Banks being the most important sector in the economic field, a job in a bank has been a very desirable profession since long. Banks play the role of monitoring the economy of a country. They are the ones who provide credit to the investors and loans to the people which would facilitate overall growth of the country. Bank exams provide a tough task to crack for the people as they focus mainly on the economy and statistics which would be indeed required for the person to control and run a bank perfectly. Like all other competitive exams banks also demand a good knowledge of the general knowledge and also the current affairs but these are mostly based on the banking economics and finance. The people working in banks are expected to know the economic conditions of the world and definitely of India. Otherwise they would be able to deal with the economic problems that they might have to face several times in a day.

* Bank exams basically comprises of things which are mostly same for all the banks. Now with IBPS it’s more common. But you need to be aware about the quantitative aptitude part which has different types of problems in mathematics which cover different types of it. There are also different types of numerical problems that you would be required to crack if you want to get into one of it. Then there will be general intelligence which will cover both verbal and non-verbal parts that will test your thinking and decoding capabilities. These are the areas which you should look to score the maximum. There are also English, banking awareness and computer knowledge. These will check if you are knowledgeable and have to capacity to manage a bank.

* Banking awareness is more of a test of current affairs. The questions basically cover the recent developments that are happening around the world and mainly in India in the economic sector.
* General knowledge is very important for cracking a bank exam. There are three segments where your knowledge will be tested. Banking knowledge and computer are basically what you know. It’s more of a test of how well you know about the field and also English is where you should give the impression that you know.

For cracking bank exams you need to really get a good grip of general knowledge and current affairs apart from maths.