CG Apex Bank Recruitment study guide
CG Apex Bank Recruitment · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The CG Apex Bank Recruitment exam is the selection test used by Chhattisgarh's apex cooperative bank - the state-level cooperative institution that sits above the district central cooperative banks and the primary agricultural credit societies - to fill officer and staff posts. Candidates are typically graduates with a background or interest in rural credit, cooperative banking, and state-level administration, and the test screens for both general aptitude and familiarity with the cooperative and rural banking environment. The CG Apex Bank Recruitment study guide has 8 sections and about 2,638 words.
01English Language
The English section tests whether you can read a passage on banking, policy or the economy and answer precisely, and whether your grammar would survive an official letter or a circular. Expect reading comprehension (usually one long and one short passage), error spotting, sentence improvement, para jumbles, cloze test, fillers, synonyms/antonyms and idioms.
362 words, about 2 min02Reasoning Ability
This section tests structured thinking under time pressure, not general intelligence. The recurring types are syllogism, blood relations, direction sense, order-ranking, coding-decoding, inequalities, alphanumeric series, linear and circular seating, floor/box/scheduling puzzles, input-output and data sufficiency.
331 words, about 2 min03Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability
The numerical section rewards speed on standard templates: simplification and approximation, number series (missing and wrong term), quadratic equations, percentage, ratio, average, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time-speed-distance, time and work, pipes and cisterns, mixtures and alligation, partnership, ages, elementary probability and mensuration, plus data interpretation on tables, bars, pie charts and caselets. Percentage change is always measured on the original base.
313 words, about 2 min04General Awareness / Current Affairs
This section is a six-to-eight month news window filtered through a banking lens: RBI policy and circulars, the Union Budget and Economic Survey, appointments and resignations, schemes and their ministries, summits and host cities, awards, sports, defence exercises, indices and reports, and Chhattisgarh-specific developments. Policy numbers: repo rate, CRR, SLR, inflation target, GDP growth and fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP.
318 words, about 2 min05Computer Knowledge / Computer Aptitude
Questions here are short and definitional, with a few aptitude items: hardware and software, generations of computers, memory and storage units, operating systems, MS Office and shortcuts, internet and browsers, networking basics, databases and cyber security. Units: 8 bits = 1 byte; 1 KB = 1024 bytes; 1 MB = 1024 KB; 1 GB = 1024 MB; 1 TB = 1024 GB.
305 words, about 2 min06Banking Awareness / Financial Awareness
This section checks the regulatory skeleton of Indian banking: the RBI Act, 1934 and Banking Regulation Act, 1949, monetary policy tools, the structure of commercial and cooperative banking, priority sector lending, asset classification, deposit insurance and payment systems. Monetary policy: the MPC has six members (three from RBI, three nominated by the Government), meets at least four times a year, and targets CPI inflation of 4% with a ±2% band.
325 words, about 2 min07Regional / State Awareness (Chhattisgarh)
This section tests the state you will work in: formation, geography, tribes, festivals, minerals and the local economy. Questions are usually one line and factual.
333 words, about 2 min08Professional / Technical Knowledge (Post-specific)
For officer-level posts in a state cooperative bank, the professional paper blends cooperative banking, accounting, credit and compliance; specialist (IT, agriculture, law) candidates get discipline-specific papers. The general paper rewards precise definitions over depth in any one area.
351 words, about 2 min