RBI Grade B Officer Exam 2025 - Notification, Eligibility, Important Dates, Syllabus and more

The RBI grade B exam is a test held by the Reserve Bank of India to hire people for various positions in government offices. The number of vacancies and available posts for RBI grade B exam will be announced soon on the official website as they are not disclosed yet.

RBI Grade B Application fee for general category, OBC, and EWS is ?850 while for other categories like Scheduled Tribes/Caste, it is only ?100.

The RBI Grade B exam pattern consists of following stages:

1. Prelims
2. Mains
3. Interview

Maximum Attempts for prelims exam is 6 for General Category and unlimited attempts are provided for SC/ST/OBC/PWD candidates.

The official exam notification and application form will be released soon on official website.

The age limit for RBI Grade B candidate should be between 21-30 years. For PhD graduates, the upper age limit is 34 years. Education qualification of a RBI Grade B candidate varies from post to post. The official qualifications will be available on the official website. He/she must be a citizen of India, Nepal, or Bhutan.

1. English (Writing Skills):

The paper on English shall be framed in a manner to assess the writing skills including expression and understanding of the topic.

2. Economic and social Issues:

Growth and Development: Measurement of growth: National Income and per capita income - Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India - Sustainable Development and Environmental issues. Economic Reforms in India - Industrial and Labour Policy - Monetary and Fiscal Policy - Privatization - Role of Economic Planning. Globalization - Opening up of the Indian Economy - Balance of Payments, Export-Import Policy - International Economic Institutions - IMF and World Bank - WTO - Regional Economic Cooperation. Social Structure in India - Multiculturalism - Demographic Trends - Urbanization and Migration - Gender Issues - Social Justice: Positive Discrimination in favor of the underprivileged - Social Movements - Indian Political System - Human Development - Social Sectors in India, Health and Education.

3. Finance and Management:

(A)Finance (a) Financial System 1. Regulators of Banks and Financial Institutions 2. Reserve Bank of India- functions and conduct of monetary policy, Banking System in India, Financial Institutions - SIDBI, EXIM, NABARD, NHB, etc. (b) Financial Markets Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments. (c) General Topics 1 Risk Management in the Banking Sector 2. Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures and Swap 3. Changing Landscape of the Banking sector 4. Recent Developments in the Financial Sector, Portfolio Investment, Public Sector Reforms, Disinvestments 5. Financial Inclusion- use of technology 6. Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public Private Partnership 7. Corporate Governance in the Banking Sector, role of e-governance in addressing the issues of corruption and inefficiency in the government sector. 8. The Union Budget - Direct and Indirect taxes; Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Thirteenth Finance Commission and GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM), 9. Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI - components and trends.

(B)Management: Management: its nature and scope; The Management Processes; Planning, Organisation, Staffing, Directing and Controlling; The Role of a Manager in an Organisation. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader; Leadership Styles; Leadership Theories; A successful Leader versus an effective Leader. Human Resource Development: Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD; Performance Appraisal - Potential appraisal and development - Feedback and Performance Counselling - Career Planning - Training and Development - Rewards - Employee Welfare. Motivation, Morale and Incentives: Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale. 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. Corporate Governance: Factors affecting Corporate Governance; Mechanisms of Corporate Governance. The questions on this section will be basic in nature.

