RBI Assistants 23rd Evening slot Exam Review

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Hi all,

Sorry for being late to post the review, got a bit stuck up somewhere while traveling back home from the centre. As promised, here goes the detailed review:

Sectional Review

Numerical Ability

This section was a surprise if we compare it to the previous papers of 2012 and 2013 in a way that the previous papers had much of the simplification questions (I guess straight 20-25 questions), but this time there was less of simplification thingy and more of statement questions. Number series (had to find the next number) had 5 questions, 2 were tricky, rest presence of mind. Simplification (BODMAS) just 6-8 questions which were easy in case your shortcuts are intact. Rest there was no probability and permutation combination. 2 questions from mensuration. Pipes and cisters, si ci , trains , boats and streams ; all were there. There was a DI set too. It had 5 questions and it was a table. It was somewhat calculation intensive but not that much too again if you have shortcuts handy. No complex calculations in it though. It had mainly %age, ratio and average related questions. 2 of which had multiple calculations.

My suggestion to all the aspirants is to be thorough with all the chapters and also please don’t start with this section as it would eat away your time.

Reasoning

An overall easy section if you are quick at it. There were straight 10 questions on puzzles which comprised of 5 questions on circular arrangement with 8 persons facing center and the other 5 on misc. puzzle which had 7 days and 7 dance forms to be arranged over these 7 days. The syllogisms had 5 questions (no possibility ones or definite ones but yes it had at least related question). Then Data sufficiency was easy again. It had one question on direction, one on coding, one on blood relation, one on line arrangement and 1 on day arrangement. 5 Inequalities too were easy, just 1 of them was tricky. There were also 5 questions on numbers in this (5 three digit numbers were given, we had to arrange them according to the question asked liked inc. dec. order inside the number and then add 2 to the 1^st digit of odd no. type question). It was a bit time consuming as there were multiple things to do in a single question. 4 questions on a misc sequence were also there. The sequence comprised of symbols, digits and alphabets. It was easy too.

Computer

I started with this section and found it to be really easy in case one is thorough with some basic concepts. I found most of the questions to be from the mahendra’s pdf of computer awareness. I would request the aspirants to go through it once. The pdf can be downloaded from here.

Some of the questions were related to bit, encryption, cache, bus, internet etc. The questions are covered in the pdf.

General Awareness

One thing I would like to accentuate here is that please be thorough with the amount allocation to various sectors as per the Union Budget 2014-2015. There were many questions related to this. Also please try to be precise as the options given were really close.

There were 2 questions on ministers and department, One on dam, 2 on film awards, 2 on sports, One on Ebola, One currency, One Capital, Kuchipudi dance.

To my surprise there was no date related question and also no book and author.

P.S As far as the exact questions of GA and Computer are concerned, I don’t remember much as I attempted these sections in the beginning.

English

Now coming over to English. English had 1 RC which was a story related to 2 kings (good story though). This RC had straightaway 10 questions which comprised of 2 antonyms, 2 synonyms, 1 title of the passage, 3 true false questions and rest the passage info related. Then there were 5 questions on error spotting, very easy if u read between the lines. To my surprise, there were 5 questions on spell check, very easy ones. Cloze test too wasn’t tough, it had 10 questions. There was a para jumble too which comprised of 6 jumbled sentences and 5 questions followed it. It was easy again

My Attempts

Section	Attempts	Time taken	Difficulty level
General Awareness	32	12 mins	Moderate
Computer	34	8 mins	Easy
Numerical Ability	34	48 mins	Moderate
Reasoning	40	32 mins	Easy
English	40	20 mins	Easy

Overall I have attempted 180 Questions … The order in which I attempted the paper was

1.      Computer

2.      General Awareness

3.      English

4.      Reasoning

5.      Numerical Ability

Overall Analysis

I would rate the paper as moderate if we compare it to the previous years. In my opinion, the cutoff would hover somewhere around 150.

P.S I have tried to be as detailed as I can be. I may not be in a position to entertain any further queries as this is all what I remember.

All the best to the aspirants who are yet to appear for the exam. Though the exam is not going to be the same for everyone, yet if you are lucky enough ; my analysis may help.

Regards

Surbhi Sood

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