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Ans. RBI Grade 'B' and RBI Assistant level exams are good backups for those attempting SBI PO/ UPSC IAS etc. For those in management background or commerce might find the General awareness section easy. However there is no stream which is at an advantage here.

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Ans. SBI PO offers a higher salary than RBI Assistants. However RBI postings are in metro but SBI branches are all over India. Working hours of RBI Assistant are 5 days/week and PO is 6 days/week. RBI Assistant say that RBI promotes faster to AGM post than SBI PO. However RBI Grade 'B' officers are better than RBI Assistants. They can reach till Deputy Governorship of RBI.    

Ans. RBI exams mostly questions of General Awareness are asked from Current Affairs.Focus mainly on current affairs related to Banking & Finance Sector & News related to RBI.

Ans.  Out of RBI assistant, IBPS PO, and SBI Associate PO and it was easiest. But since number of seats are significantly less, cutoff is really high. You need to correctly answer 180 + questions ( out of 200) if you are from general category to be certain of clearing the exam.

Ans. RBI Assistant exam notification came on 28 October in 2016.

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Ans. RBI Grade 'B' exam has for general category candidates the age limit of 30 years and 6 attempts. For PhD candidates or caste candidates the attempts and age limit is higher. RBI Assistants too the age limit is 28 years for general category and higher for others.

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