RBI Assistant exam analysis of previous year is an important part of the preparation of every candidate who wishes to appear for the prestigious RBI Assistant exam. Lakhs of candidates apply for the exam whenever the notification is released. The RBI Assistant Notification is not released annually. It depends upon the number of vacancies available in the RBI.
RBI Assistant 2020 notification might be released soon. While the RBI Assistant 2019 notification was released on 23rd December 2019 for 926 posts in different States and Union Territories and Pre exam was held on 14th February 2020 and 15th February 2020 and the result was declared on 3rd March 2020. The Mains exam date has been announced. The new date for RBI assistant mains exam is 22nd November 2020.
Candidates appearing for the RBI Assistant exam must carefully go through the RBI Assistant exam analysis to get an idea about the difficulty level of the exam and they can also know the most important topics which should be given priority while preparing for the RBI Assistant exam.
In this article, we will go through the RBI Assistant exam analysis for Prelims 2019 and also for Prelims and Mains 2017.
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Before going through the RBI Assistant exam analysis, candidates must know the exam pattern for the RBI Assistant exam which is given below:
| Sections | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Time Duration |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | Composite time of 1 hour |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
The RBI Assistant exam analysis for the 2019 Prelims exam is given below with the number of questions asked and difficulty level of each topic. Overall the difficulty level of the English section was easy.
| Topic | No. of Question | Difficulty Level |
| Reading Comprehension | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Rearrangement | 5 | Easy |
| Filler | 5 | Easy |
| Cloze Test | 5 | Easy |
| Spelling | 5 | Easy |
| Total | 30 | Easy |
The Numerical Ability section in the prelims exam was of easy to moderate level. The distribution of questions from different topics are given below:
| Topics | No. of Question | Difficulty Level |
| DI | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Simplification | 10 | Easy |
| Wrong Series/Missing Series | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Approximation | 5 | Easy |
| Arithmetic | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 35 | Easy-Moderate |
Questions were asked from Puzzles and Seating Arrangement, Inequality, Syllogism, Alphanumeric Series, Number Series, Direction Sense. Overall this section was easy.
| Topics | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Syllogism | 05 | Easy-Moderate |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Inequality | 5 | Easy |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 | Easy |
| Alphabetical Series | 5 | Easy |
| Direction Distance | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 35 | Easy |
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English section was easy to moderate and the distribution of questions are given below:
| Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Reading Comprehension | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Error Spotting & Spelling Correction | 10 | Moderate |
| Fillers & Sentence Improvement | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 30 | Easy-Moderate |
It had a good level of questions from the arithmetic section and overall the paper was of moderate difficulty level. Check the distribution of questions from the below table:
| Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| No Series | 5 | Easy |
| DI | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Simplification | 10 | Easy |
| Arithmetic | 15 | Moderate |
| Total | 35 | Moderate |
This section had puzzles which were time-consuming. Overall this section was of easy difficulty level.
| Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Syllogism/Coding-Decoding | 5 | Easy |
| Alpha-Numeric & Word Series | 10 | Easy |
| Order, Ranking & Direction | 10 | Easy |
| Total | 35 | Easy |
Candidates must go through the exam pattern for the Mains exam before knowing the previous year RBI Assistant exam analysis. Let us understand the RBI Assistant Mains exam pattern from the table below:
| Sections | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| English Language | 40 | 40 | 30 minutes |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 40 | 40 | 30 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 40 | 40 | 30 minutes |
| Computer Knowledge | 40 | 40 | 20 minutes |
| General Awareness | 40 | 40 | 25 minutes |
| Total | 200 | 200 | 135 minutes |
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The level of English Language section was Moderate – Difficult. Check the number of questions asked from each topic.
| Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Reading Comprehension | 12 | Difficult |
| Cloze Test | 6 | Moderate |
| Error detection | 5 | Moderate |
| Paragraph Starter | 7 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
| Phrase Replacement | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate-Difficult |
The Numerical Ability section was of moderate difficulty level. Three DI sets were asked in this section. The DI questions were from Bar Graph, Caselet and Tabular DI.
| Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Data Interpretation | 15 | Moderate |
| Quadratic Equation | 5 | Easy |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Moderate |
| Probability | 2 | Moderate |
| Mixture and Alligation | 1 | Moderate |
| Time and Work | 2 | Moderate |
| Ratio and Proportion | 1 | Moderate |
| Partnership | 2 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 2 | Moderate |
| Approximation | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate |
The Reasoning section was of a difficult level. Box based puzzle, Blood Relation with age, Scheduling, Year based puzzles were asked.
| Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles | 25 | Moderate- Difficult |
| Data Sufficiency (2 statement) | 5 | Moderate |
| Inequality | 2 | Moderate |
| Machine Input Output | 5 | Moderate |
| Misc | 2 | Moderate |
| Alphabet Position | 6 | Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate-Difficult |
The questions from this section were of a very basic level and easy. Questions were mainly asked from basics of Software & Hardware, Port, Network, Internet, Windows operating system, Input/Output devices etc.
The General Awareness section mostly consisted of the questions from banking, Static and current affairs of recent months. 10-12 questions were asked from the Static Awareness section, Other questions were from the Banking Awareness section. The difficulty level of the section was from moderate to difficult.
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Q1. Are the Computer Knowledge questions tough in the RBI Assistant Mains exam?
Ans. No, the Computer Knowledge section was easy and scoring as seen in the RBI Assistant exam analysis above.
Q2. Do I have to cover the current affairs section for the RBI Assistant Mains exam?
Ans. Yes, the current affair has a large weightage in the General Awareness section.
Q3. What is the level of the Reasoning section in the Mains?
Ans. Generally, the Reasoning section is of difficult level in the RBI Assistant Mains exam.
Q4. What is the total number of questions asked in the RBI Assistant Mains exam?
Ans. A total of 200 questions are asked in the RBI Assistant Mains exam.
Q5. What is the number of questions asked from the Computer Knowledge section?
Ans. Each section has 40 questions in the RBI Assistant Mains exam.
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