151 Essays by Arihant Publication Review

This is very helpful for UPSC, SBI, IBPS, SSC and other competitive exams. You will get all important topics for competitive exams if essay writing is part in your exam. You will get more than 150+ latest current affairs which can be asked in the exam.

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Most Important for SSC CGL Tier-3 and SBI PO Mains:

• GST: How will it work in India?
• Digital India: Objective and Challenges
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SBI PO 2017 Syllabus, Guide Study Material and Best Book for 2017

One of the biggest exam of this year i.e SBI PO 2017–18, we are providing you Experts Advise which will surely help you to prepare for the exam with the right strategy.

As we all know SBI has once again come with the huge number of vacancies and hopes for the aspirants. So let us gear up and get ready for the exam. We have very less time left for the exam since with 2017 notification SBI also announced the time-table. According to SBI official timetable prelims were conducted in April 2017. So prepare accordingly.

Some of you might be appearing for the SBI exam for the first time. So I want to share the pattern of last year SBI prelims exam with you all. Prelims exams had 3 sections and time allotted was one hour. There are the number of questions according to each section are following as:

1) English - 30 questions - Easy
2) Quants - 30 questions - Moderate
3) Reasoning - 30 questions - Moderate

If you do not know full the new pattern read once.

How to prepare for SBI PO 2017 and what are the best books?

I know that most of you, now are thinking about how I can prepare? and what books are good to follow? But don`t worry I am going to provide you full details,

Let us see first SBI PO exam syllabus. And you can also read related material from our website by click on the related topic.

Syllabus of Reasoning:

In Bank Pre exam there are total 30 questions and in Mains exam, there are 50 questions. So it’s important to give equal importance to this subject. The reasoning is a scoring subject so if you are not good in English you can do well in this part.

In prelims, approximately 2-3 puzzles come and in mains, there are approximately 4-5 puzzles comes. In each, there are minimum 5 questions so puzzle part contains a good number of question and once you make a hand in this you can score easily.

Topics:

• Sitting Arrangement
• Puzzle Test.
• Syllogism.
• Data Sufficiency Problems.
• Blood Relationship Problems.
• Series Problems.
• Input- Output
• Direction Sense Problems.
• Statement-Assumption
• Statement  Conclusion
• Statement  Argument
• Course of Action.
• Ordering and Ranking.

Best Books for Reasoning:

• A New Approach to REASONING Verbal & Non-Verbal (This is a good book containing both Verbal and Non-Verbal Part)
• A Modern Approach to Verbal Reasoning by RS Aggarwal (This is an alternative to Arihant book )
• A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning (If you don`t want to buy RS Aggarwal different book for Verbal and non-verbal then go for this)
• Analytical Reasoning by MK Panday (I have heard very much about this book but never used so you can try)

Syllabus of Quantitative Section:

In bank exam in the math section, there are equal questions in Mathematics and Reasoning Part. In SBI PO exam mathematics part is generally high level so it's compulsory to prepare well for this section also.

Topics:

• Data Sufficiency
• Percentage
• Average
• Simple Interest
• Compound Interest
• Profit and Loss
• Ratio & Proportions.
• Time and Work
• Time Speed and Distance.
• Data interpretation.
• Sequence and Series.
• Probability
• Boat and Stream
• Pipe and Cistern
• Simplifications
• Mensuration
• Quadratic Equation
• Mixture

Best books for Mathematics section for SBI PO:

• Magical Book on Quicker Maths by M Tyra (This book is helpful to learn new short tracks if you are preparing yourself )
• FAST TRACK OBJECTIVE ARITHMETIC (In this book you got a plenty of questions for practice and you also get some formulas to learn tricks.)
• QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE by RS Aggarwal (If you does not like Fast track you can go with this book.)
• 7300 + by Rakesh Yadav (This book is mainly written for SSC exam aspirants but if you want to give some extra edge to your preparation you can go with this.)

Syllabus of General English:

Like Math and Reasoning in bank exam, there is the equal number of question in this section also. For some students, English is like a ghost but as you know to get a seat in SBI PO exam you have to pass written exam also, so it's necessary to prepare according to the written exam.

• Reading Comprehension Tips
• RC Practice
• Idiom and Phrases
• Grammer
• Cloze Test Tips
• Sentence Correction / Spotting error (Tenses, Part of Speech, Active and Passive Voice, Subject-Verb Agreement).
• Para jumbles.
• Antonyms/Synonyms based problems

Best Book for English:

• Word Power Made Easy (Must have for Vocab)
• Objective General English (This book contain many questions for practice )
• English Improvement Course (This is good to learn grammar rules and also contained practice questions)
• Descriptive English by SP Bakshi (For essay writing)

Best Books for Banking:

• Banking Awareness
• Lucent’s General Knowledge
• Manorama Yearbook 2017 (For Latest event)
• Computer Awareness for General Competitive Exams

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