Today’s (03-08-14) RBI Grade B officer’s exam review

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Hi Friends, This is Santosh. First of all I congratulate those people who wrote this exam better than their competitors. Before preparing for a competitive exam we should tune our mindset to that particular exam, otherwise the question paper will appear in “Russian language” (Alien language).

 

Prologue
I can say that I have both sweet and bitter experiences with this exam. Before entering into the very review I want to make you people know one thing i.e. Today’s exam is like ‘bitter pill’ we can’t swallow it at the same time it inevitable for us to do that! I am going to write only the pattern of the exam and few words about difficulty level, as I could not remember more than 10 questions.
Ok As I have given a strategy in our blog! According to that only I have prepared and went to the exam .But Fate played a game with me, so that I went to the examination centre 2.10 PM against the scheduled time 1.30 PM, but RBI is so virtuous and gave me an opportunity to write exam. Had they not allowed me I would have hurt a lot (because as a general category I have paid 850/- for exam).

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*I started with English but here I got first punch, “except closet test” the English paper is not so easy hardly I answered 21/30 questions, even 2 or 3 questions vanish, I will survive in English. RBI has come up with new type of Fill in the blanks, where we will be given 3 alternatives and need to fix them in two blanks(6 questions were given ),so tough all are look like similar and technically most nearer to one another, yet there is slight difference and we need to find it out. Antonym synonym type questions were asked in passage itself. As I said earlier in our strategy the passage is also tough but with concentrated reading we can answer those questions. Overall English will be tough for amateur competitor and moderate for prepared person like me. And cut off will be 9 or 10/30.

*Then I move to General awareness and it is so easy and thought like I was in some ‘clerical cadre’ exam. I think RBI deliberately given it easily as they can test these “General awareness skill” in Mains exam also. So I have answered 68/80 questions correct and left, as the remaining questions also easy but mere facts one serious RBI/Civil services aspirant cannot answer them (because in these types of exams our preference normally would be on concepts rather facts). I will give some questions for your idea 

• What is Narendra modi’s first bilateral tour – Bhutan
• Finance minister name- Arun jaitley
• In the first tour who have accompanied with Modi- sushma jee
• Who is ENT specialist in Modi’s cabinet –Harsha vardhan

Like all Modi’s mantra, why they asked all these questions as they may not give any donut. In fact they would have asked what agreements Modi made with Bhutan.

And the toughest question I found in General awareness section is “question on negotiable instruments like Banks notes, Cheques etc. will be valid under the purview of negotiable instruments act” but Banks and other financial intermediaries were given teeth with which act- Sarfaisi act-2002.

Like this General awareness is dead easy for prepared one and moderate for non serious candidate.

And later I moved to Reasoning because I thought I can manage “Quantitative aptitude” but it was also betrayed me like “English section”. So reasoning is little easy because except 1 puzzle and Input-output, remaining is a cakewalk for aspirant. All expected and discussed models in the strategy have come. And I have answered 42/60 and left but here I am sure I will lose 4 or 5 questions. Codes in sentences like (bi la ti ze is code for I am good student like questions) is a good type and here RBI gave 10 questions based on this logic and we can easily solve them. And syllogism is dead easy, finally inference- argument, courses of action are also good and not time consuming. But what I understand about puzzle is even we practice 99 models he will give 100th model, as there is no particular parameters for Puzzle. Spot solving skills are important. Being a serious candidate I could not answer reasoning up to my expectations, and the reason I will say in the epilogue.

Finally I come to “Quant” and I was left with 25 min. Time, I could easily answer if this part was good, but RBI gave “corrections in number series” for 8 marks and all are twisters, I leave all those 8 as my mind was not hearing my words anymore. And then I move to small Geometry sums and I finished them with good accuracy. As I said in the strategy RBI come up with ‘two equations quadratic expressions and asking X>y, X>=Y etc. but I have solved them in less time and go to “Data interpretation”, I would not have done this so., because it is quite time consuming and I could answer 2/6 questions. Finally I answered 18/30 in stipulated time. Finally I can say that never ever under estimate “Quant”, because it makes you “Most wanted”.

So my attempts are English: 21/30, General awareness: 68/80, Reasoning: 42/60, Quant: 18/30

Total attempts: 149 and if we depreciate even 10 questions 139 marks.

And I am estimating cutoff will be 125(+/- 5).

Epilogue
I can finally say today I have good bitter experience in the exam hall also besides my “late appeal”.  And that is “My allotted system have severe virus” and it was frequently harassed me in the mean time. And it took 6 sec as response time to move to different question. I asked the room coordinator to change the system but that person was half knowledge one and asked me to wait by the time one of the officials have come. Later he allotted me another system meanwhile I lost so much valuable time and got huge frustration in the exam. So anytime in the exam we should request--> ask--> even fight with room coordinators to get perfect system. It is our right we should have it.

Finally friends I can say one thing that “I have learnt several lesions from my experience today”. But if we may learn lesson from our own experience all time, then our life may not be enough to learn everything. So I hope you got good lesson from my experience.

Thank you Friends: Santosh kumar Perali(Hyderabad)

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