RBI Grade B 2024 Application Form, Exam Dates, Pattern, Eligibility, Syllabus

RBI Grade B 2024: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central bank, which was established on 1st April 1935 by the provisions of the Reserve bank of India Act, 1934. The Central board of directors governs the Reserve Bank’s operations. RBI is on the entire conducted with a 21 member central board of directors appointed by the Government of India by the Reserve Bank of India Act. The RBI controls the monetary and other banking policies of the Indian government. The Central Office of the Reserve Bank was initially established in Calcutta but was permanently moved to Mumbai in 1937.

Every year Reserve Bank of India (RBI) conducts the exam of RBI Grade 2024 officer Exam. This exam is a national-level competitive test and the Reserve Bank of India Services Board conducts the test annually. There are approximately 322 posts of Grade B Officer across India. The candidate selects for the post of Officers in Grade ‘B’ (General) – DR, DEPR & DSIM in Common Seniority Group (CSG) Streams. The application form will be released in both online and offline mode. The exam will be held in three phases i.e. preliminary, main, and interview.

RBI Grade B 2024 Notification:

• RBI Grade B Officer Phase 2 Admit Card 2024 has released on March 2024.

RBI Grade B 2024 Exam Date:

Events	Exam Dates
Official Notification Released	January 2024
Application Form Start	January 2024
Last date to submission of Application form	February 2024
Fee Submit	February 2024
Release Date of Admit Card	February 2024
Commencement of Phase-I exam: Grade-B General	March 2024
Release Date of Admit Card	March 2024
Commencement of Phase-II exam: Grade-B General	April 2024
RBI Grade-B- DEPR / DSIM Paper-II & III (Online/ Written Examination)	March 2024
Interview Date of RBI Officer Grade B	To be announced
Final Result Announcement Date	To be announced

RBI Grade B 2024 Application Form:

The RBI Grade B 2024 Application Form will be released in the first week of May and closed in May. The candidate fills the application form from the official website i.e. www.rbi.org.in.

Steps to fill the RBI Grade B 2024 Application Form:

• Go to the official website www.rbi.org.in and click on the link “Recruitment for the post of Officers in Gr. B (DR) General/DEPR/DSIM”.
• Click Separate links for Online applications for Gr B -(DR)-General and Online applications for DEPR/DSIM would be displayed
• Click on “Click here for New Registration” for registration. It will ask for your name, contact details, and Email-id.
• After that, you will get a registration number and password that will send to your mobile number or email id.
• Fill you’re all the details correctly and upload your recent photograph, signature, and left and right thumb impression.
• The fee will be deposited by using a Debit/Credit card, Internet Banking, cash cards/ mobile wallets.
• The candidate should print the ‘e-receipt’ as proof of successful fee payment.
• Finally, choose “SAVE AND NEXT” and verify the details in the form before submission.

Application Fee:

For the General/OBC application fee including intimation, the charge will be Rs.850/. For  SC/ST/PWD  there will be only intimation charge is Rs.100/ and  Nil fees for the staff. The fee will not refund in the future.

Category	Application Fee
SC/ ST/ PwBD	Rs. 100/-
GEN/ OBC/ EWSs	Rs. 850/-
STAFF	Nil

Number of Vacancies:

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been released 322 vacancies for RBI Grade B 2024:

Posts	Vacancy
Officers in Grade ‘B’(DR)- General	270
Officers in Grade ‘B’(DR)- DEPR	29
Officers in Grade ‘B’(DR)- DSIM	23
Total	322

Exam Center:

RBI Grade B Online Exam Centers  for Phase I (Gr B (DR)-General) / Paper I (DEPR/DSIM):

States /UTs	RBI Grade B Exam Centers for Prelims
Andaman & Nicobar	Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh & Telangana	Guntur, Narasaraopet, Hyderabad, Rangareddy-Kodada, Karimnagar, Warangal, Rajahmundry, Kakinada, Tirupati, Chittoor, Vijaywada, Kanchikacherla, Gudlavalleru, Eluru, Vishakhapatnam, Vizianagaram
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar, Naharlagun city
Assam	Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Silchar
Bihar	Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Patna
Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Chattisgarh	Raipur, Bhilai
Daman & Diu	Jamnagar
Goa	Varna
Gujarat	Ahmedabad, Gandhi Nagar, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara
Haryana	Hissar, Karnal, Rohtak
Himachal Pradesh	Dharamsala, Shimla
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu
Jharkhand	Bokaro, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Ranchi
Karnataka	Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bengaluru, Chikaballapur, Kolar, Tumkur, Gulbarga, Bidar, Hubli, Dharwad, Haliyal, Gadag, Mangalore, Mysore, Mandya, Udipi
Kerala	Kannur, Kasargod, Kochi, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Pathanamthitta, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Thrichur, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Nagarcoil
Lakshadweep	Kavaratti
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur
Maharashtra	Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Nagpur, Nasik, Pune, Solapur
Manipur	Imphal
Meghalaya	Shillong
Mizoram	Aizawl
Nagaland	Kohima
New Delhi	Delhi –NCR
Orissa	Balasore, Berhampur (Ganjam), Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Sambalpur
Puducherry	Cuddalore, Villupuram
Punjab	Amritsar, Bhatinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali, Patiala
Rajasthan	Ajmer, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur
Sikkim	Gangtok, Bardang City
Tamilnadu	Chennai, Vellore, Coimbatore, Erode, Thirupur, Madurai, Virudhunagar, Dindigul Salem, Namakkal, Thiruchirapalli, Perambalur, Pudukottai, Thanjavur, Tirunelvelli, Kanyakumari, Tuticorin
Tripura	Agartala
Uttar Pradesh	Agra, Allahabad, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi
Uttarakhand	Dehradun, Haldwani, Nainital, Roorkee City
West Bengal	Berhampore (WB), Durgapur, Kolkata, Greater Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, Kalyani, Siliguri

