Friday, 20 November 2015
IBPS PO 2015 Mains Cutoff! Score Card Out!
Saturday, 7 November 2015
CWE-PO/MT-V- Main Examination : Results Will Start Soon
Saturday, 31 October 2015
STRUCTURE OF CWE - PO/ MT-V MAIN EXAMINATION (Both Shift ; 31-10-2015)
Section | Total Questions | Level |
Reasoning | 50 | Difficult |
English Language | 40 | Moderate |
Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | Difficult |
General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry) | 40 | Easy |
Computer Knowledge | 20 | Moderate |
Total | 200 |
Section-Wise Analysis
Reasoning Ability – 50 Questions
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Syllogism | 5 |
Sitting Arrangement | 10 |
Puzzle | 15 |
Data Sufficiency | 5 |
Logical Reasoning | 10 |
Input Output | 5 |
English Language – 40 Questions
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Reading Comprehension (miserable truth to Canada's economic recovery) | 20 (10 Each) |
Cloze Test | 5 |
Phrase Replacement | 5 |
Rearrangement | 5 |
Error Detection | 5 |
Quantitative Aptitude – 50 Questions
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Number Series | 5 |
Data Sufficiency | 5 |
Data Interpretation | 20 |
Language Problems (Profit Loss, Average, Boats & Stream, CI/SI, Time & Work, Average, Ratio & Proportion, Percentage, etc.) | 15 |
Case Study | 5 |
General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry) – 40 Questions
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Awards (Noble & Others) | 1 |
Appointment/Resignation | 2 |
Obituary (Famous Personality & Other) | 2 |
Schemes | 2 |
Agreements | 1 |
Summit / Meeting | 1 |
Sports | 1 |
Places | 1 |
Ranking in Index’s | 1 |
Days & Dates | 1 |
Book & Author | 1 |
Organization & Headquarter | 2 |
Country & Capital | 1 |
Country & Currency | 1 |
Full Form | 1 |
President, Prime Minister & Cabinet Ministers | 1 |
RBI/Monetary Policy/ Policy Rates/Inflation/ GDP/ Growth Rate /Banking History | 4 |
Indian economy or world economy | 3 |
Money Market- Negotiable Instruments/ Treasury Bills/ Commercial Paper/ Certificate of Deposit/ NPA/ NEFT-RTGS/ Open Market Operations etc. | 8 |
Capital Market- SEBI/IPO/Derivatives etc./ Mutual Funds/credit rating agencies etc | 5 |
Computer Knowledge – 20 Questions
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Hardware | 2 |
Ms Office | 4 |
Operating System | 3 |
Microsoft Window | 2 |
Virus | 1 |
DBMS | 2 |
Internet | 4 |
Networking | 2 |
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Banking Awareness : RBI & Banking Termologies
Hello readers, here we are posting some notes on General Knowledge (Banking), which will be helpful in the upcoming exams.
Quick Notes
RBI:
The Reserve Bank of India was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance with the provisions of the RBI Act, 1934. RBI was nationalized in 1949 and it is fully owned by the Government of India. RBI was established on the recommendation of the Hilton Young Commission.
RBI’s FUNCTIONS:
Issue of currency notesControlling the monetary policyRegulator and supervisor of the financial systemBanker to other banksBanker to the governmentGranting licenses to banksControl over NBFIs (Non Banking Financial Institutions)Manager of Foreign Exchange of India (also known as FOREX)
RBI & Monetary Policy:
Monetary policy refers to the use of instruments under the control of the central bank to regulate the availability, cost and use of money and credit.
The main objectives of monetary policy in India are:
Maintaining price stability.Ensuring adequate flow of credit to the productive sectors of the economy to support economic growth.Financial stability.
There are several direct and indirect instruments that are used in the formulation and implementation of monetary policy.
Direct instruments:
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): The share of net demand and time liabilities that banks must maintain as cash balance with the Reserve Bank.
Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR): The share of net demand and time liabilities that banks must maintain in safe and liquid assets, such as government securities, cash and gold.
Refinance facilities: Sector-specific refinance facilities (e.g., against lending to export sector) provided to banks.
Indirect instruments:
Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF):Consists of daily infusion or absorption of liquidity on a repurchase basis, through repo (liquidity injection) and reverse repo (liquidity absorption) auction operations, using government securities as collateral.
Open Market Operations (OMO):Outright sales/purchases of government securities, in addition to LAF, as a tool to determine the level of liquidity over the medium term.
Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS): This instrument for monetary management was introduced in 2004. Liquidity of a more enduring nature arising from large capital flows is absorbed through sale of short-dated government securities and treasury bills. The mobilised cash is held in a separate government account with the Reserve Bank.
Repo/reverse repo rate: These rates under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) determine the corridor for short-term money market interest rates. In turn, this is expected to trigger movement in other segments of the financial market and the real economy.
