How to prepare General/Financial Awareness section for SBI Clerk 2019 EXAM?

The recruitment drive for the selection of SBI Clerk’s for 8653 vacancies will be done through important written exams- SBI Clerks 2019 Prelims and SBI Mains 2019 exam. As we all know, SBI Prelims 2019 exam will be a test to filter out deserving candidates who have stronghold on basics of every concept. The deciding factor will be SBI Mains 2019 exam where candidate’s abilities will be tested in sections like General/Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude. The section of General/Financial Awareness is newly introduced section where candidate’s aptitude on baking and financial industry will be tried and tested. Hence, this section will play a significant role but the syllabus for this section is very elaborate and extensive. Against all odds, it will be very difficult to cover all the topics but still there should be some useful strategy which can help students in preparing important topics to the best of their potential.

In this article, we will discuss important tips to prepare General/Financial Awareness section for SBI Clerk exam.   

The principal aspect to be considered of this section is to prepare the topic of Current Affairs comprehensibly. In SBI Clerk Mains exam, the substantial amount of questions were repeatedly asked from Current Affairs like full forms of schemes and organizations, location of important dates, theme, places, historical events, entertainment, sports and sporting events, international news etc. The students should pay extra stress on topics like new schemes of central and state governments, news on banking industry, awards and honors, books and authors, latest appointments, latest sports events and news, new establishments etc. The fluctuations in the financial markets and news related to it in the national and international markets should be read and understood properly. Therefore, the candidates are advised to develop a habit of reading English newspapers, informative magazines, surfing websites etc to stay updated on current affairs. While collecting information and studying them, it is important to make notes and lists of important events and news topic-wise and revise it regularly to ace it. The important features, figures, schemes and facts of Budget highlights should be understood properly, especially newly introduced Government financial or banking schemes. It’s a major topic where questions are repeatedly asked every year.

The topic of static General Knowledge (GK) is equally important and also makes significant impact in other competitive exams. The important aspects, details, facts and figures can be studied from standard textbooks, as the information given in it is most authentic and updated. In last few years, the topics which had made maximum impact are abbreviations related to finance, country-capital, country-currency, headquarters of financial organizations, constituencies of ministers, dance forms, sports awards etc. 

The competitive exam of SBI Clerk is related to banking industry and so the candidates are supposed to be proficient in terms and definitions related to financial and banking industry. The candidates can refer to their textbooks to learn terms and definitions (repo rate, reverse repo rate, GDP, inflation etc). The questions related to them will also play pivotal role. The candidates should read financial newspapers (The Economic Times) and can download Android apps (Moneycontrol, Bloomberg Quint etc) to stay updated in news and information related to financial/banking industry.  

As far as preparation strategy is concerned, the learning process should be regular and consistent for this section. The topics of this section should be divided date-wise and a proper time-table should be prepared in such a way that entire syllabus is covered in time. You should not take this section this lightly and leave the preparation to the last minute. It is because our brain has restricted limit of grasping and it will difficult to learn and cram a pile of information in few days. So, the learning and studying of this section should be a regular feature in your time-table.  

The revision is also very important and so do attempt quizzes and full mock tests to enhance your accuracy and speed of answering. 

It’s appropriate time to organize a strategy to prepare this section and become one among successful candidates.

Wishing all our readers a successful baking career!

All the Best!!!

Above content is published from IBT Chandigarh- Best Institute for SBI Clerk Coaching