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]]> http://ift.tt/2cM4vug 35 http://ift.tt/2chskL5 http://ift.tt/2c8F1eA Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:30:01 +0000 http://ift.tt/2chrLRA As you know Current Affairs is a very important section to get a good score for Bank and other Exams. Thus, we are sharing with you Current Affairs and G.K. questions for your better preparation which is very important and you can expect similar questions in the exam.
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1. Mariyappan Thangavelu wins India’s first Gold medal at Rio Paralympic Games
Mariyappan Thangavelu has won India’s first gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
He won the gold in the Men’s High Jump T-42 event with a leap of 1.89 metres.
With this, Thangavelu also became the first Indian high-jumper to win gold at the Paralympics.
Bronze in the event also went to India through Varun Singh Bhati, who jumped his personal best of 1.86 metres to finish third.
Note:-
This was India’s overall third gold at the Games and the first after 12 years.
India had won its first ever Paralympics Gold in the 1972 Heidelberg Games through Swimmer Murlikant Petkar.
2. Pankaj Advani wins historic bronze at 6 Red Snooker World Championship
Fifteen-time world champion Pankaj Advani has become the first cueist from India to win a medal at the prestigious Sangsom 6 Red Snooker World Championship as he settled for a bronze after losing the semifinal to Chinese Ding Junhui, in Bangkok.
In the quarterfinals, the Indian received a walkover from Michael Holt who withdrew due to personal reasons.
Books & Authors
3. Novel on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh wins MM Bennetts Award
A Novel based on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh titled “Into the Hidden Valley” authored by Stuart Blackburn has won 2016 MM Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction in the United Kingdom(UK).
The author was presented with this award at the HNS Conference in Oxford.
Into the Hidden Valley explores and portrays the impacts of the forces of colonialism on both sides when this settled civilisation forcibly collides with British Empire.
Honours & Awards
4. T R Zeliang receives Pangkor Dialogue Award in Malaysia
Chief Minister of Nagaland T R Zeliang has received “Pangkor Dialogue Award 2016″ at Ipoh city in Malaysia for the efforts made by the people of the state for environmental preservation and promotion.
Zeliang was awarded by the organisers- Institute Darul Rudzuan and the Malaysian government.
5. Haryana wins Best Horticulture State award
Haryana has won ‘Best Horticulture State’ award of the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) for the concerted efforts made by the state government to increase the income of the farmers in horticulture.
The award was received by Haryana Agriculture Minister OP Dhankar at 9th Agricultural Leadership Summit 2016 in New Delhi.
Science & Defence
6. Indian Coast Guard commissions offshore patrolling vessel ‘Sarathi’ in Goa
Rajnath Singh (Union Home Minister) and Manohar Parrikar (Union Defence Minister) have been commissioned the offshore patrolling (OPV) vessel, “Sarathi” at Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) shipyard at Vasco in south Goa.
It is 105-meter long and is most advanced new generation off-shore patrol vessel.
This vessel is the third in the series of six OPVs built by the shipyard for Indian Coast Guard.
It is designed and built indigenously by Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL).
International Affairs
7. BRICS Wellness Workshop begins in Bengaluru
Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar has inaugurated the two- day BRICS Wellness Workshop at Bengaluru (Karnataka).
The Workshop has been organised by Ministry of AYUSH and Ministry of External Affairs with support of Government of Karnataka.
It will discuss the importance of traditional medicine in contemporary community health care due to its health promotive, disease preventive, curative, rehabilitative and rejuvenation properties.
8. Five-day Haj pilgrimage begins today in Saudi Arabia
The five-day annual Haj pilgrimage begins today.
Millions of Muslims from across the world trek from the holy city of Mecca to assemble in Mina in Saudi Arabia.
They will spend the night there and move towards the plains of Arafat at dawn tomorrow for the day’s main ritual of Haj-reciting prayers.
This year nearly 1, 36,000 Indians are performing Haj .
National Affairs
9. Odisha Govt. launches pension scheme for construction workers
Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik has launched a new pension scheme for construction workers at a function in Bhubaneswar(Odisha).
As per the scheme, the construction workers above 60 years of age will get pension of Rs. 300 per month while workers above 80 years of age will get the pension of Rs. 500 per month.
The widow and disabled construction workers are also eligible to get the benefit of the pension scheme.
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]]> http://ift.tt/2c8EJEz 49 http://ift.tt/2c8154w http://ift.tt/2c8EadG Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:30:28 +0000 http://ift.tt/2chtx5e Blood relation with seating arrangement: These are type of difficult sitting arrangement questions being asked in SBI-PO 2016 Mains & IBPS PO Mains 2015 Exam. An example is shown below:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table. All are A’s relatives as: Brother, Brother-in-law, Sister, Sister-in-law, Mother, Father & Wife.