4. Economics:

(a) Microeconomics 1. Consumers behaviour and firms; value of resources like land, labour and capital 2. Markets-monopoly, perfect and imperfect competition 3. General Equilibrium of price and activity, economic welfare and case for regulatory / policy interventions (b) Macroeconomics 1. Measuring national income and its components; basic macro identities and the idea of macro-balance; Goods and Financial Market Equilibrium (ISLM Framework) 2. Major macro-economic school of thoughts; Classical, Keynesian and Monetarist 3. Consumption and Investment demand; demand management policies and their effectiveness 4. Money demand and supply; monetary and fiscal policies (c) International Economics 1. Benefit of International trade; comparative and absolute advantage; effect of International trade on resource allocation and factor price equalisation; non-conventional trade barriers, optimum currency areas, and effect of customs union 2. International finance and exchange rates issues in an open economy, benefits and costs of interconnected financial markets; evolution of international financial architecture (d) Public Economics 1. Public Goods, instruments of financing, government tax and non-tax revenue 2. Direct and Indirect taxes, efficiency costs of commodity taxes, income taxation, labour supply and savings, corporate taxation and corporate behaviour 3. Government expenditure policy-various components, deficit financing and its impact on the economy, government debt and crowding out of private capital (e) India's Economy and Development Issues 1. India's experimentations with planned development models and the outcomes, structural issues-savings and investment, demography, urbanization, productivity, etc., issues with poverty, inequality, and employment 2. Agriculture- policy and developments, manufacturing competitiveness; what is holding India back, role of public sector enterprises in the key economic sectors, India's resilient service sector; trade, tourism, communication, ITES, etc. 3. Financial sector regulation and reforms-banking, insurance, and capital market, fiscal policy and the changing priorities of government, emergence of monetary policy and its new role.

5. Statistics:

(1) Probability: Random variables, Theorems of probability, Conditional probability, Independent events, Bayes' theorem and its application, expectation, moments, distribution functions, Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Exponential, Negative binomial, Hypergeometric, Cauchy, Laplace, Logistic, Pareto, Log-normal, Beta and Gamma distributions, Weibull, Uniform, Bivariate normal distribution, and truncated distributions, Markov's inequality, Chebyshev's inequality, CauchySchwarz inequality, Laws of large numbers, Central limit theorems and applications.

Exam Pattern

Examination topics for each exam stage are given below:

Prelims:

Mode of the examination will be Online with a Duration of 2 hours. Total Marks would be 200.

• There are following Sections for the prelims examination:
• Reasoning
• General Awareness
• English Language
• Quantitative Aptitude

Negative marking is of 1/4th of the marks per question for each incorrect answer.

Mains:

General (DR) Posts:

• Paper 1 - Economic and Social Issues:
• Paper 2 - English (Writing Skills):
• Paper 3 - Finance and Management:

DEPR DSIM Posts:

• Paper 1 - Economic and Social Issues:
• Paper 2 - English (Writing Skills):
• Paper 3 - Statistics:

Interview:

• It will be of 75 marks.
• It is important to note that a Psychometric Test will be conducted before the Interview.

Economic and social Issues:

1. Indian Economy: Uma Kapila.(Series of Books)
2. Indian Economy: Mishra Puri. (Latest Edition)
3. Growth And Development: Devraj Ray
4. Sociology: C.N. Shankar Rao
5. An introduction to Economics - A W Stonier and D C Hauge
6. Monetary Theory and Public Policy - Kenneth Kurihara
7. Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri
8. Indian Economy - R. Dutt and KPM Sundaram

Microeconomics and International Economics:

1. Microeconomics, Student Value Edition (8th edition) by Robert Pindyck, Daniel Rubinfeld
2. Intermediate Microeconomics: A modern Approach (8th edition) by Hal R. Varian
3. Macroeconomics (2011) by Rudiger Dornbusch, Stanley Fisher, Richard Starz
4. Macroeconomics by N. Gregory Mankiw, (Seventh Edition)
5. International Economics (2013) by Dominick Salvatore
6. International Economics (2011) by Paul Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld

Statistics:

1. An Introduction to Numerical Analysis by Atkinson, K.E.
2. Modern Probability Theory by Bhat, B.R.
3. Sampling Techniques by Cochran, William G.
4. Design and Analysis of Experiments by Das, M.N. and N. C. Giri

RBI Grade B Exam results

The RBI Grade B exam result will be declared on the official website after successful completion of the examination. Candidates who will clear the RBI Grade B prelims exam will be able to sit for the mains examination and those who will clear the mains will sit for interviews.