Banking examinations have been one of the most promising career options for aspirants (looking for a job in government institutions or undertakings) for more than a decade. Lakhs of aspirants apply for financial institution examinations like RBI Grade B, RBI Assistant SBI PO, SBI CLERK, IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK, NABARD, LIC, etc. Some are freshers and some are experienced, but everyone desires to crack the examination in one go or in the First attempt.
So, how to prepare and crack the examination on the first attempt one has to follow the below-mentioned steps carefully –
- Step 1: Know the Pattern of the examination.
- Step 2: Know the syllabus (In detail)
- Step 3: Section-wise previous year memory-based questions collection
- Quantitative Aptitude
- Reasoning Ability
- English language
- Banking and Financial Awareness
- Step 4: Take Mock papers
- Step 5: Analysis your paper and work on your weaker part
- Step 6: Repeat this till your actual examination
Banking examinations are the examination of speed with accuracy. Aspirants misunderstood this and to gain momentum, they lose marks as they compromise with accuracy. From day one aspirants should work on accuracy slowly you will gain speed and confidence.
How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude
One needs to prepare selective portions to score better in quantitative sections. We recommend you work on the calculations before you proceed with the parts we will discuss.
- Calculations: Work on the square and square roots, cube and cube roots, Vedic maths, etc to increase your speed of calculations.
- Simplification and approximations
- Arithmetic
- Inequalities
- Data Interpretations
Spend at least 2 hours daily practicing different topics in this section.
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How to prepare for Reasoning Ability
The reasoning section does not involve any formulas but will test your ability to think and require a lot of practice. So, first and foremost, one needs to know the topics from which they can expect questions from this section. The important topics are –
- Sitting Arrangements
- Puzzles
- Syllogism
- Inequality
- Series
- Blood relation
- Distance and direction
- Analogy
- Alphabet Tests
- Ranking
- Data sufficiency
- Machine Input and Output
Spend at least 2-3 hours every day on the practice of different topics in this section.
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How to prepare for the English Language
The scoring section for the bank examination for which one can develop this section more by developing a habit of reading English newspapers and reading books and novels. But from the exam point of view, the followings topics are essential to practice –
- Reading Comprehension
- Cloze test
- Sentence improvement
- Phrase replacement
- Sentence completion
- Spot the error
- Grammar (Fill in the blanks, Finding Errors, Phrase Replacement)
- Para jumbles
- Vocabulary
How to prepare for Banking and Financial Awareness
Banking and Financial Awareness is the section where questions about the new developments in the banking sector, current affairs, Static General Knowledge, Economy (Indian Economy, Financial organization, Budget, Railway budget, Economic survey, GDP Growth Rate, GST, Business), questions on Books & authors, Currencies, Important Places, Awards, Headquarters, Prime Ministers Schemes, Important Days, etc has been asked. So, One has to prepare for the above mention topic as in Mains this section can increase the overall score.
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