Bank Exams comprise of the following 4 sections:
• General Awareness
• General English
• Reasoning Ability and any one of
• Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability
Quantitative Aptitude generally forms a part of the exams for higher level posts (For example, Officers Scale – II and higher, Probationary Officers etc) while Numerical Ability is generally a part of Clerical Level Exams.
Here we will discuss How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude of Bank Exams.
1. Types of Questions
To start with this section, one should first get accustomed with all possible types of questions. Once that is done, one will get a fair idea about his/her strength and weakness in that particular area.
Quantitative Aptitude Contains a wide variety of questions from the topics listed below :-
• Questions on Numerical Calculations – This includes Averages, Percentages, Multiplication, Division, Square Roots, Cube etc.
• Questions on Simple and Compound Interest, Profit/Loss etc.
• Questions on Work to Time Relations.
For Example – If 4 people do some work in 6 days then in how many days will 8 people take to do the same work.
• Questions on Data Interpretation (DI) questions.
This is but an important and easy part of Quantitative aptitude paper . These questions are graphical analysis based.
• Questions from Basic Co-ordinate geometry
This includes Lines and circles, Mensuration etc.
2. Practice makes one perfect
Questions in quantitative aptitude are not very tough. The way to success is lots of practice. Practice will help to do proper time management while answering questions.
Easy questions should be answered first so as to leave enough time in the end to handle the more complex ones. The DI (Data Interpretation) questions are easy so they must be done firstly while the compound interest questions take some time so they must be left to be done in the end of the section. Also time should be left for last minute revision.
3. Learning formulae
It is important and necessary to learn all formulae by heart and keep revising them. One can make a formulae sheet and keep practising difficult problems. One should memorize multiplication tables at least till 30, squares and cubes and reciprocal percentages by heart. Feeling comfortable with numbers and calculations is a must to succeed in the quantitative section. This will give one an edge over other students in speedy calculations as speed is a necessity to succeed in Bank examination.
Books & preparation material
• Basic materials like NCERT arithmetic text books from classes VIII to X will help one to get the concepts clear and sound.
• Course materials provided by coaching institutes also can help. They provide comprehensive material for preparation along with enough practice materials.
Wish You all the best !