Bank rate: It is the rate at which the Reserve Bank is ready to buy or rediscount bills of exchange or other commercial papers. It also signals the medium-term stance of monetary policy.
Some Key financial terms:
APR: It stands for Annual Percentage Rate. APR is a percentage that is calculated on the basis of the amount financed, the finance charges, and the term of the loan.
ABS: Asset-Backed Securities. It means a type of security that is backed by a pool of bank loans, leases, and other assets.
EPS: Earnings Per Share means the amount of annual earnings available to common stockholders as stated on a per share basis.
CHAPS: Clearing House Automated Payment System. It’s a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system that guarantees same-day payment.
IPO: Initial Public Offerings is defined as the event where the company sells its shares to the public for the first time. (or the first sale of stock by a private company to the public.)
FPO: Follow on Public Offerings: An issuing of shares to investors by a public company that is already listed on an exchange. An FPO is essentially a stock issue of supplementary shares made by a company that is already publicly listed and has gone through the IPO process.
(Difference: IPO is for the companies which have not been listed on an exchange and FPO is for the companies which have already been listed on an exchange but want to raise funds by issuing some more equity shares.)
RTGS: Real Time Gross Settlement systems is a funds transfer system where transfer of money or securities takes place from one bank to another on a “real time”. (‘Real time’ means within a fraction of seconds.) The minimum amount to be transferred through RTGS is Rs 2 lakh. Processing charges/Service charges for RTGS transactions vary from bank to bank.
NEFT: National Electronic Fund Transfer. This is a method used for transferring funds across banks in a secure manner. It usually takes 1-2 working days for the transfer to happen. NEFT is an electronic fund transfer system that operates on a Deferred Net Settlement (DNS) basis which settles transactions in batches. (Note: RTGS is much faster than NEFT.)
CAR: Capital Adequacy Ratio. It’s a measure of a bank’s capital. Also known as “Capital to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio (CRAR)”, this ratio is used to protect depositors and promote the stability and efficiency of financial systems around the world. It is decided by the RBI.
NPA: Non-Performing Asset. It means once the borrower has failed to make interest or principal payments for 90 days, the loan is considered to be a non-performing asset. Presently it is 2.39%.
IMPS: Immediate Payment Service. It is an instant interbank electronic fund transfer service through mobile phones. Both the customers must have MMID (Mobile Money Identifier Number). For this service, we don’t need any GPS-enabled cell phones.
BCBS: Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is an institution created by the Central Bank governors of the Group of Ten nations.
IFSC code: Indian Financial System Code. The code consists of 11 characters for identifying the bank and branch where the account in actually held. The IFSC code is used both by the RTGS and NEFT transfer systems.
MICR Code: Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) is a character-recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. It is at the bottom of cheques and other vouchers and typically includes the document-type indicator, bank code, bank account number, cheque number, cheque amount, and a control indicator.
MSME and SME: Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), and SME stands for Small and Medium Enterprises. This is an initiative of the government to drive and encourage small manufacturers to enjoy facilities from banks at concessional rates.
LIBOR: London InterBank Offered Rate. An interest rate at which banks can borrow funds, in marketable size, from other banks in the London interbank market.
LIBID: London Interbank Bid Rate. The average interest rate at which major London banks borrow Eurocurrency deposits from other banks.
ECGC: Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India. This organisation provides risk as well as insurance cover to the Indian exporters.
SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. It operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financial institutions.
STRIPS: Separate Trading for Registered Interest & Principal Securities.
CIBIL: Credit Information Bureau of India Limited. CIBIL is India’s first credit information bureau. Whenever a person applies for new loans or credit card(s) to a financial institution, they generate the CIBIL report of the said person or concern to judge the credit worthiness of the person and also to verify their existing track record. CIBIL actually maintains the borrower’s history.
CRISIL: Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited. Crisil is a global analytical company providing ratings, research, and risk and policy advisory services.
Banking Awareness: A summary on NEFT, RTGS & IMPS
National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT)
Meaning – It is way in which you can transfer fund from any bank account to any other bank account holder in India. NEFT is based on batch processing system.Minimum amount – Rs. 1Maximum amount – There is no upper ceiling for transferring money through NEFT, but generally RTGS is used for transfer of Rs 2,00,000 or aboveTime limit – The transactions are processed in hourly batches. There are twelve settlements from 8 A.M. to 7 P.M. on the weekdays (Monday – Friday) and six settlements from 8 A.M. to 1 P.M. on Saturday. The maximum time consumed is 2 hours from the submitting of the transaction in a batch.Availability – NEFT is not available on the bank holidays, RBI holiday and Sunday.
Note - For transferring funds to Nepal, the limit is of Rs. 50, 000.
Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)
Meaning – It is way in which you can transfer fund from any bank account to any other bank account holder in India in real time.Minimum amount – Rs 2,00,000Maximum amount – No limitTime limit – The transactions are processed on order basis i.e. Real time. The RTGS service is available from 8 A.M to 8 P.M. on the weekdays (Monday – Friday) and from 8 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. on Saturday. The transfer is instant but the bank is allowed to take up to 2 hours for crediting the amount to the depositor account.Availability – RTGS is not available on the bank holidays, RBI holiday and Sunday.
Inter Mobile Payment Service (IMPS)
Meaning – It is way in which you can transfer fund from any bank account to any other bank account holder in India anytime.Minimum amount – Rs 1Maximum amount – Banks are allowed to set their own limit for IMPS.Time limit – It is real time. The depositor account is credited in less than 1 minute from the submission of transaction.Availability – IMPS can be done 24X7 even on bank holidays, RBI holiday and Sunday
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Nainital Bank Clerks Recruitment 2015
THE NAINITAL BANK LIMITED has released the Notification for the recruitment of Clerk.On- line submission of application will be started from October 15, 2015 to November 10, 2015, no application shall be entertained after last date i.e. November 10, 2015.
Notification for Recruitment of Clerks - Click here for details.
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
IBPS RRB Office Assistants Previous Interview Experience
Hi friends. I am Ashish. I want to share myinterview experience of IBPS RRB (APGVB) with you people. My Interview was held on 27th January 2014 at Hyderabad.
Name : Ashish Yandadala
Qualification : B.Tech (EEE)
IBPS RRB Office Assistants Score : 131
As I entered the room, I wishd them and took my seat. Here are the questions they asked.
Q1 : Explain about conductor,insulator and resistor and examples..explained well
Q2 : Ok in your address ur colony name is L.B. Colony what is L.B
Me : Lal Bahadur sir. They named it after Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Q3 : Who is he? He was worked in one post in our country?
Me : He worked as Prime minister.
Q4 : Which prime minister (he asked the number)
Me : 2nd prime minister
Q5 : Tell me something about him
Me : I cant recollect about him so said Iam sorry sir
Q6 : Tell me about speciality of Vizianagarm (my home town)
Me : answered in brief
Q7 : Have read today's newspaper?
Me : Yes sir
Q8 : What is the special thing about republic day this time
Me : Doordarshan have facilitated hearing impaired to watch the republic day celebrations
Q9 : Good then another thing also there?
Me : yes sir they have published the video in High definition
Q10: where hav they published ? actually i hav forgotten about it so i said sorry sir then they told that they have published in one website then I answerd Youtube
Q7 : Do you know crop seasons in India ? What are they?
Me : Yes sir kharif and rabi
Q8 : their duration?
Me : Kharif season is between april to october abd rabi season is b/w january and april
Q9 : In which season rainfall will be high
Me : Kharif june july august sir
Q10: what are the alternative sources to overcome power shortage in India?
Me : I told about wind,tidal,bio mass...etc then they asked about bio mass I said sorry sir
Q11: List out non-farmed sectors?
Me : I said poultry milk and thinking then they encouraged me tell further then i told them that I recollectng technical words then they said say in simple words like cows hens etc then I told remaining
Q12: classify Banks in India
Me : Scheduled and non-scheduled banks, Public and private sector banks, Developmental banks like RRBs, APcooperative banks
Q13: What are non scheduled banks in India
Me : There are no such banks in India sir
Q14: then what are rbi,nabard
Me : they are regulatory auhtorities sir RBI for banks in India and NABARD for RRBs and Cooperative banks.
Then he asked about operation of the commercial bank.
I started as accepting deposits from public then he interrupted and said, I know this but that just say about commercial bank then explained by contrasting with development banks and said commercial bank will operate with profit motto n development banks work for upliftment of the sector fr which they established...and while answering about today news they appreciated me 'good'.
Q15: Have u heard about MSME
Me : Yes sir
Q16: what is the full form
Me : Micro small medium enterprises sir
They said thank you and asked me to leave.
The Overall interview has been satisfactorily done to myself. but during certificate verification they said that for scores 131 and 132 there were less chances because people between 136 and 140 were heavy competition so even if u scored 100% marks in interview u cant get qualified. So I am little worried about this.
Thanks to Ashish for sharing his interview experience with us. We thank him and wish him great success in his interview.
Monday, 12 October 2015
RRBs-CWE-IV ONLINE TEST RESULT DECLARED
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has declared the result of Online Test for the post of Officer Scale -I, II & III and Office Assistants (Multipurpose).
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
LIC ADOs 2015-16 FINAL RESULT DECLARED
Life Insurance Corporation of India has declared the final result for the Recruitment of Apprentice Development Officers 2015-16. The on-line test held on 25/26th July, 2015 and Interview held on September 2015..The final result and other details will be informed to candidates by the Divisional Office.
