Last Minute Tips For IBPS SO Mains 2017-18

IBPS SO Main Examination is scheduled to be held on 28th of January. As it is going to be the Examination for the post of SO, you all must be very anxious about your performance. Bringing it off in this examination will determine your final selection as a Specialist Officer in a public sector Bank. So, all that you need to do two days before the examination is a proficient revision and efficient management of the stress level that you all might be going through because of the examination.  Your best bet would be to be to make the best use of your knowledge and you can only do that if you are unladen.  A little amount of stress is healthy and necessary too for your exam. So students, here are a few revision tips for all those who are going to appear in IBPS SO Main Examination.

Plan:

Go for the examination with a proper plan so that you aren’t barking the wrong trees while attempting the examination. Know what subjects you are good at and where you lag. Attempt the very section first that you are good at and weakest subject in the end. Doing this will ensure that much of the time is not wasted on solving the questions that are difficult to you and in the end, you don’t fail to attempt the section that could get you a higher overall score. Do not stick to a single question if you are not able to solve it. Move forward with the questions that you are able to solve easily, without wasting much of your time on them.

Revision:

It’s high time to revise all the topics that you need to be tremendous at. Sort the important topics into a checklist and settle on how each and every point is to be revised before appearing for the examination. It might sound preposterous on a day just before the examination but trust me, it will help you focus your learning and you won’t be like, “Gee! I was so good at this topic. I could have done better had I revised it well.”

Do not Stress:

Much of stress won’t let you fathom out the questions asked in all four of the subjects. So avoid anything that can stress you out, keep calm and stay focused for the day after tomorrow. It is important for the students to have a positive mindset.

Sleep well:

Take a nap before the exam as it improves memory recall and the ability to concentrate. Do not pull an all-nighter before the day of examination. If you wouldn’t sleep for the whole night, you likely won’t remember much of what you studied anyway. To make the best use of your knowledge, you should try to get at least 8 hours of sleep before the exam especially when it is going to be IBPS SO Mains Examination.

Now take a print out of your admit card and photo identity proof in advance as waiting for the last moment will not in your favor. Do reach the exam center well ahead of time to avoid any unnecessary tension. Confirm the location and all other important things that you need to know about your center in advance so that you don’t waste much of your time in search of your center.

Before proceeding to IBPS SO Last Minute Preparation Tips, let us check the exam pattern for IBPS SO

IBPS SO Exam Pattern:

Certain changes have been observed in the pattern of this exam after the official release of the exam notification. Following are some of the major changes:

• The exam pattern regarding the selection of aspirants for Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale I and Law Officer is the same.
• Exam pattern for other posts is not the same as that of Rajbhasha Adhikari Officer and the Law Officer.
• There will be only one section for the Mains exam, i.e. Professional Knowledge.
• There will be only three sections in the Prelims exam. In the case of Rajbhasha Adhikari and Law Officer, the sections included are: English Language, Reasoning and General Awareness, while the sections for other posts are English Language, Reasoning and

IBPS SO VII Mains 2017: Call Letter Released

Dear Students,

Speicalists Officer-VII

(Other Posts)

Rajbhasa Adhikaari

Professional Knowledge Questions for IBPS SO HR Mains 2017

Dear Aspirants,

Q1. What is the term wherein the skill sets are listed in form of basic information on all the employees, like their education, experience, skills, age, sex, salary related data, job preference and special achievements?

(a) Job Specifications

(b) Job Inventory

(c) Job Analysis

(d) Job Description

(e) Job Enrichment

Answer. (b)

Q2. In relation to Quality circle, a statistical technique in decision-making used for the selection of a limited number of tasks that produce significant overall effect is- 

(a) Exponential Smoothing

(b) Mean square weighted deviation

(c) Ishikawa cause and effect analysis 

(d) Data Collection

(e) Pareto Analysis

Answer. (e)

Q3. In a scenario wherein there is an expectation of occurrence of surplus of employees, a logical step by an efficient Human Resource manager would be-

(a) Work present staff overtime

(b) Outsource an entire function

(c) Re-allocate people from elsewhere in the organisation

(d) Offer incentives for early retirement

(e) Re-engineer to reduce needs

Answer. (d)

Q4. Job enrichment implies increasing the contents of a job or the deliberate upgrading of responsibilty,scope and challenge in work. All of the following are a technique of job enrichment EXCEPT-

(a) give sufficient freedom to employees

(b) simply job by breaking down in fragments

(c) make the employee understand how tasks contribute to a finished product

(d) increase responsibility

(e) provide feedback to employees

Answer. (b)

Q5. Which of the following is a distinctive feature of Strategic Human Resource Management when compared to Traditional Human Resource Management?

