Preparation for SBI PO exam

Hello sir I am preparing for SBI PO exam so please can you provide me best preparation tips for clearing this exam.

[Shaleen]

SBI or State Bank of India conducts online exam for the recruitment of Probationary Officers.

Preparation tips for SBI PO exam

Reasoning Section:

This section will contain moderate to high level questions designed to test your analytical knowledge.

Reasoning can be comparatively easy to solve once you have adequate practice.

The questions are almost similar kind to what is asked in the other banking exams.

For Coding-Decoding, alphabet series and syllogism it is better if you write down the alphabets and then approach to solve these.

Practice blood relations and word formations as these are relatively easy topics.

Sitting/Standing arrangements, who-stays-on-which-floor, in a group of working friends who likes which color and who works in which shift etc.

Kind of questions can be really tricky and if you are not thorough with practice these can take up a lot of time.

Assertion and reasoning and decision making questions are tricky but not tough

For Reasoning you can buy Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning by R S Aggarwal

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section will pose Moderate to High level questions.

It can also be pretty lengthy as well.

Do not spend too much time on a single question.

If you find one sum to be too lengthy then or too time consuming do not fixate on that.

There will be plenty others that you will be able to answer.

There will be questions from Interest (SI and CI), Profit and Loss, Percentage, Time and work, Time and Distance and Speed.

The questions will be till 10th-12th so those of you for whom Maths isn’t the strong point need not panic.

Its all that you studied till class 10th. Grab any school level book and start your practice.

Once your concepts are crystal clear, you can learn short cuts and practice from Quicker Mathematics

English:

Expect Moderate to High level questions.

Spotting the wrong in a sentence, idioms and phrasal verbs, fill in the blanks should not be too tough to answer.

Comprehension and jumbled sentences can be high level and tricky.
For jumbled sentences try taking 2-3 sentences at a time and arranging.

One you have arranged that them it would be easier to put together all of them. Usually 5-6 sentences are given.

Read English newspaper and magazines and especially the editorials. These will improve your command over language.

You can prepare the grammatical and Vocab from ICSE class X English language book.

You can also refer Quick learning Objective General English by RS Aggarwal & Vikas Aggarwal

General Knowledge, Computer and Marketing Knowledge:

Moderate to High level questions

SBI is the only exam that includes the marketing section.

The questions are usually simple and direct. Give time to this section.

For GK, focus on current affairs in the business and financial world.

Follow the business news and keep a note of all the recent happenings. It would help you if you maintain a copy.

Note down the important news that you come across. I

It would help in the last minute.

Computer questions are simple.

Data Analysis & Interpretation-

Frankly speaking the DI questions asked in the SBI PO paper are of high difficulty level .

DI questions need concentration and a good preparation to score well.

As a large number of data are provided in the question in the form of Pie chart, bar diagram, graph.

As this section will solely test you on Data Interpretation practice as much DI as you can to improve your speed and accuracy.