How to Prepare for Bank PO exam

Tell me How to Prepare for IBPS Bank PO exam, please provide tips & boos to prepare???

[Raman Vij]

IBPS PO exam is conducted by the Institute for Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) to select eligible candidates for the post of Probationary Officers (PO) in various public sector banks.

The exam includes a Common Written Exam followed by an interview. Only those who clear the written test are eligible for the interview.

Exam has questions from following topics:

General Awareness
Quantitative Aptitude
Reasoning
English
Computer Awareness

General tips
Try to at least spend 2 months on the preparation
Try to refer to as many books as possible
You can opt for short coaching sessions
Try to take as many mock tests as possible
Read English newspaper regularly
Regularly read newspapers and magazines.
Practice different types of question on the topics mentioned above

Reference books:
Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by R.S. Aggarwal

Quicker Maths by M. Tyra

A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning by R. S. Aggarwal

Hello sir I am preparing for Bank PO exam so please provide me preparation tips for this exam to crack this exam.

[sumit]

The IBPS preliminary exam for probationary officers tests your English, analytical and reasoning skills. So you must be strong on this section.

Preparation tips for PO Exam

There are three sections and irrespective of your strengths in each of these areas, it is important that you clear the sectional cut offs.

Reasoning Section

This section is your golden goose.

You can score 100 per cent, if you know how to optimize your time.

How to attempt

If you are good at reasoning, you can allocate 20 to 25 minutes for it -- 35 seconds per question to attempt all the questions.

Focus on your accuracy, as there is negative marking and you will be wasting time if you don't priorities the right questions.

Your main focus should be to clear the cut off.

Types of questions

You need to identify the easy reasoning questions, so that you can solve them immediately and have high accuracy.

Easy question types include Classification/ Odd pair, Series Completion/ Analogy, Direction based tests/ Direction Sense Test, Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test and Alphabet test/ Dictionary.

Verbal/ English Section

How to attempt

If you are good with English communication, you will be able to complete this section with flying colours in 10 to 15 minutes.

An attempt of 18 questions with good accuracy is enough to clear the cut off.

This section should not require more than 15 minutes.

Types of questions

For Reading Comprehension questions, you should first only take a look at the paragraph, then while solving question, read that particular portion of the passage carefully.

For 'Fill in the Blanks' type of questions, process of elimination is the best method.

For Spot the error /Sentence Correction, speak the sentence in your mind, whichever sounds perfect is your answer.

Quantitative Aptitude Section

This is scoring section, if you are good in this section.

How to attempt

If quant is not your strength area, you should attempt it after the Verbal section or in the end and allocate around 20 minutes for it.

Your aim should be to clear the cut off.

Types of questions

You can easily find 15-18 questions of this type.

Examples of this type of questions are Probability, Quadratic Equations, Mixture and allegations, Time and Work, Time Speed and Distance, and Number Series.

Data Interpretation

Use approximation as much as possible, especially if options are not close.

Do as more mental calculations then using pen and paper.

Round off the numbers wherever possible.