RBI Officer Grade B Syllabus 2024 | (Phase: 1, 2) Exam Pattern, PDF Download

1. 📖 General Awareness

1. Banking & Financial Awareness

2. Monetary Policies

3. Economic Terms

4. Current Affairs

5. Financial & Economics News

6. Static GK

7. Government Schemes

8. Agreement & Deals

9. Banking terms

10. Interest rates

11. Banking processes

2. 📖English Language

English Syllabus

1. Grammar

2. Vocabulary

3. Error Spotting

4. Comprehension

5. Passage Making

6. Jumble Making

7. Fill in the Blanks Words

8. Sentence Framing

3. 📖Numerical Ability

1. Mensuration

2. Time and Work

3. Average

4. Ratio

5. Percentages

6. Speed, Distance and Time

7. Mixture and Allegations

8. Permutation and Combination

9. Data Interpretation

10. Probability

4. 📖Reasoning Ability

1. Reasoning Syllabus:

• Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning

• Analogies

• Classification

• Series

• Coding-Decoding

• Blood Relations

• Directions and Distances

• Ranking and Order

• Input-Output

• Syllogism

• Data Sufficiency

• Puzzle and Seating Arrangement

• Statement and Conclusions

• Statement and Assumptions

• Statement and Arguments

• Course of Action

• Inferences

• Decision Making

• Critical Reasoning

2. Puzzles:

• Number Puzzles

• Alphabet Puzzles

• Mathematical Puzzles

• Logic Puzzles

• Word Puzzles

• Picture Puzzles

• Sudoku

• Crosswords

• Jigsaw Puzzles

3. Seating Arrangement:

• Linear Seating Arrangement

• Circular Seating Arrangement

• Rectangular Seating Arrangement

• Square Seating Arrangement

4. Directions and Distance:

• Basic Concepts of Direction Sense

• Directions in Clockwise and Anticlockwise

• Direction Sense Test

• Distance and Direction Test

5. Data Sufficiency:

• Number System

• Algebra

• Geometry

• Trigonometry

• Mensuration

• Data Interpretation

• Logical Reasoning

6. Blood Relations:

• Family Tree Problems

• Coded Blood Relations

• Blood Relations Test

7. Syllogism:

• Categorical Syllogism

• Conditional Syllogism

• Disjunctive Syllogism

• Hypothetical Syllogism

8. Coding-Decoding:

• Letter Coding
• Number Coding
• Symbol Coding
• Coding-Decoding Test

9. Inequality:

• Direct Inequality
• Indirect Inequality
• Comparison Inequality

1. 📖Economic and Social Issues

1. Growth and Development

• Measurement of growth: National Income and per capita income

2. Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India

3. Sustainable Development and Environmental issues

4. Economic Reforms in India

• Industrial and Labour Policy
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• Privatization
• Role of Economic Planning

5. Globalization, Opening up of the Indian Economy

• Balance of Payments
• Export-Import Policy

6. International Economic Institutions

• IMF and World Bank
• WTO
• Regional Economic Co-operation

7. Social Structure in India

• Multiculturalism
• Demographic Trends
• Urbanization and Migration
• Gender Issues

8. Social Justice

• Positive Discrimination in favor of the underprivileged
• Social Movements

9. Indian Political System

• Human Development
• Social Sectors in India, Health, and Education.

2. 📖English (Writing Skills)

• Future of BPO Industries in India

• Importance of Creative Thinking in business.

• An ounce of prevention is a pound's worth of cure.

• Pros & Cons of Teaching Computer Language/Coding to School Students.

3. 📖Finance and Management (Objective Type Questions)

(a) Financial System

• Regulators of Banks and Financial Institutions

• Reserve Bank of India- functions, and conduct of monetary policy

• Banking System in India – Structure and concerns

• Financial Institutions – SIDBI, EXIM Bank, NABARD, NHB, etc.

• Changing landscape of banking sector.

• Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and the Indian response.

(b) Financial Markets

• Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.)- functions, instruments, recent developments.

(c) General Topics Syllabus

• Risk Management in Banking Sector

• Basics of Derivatives

• Global financial markets and International Banking – broad trends and latest developments.

• Financial Inclusion

• Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership

• Corporate Governance in Banking Sector, the role of e-governance in addressing issues of corruption and inefficiency in the government sector.

• The Union Budget – Concepts, approach, and broad trends

• Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI – components and trends; striking a balance between inflation and growth through monetary and fiscal policies.

• FinTech

Paper-III: Management Syllabus (a) Fundamentals of Management & Organizational Behaviour

• Introduction to management: Evolution of management thought: Scientific, Administrative, Human Relations and Systems approach to management; Management functions and Managerial roles; Nudge theory

• Meaning & concept of organizational behaviour: Personality: meaning, factors affecting personality, Big five model of personality; concept of reinforcement; Perception: concept, perceptual errors. Motivation: Concept, importance, Content theories (Maslow’s need theory, Alderfers’ ERG theory, McCllelands’ theory of needs, Herzberg’s two factor theory) & Process theories (Adams equity theory, Vrooms expectancy theory).

• Leadership: Concept, Theories (Trait, Behavioural, Contingency, Charismatic, Transactional and Transformational Leadership; Emotional Intelligence: Concept, Importance, Dimensions. Analysis of Interpersonal Relationship: Transactional Analysis, Johari Window; Conflict: Concept, Sources,Types, Management of Conflict; Organizational Change: Concept, Kurt Lewin Theory of Change; Organizational Development (OD): Organisational Change, Strategies for Change, Theories of Planned Change (Lewin’s change model, Action research model, Positive model).

(b) Ethics at the Workplace & Corporate Governance

• Ethics: Meaning of ethics, why ethical problems occur in business. Theories of ethics: Utilitarianism: weighing social cost and benefits, Rights and duties, Justice and fairness, ethics of care, integrating utility, rights, justice and caring, An alternative to moral principles: virtue ethics, teleological theories, egoism theory, relativism theory, Moral issues in business: Ethics in Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, etc. Ethical Principles in Business: introduction, Organization Structure and Ethics, Role of Board of Directors, Best Practices in Ethics Programme, Code of Ethics, Code of Conduct, etc.

• Corporate Governance: Factors affecting Corporate Governance; Mechanisms of Corporate Governance

• Communication: Steps in the Communication Process; Communication Channels; Oral versus Written Communication; Verbal versus non-verbal Communication; upward, downward and lateral communication; Barriers to Communication, Role of Information Technology.