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What is the best book for preparation of a PO?
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Utkarsh Sharma, Former Operations Analyst (Asset management), Deutsche Bank

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Answered May 27, 2016

The Prelims exam of SBI PO will contain 100 questions carrying 100 marks and the
time duration will be of 1 hour.
The Questions are divided into 3 Sections:

Reasoning

Quantitative Aptitude

English

The mains exam of SBI PO will contain 155 questions carrying 200 marks and the time
duration will be of 180 minutes.The questions are divided into 4 sections.The
selection will be purely based on the mains exam. And the exam will contain the
following subjects:

Reasoning & Computer Knowledge (60 marks).

English Language (40 marks).

Quantitative Aptitude ( 60 marks).

General Awareness (40 marks).

All subjects in SBI PO prelims and SBI PO mains have sectional cutoff, so you should
focus on every subject of SBI PO prelims and mains exam.

I am mentioning the list of books as per the subjects below:

Preparation books for SBIPO 2016 Quantitative Aptitude:

NCERT books.

Fast Track Objective Arithmetic (Arihant) RajeshVerma.

Quantitative Aptitude For Competitive Examinations(S.Chand) R.S.Agarwal

Preparation books for SBIPO 2016 Reasoning:

Verbal Reasoning By R.S. Agarwal.

501 challenging Logical reasoning problems.

A Modern Approach to Verbal and Non VerbalReasoning (S.Chand) by R.S.Agarwal.

A new approach Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning(Arihant) by BS Sijwali.
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Analytical Reasoning by MK Pandey.

Preparation books for SBI PO 2016 General English:

Word Power made Easy By Norman lewis.

Objective General English By R. S. Agarwal and Vikas Agarwal.

Descriptive General English by S P Bakshi and Richa Sharma.

High School EnglishGrammar by Wren & Martin.

Before you begin your preparation for SBI PO, you should know about what to prepare
for the exam because if you do not know correctly as what you have to study, your
preparation can never be appropriate to crack the exam. Therefore proper guidance is
needed for the preparation of SBI PO Exams . You may check out HANDA KA FUNDA
for a proper and expert guidance for SBI PO preparation. They also provide Mock
Tests which are very close to the actual examination.

I am attaching the link for the course below :

http://handakafunda.com/sbi-po-o...

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Abhilasha G, Sr. Blogger (2015-present)

Updated May 25, 2018 · Author has 202 answers and 934k answer views

Originally Answered: Which book should I prefer for SBI Bank PO Exam?

Being an aspirant of SBI PO Exam, its might be your dream to crack the exam in the
first chance. But as you know it is the not a very easy competitive exam, and there is
also a huge competition from graduates from various fields. So it is very necessary for
you to start a good and smart preparation for the Exam.

Lets know what are the subjects, for which you need to get prepared!!

The SBI PO for the preliminary phase consists of only three exams i.e quantitative
ability, English language and reasoning ability. These three subjects need a lot of hard
work to attain good marks. Because marks of this PRE exam will be the base for you to
enter into the SBI PO Mains exam.

You should visit Eduncle website, where you can find proper study material for all
these subjects. Eduncle also provides practice sets for every subject, to improve your
ability to answer question in the exam within the given time. All the best and have a
look on the study material provided by Eduncle.

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Haris Khan, Deputy Manager at State Bank of India (2019-present)

Answered Feb 21, 2017 · Author has 57 answers and 719.1k answer views

SBI PO exam has certainly become one of the toughest exam to crack, following last
year’s (2016) immensely tough, unexpected and out of the box examination.
Mind you there is no particular book for SBI PO. Believe it or not but this is the harsh
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reality.

But there are few things you can do to steer clear of other candidates.

1. Brush up your basics like anything.

Memorise mathematics tables, formulae.

2. Read newspaper daily without fail.

3. Memorise 10 vocabs daily and revise the previous vocabs before moving onto the
next one.

4. For current affairs refer the below things:-

Read daily GK updates from Bank & Insurance Exams: Syllabus, Preparation, Test -
Gradeup Blog

And

Current Affairs, Reasoning, Quant for Bank Exam, IBPS, RRB, SBI

Write dows all the current affairs points in a copy datewise and revise them daily.

5. For logical reasoning, just understand the concept of puzzles etc, and then practice
them thorugh mock tests.

6. Last but not least, Mock Tests.

I had tried many mock tests from different websites but i found the below two, the
best.

Online Practice & Preparation Platform

Welcome to Practicemock

I will also share my strategy for prelims, if it helps anyone, as this strategy enabled me
to score 63 marks in SBI 2016

Prelims is of duration 60mins, comprising 3 subjects maths, english and reasoning.

For better time management, i attempted maths first, followed by reasoning and at
the end english.

This is because, maths and reasoning have higher accuracy rate, if you attempt 40
ques combined, you should be getting 35+ correct in both of them.

Now, for english, ensure you have 10 mins left, which is enough for english. Attempt
the vocab part in RC, dont even read the comprehension, attempt the fillers, attempt
sentence correction, error finding, synonyms, antonyms only. But be careful of
accuracy. Dont try and guess the answers.

I hope my answers brings you closer to achieving your dream..!!

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Rohit Kumar, Probationary Officer at Bank of India (2019-present)

Updated Apr 5, 2019

Originally Answered: What is the best book for reasoning for SBI PO?

No book is at all required ,,, surprised don't be !!!

Complete the following topics from the source mentioned

Syllogism , inequalities and machine input output from ONLINE GURUJI

you tube channel
 Direction sense , order and ranking , alphabet series from STUDY SMART you
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tube videos.

