Saturday, October 16, 2010

SBI ASSOCIATE BANKS CLERKS EXAM PREPARATION STRATAGY

Strategy to Crack the SBI Clerks Exam

It is one of the largest recruitment drive so far by any public sector undertaking excepting the last year recruitment of 6100 clerks by State Bank of India Associate Banks. Let us understand what is the need of the employer and how to face them with planned strategy.

Pattern of Exam

Exam for clerical recruitment will comprise of five sections viz. 1. Reasongin 2. Numerical Ability Test 3. General English 4. General Awareness and 5. Marketing Aptitude/Computer Knowledge.

Let us discuss about all the sections of exam one by one.

1. Quantative Aptitude

Quantative Aptitude or Numerical Ability Test is designed to measure the speed as well as accuracy of candidates. A clerks at the bank is expected to work speeding and effectively to deliver customer oriented service. A large no. of customer make it necessary that clerical staff is effective in counting currency notes and other transactio related issues. Thus numerical ability test is of utomost importance.

Numerical Ability Test or Quantative Aptitude Test comprise of airthmatic sums upto 10th standrad. These sums are from various topics and covers from simple addition and substraction to work and time, simple interest and compound interest, Mensuration, ratio and proportion, age and relation etc. to name a few.

Thus it become imperative to master the subject and for this one need to burn the midnight oil. Practice bring speed and accuracy. Thus try to solve the number of test papers in exam like situation. This will help you in analysing your level of preparation and thus points your weakness whereupon you can improve. Just Soving a question is not enough one is required to answer the question very fast as time is very limited. It puts great pressure on competitiors, thus we need to take recourse of some fast solving methods which can save our time. For this you can read some standrad books specifically meant for quantative exam. One of such book is by BSC (Banking Service Chronicle) Pubilsher authered by M. Tyara.

This book is very well written with shortcut methods for solving the numerical questions. Having these formulae will help you in solving the question relatively faster. One thing must be remembered by candidates that there is no “ sbustitute ” to “HardWork” . A number of revision bring better speed and accuracy improving your overall efficiency in exam dramatically. Thus keep practicing untill your exam is over.

2. Reasoning

Reasoning is of two types Verbal and Non Verbal. We need to reason in day to day life over preference of things. But here from examinatin point of view one is expected to demonstrate a great deal of reasoning with in stipulated time. This can be acquired with practice ; with reptititive behaviour about certain activities we tend to develop a particular type of attitudues towards observation of things and we tend to commit the same type of mistake over and over. But as you know the exam time is limited and you do not have option to corect your mistake after your exam is over. Thus it becomes imperative to learn to answer the question with speed and accuracy to insure your position in top slot and thus winning an appointment which is the motive of the exam.

For reasoning you can read the book written by Pandey by Banking Service Chronicle. It is quite good book to learn the verbal and non verbal reasoing problems.

3. English

English is one of the biggest challange for non english medium students. As our mother tongue is quite different from english and so we do not have a natural flair for speaking and writing english. But one has to crack the exam and thus it is imperative to have a good command over english to understand the questions for all the subjects in general and english in particular. English can not be learnt overnight but one has to spend years and years to have mastery over any literature and English is not an exception. A best and practical way learing is learning by assimilation. As contrary to learning with help of Grammar in this method we don’t learn by grammar rules but learn by reading and listening. A great deal of time spent in listening to news channels and reading the English news papers helps in not only building the vocabulary but learning the grammar unconsciously. If you develop a habbit of reading the National Dailys such Times of India, The Hindu, Indian Express you have the benefits manifold. As from Examination point of view it not only improve your english but equip yourself with latest happening around the world which is an equally important section in exam ; thus your prepration by reading the newspaper is two fold.

You can buy a book “English is Easy” authored by Chetan Anand Singh. This is a wonderful book. You can read this book like a novel and augment your knowledge of English dramattically.

4. General Awareness

General Awareness as far as banking exams are concerned ; questions are asked from important national and international events from past six months. One can read the national news papers covering important aspects. Besides this you can read standrad magazine on current affiars and other competitive exam magazines covering the current affiar issues. For this you can read Times of India, Hindu, Indian Express, Statesman and magazine like Frontline, India Today, Yozna etc. Some Competitive Magazine like Banking Service Chronicle are specially designed for the banking exams and are quite useful. Besides these you can read Pratiyogita Drapan or CSR (Competition Success Review) available on demands from news stand n shops.

5. Computer and Marketing Aptitude

Computer Aptitude and Marketing Aptitute – advent of computer and emergence on private and international banks have brought change in the working of public sector banks. Now their services are getting more customer oriented and to stay in market one need to evolve and equip oneself with latest tools and technologies. Now bank employees are expected to have a great deal of computer knowledge to carry out his business successfuly. As core banking has become the need of hour and no transaction is possible withou adequate knowledge of computers. You are not expected to know programming but opreation of computer is desired. For this you can read some basic books about computer fundamentals. Your practical association with computer will help you in appreciating the computer terminology whcih are asked in question papers. Now a days the emerging trend is customer driven market and banking institution are not exception to it. Now private as well as public sector banking institutes are expected to increase their marketing base for increasing the profit. This demand for Knowledge of market.

