Strategy to crack RBI Grade B: Phase I

RBI Grade B’s notification is yet to be released. And this is the perfect reason why you should start your preparation right away. Once the official notification is released, you will hardly have a month left for the exam which is why we mentioned above to start driving your preparations in top gear. At this point in time, you should focus on two areas: Mock Tests & General Awareness. Practising Mock Tests followed by a proper analysis will help you pinpoint your weak areas for you to put extra effort on. This will eventually help you crack RBI Grade B. Revising General Awareness thoroughly will give you an edge over other candidates.

Preparing General Awareness

General Awareness has 80 questions of 1 mark each and has the maximum number of questions when compared to other sections. Moreover, General Awareness questions don’t take much much time. Preparing really well in this section can catapult you to the top 3.5 percentile. This section can be classified into three subsections:

Static G.K.

Keep yourself well-versed with important dams, mountains, stadiums, national parks, dances, currencies, capitals, headquarters of important institutions, stock exchanges, thermal power plants, nuclear power plants etc. Also, stay updated on CMs, Governors and latest events related to different states of India. Study with Free PDFs of Static GK here.

Current Affairs

Start preparing for all the current affairs from the period of April 2018 to date. Check the PRS and PIB websites as well. You can also check the weekly current affairs compilation on our blog which is also sent regularly to our subscribers via mail. Also, don’t forget to refer to the highlights of Economic Survey & Budget Highlights. We’re sure you have been reading a newspaper (or more than one) on a daily basis. Continue the same. Weekly quizzes are available on our app to aid you in revising your preparation.

Static Banking

Stay updated with these articles/PDFs on Banking Awareness. Keep yourself updated with the RBI FAQs. You can also use Lucent GK book as a reference.

Solving Mock Tests

You should solve one mock test per three days and analyse it to find out your weak areas. Work on your weak areas as you simply wouldn’t like to take a chance now. There are sectional cut-offs in this test that you need to clear. Have a look at the past year’s sectional cut-offs.

Previous Years’ Sectional Cut-offs

Crack RBI Grade B- 2021 Prelims Cut-offs

Section/ Category	General Awareness (Max Marks: 80)	Reasoning Ability (Max Marks: 60)	English Language (Max Marks: 30)	Quantitative Aptitude (Max Marks: 30)	Total Score (Max Marks: 200)
General/ UR	16.00	12.00	06.00	06.00	66.75
EWS	16.00	12.00	06.00	06.00	66.75
OBC	12.00	09.00	04.50	04.50	63.75
SC	10.25	07.75	03.75	03.75	53.50
ST	10.25	07.75	03.75	03.75	52.75
PWD (OH/ HI/ VH)	10.25	07.75	03.75	03.75	52.75

You should also see where you stand amidst other participants. As per the past trends, being in the top 3.5 percentile is extremely important to qualify for the next phase. Let’s discuss a strategy we have come up with which will help you to maximize your score in the mock tests.

Crack RBI Grade B with this Strategy

You should start with the below sequence when practising mock tests:

General Awareness

Attempt at least 65-70 questions with high accuracy. Don’t get disheartened if you don’t know the answers to some questions.

English

The next section you should attempt is English. Prioritize Non-RC based questions like antonym/synonym and vocab based questions. You can attempt RC based questions later. 

Reasoning

Coming to the Reasoning section, attempt non-puzzle questions first. Once done, you can move to the critical reasoning questions (answer them only if you are sure). Later on, you can solve inequalities, coding-decoding, blood relations, input-output type and seating arrangements in that order. Resort to puzzles at the last but keep in mind that the last section of quants is still pending.

Quants

In the last section which is Quants, start with number series and equations comparison, easy data interpretation questions and word problems. If time permits, attempt the difficult data interpretation questions.

Identify Easy Questions

It all boils down to the trick of identifying the easy questions. You can excel in this trick by practising more mock tests. More practice means that you get more chances to deal with different scenarios of this exam which obviously will help you in dealing with the actual exam. Consider buying RBI Grade B Complete Course which has Mock Tests + Notes + Quizzes and costs only Rs 2999. 

This is all we have in this article. Wishing you good luck with your preparation!