speed and Distance	5

Reasoning
Around five questions were asked from each topic viz. Syllogisms, Coding-Decoding, Blood Relations (symbol based), Circular Arrangement, Cause – Effect, Input output, Comparison, Data Sufficiency, Critical Reasoning and Symbol Based Comparison. Ten questions divided into two sets were from Linear Arrangement.

Topic	Number of Questions
Cause – Effect	5
Syllogism	5
Critical Reasoning	5
Coding – Decoding	5
Input – Output	5
Blood Relation	5
Linear Arrangement	10
Circular Arrangement	5
Data Sufficiency	5
Symbol Based Comparison	5
Comparison	5

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