As we have learnt about the method of exam, books needed for exam and general strategy about exam. In next topic soon you will find some banking exam specific tips and tricks to solve the question and scoring betters. You can send your comments they will help me addressing the untouched area and answering to your problems.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS PREPARATION PLAN

“Current Affairs” and “General Knowledge” cover many topics like from economy to sports or education to politics, or even technology to automobiles. In every second some issues are happening around the world in these sectors, and to accumulate the excerpt of some highlighted news, and memorize it is a good plan to prepare current affairs and GK.

Some Important Tips to Follow:

Read Newspapers regularly

We all know that “Old is Gold”, same thing applies here too. We need to make a habit of reading newspapers regularly. I’ll suggest you to read more than one newspaper. It will be better if you read one newspaper of your mother language, and other of English. Some useful newspapers are “The Times of India”, “The Hindu”, “The Telegraph” etc. You need to start this habit at least 6 months before the actual exam that will help you to get access to all the important events of that period of time.

You need to keep an eye on what’s happening around you in your country and world as well. Trust me guys, you will surely find it interesting after several days. We all know that staying updated is always a good idea, as it will stand you apart from the rest.

Read Magazines thoroughly

This is another great option to prepare the subject we are talking about. There are many leading magazines that focus on current affairs and General Knowledge. You need to buy it from your local magazine seller, and start reading it thoroughly. These magazines beautifully categorize the articles with its genres to make it interesting to read on. Some of the useful magazines are Pratiyogita Darpan andManorma.

Try to read some business magazines and sports magazines too along with a general magazine. This will increase your chances of cracking the competitive exams with ease. Some useful business magazines areBusiness Today, Business Line etc.

Follow News Channels

You will need to follow news channels at least once a day. Now most of the leading news channels are active for 24*7. You need to pick up a suitable time for yourself to watch any favorite news channel of yours. You can watch ABP News, NDTV, Times Now, ET Now, Zee News etc. Try to go through all the breaking and highlighted news, and make it a habit.

I know that watching news channels for long will bore you, so I’ll suggest you to allocate only 30 minutes for it in a whole day. All the leading ones shows the glimpses of all important events of the day quite frequently, so 30 minutes will be enough for you to boost up your current affairs and GK knowledge.

Maintain a Diary

My teacher used to tell me that whenever you learn something try to write it down in your diary, as it will help you to memorize it in a better manner. He is so right, as this method helped me a lot to score good marks in every exam that I appeared for. As I already mentioned before that a lot of events are occurring in the country and around the world, so it is easily understandable that it is not easy to remember everything. It’s always a superb idea to maintain a diary of current events.

You need to update this diary on a daily basis with all the events that you consider as important ones. This diary will become quite useful for the revision part, as it will provide you information about all the important events at a place. You should keep revising the diary frequently, as it will help you to memorize important names, dates, awards etc.

Channelize your Preparation Accordingly

All the competitive exams are not same, as all of them have different pattern, even when it comes to the same topic as ‘Current Affairs’ or ‘GK’. For example for civil services exam, you need to give importance on events of National value. On the other scenario, in matter of bank job exam, the focus should be on the news on banking sectors, and economic and business news.

Thus I’ll suggest you to prepare as per the exams you are appearing for, as channelizing your preparation according to the pattern of the exam will accelerate your chance of getting selected.

Use Internet Resources

“Google, YouTube and Wikipedia are my favorite teachers’; one of my friends told me this once. This is quite true indeed, so you should use all the available online resources to study current affairs and GK for exams. For example this blog is all about “Current Affairs”, so you can check this blog regularly by subscribing to us (check the sidebar for subscription options). You can actively take part some forums that are focusing on current events. The good part is you can follow the websites of all leadingnewspapers online if you don’t have enough time to read newspapers.

Use Social Networking Sites for Good

Believe me or not you can surely use social networking sites to your benefits. Especially to prepare current affairs and General knowledge Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and StumbleUpon may help you a lot. You can join some Facebook pages, or follow some twitter accounts that are related to current affairs. You can join our Facebook Page too for this matter, or connect with me at LinkedIn or circle me in Google Plus for all the information on recent happenings to boost up your General Knowledgeability.

Give Priority to your Strength

We usually find difficulties when we try to learn everything at once. In that process basically we study a lot, but remember a little. We need to first select our strength areas for our preparation. Try to givepriority to your strength areas. It may be Sports, economy, Government Affairs or technology. Suppose you are applying for Bank exams, then you should prepare industry related news. Along with that you may pick any 2-3 areas of your strength like sports or technology. You need to prepare these sections to the utmost level. I can assure you that these strategies will help you to score much better in Current Affairs section.

Participate in Online Quizzes

You should participate in some free quizzes that are available online to evaluate yourself. For this matter you can easily access our “Quiz Section”. This will give you proper idea whether you are ready for the big exam day or not. As an added factor it will also provide you confidence i.e. very much essential. You can download Monthly-wise current affairs questions from Here.