IBPS RRB GBO study plan
IBPS RRB GBO · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude
Take a 45-minute diagnostic of 25 Reasoning and 25 Quant questions and tabulate accuracy topic by topic.
Solve 60 puzzle and seating-arrangement sets (floor, box, month, circular, linear) at a 6-minute-per-set cap.
Drill 300 simplification/approximation questions and 100 number-series questions.
Memorize tables 1–25, squares 1–30, cubes 1–15, and fraction-to-percent conversions up to 1/20.
Open an error log and tag every mistake as concept gap, speed issue, or misread.
Your checkpoint
A diagnostic scorecard plus a 200-question error log in which every logged item has been re-solved correctly once.
Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude
Solve 40 puzzle sets and 60 seating/floor/box arrangements under a 7-minute timer.
Complete 30 Data Interpretation sets across table, bar, pie, and line charts while recording time per set.
Master inequality, syllogism, coding-decoding, blood relations, and direction sense with 25 questions each.
Drill 200 questions on percentage, ratio, average, and profit-and-loss.
Re-attempt every unsolved entry in the error log before adding new ones.
Your checkpoint
30 DI sets and 40 puzzle sets completed, with a time-per-set table and accuracy of at least 80%.
Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning
Solve 25 questions each on simple/compound interest, time-speed-distance, time-and-work, mixture-and-alligation, and mensuration.
Practice 20 input-output sets and 20 data-sufficiency sets.
Take two 30-minute sectional tests each for Reasoning and Quant and record sectional accuracy.
Compress 50 shortcuts into a one-page formula sheet for weekly revision.
Your checkpoint
Two timed sectional tests scored at least 65% each, plus a one-page sheet holding 50 Quant and Reasoning shortcuts.
Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude & General / Banking Awareness
Take two full-length prelims mocks of 80 questions in 45 minutes and analyse every error.
Cover critical reasoning, statement-assumption, cause-effect, and course-of-action with 20 questions each.
Solve 20 probability, 20 permutation-combination, and 20 partnership questions.
Read and note RBI functions, monetary-policy tools, and 100 core banking terms.
Your checkpoint
A prelims mock scored at least 55% with a section-wise time log, plus a 100-term banking glossary.
General / Banking Awareness & Computer Knowledge
Memorize 100 banking terms, the roles of RBI, SEBI, and IRDAI, and monetary-policy instruments.
Cover financial inclusion, priority-sector lending, NPA and insolvency basics, and 30 government schemes.
Revise six months of current affairs from one monthly capsule at 20 items per day.
Drill 150 computer MCQs on hardware, operating systems, MS Office, networking, internet, and DBMS.
Learn 30 keyboard shortcuts and 20 computer-security terms.
Your checkpoint
A one-page banking-awareness sheet with 100 points and 200 computer MCQs attempted at 75% accuracy or better.
English or Hindi Language & General / Banking Awareness & Computer Knowledge
Complete 10 reading-comprehension passages and 100 error-spotting questions.
Practice 50 cloze tests, 50 para-jumbles, and 100 fill-in-the-blank questions.
Revise subject-verb agreement, tenses, articles, prepositions, and parallelism with 20 examples each.
Consolidate a 60-item current-affairs timeline covering the last six months.
Take two 30-minute English or Hindi sectional tests.
Your checkpoint
Two language sectional tests scored at least 70%, plus a 60-item current-affairs timeline and a grammar-rule sheet.
Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude & English or Hindi Language
Take three full-length mains mocks of 200 questions in 120 minutes on alternate days.
Analyse each mock within 90 minutes and list the top 10 weak topics per attempt.
Run 45-minute speed drills in Quant and Reasoning on alternate days.
Re-solve 100 previously wrong questions from the error log.
Your checkpoint
Three mains mocks completed, each with a written error analysis and a weak-topic list trimmed to 10 items or fewer.
Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude & General / Banking Awareness & English or Hindi Language & Computer Knowledge
Take two full-length mocks at the actual exam slot time and stop all new-topic study.
Revise the 50-formula sheet, the 100-term banking glossary, and the 60-item current-affairs timeline.
Re-read the computer one-liners and 30 keyboard shortcuts.
Re-solve the final 100 error-log items and confirm at least 90% are correct.
Fix the sleep schedule and prepare an exam-day checklist for documents and reporting time.
Your checkpoint
A final mock scored at least 60% overall with no section below 50%, plus a one-page revision capsule for each of the five domains.
Milestones
Week 2: All 30 DI sets and 40 puzzle sets logged; average puzzle time at or under 7 minutes and DI accuracy at or above 80%.
Week 4: Prelims mock score at or above 55%, at least one section above 75% accuracy, and at least 400 entries in the error log.
Week 6: Language sectional at or above 70% and Computer plus General Awareness combined at or above 75%.
Week 8: Two final mocks at or above 60% overall, every section at or above 50%, and error-log re-solve rate at or above 90%.