Syllabus of Bank Test Clerk Post

Bank Clerk Exam Syllabus

General awareness:

This section tests your knowledge of environmental and social issues, famous people and events etc. Questions may relate to dates of historical events, inventions and discoveries, developments at national and international level, basic geography, eminent authors and artists etc. Financial awareness: Banks deal with financial matters. So candidates are expected to have some awareness of finance related issues. Questions may relate to economy, banking landscape (consisting of different banks like Reserve Bank, Payment banks etc.), budget, population, role of organizations like SEBI,NPCI, IRDA,NITI Ayog among others.

Reasoning Ability: 

Questions under reasoning section are meant to check your analytical and problem solving skills. Based on given information which may be in form of text or data, you'll be required to draw the right conclusion. Questions may relate to verbal and visual (non-verbal) reasoning, consisting of letter and number series, analogy, time sequence, finding the odd (un matching) information etc.

Numerical ability

This section deals with numbers and basic mathematical functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You may be asked to find the missing or next number in a particular series, calculate ratios, fractions etc. 

Quantitative aptitude

It measures your accuracy in mathematical calculations. The problems posed will be from pure numeric calculations to problems of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, graph and table; percentage etc. The questions in are usually of SSC (10th) standard.

Examination strategy 

The psychometric testing model adopted by IBPS is meant to check the grasping power, accuracy and speed of the candidates. The good news is that these are not inherent characteristics. With some effort everyone can develop these which will help you in this test and also help in your future career and other walks of life. You may devise a simple three part strategy for qualifying in this examination-

1) Understand & assess: 

Get a thorough understanding of the test pattern and types of questions to be covered in each segment of the preliminary and main examination. By knowing this you can make comprehensive preparation leaving nothing to chance. This information is easily available with friends who may already have appeared in such tests. You should also refer to websites, competition books & guides etc. Once you know this you should assess where you stand with your areas of strengths and weaknesses. This should be an objective and realistic assessment. It is obvious that weaker areas will require more efforts. IBPS clerical examination is a simple test but to do well we should know what it covers.

2) Read: 

Go through old question papers, model/sample solved papers showing how solutions have been arrived. This is very important in case of questions relating to reasoning, numerical ability and quantitative aptitude. Studying and analyzing the solution pattern will tune your mind to find right answers in a systematic way. For general and financial awareness you will need to have a good reference book and read newspapers on a regular basis. Similarly for English get hold of a grammar book for SSC students .In addition you may keep one guide exclusively meant for this particular examination. Good competition magazines may also help you in this regard. There is no huge financial investment required to prepare for this examination.

3) Practice: 

To do well in the examination you need intense practice particularly to check and build up your speed. Model question papers will let you do this. While attempting multiple such papers you will come to know where you need to improve. Please note that every question has only one right answer which is based on some reason. Your answer will be correct if you find that reason and it will come through practice. Internet offers many free resources Practice both offline and online. When you're in advanced stage of your preparation, solve few practice papers in simulated environment .It means you'll attempt the paper as if you're attempting the real examination in the given time frame. There are two different approaches to solve multiple option questions. Under selection method right answer is spotted as there is no doubt about it. In elimination method we ignore the answers which do not appear right and thus zero in on the possible correct answer

Selection Process of  Bank Clerk Post