Most Important Current Affairs for RBI Grade B 2025 Phase 1 Exam

The RBI Grade B Phase 1 exam will test your knowledge of Current Events on 18th October 2025, and this is the moment when you must master the Current Affairs to maximize your General Awareness score. GA, with 80 out of 200 marks, has the highest weightage in the prelims exam. And those who master it usually clear the cut-off comfortably. But then, all the current affairs of the last 6 months don’t carry equal importance. Some months, some events, and some updates carry more weight than others. Toppers who’ve cleared this exam before will tell you that your last two months of current affairs can decide how well you do in GA. And such insight is derived from practical experience. In this blog, we’ll reveal what the toppers and successful aspirants revise in the last 10 days, and which months are most important that attract the most Current Affairs questions in GA.

Why You Should Pay Heed to the Right Months

In the Phase 1 exam, and in every subject, some topics are very important and some are the least important. The same goes for Current Affairs in General Awareness. If you look at RBI Grade B papers from the past 6 to 7 years, you’ll find one pattern that stands out. This pattern suggests that the CA questions are largely drawn from or favour recent developments. Especially those pertaining to the last two months before the exam. 

By this, we can conclude, that the updates of September will dominate as CA questions, followed by August, and then July. That is, it has been observed that the further back you go, the fewer questions you’ll see from those updates.

This is not by chance. The exam is crafted to test how aware you are of very recent developments in the financial as well as economic world.  That’s why events, reports, and appointments from September and August tend to attract the majority of questions.

So, if you are revising your current affairs, do it backwards. Start from September, move to August, then to July, and continue till you cover the last 6 months.

If you’ll follow this simple reversal order in your revision process, you’ll not miss what matters most.

Essential Current Affairs Areas for RBI Grade B 2025 Phase 1 Exam

Your preparation should revolve around five major areas:

• Banking & Financial News: RBI circulars, monetary policy announcements, repo rate changes, merger updates, and regulatory guidelines.
• Government Schemes & Initiatives: Schemes launched or updated in September and August 2025, especially those related to employment, women empowerment, MSMEs, and the financial sector.
• Reports & Indices: India’s rankings in recent global indices (HDI, Global Innovation Index, World Bank reports, etc.), and reports released by NITI Aayog, RBI, or major international bodies.
• Appointments & Awards: Newly appointed CEOs, governors, or heads of financial institutions, along with major national and international awards.
• Summits & Agreements: G20 outcomes, trade summits, MoUs signed by India, and bilateral meetings that have economic relevance.

Why September & August 2025 are The Hotspot Months?

If you look closely at recent exam analyses, the majority of GA questions are drawn from events of 4 to 8 weeks before the exam date. That’s exactly why September and August 2025 are your goldmine months.

Here’s what you should pay more attention to from these two months:

• Go through RBI’s Monetary Policy (the outcomes of the September meeting). For instance, RBI has not changed the repo rate, which is 5.50%.
• Dive into the Updates on Inflation Data, GDP forecasts, and Fiscal Deficit figures.
• Launch of government initiatives under ministries like Finance, MSME, Environment, and Education.
• Banking mergers, Fintech partnerships, and Digital Rupee updates.
• Major sports achievements, especially if India’s performance grabbed headlines.
• Newly appointed Union Ministers, Governors, or Chiefs of major PSBs.
• International Reports mentioning India like IMF, World Bank, WEF, or UN bodies.

Many toppers note that around 60 to 70% of GA questions in the real Phase 1 exam come from these two months combined. The remaining 30 to 40% are scattered throughout the earlier 4 months, making them important but secondary.

Go Backward But Not Randomly

Most aspirants start revising current affairs from the oldest PDFs first. That’s a major mistake. And they’re exhausted or short of time by the time they reach prominent events in September. You should not commit this mistake. 

You should reverse your revision pattern by:

• Starting with the Current Affairs of September, the most recent month.
• Then absorb the Current Affairs of August, followed by July, June, May, and April.

This method mirrors the question trend. It keeps the most relevant news fresh in your mind. Keep in mind, the examiner isn’t going to ask what happened a year ago, they’ll ask what happened last month, to test your knowledge of the most recent events. 

Smart Revision Tips for the Last 12 Days

The final 12 days are absolutely crucial for your RBI Grade B Phase 1 preparation. This is the time to solidify and polish everything you’ve already learned, rather than trying to cover new topics. Focus on revising important areas of CA, practicing CA topic tests, and refining your GA strategy.

How? Here’s what you should do:

• Pay heed to PIB (July, August, September) via Sampoorna or PIB Sutra.
• Go through all the important news of the last 3 months through Bazooka.

Plus, you should also follow the 6 points in mind while revising to make the most of the last 12 days before the exam:

1. Revise daily capsules of September and August twice, or even thrice, before the exam.
2. Test your GA or Current Affairs preparation via 7 CA-focused tests on Cloze Test, Reading Comprehension, Parajumbles, Grammar, and Miscellaneous, and full-length mock tests that include only the latest updates.
3. Say no to lengthy PDFs covering the entire year
4. Focus on the last 6 months, but with higher intensity on the last 2-3 months.
5. Create short notes of appointments, rankings, and schemes.
6. Never avoid banking awareness and RBI updates, as they attract direct questions.

Takeaway

The RBI Grade B Phase 1 exam is not about how much you’ve studied, but about how well you’ve chosen what to study. The GA section rewards smart revision, not haphazard or blind reading. Current affairs of September and August, as we’ve discussed above, are where most of the questions are born. So, revise them thoroughly, and then move backward month by month. You’re losing time with every hour passed, so every minute now should go to the revision that gives high returns. And you can do so successfully by revising regularly but smartly, and keep practicing till the very end. In short, if you’ll revise the most recent news, you have great chances of walking out of the exam hall smiling.

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• RBI Grade B Phase 1 Resources for Success
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• RBI Grade B Important Topics

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