Go and Crack It : Tips for IBPS exam

As banking industries is on song providing a promising career and the aspirants are trying hard to secure their name in the merit list, here I have come up with some points you should take care while preparing or giving the exam, hoping that it will help you to get through with the opportunities…….

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  The Pattern

The will test you on your aptitude on math, reasoning, English, general awareness and computer knowledge.

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Math :- syllabus consists of simplification, and some of the topics upto 10^th standard i.e. multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square/cubes and their roots, number series, average, profit & loss, work & time, speed distance & time, ratio & proportion, menstruation (quadrilaterals and circle) mainly and exceptionally some of the question from probability or permutation & combination.

My advice:- don’t prepare them topic wise but the variety of questions that has been used in previous exams. One should focus on short trick and logical approach as the real fight is for time. As per my experience of 2 and half years of teaching the same I can assure you anyone can achieve the speed of 30 minutes for 45-50 question, even if you haven’t studied math post metric.

2.      Reasoning :- This section tests your mantel ability or the comprehension of different topics i.e. directions, blood relations, vein diagram/syllogism, data insufficiency, inequality, coding/decoding, picture reasoning, calendars,  Analogy, Classification, Alphabet, Ranking and Order,  Mathematical Reasoning and problem solving.

They all questions need a particular method to be solved but you need to be very clear about some specific conditions for example if ‘A’ is son of ‘B’ then ‘B’ would either be father or mother some time you can assume ‘B’ to be A’s father or mother, but till the time you can’t find B’s gender the data remains inadequate to find B’s relation with ‘A’ so the right answer should be either father or mother. In other words your basic concepts need be clear, the universally achievable speed is 20-25 min for 50 questions.

3.      English language: - more than 70% of students get disqualified because of it. I have observed a myth among student:- convent students think that Hindi medium students gets unfair benefit because of their comparatively strong grammar and Hindi medium students are always having night mares because of this Section. Get it very clear that this section tests only and only your comprehension and vocabularies the grammar part consists only 10 questions of grammatical errors. So to score well in this section all you have to do is to be a regular reader. A regular reader can easily mark 5-7 grammatical errors even without going through the tough rules. Just start reading a paragraph daily and the best source is editorial of any English newspaper and start collecting vocabs from that paragraph itself. For a regular reader it will only take 15-20 minutes to answer 50 questions of this section.

4.      General Awareness:- Syllabus is as brief as banking history and development and 6 month’s current affairs.  Indian banking history is not very huge a syllabus, banking development consists, Hilton young committee, formation of RBI and its nationalization, banking regulation act 1949, SBI’s nationalization 1956, Bank’s nationalization 1969 & 1980, Narsimham committee and formalization of private banks, roles and importance of different banks, and banking related terms i.e. RR, RRR, CRR, SLR, Bank Rate, GDP, NNP, Per capita Income, FDI, NEFT, RTGS, Banking Ombudsmen, Budget related terms, Inflation, deflation and the figures related to these terms, Financial Institutions IMF, World bank, Asian Development Bank etc. Current Affairs has a wide range but you should only focus on development programs i.e. rural development programs, health missions, empowerment programs, education promotion, employment incentive( rural& urban), self help groups, agriculture, bailout packages, recent recruitments/retirements, persons in news, books and authors, international summits or meeting where India had participated, and central ministers, sport updates, awards/rewards and economical statistics public by different agencies etc. I know the syllabus seems huge but it’s not that big. Half-yearly magazines can help you a lot don’t go for the detailed study try to get objectives questions and read them… remember you cannot crammed that much you just need be aware so that you can hit the right option.

5.      Computer Knowledge :- last but not the least, banks job required only at basic knowledge to operate the system so don’t try to read much just go through with some previous papers or you can buy any book consist of 1000 odd objective questions and read it once or twice. I wanna let you know that this section is provide you with a chance to score full in less than 10 mins, so make the most of it.

     At Last I would like to tell you my mantra for success: - The destination of success doesn’t follow a certain path, you can be lost sometimes but you are not defeated till the time you believe that you can pull it back and come out with flying colors. And if you feared imagine yourself in the worst possible stage and be prepared for it, all your fears will be replaced with zeal to explore a new world each moment.

  
      And I know it would be better to bring it a bit early but as a idiom says “it’s never too late”. Wishing you all a very bright future.