How to score high in General Awareness Section in bank exams?

Bank exams are the most challenging exams of the competitive exams for government jobs. Preliminary stage is easy to qualify to a certain extent because it has three sections namely, Logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude and English comprehension. Questions asked are also less in number as compared to mains exam.
In mains there are four sections namely, English, reasoning, quantitative aptitude and general awareness clubbed with computer awareness.
General awareness section is scoring but at the same time it is the most troublesome for some students. There is a dire need of regular revision to master this subject.
Before planning for a study module for banking awareness it is very essential to know the important topics to be covered.

Important topics for General Awareness or Banking awareness

  • RBI Functions and Power
  • Monetary Policy
  • Current Affairs and Economy
  • Capitals and Countries
  • Currencies
  • Sports and recreation
  • Politics
  • Awards and Honors
  • Authors and Writers
  • Major organizations and headquarters
  • Important dates and events
  • Prime Ministries
Approach to be adopted to prepare for general awareness is given below:
Prepare appropriate notes and revise them daily.  Make notes from the newspaper so that you remember them till the exam. Buy any newspaper and read in 40 minutes.  Then make notes of the news read. After writing notes devote 20 minutes to learn them.
Never read more than one newspaper as it will confuse you unnecessarily.
  • Focus on these topics and learn them. These are frequently asked topics in almost all the bank exams
  • Topics Important for Bank Exam in the newspaper are given below:
  • Banking history, dates, founder, law/rules of effect, founding members, headquarters etc.
  • Commonly used terms like savings and current accounts, term deposits, NPA etc.
  • Banking products and terms used during initial days.
  • Press conference or press note by Government, SEBI, RBI, Planning Commission etc.
  • Basic details of glossaries used in banks like Repo Rate, Deficit, Current Account Deficit, IIP, GDP, WPI, CPI etc.
  • Products launched by banks or government of India in support of the banks like agricultural loans, special personal loans etc.
  • Highlights of the budget if exam is within 3 months of the budget.
  • News of financial institution or business houses which were in nation media.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions, Takeovers, Buyouts, Joint Ventures and all the current news related to banks and economy happened 3-4 months before the exam date.
  • Marketing Terms like telemarketing, cross-selling etc.
Hope this will suffice your needs to get the desired marks in General Awareness section of IBPS PO 2018.

All the best!!!!

Author Bio: Above content is shared from IBT Institute Jalandhar – Top Bank & SSC Coaching Institute.





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