NHB Assistant Manager study plan
NHB Assistant Manager · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Reasoning and Computer Aptitude & Professional Knowledge: Housing Finance and Banking Operations
Solve 60 mixed reasoning puzzles (seating arrangement, syllogism, blood relation, direction sense) and log accuracy per puzzle type in a tracker
Build a one-page map of the housing finance lifecycle (origination, appraisal, sanction, disbursement, repayment, closure) with the document required at each stage
Memorise the eligibility and tax-treatment basics of the main individual housing loan variants (home purchase, construction, plot plus construction, home improvement, balance transfer) and self-quiz them
Draft a personal formula sheet for the computer aptitude sub-topics that appear in this exam (number series, coding-decoding, basic networking and MS Office shortcuts)
Your checkpoint
A dated tracker showing 60 reasoning questions attempted with per-type accuracy percentages and a corrected-error log of at least 10 entries
Reasoning and Computer Aptitude & Quantitative Aptitude
Complete 80 arithmetic questions across percentages, ratio-proportion, averages and ages under a 45-second-per-question clock
Learn to identify the fastest solution path for data-interpretation sets (table, bar, pie, caselet) and time yourself on 4 full DI sets
Practise 30 computer aptitude questions on memory units, generations of computers, input devices and shortcut keys
Review every wrong answer from weeks 1 and 2 and rewrite the underlying rule in your own words
Your checkpoint
A timed DI log of 4 sets with total time and accuracy recorded, plus a rewritten rule list covering all errors
Professional Knowledge: Housing Finance and Banking Operations & General Awareness (with focus on Banking and Housing Finance)
Explain in writing how CIBIL/credit-bureau scores are built and how a lender uses them in housing loan underwriting
Summarise the National Housing Bank's role, its refinance and supervision functions, and the mandate of the regulator for housing finance companies
Memorise the key numbers in housing finance (LTV caps by loan size, PMAY-CLSS interest subsidy slabs, priority-sector housing loan limits) and test yourself without notes
Read and note 10 current banking and housing-finance news items with source and date
Your checkpoint
A 2-page handwritten summary of housing-finance institutions, LTV rules and subsidy schemes, scored by self-test at 80 percent or above
Quantitative Aptitude & Professional Knowledge: Regulation, Compliance and Risk Management
Solve 100 quantitative questions on time-work, speed-distance, simple and compound interest, and mensuration with an error log
Build a formula card for SI/CI, EMI, and amortisation and apply it to 10 loan-repayment calculations
List the main prudential ratios a housing finance company must maintain (CRAR, exposure norms, asset classification) and state what each protects against
Classify 15 sample risk scenarios into credit, market, operational or liquidity risk and justify each classification
Your checkpoint
A completed risk-classification sheet of 15 scenarios with justification, plus a quantitative error log showing accuracy improving from week 2
Professional Knowledge: Housing Finance and Banking Operations & Professional Knowledge: Regulation, Compliance and Risk Management
Walk through the mortgage documentation chain (agreement to sell, title search, valuation, sanction letter, mortgage deed, CERSAI registration) and state the risk each step controls
Explain NPA recognition, SARFAESI enforcement and the recovery timeline in your own words, with the key thresholds
Describe KYC/AML obligations for a housing loan applicant and identify red-flag indicators in a sample file
Answer 40 professional-knowledge MCQs under timed conditions and review every miss
Your checkpoint
A one-page process flowchart of the loan-to-recovery lifecycle annotated with the compliance control at each stage, plus a 40-question MCQ score
English Language & General Awareness (with focus on Banking and Housing Finance)
Practise 30 reading-comprehension passages and 40 cloze-test and error-spotting items, recording accuracy by question type
Write 4 formal letters (loan sanction, balance transfer query, NPA reminder, grievance response) in exam-appropriate register
Revise the static general-awareness set (banking history, RBI functions, monetary policy tools, financial inclusion schemes) with spaced self-tests
Memorise 50 high-frequency English vocabulary and idiom items and use each in a sentence
Your checkpoint
A writing portfolio of 4 letters with a self-review checklist, plus a reading-comprehension accuracy figure per question type
Reasoning and Computer Aptitude & Quantitative Aptitude & English Language
Sit 2 full-length mock tests in the actual section order and record sectional timing and accuracy
Analyse each mock and list the top 5 time sinks and the top 5 accuracy leaks with a fix for each
Drill 40 reasoning and 40 quantitative questions drawn only from your weakest sub-types
Complete 2 timed English sections and cut section time to target
Your checkpoint
A mock-analysis sheet for 2 full mocks with sectional scores, time sinks and a written fix for each of the top 10 issues
Professional Knowledge: Housing Finance and Banking Operations & Professional Knowledge: Regulation, Compliance and Risk Management & General Awareness (with focus on Banking and Housing Finance)
Rapid-revise all housing-finance and compliance notes using active recall only, no re-reading
Sit 3 full-length mocks and hold sectional accuracy above your week-7 baseline
Review the entire error log and re-solve every question you got wrong twice
Confirm exam-day logistics and rehearse the section-order strategy you will follow
Your checkpoint
A final mock scorecard across 3 mocks showing sectional accuracy at or above the week-7 baseline, with the error log fully closed out
Milestones
Week 2: Reasoning and quantitative trackers show at least 140 questions attempted in total with per-type accuracy recorded; any sub-type below 60 percent is flagged for week 7 drilling
Week 4: Can state the LTV caps, PMAY-CLSS subsidy structure and core prudential ratios from memory in a 10-minute self-test, scoring 80 percent or above; quantitative accuracy has improved over the week-2 baseline
Week 6: Professional-knowledge MCQ score is at or above 60 percent on a 40-question timed set, and all 4 formal letters are written and self-reviewed
Week 8: Three full mocks completed with sectional accuracy at or above the week-7 baseline and every logged error re-solved and closed