Haryana BSEH Secondary NSQF BFSI study plan
Haryana BSEH Secondary NSQF BFSI · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Banking Operations, Accounts and Banking Products
Distinguish the roles of RBI, scheduled commercial banks, cooperative banks, regional rural banks and payments banks, and state one supervisory or operational function of each
Differentiate savings, current, fixed deposit and recurring deposit accounts by eligibility, interest treatment, withdrawal rules and minimum balance
Walk through account-opening KYC end to end: accepted documents, PAN-Aadhaar linkage, in-person versus video KYC, and periodic KYC updation
Trace how a cheque, demand draft, NEFT and RTGS payment moves through clearing, including cut-off timings and what makes a cheque dishonour
Classify bank offerings into deposits, loans and fee-based services, and state the main income source for the bank in each
Your checkpoint
A one-page comparison table of five account types and three loan products (eligibility, interest type, key charges, when to recommend) plus 25 self-written recall questions answered from memory.
Banking Operations, Accounts and Banking Products & Financial Literacy, Savings and Basic Economics
Compute simple interest, compound interest and a loan EMI from the standard formulas, showing full working for three worked cases
Separate nominal from effective interest and identify processing fee, prepayment penalty, GST on charges and insurance bundling in a given loan repayment schedule
Explain repo rate, CRR and SLR in plain language and predict how a repo rate cut changes deposit rates, loan rates and EMI outflow
Build a monthly budget on a realistic entry-level BFSI salary, allocating for rent, an emergency fund of three to six months' expenses, insurance premium and savings
Your checkpoint
A formula-linked monthly budget sheet plus three solved EMI/interest problems, each with the total interest paid and the effect of a 0.50% rate change shown.
Financial Literacy, Savings and Basic Economics
Distinguish saving, investing and speculating, and calculate the real return on a deposit once inflation is subtracted
Compare a fixed deposit, a recurring deposit, a public provident fund and a debt mutual fund on liquidity, tax treatment and risk
Explain how inflation, purchasing power and the time value of money affect a five-year financial goal, with a numeric example
Identify the government and regulator-backed savings and protection schemes a first-time saver should know (PPF, Sukanya Samriddhi, Atal Pension Yojana, PMJJBY, PMSBY) and their eligibility conditions
Your checkpoint
A one-page 'where should this rupee go' decision sheet mapping four saver profiles (student, young earner, farmer, senior citizen) to suitable schemes, each with a reason and the tax or lock-in catch.
Digital Payments, Financial Technology and Customer Safety
Differentiate UPI, IMPS, NEFT, RTGS and card payments by settlement timing, transaction limits and best-fit use case, and choose the right rail for three given scenarios
Explain UPI mechanics and safety: UPI PIN, device binding, the collect-request approval step and why a PIN is never needed to receive money
Match eight common digital frauds (phishing, vishing, SIM swap, QR-code tampering, fake loan app, OTP sharing, juice jacking, QR refund scam) to the correct defensive action and reporting channel
State RBI's customer liability rules for unauthorised electronic transactions: zero liability, limited liability and the reporting timelines that decide who pays
Review an app's permission list and decide which permissions a genuine banking or payment app needs versus over-collection of contacts, SMS and gallery data
Your checkpoint
A 'fraud to safe action' reference card covering eight fraud types with the exact reporting route (bank helpline, 1930, cybercrime.gov.in) and time limit for each, validated by scoring 18 of 25 on a self-made quiz.
Insurance Fundamentals and Risk Protection & Introduction to the BFSI Sector and Career Opportunities
Explain the principles of insurance - insurable interest, utmost good faith, indemnity, proximate cause, subrogation, contribution and mitigation - each with an original example
Distinguish term life, endowment, ULIP, health, motor, fire and crop insurance by risk covered, basis of sum insured and the exclusions a customer most often trips over
Calculate a term-life and a health premium from given age, sum assured, rate and deductible inputs, and show how raising the deductible lowers the premium
Map five BFSI career routes (bank clerk/PO, insurance advisor, relationship manager, back-office operations, business correspondent) to qualification, entry exam and first promotion path
Assign RBI, IRDAI, SEBI and PFRDA to their regulated entities and name one thing each regulator does not control
Your checkpoint
A career map listing five BFSI roles with entry requirement, starting salary band, one relevant certification and typical progression, plus a fully solved premium calculation attached.
Employability Skills, Communication and Workplace Behaviour & Customer Service, Sales and Relationship Handling in BFSI
Draft and deliver a 60-second self-introduction and a cold-call opening for a savings account pitch, keeping both under the spoken word limit
Convert three product features into customer-benefit statements and defend the difference in a written comparison
Apply a three-step complaint handling routine (acknowledge, act, follow up) to two written customer call transcripts, marking where empathy language is missing
Handle a stated objection ('the interest rate is lower than the other bank') using a need-based response rather than a discount
Apply workplace etiquette: correct email escalation structure, confidentiality of customer data, and the grooming and punctuality expected on a branch floor
Your checkpoint
A scripted 3-minute mock customer call containing an objection and its resolution, self-scored against a six-point checklist with at least five boxes ticked.
Capital Markets, Securities and Investment Basics & Basic Accounting, Book-keeping and Documentation
Distinguish primary from secondary markets, and explain how an IPO, FPO and rights issue each raise capital for a company
Compare equity, debt and mutual fund units on return source, risk and liquidity, and compute the corpus from a two-year monthly SIP at a stated expected return
Read an order ticket: market versus limit order, stop-loss, T+1 settlement, and the separate roles of trading and demat accounts
Record ten given transactions as journal entries, post them to ledger accounts and prepare a trial balance
Detect one deliberate error in a supplied trial balance and state whether it is an error of principle, omission or posting
Your checkpoint
A completed ten-transaction book-keeping set (journal, ledger, trial balance) with the planted error identified and corrected, plus a one-page note on SEBI's investor protection role and SCORES.
Occupational Safety, Health, Entrepreneurship and Green Practices & Banking Operations, Accounts and Banking Products & Digital Payments, Financial Technology and Customer Safety & Insurance Fundamentals and Risk Protection
Sit two full-length timed mock tests weighted to the exam blueprint and score at least 70% on each, logging every wrong answer with its cause
Revise the 30 most-missed facts from the error log across three spaced retrieval sessions, one of them a day later
Apply occupational safety and green practice to a BFSI workplace: electrical and fire safety at an ATM site, ergonomics at a teller counter, e-waste disposal and paperless workflow
Outline a small BFSI enterprise - business correspondent or insurance agency - with licence, initial cost, monthly income estimate and break-even point
Your checkpoint
Two graded mock tests at 70% or above with a complete error log in which every domain appears at least once and every logged item is marked revised or resolved.
Milestones
Week 2: Solve three EMI/interest problems without notes and get all three correct to the rupee; explain out loud, in under two minutes, how a repo rate cut reaches a customer's EMI.
Week 4: Score 60% or above on a self-made 40-question test on domains 3, 4 and 5, with every wrong answer written into the error log with a one-line cause.
Week 6: Deliver the scripted customer call end to end with no more than one prompt from notes, and pass a 25-question quiz on domains 1, 2 and 6 at 70% or above.
Week 8: Two full mock tests at 70% or above each, error log fully reviewed, and the fraud reference card and formula sheet recalled from memory without looking.