How to Prepare for General Awareness Section for SBI PO 2020


SBI designs its questions in such a way that it can examine students in every aspect. There are various sections in SBI PO exam and one of them is General Awareness. This section is included to know that how much a student is aware of about current affairs or of all the things happening around him. This section which consists of 40 questions each carrying 1 mark. The time duration allocated for this section is 35 minutes.
In SBI PO exam, if you can score high in General Awareness it can help you to raise your overall score. General Awareness is not only important from the exam point of view but it also helps a lot during the interview stage.

How to Prepare for General Awareness for SBI PO:

Syllabus for General Awareness is so wide that it is difficult to put a number on this.
General Awareness is the most scoring section of SBI PO. There’s no need to remember any formula or rules to solve GA section. Attempting GA section is comparatively easier than English, Quant & Reasoning Section during exam. To score high in this section, all you need to do is stay updated. And if you prepare this section seriously you can score high easily.

Here are some tips and strategies for how to prepare General Awareness for SBI PO:

A.      Topic-wise analysis
First of all, you should analyze the Topic-wise syllabus of SBI PO to prepare well for GA section and identify your strong and weak subjects. You can also prepare a list containing the name of weak and strong subjects. Analyzing will also give you a brief idea about how much knowledge you have on various subjects and it is also helpful in developing the study plan as well. At the end, you will get an idea about where you are right now and from where you have start.
Get the detailed SBI PO Mains Syllabus for the Banking Awareness with the weightage for all the topics by going through the table given below
Topic
Weight age
Banking & Financial Awareness
10 Qs
Static Awareness
5 Qs
Current Affairs
20 – 25 Qs
Total
40 Qs

B. Go through the previous year papers
After analyzing the topics, aspirants should go through the papers of last 5 years at least. They should analyze the GA section of these papers for getting the idea about the type of questions being asked in exam. Hence, you can set your priorities for studying these subjects accordingly. 
C. Prepare a well analyzed study plan
You should prepare a study plan covering almost each subject and their relevant topics for studying the GA section (A good bank coaching institute in Chandigarh) can help you to prepare your study plan. The study plan must be designed in such a way that it cover almost each and every topic with revision and should not conflict with the preparation schedule of the other subjects.
D. Reading Newspapers
While preparing for General Awareness, an aspirant has to focus on the Current Affair section as this is the general requirement in banking and other recruitment exams. If you pay attention to recent news related to financial and banking sectors, you are already on the right path. For this you have to read and analyse the news paper on daily basis.
E. Daily reading & revision
GA section requires a good memory so that you can recall the information instantly during the exam. To have a good memory, you should make a habit of reading new topics and revising the studied ones on daily basis. This exercise is also very fruitful to overcome the habit of forgetting because it happens when you have studied a lot of things As a result eventually most of the read topics get vanished from the memory. Therefore, revise and read as much as possible.
Author Bio: Above content is written and published from IBT Chandigarh: Best SSC Coaching Institute in Sector 34



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