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IBPS RRB GBO study plan

IBPS RRB GBO · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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.

Week 2

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%.

Week 3

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.

Week 4

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.

Week 5

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.

Week 6

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.

Week 7

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.

Week 8

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%.