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RBI Assistant Syllabus 2026

The complete RBI Assistant syllabus for 2026 — 5 sections and 57 topics in all, organised exactly as the Reserve Bank of India Services Board prescribes. Use it as your revision checklist, then test yourself with a free RBI Assistant mock below.

English Language (Prelims and Mains)9 topics

  • Reading comprehension — banking, economy, general-interest passages (250-400 words)
  • Cloze test (single and double cloze formats)
  • Para jumble / sentence rearrangement (5-6 sentences)
  • Error spotting and sentence correction
  • Fill in the blanks (single and double blank)
  • Sentence improvement and phrase replacement
  • Vocabulary in context — synonym, antonym, one-word substitution, idioms and phrases
  • Word usage / word swap
  • Para completion / paragraph conclusion (Mains)

Numerical Ability (Prelims and Mains)12 topics

  • Number system, simplification, approximation
  • Percentages, profit-loss-discount, partnership, average
  • Ratio and proportion, mixture and alligation
  • Simple interest and compound interest (including mixed in Mains)
  • Time and work, pipes and cisterns, time-speed-distance (boats, trains, relative speed)
  • Ages, problems on ages with successive change
  • Permutation, combination and probability (Mains)
  • Quadratic equations (factor method and comparison of two quadratics — Mains)
  • Mensuration — area and volume of 2D and 3D figures
  • Data Interpretation — bar, line, pie, table (Prelims 1-2 sets; Mains 3-4 sets including caselet and mixed DI)
  • Number series (missing number and wrong number)
  • Data sufficiency (Mains)

Reasoning Ability (Prelims and Mains)11 topics

  • Puzzles — floor-based (5-9 floors), day-based, month-based, hybrid floor+flat
  • Seating arrangement — linear, parallel rows facing each other, circular, square
  • Blood relations (Mains adds coded relations)
  • Syllogisms (two and three statements, possibility cases)
  • Statement and assumptions, statement and conclusions, course of action (Mains)
  • Coded inequalities (mathematical with =, ≥, ≤) and direct inequalities
  • Direction and distance
  • Coding-decoding (single-letter, double-letter, word-based)
  • Alphanumeric series
  • Input-output machine (Mains)
  • Data sufficiency in reasoning

General Awareness (Mains)15 topics

  • RBI structure, history, functions, departments (DPSS, DBR, DBS, DEPR, DSIM, FMD, FED, IDMD, HRMD, CDD, FIDD)
  • Monetary policy — repo, reverse repo, CRR, SLR, MSF, SDF, OMO; MPC composition (3 RBI + 3 Government, Governor casting vote, 4±2% CPI Combined target)
  • Banking sector architecture — Public Sector Banks, Private Banks, Foreign Banks, RRBs, SFBs, Payments Banks, Cooperative Banks, NBFCs
  • RBI Act 1934 — basic sections (Sec 22 currency issuance, Sec 42 CRR, Sec 17 RBI functions)
  • Banking Regulation Act 1949 — basic provisions
  • Negotiable Instruments Act 1881 — Sec 138 cheque dishonour basics, crossing, endorsements
  • Financial inclusion schemes — PMJDY, PMSBY, PMJJBY, APY, MUDRA, Stand-Up India, PM Vishwakarma
  • Payment systems — UPI, NEFT, RTGS, IMPS, BBPS, BHIM, AePS, NETC FASTag
  • CBDC e-rupee — wholesale pilot (Nov 2022), retail pilot (Dec 2022)
  • Indian regulators — RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PFRDA, IFSCA, IBBI
  • Bank nationalisations 1969 / 1980, SBI Act 1955, RBI nationalisation 1949
  • PSB consolidation 2019-20 — 10 PSBs merged into 4 anchor banks
  • Recent Union Budget banking sector announcements and Economic Survey themes
  • Current affairs (last 4-6 months) — RBI MPC decisions, regulatory circulars, government schemes, awards, sports, books, defence, science
  • Static GK — capitals, currencies, dams, national parks, important dates, RBI Governors chronology (Urjit Patel 2016-18, Shaktikanta Das 2018+)

Computer Knowledge (Mains)10 topics

  • Computer fundamentals — generations of computers, hardware (CPU, memory hierarchy, input/output devices)
  • Software — system software, application software, utility software, programming language types
  • Operating systems — basics of Windows and Linux
  • MS Office — Word, Excel, PowerPoint shortcuts and basic functions
  • Internet basics — WWW, browser, URL, search engines, ISP, IP address, DNS
  • Networking — LAN, WAN, MAN, topologies, OSI model basics
  • Database management — RDBMS basics, primary key, foreign key, SQL basics
  • Cyber security — antivirus, firewall, phishing, malware, spyware, ransomware, two-factor authentication
  • Storage — RAM, ROM, cache, SSD, HDD, cloud storage
  • Abbreviations, shortcuts and computer terminology

Know the syllabus — now see where you stand.

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