IBPS RRB Mains 2017 – Last Minute Tips

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts the IBPS RRB Officer and IBPS RRB Assistant Exams to recruit Officers and Office Assistants in Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) respectively. The IBPS RRB 2017 Mains exams are just few days away; RRB Officer Mains is scheduled on 5th Nov and RRB Assistant Mains is on 12th Nov. We hope that you have already completed the syllabus once by now. Here are few last-minute tips for the upcoming IBPS RRB exam. Let’s glance through the exam pattern first.

Section	No. of Qs	Max. Marks	Duration
Reasoning	40	50	Composite time of 2 Hours
Quantitative Aptitude	40	50
General Awareness	40	40
English Language	40	40
Computer Knowledge	40	20
TOTAL	200	200

Reasoning

Important Topics:

• Seating Arrangement
• Syllogism
• Logical Reasoning
• Puzzles
• Data Sufficiency
• Blood Relation

Books:

• RS Agarwal’s Reasoning

Tips:

• Keep basics clear
• Build your own shortcuts through practice.

Expert Tips – Chirag Gera (Cleared IBPS RRB, PO, Clerk 2016)

• Practice 100s of Puzzles
• Focus on scoring topics like puzzles/arrangement
• Solve different types of questions
• Attempt multiple mock tests

Quantitative Aptitude

Important Topics:

• Data Interpretation
• Number Series
• Data Sufficiency
• Quadratic Equations
• Simplification/Approximation

Books:

• NCERT (Basics)
• RS Agarwal’s Quantitative Aptitude

Tips

• Practice mental math and revise all quant formulas.
• Analyse mocks and improve in weak areas

General Awareness

Important Topics

• Banking and economy
• Exchange rate
• Currencies of various countries
• Merger of banks
• Government schemes, policies
• Indian states
• Constituencies
• Budget
• Financial organizations etc.

Books:

• NCERT (up to class 10)
• Year books like Manoroma

Tips

• Make notes of important events and keep revising
• Read all the latest newspapers especially the last 4 months
• Watch television news headlines

English Language

Important Topics

• Reading Comprehension
• Sentence Improvement/Phrase Replacement
• Para Jumbles/Odd one out
• Cloze Test
• Error Spotting
• Single Fillers / Double Fillers / Sentence Fillers

Books:

• Wren & Martin
• 100 important idioms

Tips:

• In reading comprehension, choose the one with less number of words
• Revise all the grammar rules
• Improve your vocabulary by reading English Newspapers and Magazines everyday

Computer Knowledge

Important Topics

• History of Computers
• Internet
• Hardware
• Software
• Database Management System
• MS Office (Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint)
• Important Shortcuts and Abbreviations

Books:

• Computer Awareness by Arihant
• Computer Awareness Ebook

Revision Plan for IBPS RRB Mains

Date	Reasoning Ability	Quantitative Aptitude	English Language	General Awareness	Computer Knowledge
Oct 31	Arrangement and Pattern, Coding & Decoding, Inequalities, Syllogism	Simplification, Number system, Algebra, Data Interpretation, Average, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion	Reading Comprehension	Mock Test	Computer Fundamentals & Terminologies
Nov 1	Machine Input Output, Blood Relations, Data Sufficiency, Seating Arrangement	Mock Test	Sentence Improvement, Para jumbles, Odd one out	Financial and Banking awareness	Internet, Operating Systems
Nov 2	Mock Test	Speed time & distance, time & work, Mixtures & Allegations	Mock Test	Current Affairs	Memory, Computer Software, Keyboard shortcuts & abbreviations
Nov 3	Puzzles, Direction & distance	Mensuration, Interest, Profit & Loss, Permutation & combination, Probability	Cloze test, Error spotting, Fill in the blanks	Static GK	Networking, Microsoft Office, Computer Hardware
Nov 4	Mock Test	Mock Test	Mock Test	Mock Test	Mock Test

Tips

• Practice difficult questions to gain edge over others
• Devise an exam strategy that works for you
  • Order of attempt for sections
  • Time to be spent on each section
  • Minimum number of attempts
• Improve the mediocre and weak topics; spend some extra time
• Revise and revise more
• Do not learn any new concept in the last few days
• Use these last few days for extensive practice and revision
• Attempt the easy and high-scoring questions first
• Do not spend more time in one question

Hope this helps!

We wish you all the best for the exam!