A complete Preparation Plan
IBPS PO EXAMS: Every year job notifications in banking industry (SBI and other public sector) are released. Hence, you must start preparing without any further delay to crack the Bank PO exams in your first attempt.
The days are passed when clearing bank exams was considered a cup of tea for aspirants. But the today’s trend clearly shows that the level has of the exams is radically changed and is highly increased and now these exams are not easier than the exam of CAT/MAT etc. Therefore, rigorous studies and taking regular mock tests have become the major pieces of work to achieve success in such exams. These will enhance your speed and accuracy required in the exams and boost your psychology.
Here, we will guide you to prepare for Bank PO Exams and crack it in the very first attempt.
Best Strategy to crack PO Exams (Bank PO Study plan)
Update yourself with latest Pattern:
If we see the SBI or IBPS PO exam pattern for the last year, no change is observed in the exam pattern of both IBPS & SBI exams this year.
Important Points related to Preliminary Exam Pattern
- There is a sectional timing (20 minutes for each subject) in the Pre exam.
- No sectional cut off for both Prelim and Main examination is there.
- Candidates are given total duration of 1 hour to complete the preliminary exam.
- Three sections (English, Math and Reasoning) with a total of 100 questions and maximum score of 100 marks are given.
- For each wrong attempt there is negative marking and 0.25 marks are deducted against it.
IBPS/SBI Preliminary Exam Pattern
Kindly go through the table given below for SBI/IBPS PO pattern:
Important Points related to Mains Exam Pattern
- There are different time durations are allocated for all subjects which means there is a sectional timing.
- There is no separate paper for Computer Applications. It is merged with Reasoning section and the total number of questions is 45 which holds 60 marks.
- The overall time allotted for PO Mains is 180 minutes.
Descriptive Paper: In both IBPS & SBI exams there is a Descriptive Paper where candidates will be assessed through their writing skills.
The questions in Descriptive papers are based on:
- Essay Writing
- Letter or Application Writing
Total marks: 25
Total time allocated: 30 minutes.
Kindly go through the table given below:
Have a deep understanding of syllabus (Subject-Wise):
- After knowing the pattern, the major task to be done is knowing about the chapters which are asked in the exam subject-wise.
- Accordingly, you have to prepare the list of the topics which you need to work on a lot.
To get topic wise practice test (Based on Previous year) Click here.
BANK PO SYLLABUS
Boost your preparation with the practice of latest pattern-based quiz.
Click on the name of Subjects to start the quiz.
- Once, you are aware of your strong and weak areas and start working on it, go through the Bank PO previous year question papers and observe the trends that have been followed in all previous exams.
- Just like a real exam. Start attempting previous year papers in the allotted time without any disturbance or break.
- Note down your score, wrong questions and after analysing it start working according to your performance.
- Generally, students are confident and assume that they have proficient knowledge on a particular topic/in a particular subject which is a good thing but attempting the question in a particular time frame with accuracy makes their selection chances much higher.
The more you practice, the closer to the success you are:
- Generally, it is found that students do not like getting involved in the subjects/topics they are weak which a wrong piece of act, working more and more on weak topics will make you successful.
- You will have to dedicate sufficient time to all the weak sections and less time to strong sections.
- The frequency of practice for tough questions must be increased day by day.
Here are some points to guide you about how to crack bank exam
To Strengthen Weak Areas:
- First of all, do prepare the list of topics you need to focus on.
- Based on your knowledge, make an order and preference of those topics to allocate the time.
- Take these topics as a challenge, until you score well, don’t stop.
To Improve Accuracy And Speed:
Clear the basic concepts.
Start working with easy question which leads to confidence and make you motivated when you get good marks.
Learn more and more short tricks:
After learning the basics, try to solve the questions in a short way. Learning short tricks initially takes much time but once are familiar with it helps you solve the questions within fraction of seconds. But Short tricks can be learnt only through a lot of practice.
Skip the difficult questions at initial stage:
At the initial stage of preparation avoid spending time on the questions which are difficult to solve.
Distribute the total time for each section:
These days every candidate has a mobile phone, keep the timer on while solving the question.
Note down the time taken by you in solving various kinds of questions. According make the preference list to followed in the exam.
Become your own competitor:
Whenever you solve a set of questions and if it requires 30 minutes, try to solve them in 20 minutes. Initially you will not be able to manage but you know ‘practice makes a man perfect’
Prepare for SBI PO Prelims and Mains simultaneously:
- Generally, it is seen that candidates have a belief that first we should focus on prelims and thereafter on Mains which is not at all a good thought.
- In today’s phenomenon, there is no huge gap (max approx. 30 days) between the dates of Prelims and mains exams, which is not sufficient at all to complete the preparation of mains exam from 0 level.
- This time should be utilized only by practicing a number of mock tests.
- A candidate who deeply observes the equation of time gap and required studies, he/she works simultaneously for all the phases.
- In this series if we talk about the serious and regular attention, Current affairs updates come into light. In the Main Examination, General Awareness section helps you score higher and makes the selection certain.
- The news based on current affairs must be updated on daily basis.
A well-managed study plan is important:
- The most important question for the best preparation for Bank PO exams is ‘How to dedicate sufficient time to each subject’.
- Make the time table according to the topics/subjects which are weak or strong.
- Weak subject/topic must be allotted more time.
- Don’t forget to allot at least 1hour to the General Awareness as it boosts your score in the exam.
Practice Subject wise mock test:
- Sometimes, by practicing the whole test, candidates are unable to assess the taken time in attempting any subject individually. If you start taking subject wise test, you will become the master of time management.
- Through this you will be able to aware of silly mistakes that you have made previously and in the best way you will be able to judge your strength and weakness.
- Switch on the timer and start practicing the complete set with same number of question and within the same time as provided in the real exam.
For Example:
If you want to practice English: (30 questions mixed in 20 minutes)
Design a complete plan:
- After following points mentioned above, it’s time to finally design your exam strategy.
- Make a proper list of topics/subjects that you should attempt first.
- Try not to waste much time on the questions which look tough on
- the first sight.
- Topics like puzzle, sitting arrangement, DI, Rearrangement, Reading comprehension etc., should not be touched initially, it kills your time if you have not practiced a lot.
Initially it looks tough but not impossible, keep it in mind that all the exams are cracked by human beings like you and me.
Never Give Up. Keep yourself focused on the goal and you will definitely achieve it.
