Dear Aspirant,

Finding work in the bank line is one of the growing career options the students option after completing graduation.

The syllabus of bank exams consists of English, Reading Comprehension, Quantitative Aptitude and General Awareness.

Here are the specific topics under each of these:

English

1. Reading Comprehension
2. Close Test
3. Double Fillers
4. Error Spotting
5. Sentence Correction
6. Para Jumbles
7. Paragraph Completion
8. Para Summary
9. Sentence Connector
10. Vocabulary

Reasoning Ability

1. Sitting Arrangements
2. Tabulation
3. Logical Reasoning
4. Syllogism
5. Input-Output
6. Coding-Decoding
7. Alphanumeric Series
8. Blood relations
9. Ranking
10. Data Sufficiency
11. Distance and Direction
12. Coded Inequalities
13. Verbal Reasoning

Quantitative Aptitude

1. Simplification & Approximation.
2. Data Interpretation
3. Data Sufficiency
4. Number Series
5. Ration and Proportion
6. Quadratic Equations
7. Averages
8. Boats and Streams
9. Simple Interest and Compound Interest
10. Percentage
11. Profit and Loss
12. Mixtures and Allegations
13. Permutations and Combinations
14. Time and Distance Probability
15. Partnership
16. Pipes and Cisterns

General Awareness

This section has three subsections- Current Affairs, Banking and Financial Awareness and Static Awareness.

Current Affairs:

1. Important bank news
2. Economic affairs
3. National and International news
4. Recent state affairs
5. Agreements
6. Visits
7. Awards and Honours
8. Summits and Conferences
9. Obituaries

Banking and Financial Awareness

1. Financial news
2. Banking abbreviations
3. Banking Regulation Act 1949
4. About & Functions of RBI Policy Rates
5. Types of Accounts
6. Negotiable instruments act 1881
7. Money market instruments
8. Priority sector lending
9. Financial inclusion
10. Money market instruments
11. Banking Ombudsman scheme 2006
12. Related topics

Static Awareness

1. International Organisations
2. Important Days
3. Capital and Currency
4. Agreement and deals
5. Books and Authors
6. Honours and Awards
7. National & International Appointments
8. Related Topics

Two other sections which are added and removed based on the exams are Computer aptitude which has questions about Binary Conversions and flowcharts and Professional Knowledge which depends on the post you are applying for.

Bank PO exam has two stages- prelims and mains. Prelims has English Language, Reasoning Ability and Quantitative Aptitude and in the mains, General Awareness is added and the the paper for the other three domains becomes more complex. After the mains, you will be called for interview.

For Blank Clerk, the difficulty level of the same decreases. After the mains, you will have to appear for a Language Proficiency Test.

For Bank SO, the test consists of Reasoning Ability, English Language, General Awareness and Professional Language. Directly after the online test, you will be called for interview.

Hope this helps. All the best!