Syllabus
RBI Assistant Syllabus: Sections and Topics Covered
Reserve Bank of India: Assistant
Prelims is three sections of equal weight and the coverage treats them that way, but the paper does not treat your time that way: each section is separately locked at 20 minutes, so the topics below cannot be traded across section boundaries however well you know them. Mains adds Computer Knowledge and General Awareness and pays a flat 1 mark a question across all five sections, which is unusual among bank papers and means no section there repays disproportionate revision either.
Sections official, topics ours. The section names and counts below are from the official pattern. The topics under them are what this site's own tests cover, not a list the exam body publishes.
English Language
30 questions · 30 marks- • Antonym
- • Synonym
- • Cloze test
- • Idioms
- • One-word substitution
- • Spelling
- • Connectors
- • Sentence improvement
- • Para-jumbles
- • Reading comprehension
- • Vocabulary in context
- • Active and passive voice
- • Direct and indirect speech
- • Error spotting
- • Preposition
- • Question tags
- • Subject-verb agreement
- • Tenses
Showing 18 of 19 topic labels, the ones carrying the most of the 60 questions built here.
Numerical Ability
35 questions · 35 marks- • Time, speed and distance
- • Mensuration
- • Number Series
- • Percentage
- • Simplification
- • Ratio and proportion
- • Time and Work
- • Average
- • Profit and Loss
- • Simple Interest
- • Ages
- • Algebra
- • Compound Interest
- • Data Interpretation
- • Elementary algebra
- • Number System
- • Partnership
- • Mixture and Alligation
Showing 18 of 21 topic labels, the ones carrying the most of the 70 questions built here.
Reasoning Ability
35 questions · 35 marks- • Number series
- • Coding-decoding
- • Blood relations
- • Direction sense
- • Ranking
- • Classification
- • Syllogism
- • Analogy
- • Alphabet Series
- • Alphanumeric series
- • Symbol substitution
- • Inequality
- • Puzzle
- • Seating Arrangement
- • Age Puzzles
- • Ranking and Order
- • Arithmetical Reasoning
17 topic labels across 370 questions built here.
Section pattern source: the official notice, checked 4 August 2026.
Frequently asked questions
What sections does the RBI Assistant syllabus cover?
There are 3 sections: English Language, Numerical Ability and Reasoning Ability. Those names, and the question counts and marks beside them, come from the official pattern, checked 4 August 2026. What sits under each of them on this page is a different thing: 57 topic labels drawn from the 500 questions built here for this exam, which is a map of what you can practise rather than a list the exam body published.
Is this the official RBI Assistant syllabus?
No, and the page says so rather than leaving you to work it out. The section pattern is official and linked to the notice it came from; the topics beneath it are the ones this site's own tests cover. They are useful for two things: seeing what you can practise here, and checking a syllabus you already have for gaps. For the syllabus itself, read the exam body's own document, because a topic list assembled from a question bank can be narrower than the syllabus and never wider in a way you should trust.
How many questions are there in the RBI Assistant paper, and how long is it?
The Prelims stage is 100 questions for 100 marks in 60 minutes. Wrong answers are penalised 0.25 per question. Knowing that alongside the syllabus is what turns a topic list into a plan: it tells you how many marks each section is actually worth and how many minutes you can afford per question.
How do I practise the RBI Assistant syllabus?
Sit a full mock before working down any topic list. A list tells you what can be asked; it does not tell you which parts are costing you marks, and that is rarely where a candidate expects. There are 18 free tests for RBI Assistant here, and the sectional ones let you rebuild a single section once the full paper has shown you which one needs it.