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RBI JE study plan

RBI JE · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Professional Knowledge (Civil / Electrical Engineering) & Quantitative Aptitude

  • Map the Professional Knowledge syllabus for your branch (Civil or Electrical) and assign every topic to a specific week from 1 to 6, so no topic is left unassigned.

  • Solve 60 numerical problems from your branch's two highest-yield core areas (Strength of Materials and Fluid Mechanics for Civil; Circuit Theory and Electrical Machines for Electrical), recording each mistake and its cause in a log.

  • Drill percentages, ratio and proportion, averages, and simplification in four timed sets of 20 questions, targeting 16 or more correct per set within 12 minutes.

  • Compress each Professional Knowledge topic finished this week into a handwritten one-page sheet of formulas, units and key properties.

Your checkpoint

A dated syllabus map, an error log with at least 40 entries, and a scored 20-question quant sectional at 70% or above.

Week 2

Professional Knowledge (Civil / Electrical Engineering) & Reasoning Ability

  • Cover the next Professional Knowledge block (Civil: RCC and steel design, surveying; Electrical: power systems, control systems and transformers), solving 60 previous-year-style numericals.

  • Learn one repeatable method for puzzles and seating arrangements, then apply it to 25 practice sets with a timer running.

  • Complete 50 questions on syllogism, inequality and coding-decoding, writing down the rule you applied for each answer.

  • Re-solve 20 questions you answered wrongly in Week 1 to confirm the fix has held.

Your checkpoint

A 30-question reasoning sectional finished inside your target time, plus a one-page write-up of your puzzle method.

Week 3

Professional Knowledge (Civil / Electrical Engineering) & English Language

  • Finish the third Professional Knowledge block (Civil: soil mechanics, transportation engineering, estimating and costing; Electrical: measurements, power electronics, utilization of electrical energy) with 60 numericals.

  • Work through subject-verb agreement, tenses, articles and prepositions, then apply each rule to 100 error-spotting and sentence-correction questions.

  • Build a 150-word vocabulary list with one original example sentence per word, taken from material you actually read.

  • Solve three reading comprehension passages with a 7-minute cap each, underlining the line in the passage that supports every answer.

Your checkpoint

A 30-question English sectional at 70% or above and a completed 150-word vocabulary sheet.

Week 4

Professional Knowledge (Civil / Electrical Engineering) & General Awareness

  • Close out the remaining Professional Knowledge topics and re-read the formula sheets built in Weeks 1 to 3.

  • Memorise the RBI's core functions, its monetary policy instruments, and 60 banking terms with one-line definitions.

  • Compile current affairs from the last six months into themed notes: national, international, appointments, awards, sports and banking.

  • Attempt one Professional Knowledge sectional and one General Awareness sectional back to back in a single sitting.

Your checkpoint

Both sectionals scored and analysed, with a written list of the five weakest Professional Knowledge topics to attack in Weeks 5 and 6.

Week 5

Professional Knowledge (Civil / Electrical Engineering) & Quantitative Aptitude

  • Repair the five weakest Professional Knowledge topics from Week 4 by solving 25 problems on each until accuracy passes 80%.

  • Work through data interpretation in all four formats (table, bar, pie, line) across 40 sets, practising approximation instead of full calculation.

  • Solve 60 questions on time-speed-distance, time and work, and mixtures while recording the time spent on each question.

  • Re-derive rather than recall: rewrite every formula from memory before checking it against your sheet.

Your checkpoint

A 25-question quant sectional completed in 20 minutes at 75% or above, and a revised weak-topic list.

Week 6

General Awareness & Reasoning Ability

  • Bring current affairs up to date for the last two months and revise the Week 4 digest once end to end.

  • Complete 150 reasoning questions spread across blood relations, direction sense, series, analogy and classification.

  • Practise 30 data sufficiency questions, explicitly noting the cases where either statement alone is sufficient.

  • Sit one reasoning sectional and one General Awareness sectional, then log every question you answered by guessing.

Your checkpoint

A reasoning sectional at 70% or above with a guess log showing fewer than five unmarked guesses.

Week 7

English Language & Quantitative Aptitude

  • Revise all English grammar rules covered so far and redo the 100 questions you marked wrong in Week 3.

  • Solve 100 mixed questions across cloze tests, para jumbles, fillers and error spotting.

  • Attempt four reading comprehension passages at six minutes each, forcing yourself to move on at the cap.

  • Solve two 25-question mixed quant sectionals with sectional timing to build stamina for switching between question types.

Your checkpoint

An English sectional at 75% or above and a quant sectional at 75% or above, both completed inside the time limit.

Week 8

Professional Knowledge (Civil / Electrical Engineering) & General Awareness

  • Attempt three full-length mocks in the official pattern and analyse each within 24 hours, tagging every error as knowledge, method or time.

  • Recite your Professional Knowledge formula sheets and error log, then redo 100 previously wrong problems without looking at the solutions.

  • Drill General Awareness one-liners on banking, the economy and the last six months of current affairs for 45 minutes daily.

  • Rehearse a fixed section order and time budget across the mocks, and keep the two highest-scoring orders for exam day.

Your checkpoint

Three scored full-length mocks, an error-tagging sheet covering every wrong answer, and a written exam-day time budget.

Milestones

Week 2: Syllabus map covers 100% of the branch syllabus, error log holds 80+ entries, and the reasoning sectional is completed within target time at 60% or above.

Week 4: Professional Knowledge sectional at 60% or above and General Awareness at 55% or above, with an error log spanning all four weeks and a named list of five weak Professional Knowledge topics.

Week 6: Reasoning at 70% or above, quant at 70% or above, and English at 70% or above on sectionals taken after Week 3, with a guess log under five unmarked guesses.

Week 8: Latest full-length mock at 65% or above overall with no single domain below 50%, and every wrong answer in the last two mocks tagged and assigned a fix.