How You Prepare Bank Exams

Posted by abhijeet sahu on May 12, 2010

Bank exams, be it PO or clerical aren’t that difficult as people think. But the problem is the vacancies: applicant’s ratio. So all you need to worry is about your preparation and not the toughness of the paper. If you are preparing for PO exam, the first thing you need to know is the pattern of the exam. A written test for a PO exam consists of 2 parts, objective part and a descriptive part . The objective part consists of four sections namely, English language test, quantitative ability, Reasoning and General Awareness/ Marketing aptitude. The exact pattern for a specific bank can be found in the ‘acquaint yourself booklet’ which you get when you apply to an exam. But for now I’ll discuss on how to attempt a standard bank PO exam which has 225 questions in total with 135 minutes time i.e., 2 hrs and 15 minutes. 225 questions in 135 minutes comes out to be 36 seconds per question. It may seem daunting but it’s not the end of the world since we aren’t attempting every question. If you can attempt 175-185 questions (> 190 is excellent) with 90 percent accuracy, you’ve done a good job. So as soon as you are told to start answering, I would recommend starting with the General awareness/ Marketing aptitude section and there won’t be much to think or solve in it. Just see the question and mark the answer. Attempt as many questions as you can in this section (only if you’re sure of the answer) but you should be able to complete the section in 25 minutes (20 minutes would be excellent).

BANK PO Exam

Posted by MANIT JAIN on May 1, 2010

You need accuracy as well as speed if you want to beat your competitors in PO/Clerical paper. You have only 120 minutes to attempt 200 questions or 36 sec for each question. So every second counts…

Tips for Reasoning Section:

1)      Try to attempt those set of questions first which have one common direction because if you understand the directions you can easily solve your questions but avoid minor mistakes.

2)      Attempt coding decoding questions very carefully and don’t waste more than 35-40 seconds on each question.

3)      Try to attempt Input-Ouput and Visual Reasoning questions in last.

4)      Give more focus on verbal reasoning part during your preparation.

5)      Don’t spend more than 40-45 minutes on this section.

Tips for Quant / Data Interpretation Section:

1)      Do as much as calculation practice as you can. Remember more you play with numbers,more you can score in this section.

2)      Give more focus on Percentage +Profit and Loss + Average topics.For more questions on these topics ,

3)      Read the directions of graphs very carefully and spend alteast 1 min to study the graph and directions.

4)      Make good approximations while doing calculations but only when there is some difference in the values given in options.

5)      Always read carefully that the figures given in graph or table are in percentage form or in simple numeric form.

Tips for Verbal and GK:

1)      Give more focus on economic issues and schemes laid down by government in last 10-12 months.

2)      Daily Read newspaper and note down the headlines on a separate copy or sheet.

3)      Try to communicate or discuss with your family or friends on current issues ,it will boosts up your confidence as well as your knowledge

4)      Read books on marketing and computers, Specially the terminology used in marketing and computer,no need to go in-depth.

5)      Read Newspapers and magazines as much as you can, especially HINDU because of good content and vocabulary.

6)     Brush up your basics of grammar