Banking and Financial Awareness for RBI/IBPS Exams

Q1. As per the newspaper reports, some economically developed states only hold about 60% of the total ‘Demat Accounts’ in India. A demant Account is ……………..?

(a) an account which is opened by the people of the lower income groups of society

(b) an account in which trading of the shares is done

(c) an account which can be opened only by minors

(d) an account which can be operated by big corporate houses and are mainly business accounts like current acounts.

(e) None of the above

Q2. Many a time we read a term ‘SEPA’ in financial newspapers. What is the full form of SEPA? 

(a) Single Exchange Processing Agency

(b) Single Euro Payments Area

(c) Single Electronic Processing Agency

(d) Super Electronic Purchase Agency

(e) None of the above

Q3. What is an Indian Depository Receipt?

(a) A deposit account with a public Sector Bank

(b) A depository account with any of the Depositories India

(c) An instrument in the form of depository receipt created by an Indian depository against underlying equity sharesof the issuing company

(d) An instrument in the form of deposit receipt issued by Indian depositories

(e) None of the above

Q4. Which of the following is an investment advisory discipline?

(a) Corporate Industrial Finance

(b) Offshare Banking

(c) Wholesale Banking

(d) Wealth Management

(e) Trade Finance

Q5. Drawing, accepting, making or issuing of any promissory note, hundi or bill of exchange expressed to be payable to bearer on demand by a person other than the Reserve Bank of India or the Central Government is prohibited under……..?

(a) Banking Regulation Act, 1949

(b) Section 31 (1) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934

(c) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

(d) Indian Contract Act, 1872

(e) None of the above

Q6. Which of the following is a correct statement? 

(a) Normally no interest is paid on current deposit accounts

(b) Interest is paid on current accounts at the same rate as term deposit accounts

(c) The rate of interest on current account and savings account are the same

(d) No interest is paid on any deposit by the bank

(e) Savings deposits are the same as current deposits

Q7. Govt of India has created a special fund called India Micro Finance Equity Fund of 100 crores. The fund is maintained by?

(a) IDBI Bank 

(b) RBI

(c) ECGC 

(d) SIDBI

(e) NABARD

Q8. Fixed deposits and recurring deposits are………….

(a) repayable after an agreed period

(b) repayable on demand

(c) not repayable

(d) repayable after death of depositors

(e) repayable on demand or after an agreed period as per bank’s choice

Q9. Banks in our country normally publicise that additional interest rate is allowed on retail domestic term deposits of 

(a) Minors 

(b) Married women

(c) Senior citizens

(d) Govt employees

(e) Rural residents

Q10. With a view to facilitating payment of balance in the deposit account to the person named by the depositor without any hassles in the event of death of the account holder, the following facility was introduced for bank accounts in our country: 

(a) Will 

(b) Registration

(c) Nomination

(d) Indemnity

(e) Guarantee

Q11. Which of the following is NOT the part of the structure of the financial System in India?

(a) Industrial Finance 

(b) Agricultural Finance 

(c) Government Finance 

(d) Personal Finance

(e) None of the above

Q12. Grameen Bank and Micro Credit are associated with which person?

(a) Manmohan Singh 

(b) Bill Gates 

(c) Md. Yunus

(d) Aung San Su Ki 

(e) None of the above

Q13. As we all know Govt. of India collects tax revenue on various activities in the country. Which of the following is a part of the tax revenue of the Govt.?

I. Tax on Income 

II. Tax on Expenditure 

III. Tax on property of Capital Asset 

IV. Tax on Goods and Services 

(a) Both I and III only 

(b) Both II and IV only 

(c) All of the above

(d) Either I or II

(e) None of the above 

Q14. We very frequently read about Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in newspapers. These SEZs were established with which of the following objectives?

I. To attract foreign investment directly 

II. To protect domestic market from direct competition from multinationals 

III. To provide more capital to agriculture and allied activities 

(a) Only I

(b) Only II

(c) Only III

(d) All of the above 

(e) None of the above

Q15. Many times we read about Future Trading in newspapers. What is Future Trading?

I. It is nothing but a trade between any two stock exchanges where in it is decided to purchase the stocks of each other on a fixed price throughout the year 

II. It is an agreement between two parties to buy and sell an underlying asset in the future at a predetermined price 

III. It is agreement between Stock Exchanges that they will not trade the stocks of each other under any circumstances in future or for a given period of time 

(a) Only I

(b) Only II

(c) Only III

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the above