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RBI Security Guard: General Awareness: RBI, Banking and National Static for the Security Guard Paper

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General Awareness: RBI, Banking and National Static for the Security Guard Paper

General Awareness is the single largest part of the RBI Security Guard objective paper: in the pattern used in recent notifications it carries 40 of the 100 questions, while Reasoning, Numerical Ability and General English carry 20 each. Questions sit at a matriculation level but mix permanent static facts with the previous six to eight months of news, so you need both a written fact file and a weekly current-affairs habit.

Reserve Bank facts that repeat

  • Established 1 April 1935 on the Hilton Young Commission's recommendation; nationalised 1 January 1949; the central office moved from Kolkata to Mumbai in 1937.
  • First Governor: Sir Osborne Smith. First Indian Governor: C. D. Deshmukh.
  • Core functions: issuing currency, banker to the government, banker's bank, lender of last resort, custodian of foreign exchange reserves, and monetary policy through the six-member Monetary Policy Committee.
  • ₹1 notes and all coins are issued by the Government of India; the RBI issues notes of ₹2 and above under the minimum reserve system.

Banking, economy and security static

Know deposit types, cheque versus demand draft, NEFT/RTGS/UPI, repo rate, CRR and SLR, and the CPI and WPI inflation measures. For the security half, revise the ranks and current chiefs of the three services, defence academies, the order of gallantry awards (Param Vir Chakra first in wartime), and which ministry controls each paramilitary force: the BSF and CRPF sit under the Ministry of Home Affairs, not Defence.

Worked example

Question: the RBI was established in ___ and nationalised in ___. Reasoning: these are two separate events. It began as a shareholders' bank in 1935 and passed into public ownership in 1949, so the answer is 1935 and 1949. Writing 1949 for both is the commonest error.

Traps that cost marks

Swapping the 1935 and 1949 dates; naming Deshmukh as the first Governor; assuming the RBI prints ₹1 notes; confusing the Chief of Army Staff with the Defence Minister; answering from an older year's news instead of the cut-off named in the notification.