BRBNMPL Online Test common mistakes
BRBNMPL Online Test · Understand the traps and how to avoid them.
Spending disproportionate time on General Awareness questions about Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL) that are obscure, such as exact production figures or subsidiary details, instead of answering the broader banking and note production questions the candidate actually knows.
Candidates assume General Awareness requires deep company-specific trivia and try to recall or reason out facts they never studied, freezing on a single question and losing time for easier questions in other sections.
What to do instead
Before the exam, build a one-page fact sheet on BRBNMPL covering its establishment year (1995), ownership by RBI, role in printing currency notes, and its two presses (Mysuru and Salboni). During the exam, if a company-specific fact is not on that sheet, mark it, guess from context, and move on within 30 seconds. Practise this with a timer on mixed General Awareness sets so the skip becomes automatic.
Treating General Awareness as purely static and ignoring current banking and economic developments, such as recent RBI policy rates, new note series security features, or financial inclusion schemes, that appear in the section.
Candidates rely only on old static GK books and do not follow banking news, so they cannot answer questions that reference the last 6–12 months.
What to do instead
Create a monthly current affairs log focused on RBI circulars, monetary policy, currency management, and government banking schemes. Review it weekly. Use a 10-minute daily news summary from a reliable banking portal and note only exam-relevant items (rates, limits, launches, appointments). Test yourself with 20 current affairs MCQs every weekend.
In Quantitative Aptitude, attempting every question in sequence without scanning for easy wins, leading to spending too long on one complex arithmetic or data interpretation set and leaving simpler questions unattempted.
Candidates follow a fixed order and fear missing questions, so they get stuck on a lengthy calculation or a multi-part DI set and run out of time for straightforward simplification or number series questions.
What to do instead
Adopt a three-pass strategy: first pass answer all direct formula-based and simplification questions (about 10–12 seconds each), second pass tackle moderate arithmetic and DI, third pass return to skipped ones. Before the exam, practise with sectional tests where you deliberately skip any question taking more than 45 seconds. Track your accuracy and time per question to build the habit.
Making calculation errors in simplification and approximation questions by not using BODMAS consistently or by rounding incorrectly, especially with fractions, percentages, and square roots.
Under time pressure, candidates rush mental math and skip writing intermediate steps, so a small slip (e.g., treating 12.5% as 1/7 instead of 1/8) changes the answer.
What to do instead
Memorise standard fraction-percentage equivalents (1/8 = 12.5%, 1/6 = 16.66%, etc.) and practise 20 simplification questions daily with a strict 8-minute limit. Write one intermediate step for each operation, especially when converting percentages to fractions. After each practice set, rework every wrong answer to identify the exact slip.
In Reasoning Ability, trying to solve puzzles and seating arrangements by reading the clues once and attempting to build the arrangement mentally, without drawing a rough diagram or table.
Candidates believe drawing takes too long, but mental tracking of multiple variables (people, floors, colours) leads to confusion, missed conditions, and wrong answers that waste more time.
What to do instead
For every puzzle or seating arrangement, immediately draw the base structure (rows, circle, floor table) and fill clues step by step using symbols (e.g., '>' for above, 'X' for not). Practise 5 puzzles daily with this method and time yourself; after two weeks, the drawing becomes faster and accuracy improves. Never attempt a puzzle with more than two uncertain clues without a diagram.
Assuming a conclusion is true in syllogism questions based on real-world knowledge or by reversing the given statements, rather than applying formal logic rules strictly.
Candidates read statements like 'All pens are books' and automatically think 'All books are pens' or use common sense about the objects, leading to selecting conclusions that do not follow.
What to do instead
Learn and apply the standard syllogism rules: only accept a conclusion if it is true in every possible Venn diagram of the statements. Practise by drawing all possible diagrams for each statement set (minimum overlap, disjoint, subset) and checking whether the conclusion holds in all. Do 15 syllogism questions daily for a week, writing the diagram for each, until the formal method becomes automatic.
In English Language, reading the entire passage first and then answering questions, which consumes time and often leads to re-reading because details are forgotten.
Candidates are taught to read thoroughly, but in a timed exam this leaves little time for grammar and vocabulary questions, and they end up guessing on those.
What to do instead
Use a question-first approach for reading comprehension: skim the questions to identify keywords, then scan the passage for those keywords, reading only the relevant sentences. For grammar and vocabulary, answer directly. Practise with 3 passages weekly using this method, aiming to spend no more than 6 minutes per passage including answering. Track your accuracy to ensure speed does not reduce comprehension.
Choosing answers for fill-in-the-blank and sentence correction questions based on how the sentence 'sounds' rather than checking grammatical rules such as subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, and preposition collocations.
Candidates rely on intuition from spoken English, which often accepts incorrect constructions (e.g., 'one of my friend' or 'discuss about'), and they do not verify the rule.
What to do instead
Revise core grammar rules weekly: subject-verb agreement (especially with 'one of', 'each', 'neither'), correct prepositions after common verbs (discuss, comply, prefer), and tense sequencing. For each practice question, identify the specific rule being tested before selecting an option. Maintain an error log of rules you miss and review it before the exam.
Ignoring the sectional time limits and attempting to carry over surplus time from one section to another, which is not allowed in the actual exam, causing the candidate to leave questions blank in later sections.
In mock tests taken at home, candidates often pause or extend time, so they never experience the pressure of strict sectional cut-offs and fail to develop a per-section pacing plan.
What to do instead
Take at least five full-length mock tests under exact exam conditions, using a timer for each section separately and not allowing extra time. After each mock, calculate the number of questions attempted and accuracy per section, and adjust your pacing strategy (e.g., target 20 questions in Reasoning in 20 minutes). Simulate the pressure by practising with a visible countdown timer.
Neglecting to review incorrect answers from practice tests, simply checking the score and moving to the next test without analysing why the mistake happened.
Candidates equate more practice with better performance, but repeating the same errors without correction does not improve accuracy; they waste time on new questions while old weaknesses persist.
What to do instead
After every practice set or mock, spend at least as much time reviewing wrong and guessed answers as you spent attempting them. Categorise each mistake by cause (concept gap, calculation slip, misread question, time pressure) and write a one-line fix. Revisit these notes weekly and re-attempt the same questions after a few days to confirm the fix. Keep a mistake register for each domain.