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What is the procedure to start the banking exam and from where to get the forms? I want to give all the exams related banking sector.

To qualify in any of the examination you have to go through all the stages and procedure of the examination and this is only possible if you have done the best preparation for the examination.

The examination for the banking jobs are mainly conducted by the IBPS and the SBI every year. The examination is conducted in the written as well as the interview. The candidates have to qualify in both of them for the selection.

Mainly the written papers contains the questions from the Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning, General Awareness, English and the Current Affairs. So it is important to have the knowledge of all these to qualify in the examination.

So start the preparation for these topics along with the spped of solving as it plays a major role in the entrance examination to qualify.

To get the syllabus for the preparation of the examination visit at the www.ibps.in.

# IBPS stands for Institute of Banking Personal Selection.

# IBPS is primarily meant for conducting a common competitive examination for the post of clerk in all nationalised banks except State Bank of India (SBI). Actually, State Bank of India conducted its own competitive examination for selection.

# Generally IBPS conducted following two main banking competitive examinations which are:
* IBPS Bank Clerical Examination
* IBPS Probationary Officer (PO) Examination

# Prescribed age limit for IBPS Bank Clerical Examination is as follows:

* 18-27 years for General category
* 18-30 years for OBC category
* 18-32 years for SC/ST category
* 18-37 years for Physically Handicapped category

# Prescribed age limit for IBPS Probationary Officer (PO) Examination is as follows:

* 18-30 years for General category
* 18-33 years for OBC category
* 18-35 years for SC/ST category
* 18-40 years for Physically Handicapped category

# Here below there are some suggested books for IBPS Examinations are:

* Non Verbal Reasoning by Prabhat Javed
* Objective Arithmetic by S.L. Gulati
* Analytical Reasoning by A.K. Pandey
* Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Aggrawal
* Dilhan Publication's Numerical Aptitude for Banking
* English for Competitive Examination by A.K. Kapoor
* English for Competitive Examination by Harimohan Prashad
* Kiran's Data Interpretation and Sufficiency

# Different sections of Written objective type test are:

* Quantitative Aptitude
* English Language
* Reasoning Ability
* General Studies & Current Affairs with special reference to economy, banking sector etc.
* Computer Knowledge

Here each section carry 40 questions with total 40 marks.

There are mainly two entrance exam conducted in which most of the candidates appear for the exam.

1. Institute of Banking and Personnel Selection exam for post of clerk and probationary officer of various nationalized banks.

2. SBI PO and Clerk exam.

For both these entrance exam, bachelor's degree is required to appear for the exams. If you start preparing the following from basic level, you can crack bank exam in first attempt. In all banking exams, question from following areas is asked:

1. Quantitative Aptitude.

2. Reasoning.

3. General awareness.

4. Computer awareness.

5. English.

Start solving R.S Aggarwal aptitude and reasoning for better concepts at basic level.

SBI & IBPS , Other Private banks invites application for the post of Bank PO , Bank Clerk.You can apply for the same when advertise comes.

Eligibility

Educational Qualification
You must have passed/Appearing in last year in bachelor degree in any discipline from recognized university

Age Limit

For Bank PO
- 21 to 30 years.Relaxation applicable 3 years for OBC and 5 years for SC/ST.Relaxation applicable extra 10 years for PH category.

For Bank clerk
- 21 to 28 years.Relaxation applicable 3 years for OBC and 5 years for SC/ST.Extra 10 years relaxation applicable for PH category.

Selection
- Preliminary Exam
- Main Exam
- Interview

Syllabus Topics
- English Language
- General Awareness
- Aptitude
- Data Interpretation
- Reasoning
- Computer Knowledge

Generally , Advertisement comes on the official site : www.sbi.co.in & www.ibps.in
You should visit these sites regularly & should know latest updates of sbi & ibps career.