Dear Aspirants 

As you all know SBI PO Exam is on the door step, so as last minute preparation tips we are providing you Expert Advise by Piscine Molitor SBI PO 2015. This will surely help you with your preparation.

Hope all of you would be preparing hard for SBI PO

Exams comes and go, we share tips which you people follow. Some pass and Some fail. However, never had it occurred to me to share with you the actual recipe to clear banking exams. This article underscores this recipe.

It’s a strategy prepared for people like us, who are joining the competition pool and preparing from the scratch.

Let’s put our focus on the upcoming SBI PO Exam.

There are three things that’s required to crack a Banking exam:

1. Time
2. Patience
3. Willingness

That’s all.

So, let’s start the preparations! But, before going any further, let’s first understand the current trend in which the banking exams are held.

SBI conducts this written exam in two phases. Phase 1 is Pre and Phase 2 is Mains.

There are mainly three subjects you have to put your focus on for SBI PO 2016.

1. English
2. Reasoning
3. Quantitative Aptitude

Assuming you are preparing from day 1, here we are presenting to you the strategies to master these three subjects without much burden.

1. English

Grab your copy pen and write this line in bold on the first page:

“I will not prepare English the dreary way.”

For this subject, three things are required:

1. Material
2. Focus
3. Time

Material

What constitutes the material? The ugly looking English books like, “30 days to learn grammar” or “The essentials of English”?

No, no, that’s not. Material is something else.

I once conversed with a topper. He told me, the best way to learn a new language is through people. And the best way to do that is travel. So, if you want to learn Marathi, travel to Maharashtra and you would learn. And if you want to learn English, travel to USA or UK and you would learn. This is the best way. The alternative is books.

And that constitutes the material. If you are reading/listening to anything in English, then that thing becomes the material. This articles, the new man booker book, the love stories you read online and like everything becomes the material. The bottom line is: just read and read.

Well, of course you have to read the proper things or you will ruin your career. The proper list of reading materials are:

1. Newspaper (The Hindu)
2. Novels (not of Durjoy Dutta, Ravinder Singh or Nikita Singh, etc)
3. Blogs (especially editorials)

Well, you have to read newspapers anyway for your General Awareness section. So, make it a habit of reading any newspaper (or news website), putting your focus upon:

1. The front page.
2. The World page.
3. The Business Page.

40-60 minutes and you’ll cover these three pages. Write the meaning of the words in your notebook.

(Trust me, in the beginning, you’ll be writing 20-30 word meanings. But after 15-20 days, you will be writing meaning of only 2-3-words.)

Of novels, devote your time reading the good novels only, like, Pulitzer prize novels, Booker awardee novels,Classical, Award winning, Novels turned movies and the likes. Understand their way of writing, their proper choice of words, and the themes, and the emotions they put in those words.

2. Reasoning

Well, this section requires practice of basic concepts. Governmentadda have written some nice decent articles covering all the topics SBI asks from this section. So,

1. Go through those articles.
2. Put focus upon the basic understanding of those concepts.
3. Discuss with your friends if you don’t understand a point.
4. Take a test. Solve.

You have to know in what areas you have difficulty understanding the concepts. So, after reviewing, go through those articles again, revise, discuss, practice, take test, and review again.Practice and Review is must. If you don’t practice, you will not learn. If you don’t review, you will not understand.

Repeat – Reasoning comes with reason. So, be prepared to reason everything you come across.

3. Quantitative Aptitude

Always I loved puzzle books. I read a lot since childhood. And when I came across the questions from this section the very first time, it felt like, “Ohh! Another puzzle.”

Seriously, quant section is nothing but puzzles to test your presence.

For proper understanding of Quant basics the easy and entertaining way, you have to follow a strategy of:

1. Solving puzzles
2. Understanding the basics
3. Avoid the tricks

You all know SBI asks for which topics. So, first, prepare a table point all the topics you have to cover.

1. Then go through the basics of each topic.
2. Understand properly all the concepts.
3. Revise
4. Take test. Solve

I followed Quantum CAT by Sarvesh K. Verma for this. So, you can also follow this book. It’s a very good book to cover all the basics in one go.

Like reasoning section, this section as well requires a lot of practice. So, be ready to fill your notebooks with equations and solutions.

Solve puzzles also from the puzzle books. I love “Puzzles to Puzzle you” by Shakuntala Devi. So, you can buy this book. This way you’ll develop a taste of solving questions the interesting way.

Follow this strategy bearing in mind this exam:

1. Concentrate upon the quality and not the quantity.
2. Review must your progress.
3. Be patient. Take things easy.
4. Many websites offers free mock tests. I follow Governmentadda mocks. You also try those.
5. If you prefer paid mocks, then buy from any website. All are much the same. But, keep on practicing.
6. Take part in discussions.
7. Enjoy your preparation.

All the best!!