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UP Cooperative Bank study plan

UP Cooperative Bank · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability

  • Memorise the fraction-to-percentage table (1/2 through 1/15) and apply it in 60 timed percentage, ratio and average calculations.

  • Solve 40 simplification and approximation questions in 20 minutes with at least 90% accuracy.

  • Complete 15 number-series and 10 quadratic-comparison sets, tagging every wrong answer by cause (concept, speed, or misread).

  • Derive and write a single formula card covering percentage, profit and loss, ratio, and simple/compound interest, and review it before each session.

Your checkpoint

One 30-question arithmetic sectional scored at 80%+ accuracy within 25 minutes, plus a dated error log with at least 20 entries.

Week 2

Reasoning Ability

  • Solve 12 seating-arrangement and floor/box puzzles, capping each attempt at 6 minutes before checking the solution.

  • Drill 50 syllogism and inequality questions using Venn diagrams and the either-or rule, aiming for 85% accuracy.

  • Work through 30 coding-decoding, blood-relation and direction-sense questions under a 25-minute clock.

  • Convert every unsolved puzzle into a written step-order template you can reuse in the exam.

Your checkpoint

A 50-question reasoning sectional finished in 40 minutes at 70%+ accuracy, with the average puzzle solve time logged at 6 minutes or less.

Week 3

Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability

  • Take two combined reasoning-plus-quantitative sectionals and compare sectional accuracy against week 1 and week 2 baselines.

  • Re-solve every question marked wrong in weeks 1 and 2 without a time limit, then repeat them at exam pace.

  • Practise question selection: in each sectional, skip and mark 8 questions in the first pass and record whether that improved the score.

  • Cut average time per quant question to 50 seconds using approximation and option elimination instead of full calculation.

Your checkpoint

A two-column scorecard showing sectional scores, attempt counts and accuracy for both combined sets, with a written list of the five weakest sub-topics.

Week 4

General Awareness (including Banking and Cooperative Sector)

  • Map the short-term cooperative credit structure from PACS through the District Central Cooperative Bank to the State Cooperative Bank, and state the regulator and supervisor at each tier.

  • List the roles of NABARD, NAFSCOB, RBI and the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in relation to urban and rural cooperative banks.

  • Compile 60 banking-awareness facts covering priority-sector lending targets, CRR/SLR, KYC, NPA classification, and deposit insurance limits, verifying each against a primary source.

  • Self-test the compiled facts with a 50-question quiz and re-learn every fact you miss on the same day.

Your checkpoint

A hand-written or typed 60-fact banking and cooperative awareness sheet plus a 50-question self-quiz scored at 80% or above.

Week 5

General Awareness (including Banking and Cooperative Sector) & Computer Knowledge

  • Build a six-month current-affairs digest covering RBI policy actions, cooperative-sector news, appointments and government schemes, revised weekly.

  • Identify hardware, input/output devices, memory types and number-system conversions, and solve 40 objective questions on them.

  • Practise MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint features plus shortcut keys until you can answer 30 feature-matching questions in 15 minutes.

  • Explain networking basics, internet terminology, malware types and safe-banking practices in your own written notes.

Your checkpoint

A dated six-month current-affairs digest plus a 40-question computer-knowledge quiz scored at 85% or above.

Week 6

English Language or Hindi Language

  • Complete 20 error-spotting and 10 sentence-improvement sets, listing each grammar rule you broke in a revision register.

  • Solve 10 reading-comprehension passages in 45 minutes total, practising skim-then-scan rather than full reading.

  • Drill 100 vocabulary items (synonyms, antonyms, one-word substitutions, idioms) using spaced repetition across the week.

  • Attempt the same language sectional once in English and once in Hindi, then choose the medium that gives the higher accuracy and stick to it.

Your checkpoint

A 60-question language sectional completed in 40 minutes at 75%+ accuracy, plus a decision note naming your chosen exam medium with the supporting scores.

Week 7

Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & General Awareness (including Banking and Cooperative Sector)

  • Sit two full-length mock tests under strict timing and reproduce the actual sectional order and time split.

  • Analyse each mock within 24 hours, classifying every error as concept gap, speed issue or careless mistake.

  • Revise the week 4 fact sheet and week 5 digest, deleting facts you now answer instantly and keeping only shaky ones.

  • Rework the weakest two sub-topics from week 3 using 30 focused questions each.

Your checkpoint

Two full-mock scorecards with section-wise accuracy, cut-off comparison, and an action list of no more than five fixes for week 8.

Week 8

Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & General Awareness (including Banking and Cooperative Sector) & English Language or Hindi Language & Computer Knowledge

  • Take three full-length mocks in the first five days, keeping the last two days free of new mock tests.

  • Revise the formula card, puzzle templates, cooperative-structure map, fact sheet and current-affairs digest once each.

  • Re-attempt only the questions you flagged as wrong in week 7 and confirm each is now solved in under 60 seconds.

  • Fix your exam-day sequence: which section to attempt first, which to skip, and the time cap for each.

Your checkpoint

A written exam-day strategy sheet with sectional time caps and target attempts, backed by three week-8 mock scores at or above the previous best.

Milestones

Week 3: Complete both combined reasoning-plus-quant sectionals; combined accuracy across the two heaviest domains is 70% or higher and every error is logged with a cause.

Week 4: Score 80%+ on the 50-question banking and cooperative awareness self-quiz and correctly draw the three-tier short-term cooperative credit structure from memory.

Week 6: Language sectional score is 75%+ in your chosen medium and the computer quiz from week 5 has been re-taken at 85%+.

Week 8: Three full-length mocks completed with at least two scoring above the assumed cut-off, and a final one-page revision sheet plus exam-day strategy in hand.