Reserve Bank of India has issued notification for the posts of Assistant in various offices of the Bank. The selection of the candidates for the post will be through a country-wide competitive Examination in two phases i.e. Preliminary and Main examination followed by an Interview.

No weightage is given to the prelims examination while doing the final calculation of scores obtained by the candidates. The final selection will be on the basis of candidate’s performance in the online main examination and interview taken together in order of merit.

Scheme of Selection for RBI Assistant Exam 2016

a. Preliminary Examination:

b. Main Examination:

c. Interview: 35 Marks

i) The above main online tests except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi.

ii) Candidates will have to pass in each of the objective tests of the online examinations

iii) A candidate has to qualify in Preliminary Examination for appearing in Main Examination.

iv) There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests (Preliminary and Main examination).1/4th marks will be deducted for each wrong answer.

v) Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the call letter for examination from the RBI’s website.

vi) Roll No. of the candidates successful in preliminary online examination will be made available on RBI’s website in January 2017. The Roll No. of candidates successful in main online examination will be available on RBI’s website and a brief notice thereof will be published on the Bank’s website in February/March 2017.

vii) Only such number of candidates will be called for interview who stand sufficiently high in merit on the aggregate marks of the Objective Tests, such merit being decided by the Bank in relation to the number of vacancies to be filled in.