Exam Centres for Phase II Gr B- (DR) (General) / Paper II &III (DEPR/DSIM):

Name of the Examination Cities
Ahmedabad	Jammu
Bengaluru	Kanpur
Bhopal	Kochi
Bhubaneswar	Lucknow
Kolkata	Mumbai
Chandigarh	Nagpur
Chennai	New Delhi
Guwahati	Patna
Hyderabad	Pune
Jaipur	Thiruvananthapuram

RBI 2024 Eligibility Criteria:

Find below the RBI Grade B Eligibility Criteria. Candidates can check before submitting the application form:

Nationality:

• The candidate should be an Indian citizen or
• Must be subject of Nepal and Bhutan or
• a Tibetan refugee who is permanently settled in India before January 1, 1962, or
• a person of Indian origin who has migrated from either Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia, or Vietnam to reside permanently in India.

Age:

• The candidate age should be between 21 to 30 years (both ages included).
• There will be age relaxation for SC/ST of 5 years, for OBC of 3 years, and physically handicapped of 10 years.

Education Qualification:

Education qualification is different for various posts.

• Officer in Grade ‘B’ (DR) – (GENERAL):- for this post candidate should be passed 10 standards by a recognized university or board and 60%( 50% for ST/SC/PWD) marks in graduation from a recognized university or institute.
• Grade ‘B’ Officer (DR)-(DPER):-  A Master degree in Econometrics/ Economics/ Quantitative Economics/ Integrated Economics courses/ Finance with 55%( 5% relaxation for SC/ ST/ PWD) marks or equivalent grade.
• Officer in Grade ‘B’(DR) – (DSIM):- there is an essential master’s Degree in Statistics/ Mathematical Economics/ Mathematical Statistics/ Statistics & Informatics/ Econometrics from IIT- Kharagpur or Applies Statistics & Informatics from IIT-Bombay with at least 55% (50% for SC/ST/PWD) marks in aggregate of all semester/years or an equivalent grade.
  OR
• Master’s Degree in Mathematics with at least 55% (50% for SC/ST/PWD)  marks in aggregate of all semester/years and 1-year PG Diploma in Statistics or related subjects from the reputed institute;

OR

• Stat. from Indian Statistical Institute with a minimum of 55% marks in aggregate of all semesters/years OR
• PG Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) jointly offered by ISI Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta with at least 55% (50% FOR SC/ST/PWD)  marks in aggregate of all semesters/years or equivalent grade.

NOTE:  There will be only 6 attempts for the General category and another category with no restriction.

Exam Pattern:

Candidates can check below the RBI Officers Grade B Exam Pattern for the Prelims & Mains Exam. Phase 1 is the online mode objective type exam. It consists of 200 questions.

Exam Pattern for Prelims Exam:

• General Awareness will be 80 marks with 80 questions.
• Quantitative Aptitude will be 30 marks with 30 questions.
• The English Language will be 30 marks with 30 questions.
• The reasoning will be 60 marks with 60 questions.

Phase 2 is also an online mode exam and it consists of both objective and subjective type’s exams. It includes 3 papers with 100 marks time duration will be 1.5 hours.

Exam Pattern for Mains Exam:

• Paper for Economic and Social Issues is the objective type for time 90 minutes and 100 marks.
• Paper for the English Language belongs to Subjective for the time duration of 90 minutes for 100 marks.
• Finance and Management/Economics//Statistics is Objective for a time duration of 90 for 100.

RBI Grade B 2024 Syllabus:

• General Awareness
• English Language
• Quantitative Aptitude
• Reasoning
• Economic and Social Issues (Paper I)
• English Language (Paper-II)
• Finance and Management/Economics//Statistics. (Paper III)

RBI Grade B 2024 Exam Pattern & Syllabus: Click here

Admit Card:

The Admit card will release separately for phase 1 and phase 2. For phase 1 it will be released in February most probably and for phase 2 only that candidate who qualifies the phase 1 exam will get admit card. Admit card includes the details about the exam center and the time & date of the exam. The candidate should carry this Admit card and one photo identity card to the exam center.

Steps To Download RBI Grade B Admit card 2024:

• Visit the official website of  RBI i.e, www.rbi.org.in.
• Then, Check the “Current Vacancies”.
• Now, check for the download link of RBI Grade B Officer Phase 2 Admit Card 2024.
• Click on the link.
• Enter the Application ID and Password and click the submit button.
• Hall Ticket will open & Download it.

RBI Grade B Result 2024:

The RBI Grade B 2024 result will be announced in November. The candidate should qualify both phase 1 and phase 2 exam to sit in the interview. The final result will be based on the interview. The interview will be of 50 marks and it will be either in Hindi or English language.