Morning Shift exam 07/Dec/2013

Dear readers, we are providing some of the General awareness question which was asked in today’s morning shift exam.

Also, share more GK Questions asked, in today’s exam which will be really helpful for candidates, who have yet to appear for the exam.

1.    Who is Francois Hollande - President of France

2.    World water day – 22 March

3.    NPA - Non performing Asset

4.    Joseph Anton: A Memoir authored by - Salman Rushdie

5.    WMO (World Meteorological Organization) Headquarters – Switzerland (Geneva)

6.    One questions related to:

i. Electronic clearing Scheme

ii. PMGSY yojana

iii. BSE Scheme

7.    Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) – Nandan Nilekani

8.    Gravity movie directed by – Alfonso Cuarón

9.    Unclear, oiled currencies are called - mutilated notes

10.  How many bills has passed yet to date in India?

11.  A bank is receiving more CASA deposits, what does it mean? More demand liability on bank

12.  Who won Barclays ATP world tour finals defeating world no.1 - Rafael Nadal - Novak Djokovic

13.  Which country is going to host common wealth summit 2015 – Malta

14.  RBI adjust the credit expansion through - Repo rate,

15.  Future, equity deals in – capital market

16.  Related to money market (choice - which does not comes under money market)

17.  Kempa Gowda airport – Bangalore

18.  Director of Film Gravity: Alfonso Cuarón

05:17 - By Unknown 0

December-Analysis (Both Shifts)

There were 200 questions in the paper, which had to be answered in 120 minutes. There were five sections in all - Reasoning, Numerical Ability, General Awareness, English Language and Computer Knowledge.

Other than the fourth section, where in a candidate had to attempt the section in English Language, all the other sections were available bilingually, that is, in both English and Hindi. Each question had 5 options. There was negative marking of one-fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question for all the sections.

On the whole the difficulty level of the examination ranged from easy to moderate. Numerical ability section and Reasoning section were time consuming and questions were comparatively tricky. Although the questions asked in Reasoning section on 8^th December were comparatively easier than those asked on 7^th December. English and Computer Knowledge sections were easy. General awareness section was moderate.

The pattern of test was as follows:

Section	Total Questions	Max. Marks	Level of Difficulty	Possible Attempts
Reasoning	40	40	Moderate	23-27
Numerical Ability	40	40	Moderate	22-26
General Awareness	40	40	Easy	30-33
English Language	40	40	Easy	30-34
Computer Knowledge	40	40	Easy	32-35
Total	200	200		133-148

Reasoning 

This section was a bit time consuming. The level of questions ranged from easy to moderate to even tricky for sitting arrangement questions. There was no question from Non-Verbal Reasoning just as IBPS PO-III Exam. Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles were time consuming.

The details of the section are as follows:

Topic	Number of Questions
Syllogism	5
Data Sufficiency	5
Seating Arrangement	5
Puzzle	5
Coding-Decoding	5
Alpha-Numeric Series	5
Inequality	5
Miscellaneous	5

English Language

The pattern of this section was in line with the previous exam conducted in Clerical Cadre. The level of the questions was easy. Rearrangement, error spotting, cloze test, phrases were all easy to attempt. With a little practice one can easily score good in this section.

The details of the section are as follows:

Topic	Number of Questions
Reading Comprehensions	10
Rearrangement	5
Cloze test	10
Error Spotting	5
Phrases	5
Fill in the blanks	5

Numerical Ability

This section contained one to two DI, problems on number series, simplification and word problems. DI and number series were easier than word problems that consumed a lot of time. This sections was calculative and the level was moderate.

The details of the section are as follows:

Topic	Section
Number Series	5
Data Interpretation	5-10
Simplification	10-15
Arithmetic	15-20

General Awareness

This section too was easy to attempt. Banking and Economy dominated this section. Nominal number of questions was asked from current affairs. The question were mainly asked from the following topics- Electronic Clearing Service, Money market, Repo Rate, Share market, cheque, lending rates, books and authors etc.

Computer Knowledge 

This section was based on basic knowledge of computers. Questions were very easy. The main areas from which questions were asked are: MS Office, Application Software, Hardware, Software, and Input-Output Units.

05:16 - By Unknown 0

Exam 7/Dec/2013 Evening Shift

Dear readers, we are providing some of the General awareness question which was asked in evening shift exam (7/Dec/2013).

1.    Old mountains in India- Aaravali

2.    Full form of IPO - Initial public offering

3.    Euro shakarov award winner- Malala Yousufzai

4.    RTGS full form – Real Time Gross Settlement

5.    Sting operation  in money laundering by  - Cobra Post

6.    Who inaugurated women bank in Mumbai – PM (Manmohan Singh)

7.    One question on SEBI?

8.    Call money belongs to which market - money market

9.    Author of NO Full Stops in India – Mark Tully

10.  Times of India recently celebrated its __ th years - 175

11.  Where was International Children’s film festival held recently – Hyderabad

12.  Who is the regulator of Banks in India – RBI

13.  ATM identifies customer through - PIN

14.  Buy now pay later option is used for – Credit Card

15.  Cheque containing the subsequent date when it is drawn that cheque is called – Post Dated Cheque

16.  Who played 150^th test on 200^th test of Sachin - Shivnarine Chanderpaul

17.  With which card we can not buy goods and services? – Electronic Cheque

18.  Committee related to worldwide banking – BASEL committee

19.  Dronacharya award given to – Coaches in Sports

20.  Headquarter of Royal Dutch Shell oil company – The Hague, Netherlands

05:15 - By Unknown 0

Shift exam on 8/Dec/2013

Dear readers, we are providing some of the General awareness question which was asked in morning shift exam.

1.    Chairman of 14 finance commission – YV. Reddy

2.    Full form of IFSC code - .Indian Financial System Code

3.    What B stand in Basic – Brazil, South Africa, India & China

4.    RTGS Full form – Real Time Gross Settlement

5.    Ghoomar dance related to which state? – Rajasthan

6.    One question related to:

i. RTGS

ii Cheque

iii. Hedging & Insider Trading

iv. Loss a/c.

7.    Who control future commodity market? - forward market commission

8.    Full form of ECB – External Commercial Borrowings

9.    Director of Laggan movie - Ashutosh Gowariker

10.  World chess championship held in – Tamil Nadu (Chennai) 

11.  Goa (Panji) on which river – Mandovi River

12.  Aadhar card money link a/c – Bank Account.

13.  What Repo does? – Increase liquidity

14.  RIDF is maintained by - Nabard

15.  What is the special drive that maintain the quality of coins and rupees directed by RBI- Currency Chests

05:14 - By Unknown 0