No answer key in the RBI Grade B process
Advertisement RBISB/DA/01/2026-27, the Phase I and Phase II handouts and the result notices don’t provide for releasing an answer key or taking objections. The only route RBI mentions is RTI: Note II of the Phase II result says RTI requests for Phase II answer keys for Paper I and Paper III will be entertained only after the final result. Phase II results came out in August 2026; interviews are next, with dates not yet announced.
Be careful with “official answer key” links on other sites. The Board publishes notices for this recruitment only on rbi.org.in. You can still check your attempt against the marking rules below.
Scoring at a glance
How RBI turns your answers into a score
- Five options, one answerEach objective question has five options. In Phase I, every test has as many marks as questions (General Awareness 80, English 30, Quant 30, Reasoning 60).
- Phase II questions carry 1 or 2 marksIn Paper I and Paper III, the 30 objective questions together carry 50 marks, so some are worth 2 marks and some 1.
- Penalty for wrong answersFor every wrong answer, a quarter of that question’s marks is deducted. This gives your corrected score.
- Minimum in each Phase I testYou must pass each of the four Phase I tests and reach the aggregate cut-off; the Board sets the passing marks on the performance of all candidates.
- Equating across sessionsPhase I corrected scores from different sessions are equated, and reported to two decimal places.
Score rules that matter after the exam
These come from Appendix II of the advertisement and the Phase I and Phase II information handouts:
Where to raise a query
The advertisement doesn’t provide a way to challenge individual answers. It gives a help facility for application, fee and admit card problems, and the Phase II result sets out when RTI requests are taken.
- Check RBI’s website firstCorrigenda and notices for this recruitment are published only on rbi.org.in.
- Use the help facilityFor problems with the form, fee or admit card, log a query at
cgrs.ibps.inwith ‘RBI Officers in Grade ‘B’ (DR) – GENERAL – PY 2026’ in the subject. - RTI on answer keys — after the final resultRTI requests about Phase II answer keys for Paper I and Paper III, and about candidate numbers, are entertained only after the selection process ends and the final result is declared.
- Know what’s finalThe Board’s decisions on the conduct of exams, assessment and minimum qualifying standards are final, and no correspondence is entertained about them (para 31(j)).
- No claim to a re-testIf a technical problem affects the exam, the Board may move candidates or delay the test; a re-exam is entirely at its discretion (para 31(e)).
Estimate your corrected score
Even without an answer key, you can estimate your Phase I score test by test if you remember your attempt. Check each test separately, because you have to clear all four.
Score = marks for correct answers − ¼ × marks of each wrong answer
Work it out separately for each test. Questions you don’t answer earn no marks, and the handouts apply the penalty only to wrong answers. In the Phase II objective parts, a wrong 2-mark question costs 0.5 and a wrong 1-mark question costs 0.25.
This is a worked example, not real data. Your official Phase I score may differ slightly because scores are equated across sessions. The descriptive parts of Paper I and Paper III and the whole of Paper II are typed answers, so you can’t estimate them this way; the documents don’t describe how they’re evaluated.
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