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IDBI Assistant Manager study plan

IDBI Assistant Manager · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Reasoning and General Intelligence & Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation

  • Solve 60 reasoning puzzles across seating arrangement, floor puzzles, and box puzzles, timing each set of 10 at 8 minutes and logging accuracy

  • Drill 100 simplification and approximation items to build calculation speed without a calculator

  • Memorise tables to 25, squares to 40, cubes to 20, and fraction-percentage equivalents up to one-twelfth

  • Create a one-page error log template and record every wrong answer from the week with its cause

Your checkpoint

A completed error log of at least 40 logged mistakes with cause tags, plus a baseline accuracy percentage for reasoning puzzles and simplification

Week 2

Reasoning and General Intelligence & Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation

  • Solve 50 syllogism and inequality problems using Venn diagrams and the priority rule for coded inequalities

  • Practice 40 data interpretation questions drawn from tables, bar charts, and pie charts, computing percentages and averages mentally where possible

  • Complete 30 number series and 30 quadratic comparison questions under a 20-minute combined clock

  • Review the week-1 error log and re-solve 20 previously wrong questions cold, without looking at the solution

Your checkpoint

A timed mock section of 35 reasoning plus 35 quantitative questions with a scored sheet and a list of the three weakest question types

Week 3

Reasoning and General Intelligence & Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation

  • Work through 40 blood relation, direction sense, and order-ranking questions, drawing a diagram for each before answering

  • Solve 40 arithmetic word problems on time-work, speed-distance, and boats-streams, writing the formula before substituting values

  • Practice 5 mixed data interpretation sets of 5 questions each under a 25-minute total limit

  • Build a formula sheet covering ratio, partnership, and mixture-alligation rules and test recall by reciting it from memory

Your checkpoint

A single condensed formula and shortcut sheet of no more than two pages, validated by solving 10 fresh questions using only that sheet

Week 4

Reasoning and General Intelligence & Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation

  • Complete two full-length timed tests covering reasoning and quantitative aptitude, with strict section time limits

  • Analyse each test by tagging every error as concept gap, calculation slip, or time pressure

  • Re-solve all concept-gap errors and write the corrected method beside each one

  • Increase calculation speed by completing 100 mixed simplification items in 25 minutes

Your checkpoint

A half-way diagnostic report showing section-wise scores from both tests and the count of concept-gap errors reduced between test one and test two

Week 5

English Language & General and Banking Awareness

  • Read two editorial-length passages daily and answer 5 inference and tone questions per passage, justifying each answer with the exact line that supports it

  • Complete 60 error-spotting and sentence-correction items, classifying each error by grammar category

  • Build a vocabulary notebook of 100 words from editorials with usage sentences, focusing on words that commonly appear in banking-awareness passages

  • Compile a dated one-page timeline of major RBI policy actions and banking-sector developments from the past 12 months

Your checkpoint

A grammar-error taxonomy sheet listing at least 10 recurring error categories, each with two original example sentences and corrections

Week 6

English Language & General and Banking Awareness

  • Practice 40 cloze test and para-jumble items, identifying connective and pronoun cues before choosing answers

  • Revise the past-12-month RBI timeline and add key monetary-policy terms such as repo, reverse repo, CRR, SLR, and MSF with current definitions

  • Learn core banking facts: types of banks in India, deposit insurance cover, priority-sector lending basics, and major financial regulators

  • Take one 30-question English sectional test and one 40-question general and banking awareness test, then log errors

Your checkpoint

A 100-item self-made awareness quiz with answer key, scoring at least 75 percent on a closed-book attempt

Week 7

Professional Knowledge (Banking, Finance and Accounting) & General and Banking Awareness

  • Master the accounting equation, double-entry rules, and preparation of trial balance, trading account, and profit and loss account by solving 30 problems

  • Work through 25 questions on balance sheet format, capital versus revenue expenditure, and depreciation methods

  • Study core finance concepts: time value of money, NPV and IRR basics, cost of capital, and types of bank lending products

  • Link professional-knowledge topics to awareness facts by writing 20 short notes connecting a banking term to its accounting or regulatory treatment

Your checkpoint

A one-page balance sheet and P&L format template completed with a fully worked original numerical example, plus 20 linkage notes

Week 8

Reasoning and General Intelligence & Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation & English Language & General and Banking Awareness & Professional Knowledge (Banking, Finance and Accounting)

  • Take three full-length mock tests under exam-day timing and analyse each within 24 hours

  • Revise only the error logs, formula sheet, grammar taxonomy, and awareness quiz from earlier weeks

  • Rehearse a section-order and time-allocation strategy, testing at least two different orders across the mocks

  • Re-solve 50 previously wrong questions across all domains to confirm the fixes hold

Your checkpoint

A final revision pack containing the four condensed sheets and a mock-score trend line showing improvement from week 4 to week 8

Milestones

Week 2: Baseline established: reasoning and quantitative sectional accuracy recorded, and the three weakest question types named

Week 4: Half-way diagnostic shows measurable improvement over the week-2 baseline, with concept-gap errors falling between the two full tests

Week 6: Closed-book awareness quiz scored at 75 percent or above, and English sectional accuracy above the week-2 baseline

Week 8: Mock-score trend across weeks 4 to 8 trends upward, and every domain has at least one condensed revision sheet ready