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RBI Assistant Exam Overview
| CATEGORY: | RBI Assistant |
| JOB PROFILE | file maintenance, MIS generation, management of data and drafting letters. |
| POSTING | Urban |
| PROMOTIONS | After 2-3 years |
| TRANSFER | After 3-5 years |
| EXAMINATION TYPE | Online: Prelims + Main + language proficiency |
| BOND | 2 years |
Let’s start off with the syllabus of RBI Assistant exam as there’s no point buying those books until you know what’s the syllabus.
Syllabus for RBI Assistant 2021-22
| English | Quant | Reasoning | General Awareness |
| Reading Comprehension, Double Fillers/multiple sentence fillers/ sentence, Cloze Test, Vocabulary Based Questions, Sentence Improvement/ Correction, Paragraph Based Questions (Paragraph Fillers, Paragraph/ Sentences Restatement, Paragraph 1,2,3 and Paragraph Conclusion), Odd One Out cum Paragraph Jumbles. | Data Interpretation (Line Chart, Caselet, Pie chart, Bar Graph, Tabular, Web/ Radar) Approximation and Simplification, Miscellaneous Mathematical Problems ( Profit and Loss, Problems on Ages, HCF/ LCM, SI/CI, Work and Time, Probability, Permutation and Combination, Speed, Distance and Time, Mensuration, Ratio and Proportion, Problems on Streams and Boats, Mixtures and Allegations, Partnership, Pipes and Cistern, Problems on Trains, Average) Number Series, Data Sufficiency, Inequalities (Quantity 2, Quantity 1 and Quadratic Equations). | Direction Sense, Puzzles, and Seating Arrangements, Blood Relation, Order and Ranking, Machine Input-Output, Syllogism, Coding-Decoding, Alpha-Numeric Symbol, Data Sufficiency, Inequalities, Series, Logical Reasoning (Statement and Assumption, Argument, Passage Inference, Conclusion) | Banking GK Economics GK Funds allotted State news Appointments (Special designations of banks and Government of India) Schemes Books and Authors – You can easily cover them because hardly 4-5 books are released every month. Don’t miss out on this topic. Awards Committees – Bank related Rankings and reports |
Best books for RBI Assistant 2021 – Prelims
| English Language | Quantitative Aptitude | Reasoning Ability |
| General English by – SP Bakshi/Arihant Objective General English by – RS Agarwal/S Chand | Objective Arithmetic by RS Aggarwal/S Chand Numerical ability and Mathematical Aptitude by – Dr AB Rao Fast Track Objective Arithmetic by – Rajesh Varma/Arihant | A modern approach to verbal and non-verbal reasoning by – RS Aggarwal/S Chand A New Approach to Reasoning by – BS Sijwali/Arihant |
Best books for RBI Assistant 2021 – Mains
English Language Books
| Name of the Book | Author/Publisher |
| Objective General English | SP Bakshi/Arihant |
| Objective English for Competitive exams | Hari Mohan Prasad/MacGraw Hill |
| Objective English | Thorpe/Pearson |
Reasoning Ability Books
| Reasoning Ability for Competitive Exam | Nikshit N Sinha/Pearson |
| Analytical Reasoning | MK Pandey/MK Pandey |
General Awareness Books
| Banking Awareness | Arihant Experts/Arihant |
| General Awareness | Arihant Experts/Arihant |
Quantitative Aptitude Books
| A New Approach to Numerical Ability | Navaratan Singh, Manpreet Cheema/Chelan |
| Objective Airthmatics | RS Aggarwal/S Chand |
Computer Knowledge Books
| Computer Fundamental | Pradeep K Sinha/BPB Publication |
| Fundamental of Computer | E Balaguruswamy/E Balaguruswamy |
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RBI Assistant Career Growth
| Scale 1 | Officer / Assistant Manager (Grade A) |
| Scale 2 | Manager (Grade B) |
| Scale 3 | Senior Manager (Grade C) |
| Scale 4 | Chief Manager (Grade D) |
RBI Assistant Pay Scale 2021
The in-hand salary for RBI Assistant is Rs. 36091/-.
| Years in Service | Salary | Increment |
| First 3 years | ₹13,150 | ₹ 750 |
| Next 4 years | ₹ 15,400 | ₹ 900 |
| Next 6 years | ₹ 19,000 | ₹ 1,200 |
| Next 2 years | ₹ 26,200 | ₹ 1,300 |
| Next 5 years | ₹ 28,800 | ₹ 1,480 |
| Next 1 year | ₹ 33,240 | ₹ 1,750 |
| 20 years | ₹ 34,990 | – |
RBI Assistant Posting Locations
| North Zone | West Zone | East Zone | South Zone |
| Chandigarh (including Shimla), Jaipur, Jammu / Srinagar, Kanpur, (including Lucknow & Dehradun), New Delhi | Ahmedabad, Bhopal (including Raipur), Mumbai (including Belapur, Pune, and Panaji), Nagpur | Bhubaneswar, Guwahati (including all North Eastern states excluding Gangtok), Kolkata (including Gangtok), Patna (including Ranchi) | Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Thiruvananthapuram (including Kochi) |
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