(a) Focus on employee relations

(b) Ritualistic and reactive approach.

(c) Division of work specialisation and independent tasks constitutes job design.

(d) Permits employees to carry out job responsibilities in a free-flowing way

(e) Capital and products are critical resources

Quantitative Aptitude: Inequalities Quiz

Dear Readers,

1. Quantity I: The age of teacher, if the average age of 36 students is 14. When teacher’s age is included the average increases by 1.
   Quantity II: The age of teacher, if the average age of 19 students is 35. When teacher’s age is included the average increases by 0.5.
   A) Quantity I > Quantity II
   B) Quantity I ≥ Quantity II
   C) Quantity II > Quantity I
   D) Quantity II ≥ Quantity I
   E) Quantity I = Quantity II or Relation cannot be established
   
   
2. Quantity I: Profit Percentage , if Some articles were bought at 6 articles for Rs. 5 and sold at 5 articles for Rs. 6.
   Quantity II: Profit Percentage, if 100 toys are bought at the rate of Rs. 350 and sold at the rate of Rs. 48 per dozen.
   A) Quantity I > Quantity II
   B) Quantity I ≥ Quantity II
   C) Quantity II > Quantity I
   D) Quantity II ≥ Quantity I
   E) Quantity I = Quantity II or Relation cannot be established

Current Affairs December 14-15, 2017

Dear SH Aspirants,
Study Daily Current Affairs and stay updated as well as prepare for General Awareness section of bank exams. It's time to gear up your preparations for IBPS/RBI/SBI/SSC and with the daily dose of current affairs, you can easily prepare G.A and score well.

Rajasthan becomes first in country to offer e-mail IDs in Hindi

Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to offer free e-mail address in Hindi to its residents.

• This facility will lead to millions of new users who are not comfortable with English e-mail ids.
• The project has been implemented by the state IT department with the partnership in form of in-sourcing with private IT companies.

Submarine Kalvari to be commissioned by PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will commission India's first Scorpene class submarine, Kalvari, into the Indian Navy in Mumbai on 14 December.

• The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders delivered Kalvari on September 21to the Navy after successfully completing all trials.
• Scorpene submarines can undertake varied missions such as anti-surface and antisubmarine warfare, intelligence gathering and mine laying.

IBPS SO 2017 CALL LETTER OUT

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IBPS SO IT OFFICER 2017 QUIZ

Q1. All Android phones and iPhones have access to a SQL (pronounced ‘sequel’) database called_______

(a) SQLite

(b) MySQL

(c) PostgreSQL 

(d) Microsoft SQL 

(e) All of the above. 

Q2. ______is the  a relatively new programming language designed by Microsoft for a wide range of enterprise applications that run on the .NET Framework. 

(a) RUBY on RAILS

(b) PYTHON

(c) JAVA

(d) C#(pronounced C-sharp)

(e) None of these

Q3. _______is a scripting language, running on the server, which can be used to create web pages written in HTML. 

(a) PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor)

(b) Javascript

(c) Android

(d) Adobe

(e) None of the above

Q4. Which is a valid keyword in java?

(a) interface

(b) string

(c) Float

(d) unsigned

(e) all of the above

Q5. Which of the following package stores all the standard java classes?

(a) java.lang

(b) java.io

(c) util

(d) java.packages

(e) none of the above

New pattern English: Quiz

Dear Readers,

Directions (1-10): In the following questions, choose the grammatically correct sentence from among the five options given for each question. 

Q1. A. It looks like it is going to rain this afternoon.

B. It looks as if it is going to rain this afternoon.

C. It looks as if it is going to rain today afternoon.

D. It looks like it is going to rain today afternoon.

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D 

(e) None of these 

Q2. A. A belief that he is humble and being really humble is what makes him so likeable.

B. A belief that he is humble and being really humble are what makes him so likable.

C. Believing that he is humble and really being humble is what makes him so likeable.

D. Believing that he is humble and really being humble are what makes him so likable.

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D 

(e) None of these 

Q3. A. This book left by who knows whom? has been lying here for days.

B. This book - left by who knows whom - has been lying here for days.

C. This book left by - who knows who? - has been lying here for days.

D. This book left by - who knows who - has been lying here for days.

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D 

(e) None of these 

Q4. A. I can understand my sister better than my mother.

