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RBI Officer Grade B 2013

RBI Officer Grade B 2013:

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the bank for bankers and it is our central bank which manages the currency flow of our country. To work as an officer in RBI is really a prestige and honor. it is also a serve to nation as economy is the first and foremost for any country. Reserve Bank of India announces the examination for the recruitment of Grade ‘B’ officers. There will be announcement for this exam every year and the vacancies will be changing for year to year. Since this is the competitive exam conducted by RBI under the government of India (Central Government). There is reservation for this Exam. This is direct Recruitment. This post contains brief explanation about the recruitment and you have to read the official notification compulsorily before applying for the exam. The official notification is available below this post. There is free training for this entrance examination for SC/ST students and please make use of it by filling a separate form for that. Apply for this exam as soon as possible and don’t make it delay else on last dates there will be lot of traffic from all over India and so the server may get down or else the banking transaction may get failed. RBI have outsourced this exam application department to sify and so I guess there won’t be any such mis happenings. All the registered candidates will get intimation through messages on mobile or through emails.

Number of Vacancies:

All vacancies mentioned here are only for one post and that is officers in Grade ‘B’. Unreserved quota that is General Category has 49 posts and Scheduled castes (SC) has 15 posts and Scheduled tribes has 7 posts and other backward classes (OBC) has 27 posts. So in total there are 98 posts. The vacancies in total include the Physically challenged and Visually challenged candidates. So if a physically challenged belongs to other backward classes then he comes under that category.

Age:

Minimum 21 years and Maximum 30 years as on 01/06/2013 i.e the candidate must have born not earlier than 02/06/1983 and not later than 01/06/1992. There is age relaxation for each category too. read the official notification to know about age relaxation for your category. Normally for OBC candidates 3 years of exemption will be given and for SC,ST candidates 5 years of exemption will be given. There is also age relation for bank employees and persons with CA.

Qualification:

The candidate should posses any of the following educational qualifications

Bachelors Degree with Ist Class, minimum of 60% marks; If it is grading system then it should be an equivalent grade.
Master’s Degree with IInd Class, minimum of 55% marks; If it is grading system then it should be an equivalent grade.
Doctorate Degree with minimum of 50% marks; in case of grading system then the candidate should have an equivalent grade.

Scheme of Selection:

There are two stages of examination i) Written Examination and ii) Interview. The Written Examination will be held in two phases [Phase-I Objective Type (ON-LINE Examination) and Phase-II Descriptive type (Written Examination )]. Objective Examination consists of three subtopics. English, Economics and social issues, finance and management Descriptive type exam will contains the same topic but it requires us to answer for essay type of questions.

Fees:

The Application fee is non-refundable and you should pay Rs. 400/- if you belong to General or OBC Category. For SC,ST,PWD candidates it is free of cost to apply.

Salary:

Pay Scale for the Selected Candidates will draw a starting basic pay of `21,000/- p.m. in the scale of `21000-1000-30000-EB-1000-32000-1100-36400 applicable to Officers in Grade B.

How to Apply:

Candidates have to apply only through the Bank’s website i.e. www.rbi.org.in. No offline Application is available and you need not send any application through post or courier. You can apply from 12 June 2013 to 11 July 2013. Detailed instructions for applying Online are available on the official notification. unlike other recruitment the official notification is just available in the website like a normal webpage.

Mode of Payment

Candidates have to apply only through online mode but the fees can be paid through any mode i.e online mode or through offline mode. But prefer online mode since it is the easy and fast way to complete the transaction and you can print as many copies of receipt you want and it is easy to store and can be retrieved from anywhere when it is uploaded in cloud servers like drive.google.com.

Before applying for the exam please verify if you do have scanned photographs and signature in the format and size asked by RBI in their notification. If you are just a newbie you can learn how to resize easily for competitive exams by clicking here. Probably the size of photograph will be 20-50 KB and the size of Signature would be 10-2 KB.The size of the file is alone not enough the izel of the picture and DPI is also needed to be considered and thats why I have suggested to use that how to page where I had explained how to resize the pictures easily and fast.

How to Prepare:

Read books related to economics. Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh. After clearing Phase I exams there will be Phase II so news paper reading is must. Read newspaper and collect notes like how we do it for UPSC Civil Services Exam. In India Year Book read all government schemes and social development. R.S Aggarwal is enough for Quantitative Aptitude.