Complete RBI Grade B Syllabus 2021-22 [Phase 1 & 2] – Check Here

Objective Type Test

No. of Questions

Marks

Time

General Awareness

80

80

25 Minutes

Reasoning

60

60

45 Minutes

English Language

30

30

25 Minutes

Quantitative Aptitude

30

30

25 Minutes

Total

200

200

120 Minutes

          People Sitting around a table

Growth and Development

·         Measurement of growth: National Income and per capita income

·         Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India

·         Sustainable Development and Environmental Issues

Indian Economy 

·         Economic History of India

·         Changes in Industrial and Labour Policy, Monetary and Fiscal Policy since reforms of 1991

·         Priorities and recommendations of Economic Survey and Union Budget

·         Indian Money and Financial Markets: Linkages with the economy

·         Role of Indian banks and Reserve Bank in the development process

·         Public Finance

·         Political Economy 

·         Industrial Developments in India- Indian Agriculture

·         Services sector in India.

Globalization 

·         Opening up of the Indian Economy

·         Balance of Payments, Export-Import Policy 

·         International Economic Institutions

·         IMF and World Bank

·         WTO

·         Regional Economic Cooperation; International Economic Issues.

Social Structure in India 

·         Multiculturalism

·         Demographic Trends

·         Urbanisation and Migration

·         Gender Issues

·         Social Justice: Positive Discrimination in favour of the underprivileged

·         Social Movements

·         Indian Political System

·         Human Development

·         Social Sectors in India, Health and Education.

Financial System

·         Regulators of Banks and Financial Institutions.

·         Reserve Bank of India- functions, and conduct monetary policy.

·         Banking System in India – Structure, and concerns, Financial Institutions – SIDBI, EXIM Bank, NABARD, NHB, etc, Changing landscape of banking sector.

·         Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and the Indian response.

Financial Markets

·         Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments.

General Topics

·         Risk Management in Banking Sector

·         Basics of Derivatives

·         Global financial markets and International Banking – broad trends and latest developments.

·         Financial Inclusion

·         Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership

·         Corporate Governance in the Banking Sector, the role of e-governance in addressing issues of corruption and inefficiency in the government sector.

·         The Union Budget – Concepts, approach, and broad trends

·         Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI – components and trends; striking a balance between inflation and growth through monetary and fiscal policies.

·         FinTech

Fundamentals of Management & Organizational Behaviour

·         Introduction to management

·         Evolution of management thought: Scientific, Administrative, Human Relations, and Systems approach to management.

·         Management functions and Managerial roles

·         Nudge theory

Meaning & concept of organizational behaviour

·         Personality: meaning, factors affecting personality, Big five model of personality

·         Concept of reinforcement

·         Perception: concept, perceptual errors.

·         Motivation: Concept, importance, Content theories (Maslow’s need theory, Alderfer’s ERG theory, Mc Clleland’s theory of needs, Herzberg’s two-factor theory) & Process theories (Adams equity theory, Vroom’s expectancy theory).

Leadership

·         Concept, Theories (Trait, Behavioural, Contingency, Charismatic, Transactional and

·         Transformational Leadership

·         Emotional Intelligence: Concept, Importance, Dimensions.

·         Analysis of Interpersonal Relationship: Transactional Analysis, Johari Window

·         Conflict: Concept, Sources, Types, Management of Conflict

·         Organizational Change: Concept, Kurt Lewin Theory of Change

·         Organizational Development (OD): Organisational Change, Strategies for Change, Theories of Planned Change (Lewin’s change model, Action research model, Positive model).

Ethics at the Workplace

·         Meaning of ethics, why ethical problems occur in business.

·         Theories of ethics: Utilitarianism: weighing social cost and benefits, rights and duties, Justice and fairness, ethics of care, integrating utility, rights, justice and caring,

·         An alternative to moral principles: virtue ethics, teleological theories, egoism theory, relativism theory

·         Moral issues in business: Ethics in Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, etc.

·         Ethical Principles in Business: introduction, Organization Structure, and Ethics, Role of Board of Directors, Best Practices in Ethics Programme, Code of Ethics, Code of Conduct, etc.

Corporate Governance

·         Factors affecting Corporate Governance

·         Mechanisms of Corporate Governance

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