B. I can understand my sister more than my mother.

C. I can better understand my sister than my mother.

D. I can understand my sister better than I can understand my mother.

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D 

(e) None of these 

Puzzle/Syllogism New Pattern: Reasoning

Dear Readers,

Directions (Q. 1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions:

Eight People – Sharma, Mishra, Akash, Rahaman, Bablu, Kumar, Naveen and Yuvan live in ten different floors of a building (but not necessarily in the same order). Two of the floors in the building is vacant. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two, and so on till the topmost floor is numbered ten. Each one of them also likes different browsers, namely Opera, Firefox, UC, Safari, Avant, Slim, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer(but not necessarily in the same order).

The number of people living below Kumar is same as the number of people living between Kumar and Yuvan. Kumar lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. The top most floor is vacant. Only one person lives between Mishra and the one who likes Safari. Only three floors between Rahaman and the one who likes Avant. The number of floors between the one who likes Google Chrome and the one who likes Safari is two. The one who likes Slim lives immediately above Naveen. Only three floors between Naveen and Sharma. The one who likes Internet Explorer lives immediately above the one who likes Opera. Akash lives one of the odd numbered floors above the one who likes Avant. The number of floors between Kumar and the one who likes Firefox is only one. Only one person lives between the one who likes Internet Explorer and the vacant floor. Only two people live between Akash and vacant floor. The number of floors between two vacant floors is five. The one who likes Internet Explorer and Firefox not live in the floors numbered 8 and 7 respectively. The one who likes Safari browser lives immediately below the floor in which Akash lives.

1). How many people live between Akash and Bablu?

a)  Four

b)  Three

c)  None

d)  Five

e)  Two

2). Which of the following floors are vacant?

a)  3, 10

b)  5, 10

c)  4, 10

d)  2, 10

e)  1, 10

New Pattern English: Quiz

Directions (1-15): Four sentences are given with a blank in each. Five words are also given. The blank in each sentence can be filled by one or more words. Similarly, each word given in the choices can go into any number of sentences. Identify the number of sentences each word can go into and mark as your answer the maximum number of sentences any word can go into. 

Q1. A. The millionaire has __________ Rs. 10,00,000 for this priceless artifact.

B. In a/an __________ to rescue the child who was caught in fire, she sustained burns.

C. I went to the railway station to __________ goodbye to my friend.

D. I was asked to __________ a price by the auctioneer.

(a) quoted

(b) attempt

(c) bid

(d) say

(e) spend

Q2. A. He __________ many spine-chilling anecdotes to us.

B. The law extends to several __________ groups.

C. This person is not __________ to me in any way, he is a trickster.

D. The two groups are __________ to each other.

(a) allied

(b) connected

(c) related

(d) recounted

(e) narrated

Q3. A. Can you please __________ the bell?

B. The words spoken by him still __________ in my ears.

C. Mahatma Gandhi was the __________ leader of the Non-Cooperation movement.

D. I shall give you a __________ after reaching home.

(a) sound

(b) ring

(c) chief

(d) call

(e) sell

Q4. A. Many students still __________ around the college, even after the classes are over.

B. Every citizen of India should __________ his head in shame at the brutal killings in the name of religion.

C. There is ample space in the wardrobe for you to __________ your clothes.

D. “__________ the perpetrators of the crime!” shouted the angry mob.

(a) execute

(b) loiter

(c) hang

(d) bend

(e) store

Quantitative Aptitude: Quiz

Q1. In a company XYZ, the respective ratio between the total number of under graduate employees and the total number of graduate employees is 13 : 23. The company has only two branches, one in Mumbai and other in Delhi. If the total number of under graduate employees in Mumbai branch is 351, which is 30% of the total undergraduate employees in the company, what is the total number of graduate employees in the company?

(a) 2185

(b) 1955

(c) 2070

(d) 2691

(e) None of these

Q2. If the present population of a state is 27,500 and after 2 years it increases to 39,600 then what is the rate of increase per year?

(a) 25%

(b) 10%

(c) 17%

(d) 13%

(e) 20%

Q3. A merchant buys two items for Rs. 7500. One item he sells at a profit of 16% and the other item at 14% loss. In the deal the merchant makes neither any profit nor any loss. What is the difference between selling price of both the items? (in rupees) 

(a) 625

(b) 610

(c) 620

(d) 630

(e) 615

Current Affairs Update 13 -17th November, 2017

Dear SH Aspirants,
Study Daily Current Affairs and stay updated as well as prepare for General Awareness section of bank exams. It's time to gear up your preparations for IBPS PO/ RRB PO Mains and with the daily dose of current affairs, you can easily prepare G.A and score well.

