IDBI Assistant Manager study guide
IDBI Assistant Manager · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The IDBI Bank Assistant Manager (Grade A) recruitment exam is the screening test used by IDBI Bank to shortlist candidates for entry-level officer roles in the bank. It suits graduates, often with a few years of work experience or fresh out of college, who want a banking career in areas such as branch operations, credit, treasury or retail banking. The IDBI Assistant Manager study guide has 5 sections and about 1,751 words.
01Reasoning and General Intelligence
Reasoning and General Intelligence checks how fast you can convert verbal conditions into one fixed structure and answer without re-reading the puzzle. The question mix is dominated by puzzles and seating arrangement, syllogism, inequality, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction sense, series (alphanumeric and numeric), order-ranking, data sufficiency and input-output.
359 words, about 2 min02Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation
Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation tests speed with accurate arithmetic plus the ability to read a table, bar, line, pie, radar or caselet and answer ratio, percentage and average questions from it. Recurring topics: simplification and approximation, number series (missing and wrong term), quadratic comparison, percentage, ratio-proportion, average, time-work and pipes, speed-distance, boats, SI/CI, profit-loss, mixtures and alligation, partnership, probability, permutations, mensuration.
335 words, about 2 min03English Language
English Language carries reading comprehension (usually two or three passages), cloze test, error detection, sentence improvement, para jumbles, fillers (single and double), idiom/phrase replacement and synonym-antonym questions. The paper rewards grammar rules applied mechanically more than vocabulary breadth.
317 words, about 2 min04General and Banking Awareness
General and Banking Awareness combines static banking and economic concepts with recent developments - RBI policy decisions, government schemes, appointments, budget and economic survey terms, and financial-sector news from roughly the last six to eight months. Monetary policy is framed by the six-member Monetary Policy Committee (three RBI members including the Governor, three government-nominated), chaired by the Governor, who holds the casting vote.
353 words, about 2 min05Professional Knowledge (Banking, Finance and Accounting)
Professional Knowledge examines banking operations, finance and accounting fundamentals: the accounting rules of double entry, final accounts, bank reconciliation, provisions versus reserves, asset classification and NPA norms, capital adequacy under Basel III, and core banking ratios such as CASA, NIM and CRAR. Double entry: every transaction has equal debits and credits.
387 words, about 2 min