How to Prepare GA for IBPS Clerk Mains 2019

There will be negative marking for every wrong answer in both Preliminary and Main Examination for which there is a penalty of ¼ or 0.25 of the marks assigned to the particular question.

IBPS Clerk: GA Strategy

IBPS Clerk General Awareness section carries a total of 50 questions with a total score of 50 marks out of 200 marks. It is important for an aspirant to prepare for each section due to the sectional cut-off and sectional timing in IBPS Clerk Mains Exam. GA strategy IBPS Clerk is all that you need. We are providing you with the IBPS Clerk Mains GA tips here:

General Tips

Understand the Concept: GA IBPS Clerk is dynamic in nature. However, if you will understand the nature of the questions and topics, your preparation journey will get easy. There are two divisions in IBPS Clerk General Awareness: Current and Static. Sometimes, the static questions are hidden in the current parts. So, prepare every topic in accordance with the demand of the exam.

Current Affairs Questions and Answers

CURRENT AFFAIRS ONE LINER

Previous Year’s Paper: Go through the IBPS Clerk Previous Year’s Paper. Previous Year’s Paper will not only provide you a proper insight but will also helps in understanding the type of questions asked in the examination.

Plan: After going through the previous year’s paper, you must be well versed with the type of question and pattern. Plan a strategy to help yourself sail through this section. You should read current as well as static part simultaneously every day. GA should be read everyday.

Read, Learn & Revise: 

Read all the important topics for the exam. We have covered important topics for GA in this article, you can go through them as well. Also, if your read something, try to memorize it. Learn the facts and than revise. The GA demands three step preparation. The first being you have to read, than n your have to learn and in the end you have to revise it multiple times. Make a revision plan at the starting of January.

Read Newspaper Daily: Read a standard newspaper like The Hindu, Indian Express daily. Focus more on economy and financial news as it has the highest chances to appear in the question paper. Do not makes note as you have only limited time, we have a alternative of this note making. You can make some important points out of it.

Monthly Magazine: Supplement your knowledge with a monthly magazine as it will help you in revising what you have gone through in the newspaper. Also, some of the important events that are not present in the newspaper are also covered in the monthly General Awareness Magazine. This will act as a comprehensive notes of your GA section. You can also check GA Capsule.

Important Topics for IBPS Clerk GA

You can not afford to skip general awareness. GA forms a part and parcel of various competitive examination. Here are few topics that are to read for IBPS Clerk GA Section:

• National Current Affairs
• International Current Affairs
• Person in News/ Awards
• Economy Current Affairs
• Important organizations : SEBI, RBI
• Schemes launched by governments related to banking and finance
• Organizations:RBI; NABARD; Planning Commission; 5 year plans; Finance Commission; World Bank
• Economic/ Financial terms & concepts: GDP; GNP; PPP; HDI; Inflation; WPI; CPI; IIP; SLR; CRR; Repo rate; Reverse Repo; Bank rate; Mutual Funds, Open Market Operations; Money supply
• Different kind of accounts and corresponding interest rates
• NPA and SARFAESI
• Budget
• Banking services: Assets, liabilities and working capital of a bank; NEFT; RTGS; Banking Correspondence agents;
• BASEL norms
• Types of Markets, Money and banking instruments
• Banking Abbreviations, terms and concepts (Static)
• Headquarters of Banks (Static)