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RBI Grade B Officer (General / DEPR / DSIM) Syllabus 2026

The complete RBI Grade B Officer (General / DEPR / DSIM) syllabus for 2026 — 6 sections and 56 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 Grade B Officer (General / DEPR / DSIM) mock below.

Phase I (General DR) — General Awareness, English, Quant, Reasoning4 topics

  • General Awareness (80 Q) — recent regulatory and monetary policy decisions, RBI departments, banking sector developments, financial inclusion schemes, Union Budget banking provisions, Economic Survey themes, current affairs (last 6-9 months)
  • English (30 Q) — reading comprehension, cloze test, para jumble, error spotting, sentence improvement, vocabulary
  • Quantitative Aptitude (30 Q) — number system, percentages, ratio, SI/CI, TSD, mensuration, Data Interpretation (caselet and mixed)
  • Reasoning (60 Q) — puzzles, seating, blood relations, syllogisms, coded inequalities, direction sense, coding-decoding, alphanumeric series, input-output, data sufficiency

Phase II Paper I — Economic and Social Issues (General DR)14 topics

  • Growth and development theories — Harrod-Domar, Solow, endogenous growth, structural change, dual-economy models (Lewis, Fei-Ranis)
  • Indian economy since independence — Five Year Plans, NITI Aayog (2015 onwards), 1991 reforms (LPG), inclusive growth framework, Aspirational Districts Programme
  • Measurement of growth and inequality — GDP, GNP, NNP, GVA (basic vs market prices), Gini coefficient, Lorenz curve, MPI, HDI
  • Poverty alleviation and employment generation — PLFS, NSSO surveys, NREGS, PMAY, PMGSY, social sector spending
  • Sustainable development and environmental issues — climate finance, NDCs, COP outcomes, Mission LiFE
  • Demographic trends and urbanisation — population growth, demographic dividend, urbanisation challenges, smart cities mission
  • Social structure in India — caste, gender, religion, regional disparities, affirmative action policies
  • Education and health — RTE, NEP 2020, Ayushman Bharat, PM-JAY, health-financing trends
  • Agriculture — MSP, PM-KISAN, PMFBY, eNAM, APMC reforms, food and fertiliser subsidy, doubling farmers' income
  • Industrial economy — Make in India, PLI schemes (14 sectors), MSME definition revision, industrial corridors, DFCs
  • Services sector — IT-BPM, financial services, tourism, healthcare services
  • External sector — Balance of Payments, current/capital account, FDI vs FPI, FEMA, forex reserves, INR internationalisation
  • Globalisation and WTO — TRIPS, TRIMS, GATS, agriculture disputes, FTAs (India-UAE CEPA, India-EFTA TEPA, India-Australia ECTA)
  • Recent Union Budget themes, Economic Survey themes, and policy debates

Phase II Paper II — English (Writing Skills, General DR)5 topics

  • Essay writing (350-450 words) on themes drawn from monetary policy, banking, economy, social policy, technology and governance
  • Précis writing (compress an 800-1000-word passage into one-third length)
  • Comprehension-based analytical writing — read a passage, answer interpretive questions, and write a structured analytical response
  • Argumentative writing — present a thesis, support with evidence, address counter-arguments, conclude
  • Style and clarity — paragraph structure, topic sentences, transitions, parallel construction, formal register

Phase II Paper III — Finance and Management (General DR)14 topics

  • Financial system — RBI structure, departments, monetary policy framework (repo, reverse repo, CRR, SLR, MSF, SDF, OMO, MPC composition with 4±2% CPI target)
  • Banking — Public Sector Banks, Private Banks, RRBs, SFBs, Payments Banks, NBFCs, cooperative banks, BR Act 1949 and RBI Act 1934 key sections
  • BASEL III/IV — capital adequacy, CET1, AT1, Tier 1, Tier 2, CCB 2.5%, leverage ratio, LCR 30-day, NSFR 1-year, D-SIBs (SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank)
  • Risk management — credit, market, operational, liquidity, interest-rate, FX risks; 3 lines of defence; PCA Framework 2021
  • Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS), IFRS basics, ECL provisioning under Ind AS 109
  • SARFAESI Act 2002, IBC 2016 (CIRP 270/330 days, Sec 53 waterfall, pre-pack for MSMEs), DRT/DRAT
  • Capital markets — primary and secondary, IPO/FPO, SEBI regulations, equity and debt instruments, derivatives basics
  • Foreign exchange — FEMA 1999, exchange-rate regimes, RBI intervention, capital account convertibility, Liberalised Remittance Scheme
  • Public finance — fiscal policy, FRBM Act 2003, fiscal/revenue/primary deficit, GST architecture (CGST, SGST, IGST, Compensation Cess), Finance Commission
  • Management theory — leadership, motivation (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor), organisational behaviour, change management
  • HR management — recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, compensation, industrial relations
  • Corporate governance — Companies Act 2013 provisions, independent directors, audit committee, related-party transactions, ESG framework
  • Communication — types, barriers, formal vs informal, written vs oral, intercultural communication
  • Ethics — corporate ethics, ethical dilemmas in banking, whistle-blowing, codes of conduct

