IBPS Clerk 5h Plan

Seating Arrangement and Puzzles: Linear, circular, and square seating arrangements with directional facing; complex puzzles involving multiple parameters like age, colour, profession - a high-scope reasoning section in RBI Phase I with moderate to high difficulty.

Blood Relations and Direction Sense: Family tree problems, coded blood relations, cardinal directions, shadow-based direction problems, and distance-direction combined questions - direct and scoring if practiced thoroughly.

Coding-Decoding: Letter coding, number coding, mixed coding, sentence coding, and new pattern coding - a speed-intensive section testing pattern recognition skills with increasing complexity in recent exams.

Number System: Types of numbers, divisibility rules, HCF-LCM, unit digit, remainder theorem, and cyclicity - foundational arithmetic with direct formula-based questions.

Percentage and Ratio-Proportion: Percentage conversion, successive percentage changes, ratio applications, proportion, and mixture problems - a frequently used arithmetic concept across many quantitative topics.

Tense, subject-verb agreement, articles (a, an, the), prepositions, conjunctions, voice (active/passive), narration (direct/indirect), and error spotting — grammar fundamentals tested in BITSAT English section.

Synonyms, antonyms, one-word substitutions, homophones, idioms, phrases, and phrasal verbs — contextual vocabulary usage and word power tested through sentence completion and reading passages.

Banking Awareness - RBI and Monetary Policy: RBI functions, monetary policy committee, repo rate, reverse repo, MSF, CRR, SLR, and recent policy changes - the most frequently tested banking awareness area.

Banking Awareness - Public Sector Banks: Nationalized banks, their mergers, capitalization, PCA framework, priority sector lending, and KYC norms - important for banking sector job preparation.