BOB Manipal PO Study Plan 2018: Preparation Strategy & Study Material

As per the changes in exam pattern, many students are worried about the exam difficulty level. Remember the fact that, if you have faith and believe in your abilities, you can do anything. All you must be thinking about how to study in this month to score good marks and clear the BOB Manipal PO 2018 exam.

BOB Manipal PO 2018 Exam Pattern

In an online exam, the objective and descriptive paper will be taken.

The major highlights of the exam pattern are:

• Computer Aptitude is merged with Reasoning section.
• General/Economy/Banking Awareness will be asked. 

Make sure you read the previous year BOB Manipal cut off to know how much you need to score to pass.

Now, before wasting any time, we are here with the complete study plan for the remaining days. There are around 4 weeks remaining for the exam preparation. We are dividing the study plan into weekly basis. Just study properly as per the given plan and intensify the level of your preparation and practice.

Reasoning & Computer Aptitude Preparation Tips:

• Revise all the basic rules of the coding-decoding and practice its questions for deep understanding.  
• The only way to have a command over Puzzles is thorough practice.
• Syllogisms are easy to solve once you understand the process of drawing Venn diagrams as per the statements.
• For Logical Reasoning, improve your reading skills. Follow the flow of the passage. Use elimination strategy to answer the questions. Avoid guessing work 

Reasoning Ability Notes

Quantitative Aptitude Preparation Tips:

• Practice a lot of Number series and get familiar with the common patterns and then try to apply them while practicing questions.
• To ace Simplification & Approximation topic, try to learn the tables up to 25, squares up to 30 and cubes up to 20. It will save your calculation time and hence, increases your speed.
• Practice is the only key which will help you understand the nature of the Data Interpretation questions. Practice questions from the previous year papers to check your preparation level. Check and match your solutions after attempting, you will get to know about your weak areas and then improve them accordingly. 
• Maintain a good level of understanding on Miscellaneous questions as it consists of huge volume in the total number of questions.

Quant Study Notes

English Preparation Tips:

• Extensive reading is the key to score well in the reading comprehension topic. You can acquire good reading speed by reading English newspaper / English articles on a regular basis. Just read and enhance your vocabulary from any good English article every day.
• To score good in error spotting topic, It is required to have good grammar knowledge. So, first be well aware of the grammar rules. Learn all the error spotting rules of each topic like articles, tenses, noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, and adverb etc.  Read the original sentence carefully and try to spot grammatical errors by identifying whether something “sounds” wrong.
• Cloze test is all about understanding the context of the passage. Read the passage and try to get the theme of the passage i.e Positive, negative, humorous theme and choose options according to that and also get the message behind the passage.
• If you practice questions of para jumble topic regularly, you will be quick in finding the arrangement of the paragraph.
• While attempting fillers with two blank, there will be one blank which will be easy to identify and you can relate the second one accordingly. While attempting fillers with two blank, there will be one blank which will be easy to identify and you can relate the second one accordingly.
• Always try to read the articles in newspapers or magazines which are above than your current level of English.

Find below the gradeup's series for English Language preparation of bank exams -

Shape up of your vocabulary from Daily Wordlist

Idioms & Phrases

Weekly Editorial

Roots of English

Grammar Scholar

General Awareness Preparation Tips:

Here is the link to GA study material:

Daily GK Update

Weekly One-liners

Monthly Digests

Current Awareness Notes

Static GK Notes

Static Banking Awareness

Watch Banking & Daily Current Affairs Videos for effective & detailed information. These videos are important for SBI Mains Exams.  

Check here the important links to:

Daily Current Affairs Videos

Banking & Financial Awareness Videos 

Current Affairs Articles Videos

To crack this exam, you are required to attempt a good number of questions from all the sections with high accuracy. To give you a glance at the level of preparation required, we are sharing some facts.

Right strategy can make you the winner – It is not impossible to clear the exam. You just need to have the right plan and strategy to crack it. Below are the important tips which you must follow -

PRACTICE –REGULAR EXERCISE:

(i) Practice makes a man perfect. So make it a habit to daily practice questions.

(ii) Practice concepts of each and every section.

MOCK TESTS -THE BEST WAY:

It is the best way to check your performance and analyze your score in each section. Try to focus on clearing sectional cut off and thereby achieve a high score.

To get a high score in Reasoning and Quants section daily practice is required with a clear understanding of the concepts. In this regard, the daily practice of mock test will increase your speed in paper solving, along with smooth and easy movement across sections. 

TIME MANAGEMENT –THE KEY

(i) Proper utilization of the time is the sure shot success mantra. Time management accompanied with Question selection is two tools of success in the exam. You are not bound to solve all questions.

(ii) Start with a section like GK and ENGLISH for finishing your paper with a great speed and to avoid confusion.

(iii) Find out questions which are less time-consuming in each section.  Make sure that you do not get stuck on any question and spending too much time on a single question.

Fix the TIME while attending paper. Make proper Schedule for your Study and follow it with passion even in exams.

SPEED & ACCURACY –THE NEED

(i) Speed and accuracy are the most important factors in this exam. To do well in Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning section focus on speed and accuracy.

(ii) For increasing speed, solve easier questions first and mark the tough ones for the remaining time.

(iii) Spending too much time on a single question will tend to reduce your speed, so if you are not able to solve it within 1 minute then move on.

To help you in identifying that area we are sharing one table, which you can use after taking mock.

Fill this table as per mock solutions and then practise that section where you can optimize your score.

AT LAST

Trust yourself, on your abilities and on your strength. Be always self-motivated whatever the situation may be. Never lose your hope. Trust on your hard work: one day you will surely achieve your goal.

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”

BOB Manipal PO 2018 Test Series

All the best for your exam.

Team gradeup.