Phase II — DEPR Economics Stream (PG-level depth)8 topics

  • Microeconomic theory — consumer theory (utility, indifference curves, revealed preference, Slutsky decomposition), producer theory (production function, cost minimisation, profit maximisation), market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly with Cournot/Bertrand/Stackelberg), game theory (Nash equilibrium, mixed strategies, repeated games), general equilibrium and welfare (Pareto optimality, Edgeworth box, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem)
  • Macroeconomic theory — IS-LM, AD-AS, open-economy Mundell-Fleming, Keynesian and classical models, rational expectations and Lucas critique, Real Business Cycle, New Keynesian DSGE basics, growth theory (Solow, Romer, Lucas endogenous models)
  • Monetary economics — demand for money (Fisher, Cambridge, Friedman, Baumol-Tobin, Tobin portfolio), money supply determinants, monetary policy transmission, inflation targeting framework, Taylor rule, monetary aggregates M0/M1/M3, RBI monetary operating framework
  • International economics — Heckscher-Ohlin, Stolper-Samuelson, Rybczynski, factor-price equalisation, exchange-rate determination (PPP, UIP, IRP, asset-market approach), BoP crises, capital flow management, trade policy
  • Public economics — public goods, externalities, optimal taxation (Ramsey, Mirrlees), tax incidence, public-debt sustainability, intergenerational equity, fiscal federalism, Indian tax structure post-GST
  • Development economics — dual-economy models (Lewis, Fei-Ranis), poverty measurement (FGT index), human development, gender and development, agriculture-industry linkages
  • Indian economy — Five Year Plans, 1991 reforms, agriculture policy, industrial policy, financial sector reforms, current macroeconomic challenges (inflation, growth, fiscal consolidation, current-account management)
  • Econometric methods — OLS, GLS, IV, MLE, time-series (AR, MA, ARMA, ARIMA, GARCH), panel data, limited dependent variables (logit, probit, tobit)

Phase II — DSIM Statistics Stream (PG-level depth)11 topics

  • Probability theory — probability spaces, random variables, distribution functions, expectation and moments, convergence concepts (in probability, almost sure, in distribution, in Lp), Law of Large Numbers, Central Limit Theorem, characteristic functions
  • Distribution theory — standard univariate distributions (binomial, Poisson, normal, exponential, gamma, beta, chi-square, t, F), multivariate normal, order statistics, sampling distributions
  • Statistical inference — point estimation (MLE, MoM, UMVUE, sufficiency, completeness, Cramer-Rao bound, Rao-Blackwell), interval estimation, hypothesis testing (Neyman-Pearson, UMP, likelihood ratio), non-parametric methods (sign test, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, Kolmogorov-Smirnov)
  • Sampling theory — SRSWR/SRSWOR, stratified sampling, systematic sampling, cluster sampling, two-stage sampling, ratio and regression estimators, PPS sampling
  • Design of experiments — completely randomised, randomised block, Latin square, factorial designs, fractional factorials, ANOVA
  • Regression analysis — multiple linear regression, model diagnostics (heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation, multicollinearity), Generalised Linear Models (logistic, Poisson, probit), variable selection
  • Multivariate analysis — multivariate normal, Hotelling's T², MANOVA, discriminant analysis, principal components, factor analysis, cluster analysis
  • Time-series analysis — stationarity, ACF/PACF, AR/MA/ARMA/ARIMA, seasonal ARIMA, unit-root tests (DF, ADF, Phillips-Perron, KPSS), Granger causality, VAR, VECM, GARCH and stochastic volatility
  • Stochastic processes — Markov chains, Poisson processes, Brownian motion basics, queuing theory, renewal theory
  • Statistical computing concepts — Monte Carlo methods, bootstrap, jackknife, MCMC basics, missing data imputation (MICE)
  • Applied statistics — Indian economic and banking statistics (BoP compilation, banking statistics, financial-stability indicators, household survey design)

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