Lakhs of students apply to appear for the RBI Grade B exams every year. However, there are very few vacancies for the Grade B officer position. Hence, the difficulty level of clearing this exam rises every year. The tough competition also demands numerous attempts to qualify as a Grade B officer. Let’s discuss here how RBI Grade B cut off is applied to various stages and how candidates shortlisted for the officer post.

What does the RBI Grade B cut-off mean?

The cut-off of an examination refers to the marks scored by the final candidate who qualifies to the next level. Hence, the cut-off of the Grade B Prelims refers to the mark scored by the last candidate who qualified for the Mains. Moreover, you need to score more than the total and sectional cut-offs of the Prelims to qualify to the Mains.

Overall cut-off refers to the minimum marks in the exam, on the whole, to qualify further. Likewise, sectional cut-off refers to the marks you need to score in each section to qualify. Also, if a candidate scores the overall cut-off but not the sectional cut-offs, he/she will not move to the next level of selection. However, there is no cut-off for the Interview round. For the Grade B exams that were held in multiple shifts, RBI uses the normalization process to calculate the final cut-off.

What factors affect the cut-off of the RBI Grade B exam?

The cut-off applied in the Grade B exam is not a constant figure. It keeps varying in every phase of the exam. Various factors influence the cut-off of the exam. Listed below are the most important of them:

• The difficulty level of the exam determines the cut-off of that year.
• The number of vacancies of the Grade B job position affects it too.
• The number of the candidates who appear for the Grade B exam that year.
• The span of the normalization was carried out by the RBI that year.

RBI Grade B cut-off 2021

The difficulty level of the RBI Grade B exam 2021 was moderate to hard. Hence, the cut-off for 2021 was much lower than the cut-off of the previous year (2019). Listed below is the category-wise cut-off of the RBI Grade B 2021 Prelims:

Similarly, listed below is the category-wise cut-off of the RBI Grade B 2021 Mains exam:

Likewise, here is the final cut-off list of the RBI Grade B 2021 examination for Grade B General Officers:

RBI Grade B cut-off for different job positions

The RBI’s Grade B officer position has three different categories. They are, Grade B (General) – DR, DSIM (Department of Statistics and Information Management) in CSG (Common Seniority Group), and DEPR (Department of Economic and Policy Research). Each of these groups or categories of the post may have different cut-offs. However, they only slightly vary from the Grade B General-DR cut-off.

Following are the final cut-offs for the various categories for the Grade B post-2021:

• DEPR (Department of Economic and Policy Research) – category-wise cut-off

• DSIM (Department of Statistics and Information Management) – category-wise cut-off:

How do you check the cut-off for the RBI Grade B exam?

Mentioned below are the steps through which you can check this year’s cut-off for the RBI Grade B examination:

• Firstly, go to the official website of the RBI: https://www.rbi.org.in/.
• At the bottom of the webpage, you will find a section called ‘More links’.
• In the section, click on the ‘Opportunies@RBI’ option.
• Next, you will find a drop-down menu called ‘Current vacancies’ on that page.
• Choose the ‘Results’ option from the menu.
• You will then find a group of links on the top right corner by names of years.
• Select the year for which you want to check the result.
• When you click the wanted year, you will see a list of months. Click on the ‘All Months’ option.
• From this step on, you need to different instructions to check results for the Prelims and the Mains:
  • For checking the results of the Prelims, click on the link named “Mark sheet and cut off marks for the Phase-I online examination for recruitment of Officers in Grade ‘B’ (General) – DR- Batch Year-2021”.
  • However, if you want to check the results for the Mains, “Mark sheet and cut-off marks for the Officers in Grade ‘B’ (GEN) – DR- Batch Year – 2021”.
• Once you click on the link of your choice, a new page opens up.
• Here, you will find the cut-off for the RBI Grade B exam phase that you chose.

Conclusion

The RBI Grade B cut-off is important because that is the score you need, to qualify as a Grade B officer. Moreover, you need to be aware of the overall and the sectional cut-offs. You need to score above both of them to qualify for the interview. Besides, the interview does not have any cut-off. The final merit list, however, will be based on the Mains and the interview scores. Based on the list, you will be appointed as the Grade B officer.