Puzzles from MERITSHINE n STUDY SMART you tube videos . There is a

complete playlist available for free covering basics to advance.

Now with this your syllabus is well completed .

Moving on to practice part Please religiously follow bankers Adda quizes

available on it's website . There is around a set of 1000+ quizzes solve them.

Please buy any mock test of your choice and practice well.

All the best!!!

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Abinav Gupta, Employee at Chartered Accountants (2017-present)

Answered Nov 23, 2018 · Author has 406 answers and 273.7k answer views

Takshila Learning

There are no best books. You can read all the books you want and still no good would
happen but trust me to read something with understanding and you would get it all
for a long-term information.

If you are here to read the names of the exhaustive books and see what good could
happen after reading them then I am sorry you won’t find it here but what you will
find here is the truth when you start preparing the actual ways to prepare and choose
the right path for your success.

Now, below you will see various ways to prepare for SBI PO

I WILL RECOMMEND THE ONE I FEEL IS BEST IS GENERIC BUT IN THE END IT
ALL YOU WHO HAVE TO DECIDE.

Now as also said “A major part of your clearing exams depend on from where are
you preparing thus one should prepare from the place from where they are able
to understand most of the concepts, now also keeping in mind that this should
not effect their self studying which is nearly impossible as studying in tuition
won’t give you that much time and is this where most of your time should have
been utilized is wasted”

Thus you need to see for yourself that where do you want to prepare from as there are
following ways such as-

Offline Institutes

Free Sources On Google

Online Institutes

These are the following ways through which one can crack IBPS PO depending upon
the way one studies.

If one goes for the first option then he/she will have to bear the following things as
mentioned below -

High fee amount

Similar content as others

Less duration of the courses

Travelling expenses

No self planing strategy

Along with all these problem one might have to face the problem of not having
complete content as these institutes might not complete the content properly
because of being in hurry of completing the course in the duration mentioned .

But if one opts for free sources online they will find mostly the same content over the
internet but there is no conformation that the content will be correct or not also
saying that if the content is there it not sure that it will be in structured form and it
will be providing proper guidance step wise but there is nothing problem in that as
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one always have another option .

Now if you go for the last and best option of Online Coaching Institute then below
mentioned are the things one will have to bear -

Less fee amount

No travelling expenses

Books/E-books

One year validity of course

Active doubt session

Chat support with faculty

Call support

Practical sessions

Now while looking for the some better institutes i came across some names which will
be providing the following benefits and also some other which might not be listed
over here. Thus mentioning below the institute

Takshila Learning

Website- www.takshilalearning .com

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Rupabh Bharti, B.Tech Information Technology & Mathematics, Cluster Innovation

Centre, University of Delhi (2020)
Answered Sep 12, 2018 · Author has 289 answers and 380k answer views

SBI PO is one of the most difficult yet prestigious banking exams to crack. With a
legacy of more than 200 years, SBI is considered as the pioneer of the banking
industry in India. To work with SBI you need to crack the SBI PO with a focused
preparation strategy. Having said that, salary, perks, and allowances associated with
the SBI PO job apart from the prestige and social recognition will make the SBI PO
profile as an exciting career opportunity.

Best Books for SBI PO Exam Preparation:

Books have been the traditional means for building a solid foundation for competitive
exam preparation. These are the recommended books for the written exams:

Best Books for Quantitative Aptitude

Quantitative Aptitude tests are fast becoming the norm for competitive exams in
India. The aptitude questions essentially measure a candidate’s mental numerical
ability, logical formula application and accuracy of calculations. If you haven’t grown
up liking math, quantitative aptitude sections of exams may be nerve-wracking for
you at the start. However, with sufficient test practice, it is very much possible to
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crack them.

Best Books for Verbal Ability

Verbal ability is an important component of competitive exams, especially those

which inherently rely on communication proficiency, like government jobs and
higher education exams. You must have an impeccable sense of the proper word,
sentence and grammar usage to score well in this section. Questions test the
candidates’ prowess in grammar, reading, spelling, word power, error spotting &
correction and reasoning.

Best Books for Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation

Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation are a form of psychometric testing which
is widely used to assess the mental ability of potential candidates. These tests are
specifically designed to test your non-verbal skills.

Best GK and Current Affairs Resources

General Knowledge and Current Affairs is the one topic that universally exists in
almost all important competitive exams as an independent section. Keeping yourself
updated with current happenings is of great significance as it shows your thirst to
know about the happenings of the world at large. There is a misunderstanding among
students that this section is all about rote learning and it is relatively useless in the
future. However, it tests not only your memory but also the ability to connect facts
and link history to the present, understand why certain events are taking place, their
past influence and future implications.

So, I hope this will be helpful in your SBI PO exam journey and make you prepare well
to clear SBI PO Exam.

Good Luck!

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Sreejith Cr, IT fresher

Answered Jun 27, 2017 · Author has 488 answers and 413.6k answer views

This free app will help you prepare for bank examination and it works without
internet.

Aptitude and GK 2017 - Android Apps on Google Play

It includes latest Aptitude, Logical reasoning ,Verbal ability and GK questions and
answers along with detailed concepts and formulas, Interview questions and tips and
Mock tests.

The feature which i found most useful was the Timer it has for each question. It
makes you conscious about time and helps you manage time better during exams.

It is less than 3 MB in size and has 1500+ questions and answers and 250+ interview
questions and tips.

This app is definitely worth a try!

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