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1. These books and online resources cover the complete breadth of the syllabus.
Previous papers are also included to give you insight on exam pattern,
difficulty level, and nature of questions.
2. The Books are written by experienced authors and published by well-known
and trusted publishing houses. The online study material are either
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maintained by experts or crowd-sourced with an adequate ranking system to
show you popular opinions.
3. These resources come recommended by professionals who have years of
experience under their belt while dealing with RBI Grade B Exam Preparation.
The General Awareness section tests you largely on your basic knowledge about
Financial Awareness & Banking Awareness. You will also be tested on Current Affairs
and Static GK.
Pratiyogita Darpan
Lucents General Knowledge(4th Edition)
Manorama Year Book 2016
India 2015 by Ministry of Information
Current Affairs App: Make sure to read the Capsules, then take the Daily,
Weekly and Monthly Quizzes.
Financial Awareness Capsules & Study Notes: Financial Awareness is
important for SBI PO Mains preparation. Make sure to read up on capsules
and concept-driven study notes.
Financial Awareness Quiz: Take these quizzes to test yourself.
Static GK: These capsules are important to keep you up to date on trivia and
events and to boost your General Awareness.
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GK Quiz: Boost your General Awareness with these short quizzes.
Current Affairs Capsules: If you don't have an Android app, read daily
capsules for the past 3 months.
Current Affairs Quiz: Make sure to take these quizzes daily.
You will need to deal with English in both Phases I and II. You will have to deal with
objective questions in Phase I. In Phase II, you will need to write a Descriptive paper.
Testbook Quant: Go through all the shortcuts, concepts and tips carefully.
Testbook Quant Quiz: Get tiny quizzes with solutions to fix your mistakes
on the spot.
Careerbless: Get practice on an online calculator so you can do some quick
maths. Also, try questions for speed math.
Math Shortcut Tricks: Try shortcut tricks for Quantitative Aptitude.
The paper will test your economic and social awareness. While preparing from the
following study material, make sure you pay attention to the basic concepts first and
then move on to topics that are more complex.
1. The Hindu
2. Economic Times
3. Business Standard
Weekly/Monthly Magazines/Bulletins/Reports:
This paper is the Board's way to test your writing skills. Consequently, the questions
will be framed in a way to judge your expression and understanding.
1. RBI Grade-B Officer's Exam Phase 2 Descriptive Type Test Practice Work
Book (Including Solved Paper) by Kiran Prakashan
Since this English descriptive paper will take place online, try to practice as much as
you can by typing on a computer.
Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity, etc.), functions,
instruments and recent developments.
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1. Risk Management in Banking Sector.
2. Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures and Swap.
3. Changing Landscape of Banking sector.
4. Recent Developments in the Financial Sector, Portfolio Investment, Public
Sector Reforms, Disinvestments.
5. Financial Inclusion- use of technology.
6. Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private
Partnership
7. Corporate Governance in Banking Sector, the role of e-governance in
addressing the issues of corruption and inefficiency in the government sector.
8. The Union Budget Direct and Indirect taxes; Non-tax sources of Revenue,
GST, Thirteenth Finance Commission and GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal
Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM).
9. Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences and remedies (control):
WPI, CPI - components and trends.
In addition to the books recommended here, you should go through our Financial
Awareness Capsules as much as you can. You can begin here:
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Furthermore, while reading this study material take our Financial Awareness
Quizzes:
If you find this post on study material and recommended books for RBI Grade B
exam helpful, then do let us know in the comments section. Also, let us know if you
need more help. Happy studying!
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