LiC ADOs 2015-16 FINAL RESULT DECLARED
Life Insurance Corporation of India has declared the final result for the Recruitment of Apprentice Development Officers 2015-16. The on-line test held on 25/26th July, 2015 and Interview held on September 2015..The final result and other details will be informed to candidates by the Divisional Office.
Mock Test IBPS PO PRE Based on Exam Pattern
The first schedule of IBPS PO Prelims got over last weekend and most of you are now gearing up for the second schedule of it this coming weekend. So, we are providing you all the Practice Mock Test based on the Exam pattern as it was.
Hope this will help in building up your confidence level for the coming slots of exam.
Lets Practice, Practice and Practice..
To give the Mock test, Click Here
Monday, 5 October 2015
Cloze Test Asked in IBPS-PO-Prelims Exam (Based On Memory - 4th Oct ; 2th Shift)
Cloze Test
Additionally, the QUALITY of learning is a major issue and reports show that children are notACHIEVING class-appropriate learning levels. According to Pratham’s Annual Status of Education 2013 report, CLOSE to 78 percent of children in Standard III and about 50 percent of children in Standard V cannot yet read Standard II texts. Arithmetic is also a cause forCONCERN as only 26 percent students in Standard V can do a division problem. Without immediate and urgent help, these children cannot effectively PROGRESS in the education system, and so improving the quality of learning in schools is the next big challenge for both the state and central governments.
Saturday, 3 October 2015
EXAM REVIEW OF CWE-PO/MT-V PRELIMS EXAM (THIRD SHIFT; 03-10-2015)
CWE-PO/MT-V PRELIMS EXAM (3nd SHIFT, 03-10-2015) is over and the level of the paper was moderate and pattern of the paper is being given below:
1. English (Moderate)
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Reading Comprehension | 10 |
Cloze Test | 5 |
Rearrangement | 5 |
Fill in the blanks | 5 |
Error Detection | 5 |
2. Quantitative Aptitude – Total 35 Questions (Level – Moderate to Difficult )
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Number Series | 5 |
Approximation | 5 |
Data Interpretation (Line) | 10 |
Inequality | 5 |
Language Problems (Profit Loss, Average, Boats & Stream, CI/SI, Time & Work, Average, Ratio & Proportion, Percentage, etc.) | 10 |
3. Reasoning Ability – Total 35 Questions – (Level – Moderate)
TOPIC | No. of Questions |
Syllogism | 5 |
Inequality | 5 |
Sitting Arrangement (Circle) | 5 |
Row Puzzle (Row) | 5 |
Puzzle (Combination) | 5 |
Coding-Decoding | 5 |
Miscellaneous | 5 |
EXAM REVIEW OF CWE-PO/MT-V PRELIMS EXAM (SECOND SHIFT; 03-10-2015 )
TOPIC
|
No. of Questions
|
Reading Comprehension (Based on Small Bank China )
|
10
|
Cloze Test
|
5
|
Rearrangement
|
5
|
Fill in the blanks
|
5
|
Error Detection
|
5
|
TOPIC
|
No. of Questions
|
Number Series
|
5
|
Approximation
|
5
|
Data Interpretation
|
10
|
Inequality
|
5
|
Language Problems (Profit Loss, Average, Boats & Stream, CI/SI, Time & Work, Average, Ratio & Proportion, Percentage, etc.)
|
10
|
TOPIC
|
No. of Questions
|
Syllogism
|
5
|
Inequality
|
5
|
Sitting Arrangement (Circle Blood relation)
|
5
|
Row Puzzle (North-South)
|
5
|
Puzzle (Scheduling)
|
5
|
Coding-Decoding
|
5
|
Miscellaneous
|
5
|
EXAM REVIEW OF CWE-PO/MT-V PRELIMS EXAM (FIRST SHIFT; 03-10-2015 )
TOPIC
|
No. of Questions
|
Reading Comprehension (Economy Based)
|
10
|
Cloze Test (Economy Based)
|
5
|
Rearrangement
|
5
|
Fill in the blanks
|
5
|
Error Detection
|
5
|
TOPIC
|
No. of Questions
|
Number Series
|
5
|
Approximation
|
5
|
Data Interpretation (Bar and Missing data type 5 each)
|
10
|
Inequality
|
5
|
Language Problems (Profit Loss, Average, Boats & Stream, CI/SI, Time & Work, Average, Ratio & Proportion, Percentage, etc.)
|
10
|
TOPIC
|
No. of Questions
|
Syllogism
|
5
|
Inequality
|
5
|
Sitting Arrangement (Circle Blood relation)
|
5
|
Row Puzzle (North-South)
|
5
|
Puzzle (Scheduling)
|
5
|
Coding-Decoding
|
5
|
Miscellaneous
|
5
|