{"id":9881,"date":"2017-04-23T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T13:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T06:40:45","slug":"ibps-po-clerk-exam-preparation-strategy-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/ibps-po-clerk-exam-preparation-strategy-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"My Strategy To Crack IBPS PO &#038; Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>IBPS Success Story &#8211; Taran Sikka<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">My name is Taran Sikka, aged 25 years. I have completed my B.Tech. in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from IP University, Delhi in 2013. Post that it was a long struggle for finding a job in my core field. I was lucky to have landed a campus placement in a major IT MNC. So after about 7 months of struggle, I reluctantly joined the IT firm. However, I did not gain any technical prowess during my 24 months with the MNC and the lack of growth opportunities made me worry about my future. I was dejected as everyone has some aspirations and dreams and my future seemed bleak with the company. Meanwhile, I was considering giving <strong>CAT<\/strong> and <strong>GATE<\/strong> but eventually I settled for the <strong>Banking Sector<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I started my preparation in November 2015. My first exam was <strong>LIC AAO 2016<\/strong> followed by <strong>NABARD Assistant Manager<\/strong> in which I couldn\u2019t make it to the next stage. I also appeared for <strong>SBI JA<\/strong> and <strong>SBI PO exams<\/strong> but didn\u2019t get past the mains exam stage. All these failures motivated me to work hard for <strong>IBPS PO<\/strong> and <strong>IBPS Clerk 2016<\/strong>. I can proudly say that I qualified both the exams and got placed in<strong> IDBI bank<\/strong> and <strong>Bank of India<\/strong> as a PO and clerk, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">My Preparation Strategy<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Starting from November 2015, I started clearing my basic concepts of <em>Reasoning, Maths<\/em> and <em>English<\/em>. Since, I\u2019m an avid reader and I\u2019ve studied in an English medium school, the English language wasn\u2019t a huge task for me. I focused on expanding my <strong>vocabulary<\/strong> with the book <strong>Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis<\/strong>. For <strong>mathematics<\/strong>, I solved the book <strong>FastTrack Arithmetic<\/strong> and for reasoning I picked <strong>Arihant\u2019s book on Reasoning<\/strong>. All these books helped me build my concepts. For GK, I followed the GK capsules prepared by various sites. After that I started taking regular mock tests from Oliveboard starting with <strong>LIC AAO<\/strong>. I appreciate the fact that they have varying difficulty levels in their tests which are devoid of any mistakes. This helped me build my confidence for the actual exam. Their analytics tool helped me identify my weak areas, work on them and improve my scores. This is how I made it to the mains of both <strong>SBI JA<\/strong> and <strong>SBI PO 2016<\/strong>. In <strong>SBI JA<\/strong>, I missed the merit list by 10 marks and in <strong>SBI PO<\/strong> I missed the cutoff for the Interview by a mere 6 marks despite the difficulty level.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/bank-exams\/?ref=blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27657 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b-and-g-exams.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b-and-g-exams.png 970w, https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b-and-g-exams-150x39.png 150w, https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b-and-g-exams-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b-and-g-exams-768x198.png 768w\" alt=\"bank exam government exam\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008080;\"><strong>Tips for Future Aspirants<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appearing for further exams like <strong>IPPB Mains 2017<\/strong>, <strong>NIACL AO Mains 2017<\/strong>, <strong>IBPS Clerk Mains<\/strong> and <strong>IBPS PO Mains<\/strong> made me realize that there has been a gradual shift in the <em>pattern of banking exams<\/em>. My advice to future aspirants will be that they <em>shouldn\u2019t stick to books anymore<\/em>. The internet has variety of sources to help them prepare for the new pattern. Also, one should change their strategy to suit the latest pattern. For instance, earlier candidates could get away with solving simpler questions like <em>Number Series, Simplification, Quadratic Equations<\/em> and <em>Data Interpretation<\/em> in the QA section. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, one has to focus more on mathematical concepts like <em>Profit\/Loss, Simple Interest and Compound Interest, Time-speed-distance<\/em> etc. and should be good with <em>Data Interpretation questions<\/em> like <em>Data Sufficiency, Caselets<\/em> and <em>Missing Data Tables<\/em>. In <strong>Reasoning<\/strong> the level of <em>Puzzles<\/em> and <em>Seating Arrangements<\/em> has increased drastically, even <em>coding-decoding<\/em> questions which used to be the scoring point for many students have become more and more tough. In the <strong>English section<\/strong>, I recommend students to focus on <strong>vocabulary<\/strong> and refer to some CAT related books as questions like <em>Paragraph completion, odd-sentence-out<\/em> etc. have been seen in CAT as well. For GK, one may follow the news highlights regularly through the various blogs available for banking aspirants but should also revise the <strong>banking related current affairs<\/strong> up to 3 months before an exam through capsules.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give your 100% in every exam!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">All the very the best to all the future aspirants!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBPS Success Story &#8211; Taran Sikka My name is Taran Sikka, aged 25 years. 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