CurrentAffairs November 13, 2017

CurrentAffairs November 14, 2017

New Pattern English: Error Detection

Directions (1-15): In the following questions, two sentences are given, spot the error in the sentence:

Q1. I. Yesterday I have written a letter to my friend.

II. My letter ought to have reached him this morning.

(a) if there is an error only in the first sentence;

(b) if there is an error only in the second sentence;

(c) if there are errors in both sentences; and

(d) if there is no error in either of the sentences.

(e) None of the above

Q2. I. He was so stammering that he stopped his speech between each word.

II. I shall give you sweets when you will pass the examination.

(a) if there is an error only in the first sentence;

(b) if there is an error only in the second sentence;

(c) if there are errors in both sentences; and

(d) if there is no error in either of the sentences.

(e) None of the above

Q3. I. I came to borrow a small sum of money from you.

II. Do you object to my sitting in your room for a while?

(a) if there is an error only in the first sentence;

(b) if there is an error only in the second sentence;

(c) if there are errors in both sentences; and

(d) if there is no error in either of the sentences.

(e) None of the above

Puzzles- IBPS PO MAINS

Directions (1-5): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given

below:

Nine friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I are living in a same building of nine floor counting from one

to nine. Ground floor is numbered 1 and so on. They all are working in different MNC i.e Safeco, Ryder, Xerox, Netfix, Costco, Aleris, Humana, Fiserv, and Exelon but not necessarily in the same order. There are three floors between A and I, who works in Costco company. H works in Xerox company and lives immediately above the floor on which A lives. There is only one floor between H and G, who works in Netfix company. F works in Ryder company and lives below the floor on which G lives. F does not live on even number floor. There is only two floors between F and E, who works in Safeco company. B works in Fiserv company and lives below the floor on which F lives. G does not live on ninth floor. B lives on even number floor. There is as many as floor between B and one, who works in Aleris company and as between A and C. A does not work in the Human company.

Q1. A works which of the following company?

(a) Xerox

(b) Exelon

(c) Netfix

(d) Safeco

(e) Costco

Q2. D lives on which of the following floor?

(a) First

(b) Second

 (c) Third

(d) Fourth

(e) Fifth

Q3. H is related to Netfix and C is related to Ryder, in the same way F is related to?

(a) Humana

(b) Fiserv

(c) Costco

(d) Aleris

(e) None of these

Current Affairs Update 10-11th November, 2017

Dear SH Aspirants,
Study Daily Current Affairs and stay updated as well as prepare for General Awareness section of bank exams. It's time to gear up your preparations for IBPS PO/ RRB PO Mains and with the daily dose of current affairs, you can easily prepare G.A and score well.

Error Correction- IBPS PO/ CLERK/SBI PO/ RBI ASSISTANT/ SSC CGL

Directions (1-10): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error if any will be in one part of the sentence, the number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark (e) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

Q1. The game (a)/will begin(b)/ Friday evening(c)/ whenever the clock strikes seven.(d)/No error(e)

Q2. There have been(a)/ effort to track individual(b)/ social outcomes such (c)/as health, education and safety. (d)/No error(e)


Q3. There is a (a)/pile of cases(b)/ pending in Supreme Court (c)/affecting all classes of citizens.(d)/No error(e)

Q4. There has been (a)/ a number of high profile (b)/cases reported in the media(c)/ that have shown the huge fault lines in the process. (d)/No error(e)

Q5. I’m (a)/looking for(b)/ an assistant on (c)/ who I can depend.(d)/No error(e)

Q6. The dresser in (a)/ Julia’s room (b)/is different than (c)/ the one in Cristina’s.(d)/No error(e)

Puzzles for IBPS PO MAINS/CLERK/RBI ASSISTANT/SBI PO

Directions (1-5): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

Eight family members P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are seated in a straight line at an equal distance between each other, but not necessarily in the same order. There are three generation in the family. Some of them are facing north and some are facing south. R’s daughter is an immediate neighbour of one who is sitting at an extreme end of the line. Only three people sit between V and his wife. Q’s daughter sits second to the right of P’s brother-in-law. R’s granddaughter does not sit at an extreme end of the line. P’s mother sits on the immediate left of her son. R’s wife is not an immediate neighbour of T’s husband. The immediate neighbour of T’s brother faces opposite directions.(i.e. If one neighbour faces north then other faces south and vice versa.) The persons sitting at the extreme ends faces opposite directions.(i.e. If one person faces north then other faces south and vice versa.) W’s daughter-in-law sits second to the left of T’s father-in-law. U faces north. U is not an immediate neighbour of S’s aunt. The immediate neighbours of U faces same directions.(i.e. If one neighbour faces north then other also faces north and if one neighbour faces south then other also faces south).Both T and Q face a direction opposite to that of S.(i.e. If S faces north then T and Q faces south and vice-versa.) T is the only daughter of R. W is female member and U is male member.

