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IGNOU Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Markets Practice-Currency and Debt Markets Papers usually test the student’s knowledge in areas like direct and indirect quotes, bid-ask price, forward rate premium and discount, real effective exchange, hedging, currency contracts, forward contracts and so on. These are conceptual topics which need to be addressed by the students with a lot of practice and dedication in order to be able to solve the questions contained in the papers. Other important topics include features of government securities, repurchase agreements, the role of REPO in a money market, day count conventions, principles of bond valuations, interest rate futures and their benefits and so on. The paper contains long length questions usually carrying 20 marks and this makes the paper a tricky one which can be used to perform well by students who are conceptually strong. Answers should be written in a fashion to cover all the points at the same time should not be filled with unnecessary things. Below are attached some of the previous year’s question papers which you can download for your reference.