Banking Awareness: IBPS PO/ RRB PO 1

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These Banking questions will help you in preparing for other upcoming banking recruitment examination.

Q1. BCSBI was set up to ensure that the common person as a consumer of financial services from the banking Industry is in no way at a disadvantageous position and really gets what he/she has been promised. BCSBI stands for-?

(a) Branch Codes and Standards Board of India

(b) Banking Codes and Stability Board of India

(c) Banking Codes and Standards Bank of Industry

(d) Banking Codes and Society Board of Investment

(e) Banking Codes and Standards Board of India

Q2. When was the currency system in India converted into the decimal system?

(a) April 01st 1959

(b) April 01st 1957

(c) April 01st 1955

(d) April 01st 1953

(e) April 01st 1951

Q3. Which of the following field Dalal Street in Mumbai is famous?

(a) NABARD

(b) Stock Exchange

(c) RBI

(d) SEBI

(e) Commerce and industry ministry

Q4. Deposits which can be withdrawn by a customer without notice is called?

(a) Time Deposits

(b) Demand Deposits

(c) Variable Deposits

(d) Low-cost Deposits

(e) None of the given options is true

English Quiz: IBPS PO, Clerk/ RRB PO/ SBI PO2017

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                         Today's quiz covers three important topics that are for sure expected in Bank Exams. If one gets a good grip of these topics, then they can have an advantage over others. It is very important for you to understand what to pick and what not to.

Directions (Q.1 to 5): Rearrange the following seven sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them.

A) Japanese toys, for instance, are in great demand despite the heavy import duty.

B) The toys that they produce are almost without exception, of inferior quality.

C) Their manufacturers here need to be reminded of this.

D) The two toy-libraries in Mumbai also rely largely on foreign-made toys.

E) But making them is no child’s play

F) Toys are meant for children.

G) Not surprisingly, many parents prefer to buy the imported variety even though these are usually much more expensive.

1. Which of the following will be be the THIRD sentence?

1) C        2) B        3) D        4) E        5) G

2. Which of the following will be be the LAST sentence?

1) C        2) D        3) B        4) E        5) G

3. Which of the following will be be the FIRST sentence?

1) E        2) G        3) A        4) F        5) B

Current Affairs September 18, 2017

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Indian Affairs

Home Minister launches Intelligence wing of Sashastra Seema Bal and WARB app
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has launched first Intelligence Wing of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Welfare & Rehabilita tion Board (WARB) App in New Delhi authorized to Protect the shared borders of India with Nepal and Bhutan. It has been confirmed as the Lead Intelligence Agency (LIA) for both the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bhutan borders.
Need of Intelligence Wing of SSB  :-
i.SSB Director General Archana Ramasundaram informed that Intelligence Wing of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) is used to prevent criminals and smugglers from taking advantage of the friendly borders with Nepal and Bhutan.
ii.The intelligence wing will have 650 field and staff agents to gather information about these borders frequently used by criminals and Kashmiri terrorists returning from Pakistan.
Welfare and Rehabilitation Board (WARB) App :-
Welfare and Rehabilitation Board (WARB) App implements to facilitate retired CAPFs (Central Armed Police Forces) and Assam Rifles personnel to get their grievances redressed, then can look for skill development training through National Skill Development Corporation under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna, re-employment and other relevant important information.

INS Garhial carries relief material under ‘operation Insaniyat’ for Rohingya refugees
India will be started ‘operation Insaniyat’ by INS Garhial to help Bangladesh for the Rohingya refugees. Indian Navy will carry around 86 thousand family packs as relief material in the ongoing operation.

·         The ship will be expected to reach Chittagong on 25th of this month. The ship carries relief material consisting of rice, pulses, sugar, salt, cooking oil, biscuits and mosquito nets will be provided to the affected people.

·         On 14th and 15th of September ,A C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force delivered around 107 tonnes of relief material for Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh in two sorties to Chittagong.

Each jute bag based family pack has rations, toiletries and mosquito net. These have been handed over to District administration in Cox Bazar for distribution to refugees.

Quantative Aptitude IBPS PO/RRB PO/ SBI PO

Q-1: Mayur weighs twice as much as Shweta. Shweta’s weight is 60% of Deepika’s weight. Rakesh weighs 50% of Vikas’s weight. Vikas weighs 190% of Mayur’s weight. Which of these people weighs the least ?

A. Mayur

B. Deepika

C. Shweta

D. Rakesh

E. None of these

Q-2: Two numbers are in the ratio P : Q. When 1 is added to both the numerator and the denominator, the ratio gets changed to R/S. Again, when 1 is added to both the numerator and the denominator, it becomes 1/2. Find the sum of P and Q?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

E. None of these

Q-3: Efficiency of Asha is 25% more than Usha and Usha takes 25 days to complete a piece of work. Asha started the work alone and then Usha joined her 5 days before completion of the work. For how many days Asha worked alone?

A. 13 days

B. 11 days

C. 10 days

D. 15 days

High Level Puzzles- IBPS PO/ RRB PO/ SBI PO

Set – 1:

Gaurav, Optimus, Dixit, Fighter, Abhinav and Nirmal were born in different months-March, April, May, June, and July and August, not necessarily in the same order. All of them have different years of birth- 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995, though not respectively.

(A)Fighter was born neither in the month of July nor in April but was born in the year 1992.

(B)A person who is born in 1995, is born either in June or in March. Optimus is born neither in 1994 nor 1993 but was born in the month of august.

(C)Gaurav who was born in the month of June, has his year of birth either 1994 or 1993. A person

Current Affairs September 17, 2017

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INTERNATIONAL

30th Anniversary of Montreal protocol and 23rd World Ozone Day Celebrated

30th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol and 23rd World Ozone Day was observed on 16th September 2017. 

• The theme for the year 2017 is ‘Caring for all life under the Sun’.
• The year 2017 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Points to Remember:

• The Montreal Protocol is one of the most successful global environmental treaties, the implementation of which has not only led to the phase-out of around 98% of ozone depleting chemicals, but also averted more than 135 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
• The Montreal Protocol is the only environmental treaty which enjoys universal ratification of 197 UN member countries.

German citizenship is ranked the most valuable in the world

Not only do Germans have the most powerful passports in the world, they also have the highest quality of citizenship, according to a new report.

• The consultancy Henley & Partners’ first Quality of Nationality Index (QNI) ranks the value of 161 nations’ citizenship on a scale of 0 to 100%.
• European nations dominated the top 20 spots.

New Pattern Reasoning: Quiz

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

Lalit, Gopal, Mahesh, Nitin, Deepak, Tarun, Ashish and Vishnu are sitting around a circular table at equal distance between each other, but not necessarily in the same order. Some of the persons are facing the center while some others are facing outside (i.e. in a direction opposite to the center.)
(Note: Same direction means that if one person is facing the center then the other person is also facing the center and vice versa. Opposite direction means that if one person is facing the center then the other person is facing outside and vice versa.)
Deepak sits second to the right of Ashish. Ashish faces the center. Gopal sits third to the left of Deepak. Deepak and Gopal face opposite directions. Immediate neighbors Gopal faces the center. Mahesh sits second to the right of Gopal. Vishnu sits on the immediate left of Mahesh. Lalit sits second to the left of Nitin. Nitin faces the same direction as Gopal. Nitin is not an immediate neighbor of Ashish. Immediate neighbors of Deepak face opposite directions (i.e opposite directions means if one neighbor faces the center the other neighbor faces outside and vice versa).