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RBSE Prav Voc BFSI study plan

RBSE Prav Voc BFSI · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Banking operations, deposit and lending products, digital banking

  • Map the organisational structure of a scheduled commercial bank branch and label the duties of branch manager, relationship officer, teller and back-office clerk in a simple diagram.

  • Differentiate savings, current, fixed and recurring deposits by eligibility, interest treatment, minimum balance and withdrawal rules, recording each in a comparison table.

  • Trace a retail loan application from enquiry to disbursement, naming the documents collected and the credit checks performed at each stage.

  • Explain how NEFT, RTGS, IMPS and UPI differ in settlement timing, transaction limits and typical use, then match ten everyday payments to the right rail.

  • Compute simple interest, compound interest and CASA ratio for three worked branch scenarios and show each step of the calculation.

Your checkpoint

A one-page branch-product cheat sheet plus a 25-question self-test on deposits and payment rails, scored at 80% or above with every wrong answer corrected in an error log.

Week 2

Banking operations, deposit and lending products, digital banking & Accounting, bookkeeping and financial literacy

  • Compare term loan, overdraft, cash credit and gold loan on security taken, repayment pattern and pricing, and justify which fits a trader, a salaried borrower and a farmer.

  • Classify priority sector lending categories and calculate the PSL shortfall for a branch from a given adjusted net bank credit figure.

  • Apply the accounting equation and double-entry rules to journalise 15 mixed bank and customer transactions with correct narration.

  • Prepare a trial balance and a simple balance sheet from a supplied list of ledger balances and confirm the totals agree.

  • Interpret the main schedules of a bank balance sheet - deposits, borrowings, advances and investments - and explain what each signals about liquidity.

Your checkpoint

A workbook with 30 journal entries and a balancing trial balance, plus a short note interpreting two ratios you computed from the same figures.

Week 3

Financial services and financial markets

  • Outline the roles of RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and assign twelve products - mutual fund, equity, policy, pension and others - to the correct regulator.

  • Distinguish primary from secondary markets and sequence the steps by which an IPO moves from filing to listing and trading.

  • Compare equity, debt, mutual fund and derivative instruments on risk, expected return, liquidity and minimum investment amount.

  • Calculate SIP maturity value, absolute return and the effect of a 1% expense ratio on a five-year mutual fund investment across three cases.

  • Explain how a demat account, a depository participant and a clearing corporation interact when a trade is settled.

Your checkpoint

A regulator-product-instrument matrix covering twelve instruments plus a solved three-case return calculation sheet with the arithmetic shown.

Week 4

Insurance fundamentals, products and claims handling

  • Explain insurable interest, utmost good faith, indemnity and subrogation, and apply each principle to a stated claim scenario.

  • Compare life, health, motor and crop insurance on sum insured basis, premium calculation, standard exclusions and claim documents required.

  • Differentiate term, endowment, ULIP and annuity products and match each to one of three given customer profiles with reasons.

  • Sequence cashless and reimbursement health claim processing, naming the documents needed and the timeline at every stage.

  • Identify five common grounds for claim repudiation and state the disclosure a seller must make so that mis-selling does not occur.

Your checkpoint

A claims walkthrough pack: a completed document checklist for one health and one motor claim, plus a written answer on repudiation self-scored against marking points.

Week 5

Accounting, bookkeeping and financial literacy & Regulatory environment, ethics, KYC/AML and cyber safety

  • Build a personal monthly budget, record 20 real transactions and produce an income-and-expenditure statement with the savings ratio calculated.

  • Compute net interest margin, credit-deposit ratio and CASA ratio from supplied figures and state what each tells a branch manager.

  • Summarise the KYC cycle - identification, verification, risk categorisation and periodic updation - and list the officially valid documents accepted.

  • Apply PMLA reporting thresholds and decide, for four given situations, whether a cash transaction report or a suspicious transaction report is triggered.

  • Recognise six cyber fraud patterns - phishing, vishing, SIM swap, QR manipulation, OTP theft and fake loan apps - and state the correct customer response to each.

Your checkpoint

A KYC and AML desk checklist together with a fraud-response one-pager, both tested by a 20-question quiz scored at 80% or above.

Week 6

Customer service, sales and relationship management in BFSI & Regulatory environment, ethics, KYC/AML and cyber safety

  • Demonstrate the five stages of a consultative sales conversation in a scripted role play, using open questions and completing a written needs analysis.

  • Handle five scripted objections - rate, trust, paperwork, digital access and fear of mis-selling - and record a compliant response for each.

  • Apply fair-practice requirements and the grievance redressal escalation path, including the banking ombudsman route and its timelines.

  • Draft a short suitability note recommending one product to a low-income first-time customer without overstating returns or hiding charges.

  • Explain consent, data minimisation and storage obligations when collecting and retaining customer documents digitally.

Your checkpoint

A written or recorded 10-minute role-play script with a completed needs-analysis form, checked against five fair-practice compliance points.

Week 7

Employability skills, entrepreneurship and work-integrated practice & BFSI sector overview, structure and career pathways

  • Profile five BFSI entry roles - bank clerk or PO, insurance advisor, mutual fund distributor, NBFC field officer, back-office analyst - by qualification, core skills and promotion path.

  • Build a two-page CV and deliver a 60-second self-introduction targeted at one chosen BFSI entry role.

  • Identify one viable micro-enterprise idea for your locality and estimate start-up cost, monthly break-even and working-capital requirement.

  • Match MUDRA loan, Stand-Up India, CGTMSE cover and Udyam registration to four different small-business use cases.

  • Demonstrate workplace etiquette, documentation discipline and teamwork by completing a five-minute simulated branch task with a partner.

Your checkpoint

A career pack containing a one-page CV, a cover note for a named role and a one-page business feasibility sheet with the break-even calculation shown.

Week 8

BFSI sector overview, structure and career pathways & Banking operations, deposit and lending products, digital banking & Financial services and financial markets & Insurance fundamentals, products and claims handling & Accounting, bookkeeping and financial literacy & Customer service, sales and relationship management in BFSI & Regulatory environment, ethics, KYC/AML and cyber safety & Employability skills, entrepreneurship and work-integrated practice

  • Draw the structure of the Indian BFSI sector - RBI, commercial banks, cooperative banks, NBFCs, insurers, capital market intermediaries - and place every player in it.

  • Trace how a rupee travels from a saver's deposit to a borrower's loan and mark where each regulator and intermediary sits along the way.

  • Re-attempt the two weakest topic quizzes from weeks 1 to 6 and push each score to 85% or higher.

  • Complete two full-length timed mock tests under exam conditions and classify every error by domain and cause.

  • Recite the high-yield numbers from one revision sheet - KYC thresholds, RTGS minimum, PSL targets, claim settlement timelines - without looking.

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock tests with an error log showing every domain at 70% or above, plus a final one-page revision sheet of limits, thresholds and definitions.

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 75% on a 30-question mixed test on banking products and double-entry basics, and produce a trial balance that balances without help.

Week 4: Explain any of the four insurance principles and any claim timeline aloud in under two minutes each, and score at least 75% on a 25-question insurance set.

Week 6: Complete the role-play and KYC/AML quizzes at 80% or above, and show a fraud-response sheet covering all six fraud patterns.

Week 8: Average 70% or higher across both full mocks with no single domain below 60%, and file the completed error log and revision sheet.