How to prepare for general awareness paper of bank exams

General awareness is a very important and scoring section in the bank exam paper. Moreover this section can help you to save time for other sections also. General awareness paper is common to both Bank PO and Bank Clerk exam papers. Thus this section must be given priority by all the aspirants of Bank exams.

Now let us analyse the General awareness paper of bank exams. The general awareness paper in banks consists of questions on following topics:

1. Financial Awareness
2. Current Events
3. General Knowledge questions

Questions based on financial awareness include questions regarding banks, banking policies, RBI, mutual funds, SEBI etc. Questions based on current events include latest happenings in various fields like sports, politics, movies, awards etc. General knowledge questions include questions regarding books and authors, general terms etc.

Now let us come to how should you prepare for the general awareness paper? Here are some the tips that will help you in preparing for general awareness paper:

1. Make it a habit to listen to current happenings through news channels or you may use newspapers for this purpose. Among the newspapers Hindu is recommended by most of the banking institutes but I will suggest you to use any reputed newspaper as per your interest.
2. Secondly you should also read reputed magazines like Pratyogita Darpan in order keep your General Knowledge update.
3. You should also practise the old question papers in order to become familiar with the type of questions that are asked in this section.
4. Moreover one of the most commonly asked question in this section is about dates and their importance. Read about the important dates and their importance here.
5. The last thing that must me remembered about the general awareness section is that preparing General Knowledge section is not a matter of one day. It requires time and patience and thus keep working hard with patience.