Q1. As per the following arrangements, which of the following statements is not true with respect

to P?

(a) P faces south. 

(b) P is fourth to the right of Q. 

(c) P is 2nd to left of T.

(d) P is between V and W. 

(e) None of these

Q2. How many person sit on the left of Q?

(a) One 

(b) Two 

(c) Three

(d) Four 

(e) None of these

Most Important For Reasoning Section Of IBPS PO 2017

IBPS PO Examination is going to be held on 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th of October. Many of you must be worried about the Reasoning Section. Aspirants, worrying about things is not an option. Stay positive as once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Reasoning Ability is an onerous section. With the increasing complexity of questions, it becomes hard for one to give it the cold shoulder. This is why, we, team SH is providing you all with the most important topics that are likely to be asked in the upcoming IBPS PO Exam 2017.

The pattern of this Section is getting complex day by day and most of the topics of this section are now being asked in the form of puzzles only. Earlier students used to have a mindset of ignoring the complex puzzles, thereby solving the other questions that are comparatively easy. But to their dismay, this strategy won’t be working anymore as so many questions from the other topics like directions, etc. are being asked in the form of puzzles only. The number of questions being asked on puzzles ranges from 60-65% of all the questions in Reasoning Section. Here are the most important topics of reasoning section that you need to prepare for IBPS PO 2017.

Inequalities: 

The other most important topic for IBPS PO Prelims Quant Section is Inequality. The number of expected questions on this particular topic is 5. It is one of the easiest topics in Reasoning. You will have the compare the quantities given to you and there will be statements followed by the given equation. You have to find out which of the statements is correct.

Syllogism: 

The number of expected questions on this topic is more than 6. The questions can be based on the usual old pattern as well as the new pattern of Reverse Syllogism in which the conclusion is given in the question and you have to choose the correct statements for that particular conclusion. It is one of the easiest and scoring topics so prepare it well and you will be able to bag 5 marks very easily in Reasoning Ability Section.

High Level Puzzles- IBPS PO MAINS/CLERK/SBI PO/RRB MAINS/ RBI

Directions: (1-5) Read the information given below and answer the questions.
Eight friends- Rahul, Amit, Gaurav, Deep, Rishabh, Raghav, Hari and Aarit got married on different days viz. Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Sunday are sitting around a circular table facing the centre of the table. Only two friends got married on each of the given days. Also, all these friends got married in different months i.e. -January, February, May, July, September, October, November and December. No two people who got married on the same day are sitting adjacent to each other except those who got married on Tuesday. The person who got married in July is sitting on the immediate left of the person who got married in December. Rishabh got married in neither December nor May. Aarit got married in October on Friday and is sitting to the immediate left of Amit, who got married on Tuesday. Amit didn’t marry in May. Raghav who got married in September on Tuesday, is sitting Opposite to Hari. Only Rahul, who got married in February, is sitting between Hari, who got married in July and the person who got married in November.Persons who got married on Monday are sitting Opposite to each other.Each of the persons who got married on Sunday is sitting adjacent to the person who got married on Monday.Deep didn’t marry in December.

1.Who got married in January?
a. Amit
b. Deep
c. Gaurav
d. Rishabh
e. None of these

2.In which month did Gaurav marry?
a. December
b. May
c. January
d. February
e. None of these 

3.Who among the following got married on Monday?
a. Gaurav and Aarit
b. Rishabh and Rahul
c. Deep and Gaurav
d. Rahul and Raghav
e. None of these

4.Who is sitting opposite to the person who got married in October?
a. The person who got married in July
b. The person who got married in November
c. The person who got married in February
d. The person who got married in May
e. None of these

5.Which of the following pairs is sitting adjacent to the person who got married in September?
a. Amit and Aarit
b. Rishabh and Deep
c. Deep and Aarit
d. Aarit and Gaurav