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Karnataka Bank PO study plan

Karnataka Bank PO · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 8 hours per week

Week 1

Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & Reasoning Ability

  • Solve 60 arithmetic questions (percentages, ratio-proportion, averages, profit and loss) at a target of 80% accuracy in timed 20-minute sets

  • Build a one-page formula sheet covering percentages, ratios, averages and simple/compound interest, and recite it from memory by day 6

  • Complete 40 seating-arrangement and 40 syllogism questions, logging every wrong answer with its error type

  • Set up a personal error log with columns for topic, error cause and re-test date, and enter the first 50 items

Your checkpoint

A completed arithmetic formula sheet plus an error log containing at least 120 logged questions with error causes tagged

Week 2

Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability

  • Drill 50 puzzles each on floor-based and linear seating arrangements, capping each puzzle at 6 minutes

  • Solve 50 time-speed-distance and 50 time-and-work questions, converting every word problem into an equation before calculating

  • Practice 40 coding-decoding and 40 blood-relation questions in mixed sets to build switching speed

  • Review the week-1 error log and re-solve 30 previously wrong questions without notes

Your checkpoint

A timed mixed set of 50 reasoning questions (puzzles, coding-decoding, blood relations) scored at 80% or better within 40 minutes

Week 3

Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & Reasoning Ability

  • Master data-interpretation sets (tabular, bar, pie, line) by solving 8 full sets of 5 questions each under a 10-minute-per-set clock

  • Solve 40 simplification and 40 approximation questions using squares, cubes and fraction-to-percentage conversions

  • Complete 40 inequality and 40 direction-sense questions with a written step-by-step method for each type

  • Memorize tables up to 25, squares up to 30 and cubes up to 20, testing recall daily

Your checkpoint

Eight completed DI sets with per-set timing recorded, all finished within 10 minutes and at 85% accuracy

Week 4

Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & General Awareness / Banking Awareness

  • Take a full 60-minute sectional mock of Reasoning Ability and a separate 45-minute sectional mock of Quantitative Aptitude, then analyse both question by question

  • Rank the five weakest topics across both sections by marks lost and re-drill 20 questions from each

  • Start a banking-awareness notebook covering the RBI's core functions, monetary-policy tools and key policy rates, updated to the current month

  • Read one financial-newspaper summary daily and note five banking terms with definitions

Your checkpoint

Two sectional mocks completed with a written analysis listing the five weakest topics, marks lost per topic and a corrective drill plan

Week 5

English Language & General Awareness / Banking Awareness

  • Solve 100 reading-comprehension questions across 20 passages, practising skimming the passage before reading the questions

  • Complete 80 cloze-test and 80 error-spotting/sentence-correction questions, recording every grammar rule missed

  • Build a vocabulary log of 100 words from editorials with usage sentences, and revise it daily

  • Cover banking history, nationalization, types of banks and the RBI's organizational structure in the awareness notebook

  • Revise the week-1 to week-4 error logs, re-solving 40 flagged questions

Your checkpoint

A 100-word vocabulary log with example sentences plus a completed grammar-rules checklist of at least 20 rules, each with one solved example

Week 6

English Language & General Awareness / Banking Awareness & Reasoning Ability

  • Write 10 para-jumbles and 10 sentence-rearrangement sets, justifying the correct order in one line each

  • Complete 60 synonym-antonym and 40 idiom questions, adding unknown items to the vocabulary log

  • Study financial-awareness topics: NPA classification, Basel norms, payment systems (UPI, NEFT, RTGS, IMPS) and financial-inclusion schemes

  • Take a 35-minute English sectional mock and analyse every error by rule type

  • Do 30 mixed reasoning puzzles to keep the section warm

Your checkpoint

An English sectional mock scored at 75% or better with an error analysis mapping each mistake to a named grammar or comprehension rule

Week 7

Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & English Language & General Awareness / Banking Awareness

  • Take three full-length mocks of 200 questions in 120 minutes, following a fixed section order and time budget

  • Record per-section attempts, accuracy and time spent for each mock in a tracking sheet

  • Re-solve every question missed in all three mocks, tagging repeat errors

  • Revise the banking-awareness notebook and current-affairs notes for the past six months

  • Tighten the time budget so that Reasoning and Quant each get at least 35 minutes

Your checkpoint

A three-mock performance tracker showing section-wise attempts, accuracy and time, with overall score improving across the three attempts

Week 8

Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & English Language & General Awareness / Banking Awareness

  • Take two final full-length mocks in exam-day conditions, including the on-screen calculator and sectional timing

  • Revise only the error logs, formula sheet, grammar checklist and vocabulary log, with no new topics

  • Rehearse a fixed question-selection strategy: skip any puzzle or DI set that exceeds 90 seconds without progress

  • Review current-affairs and banking-awareness notes for the last two weeks and confirm policy-rate figures are current

  • Sleep and exam-slot routine fixed for the final three days

Your checkpoint

Two final mocks completed with a one-page exam-day strategy sheet stating section order, per-section time caps and skip rules

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 80% on a 50-question timed reasoning mixed set covering puzzles, coding-decoding and blood relations

Week 4: Complete both sectional mocks (Reasoning and Quant) and produce a ranked list of the five weakest topics with a drill plan

Week 6: Score at least 75% on the English sectional mock and show a vocabulary log of 100 words with usage sentences

Week 8: Achieve a rising score across three full-length mocks and finish the last mock at or above the previous best, with the exam-day strategy sheet completed