1. Neither A nor D sit with wife or mother.
2. A’s sister-in-law & sister sit opposite to each other.
3. H isn’t blood relative of A.
4. F sits 3rd to right of B.
5. Neither F nor H, who sits 2nd to left of A, is the wife of A.
6. E, the father sits 3rd to right of brother-in-law.
7. D sits opposite to G, a first generation female, who is not A’s neighbor.
What Exactly Goes Wrong?
Such questions become critical as they are really scoring if solved with correct strategy. But many people don’t attempt such seating arrangement as they can’t find the starting points and connecting dots for such questions.
Due to constraint of time, candidates opt to not to attempt question as they can be really time consuming if not attempted with correct strategy.
What Is Starting Point & How To Find It?
Starting point is important information in the question which, primarily, tells about the position of specific persons. Usually, the question starts with negative information which doesn’t tell the exact position. Remember, Negative information such as “Neither/Nor..” can only give relative positions so it can never be a starting point.
For example, in the example above, the starting point can be:
1. F sits 3rd to right of B.
2. H, who sits 2nd to left of A
Here, we will start with position of B. This gives us 4 possibilities:
3. E, the father sits 3rd to right of brother-in-law. ⇒ this creates 2 additional possibilities for 1st and 2nd:
So far, we’ve got 6 possibilities using Starting Points.
Let’s solve using Connecting Dots.
What are Connecting Dots?
Connecting dots are the little pieces of information in the question that tends to provide further arrangement based on the position of people already seated. Connecting dots in the question above:
1. D sits opposite to G, a first generation female, who is not A’s neighbor.
⇒ G is Mother as she belongs to 1st generation. ⇒ This will eliminate 2a) & 4) possibility and the remaining space is allotted to C.
3. No we know the position of Mother, so we’ll use the info connected with Mother.
Neither F nor H is the wife of A. Neither A nor D sit with wife or mother. ⇒ this eliminates possibility 2b)
4. A’s sister-in-law & sister sit opposite to each other. ⇒ This eliminates 1a) & 1b) possibilities as only 3) possibility has space for two people opposite to each other without any relation tag.
H isn’t blood relative of A. ⇒ H is sister-in-law & F is sister while B is brother(only relation left).
Now we have got the sitting arrangement with properly using Starting Points and Connecting the dots.
Caution:
This can be a bit of time consuming with respect to amount of time we invest in drawing all the possibilities.
1. But if we practice enough and get the hang of how possibilities are made then such questions can easily solved within 7-10 minutes.
2. Always remember to make as many possibilities as possible because accuracy of such questions depends on your ability to imagine the possible positions of various people & striking the correct one in the end after all the conditions have been met.
3. Just keep practicing the possibilities diagram & when you’ll get hang of it, such passages will become easier to solve.
4. Also, try to solve such complicated passages in the last 10-15 minutes after you’ve done all the easy & less-time-consuming part as these passages require un-divided attention which can only be given when we’re not under pressure.
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]]> http://ift.tt/2c8EucL 31 http://ift.tt/2chsz9h http://ift.tt/2c8FlK6 Sat, 10 Sep 2016 11:30:05 +0000 http://ift.tt/2chrNZM Dear Readers,
As you know GD/ PI is starting from 1st September 2016 so in order to help you in this crucial phase of final selection we are with our Group Discussion Preparation Exercise. Hope this will surely help to score more.
In GD & Personal Interview, the panel members or jury will select only those candidates, who will show leadership skill, ability to handle pressure, good command over language and updated on current affairs, Banking & Financial awareness and important events. For those, who are selected for GD & PI round should follow right strategy to Crack GD & PI of SBI PO 2016.
Today’s Topic
Below we are providing you an important topic on which you have write about 100 to 150 words:
Elections are an exercise of Money, not democracy
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As you all know, to qualify BOB exam you need to appear in descriptive test which will be conducted after Online Objective test. The Descriptive test included questions from Essay and Letter writing. So to help you, we are posting 2 topics and you have to write a essay on the topic given by us.
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How to Prepare for Descriptive Test?
More from us: So now we are providing you a topic on which you have to write a letter in the comment section which will be reviewed by us.
Write a letter regarding the non-receipt of call letter.
Write a letter to your friend asking him to take an insurance policy.
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As you all know, next most important exam in banking is IBPS PO & RBI which is going to be held in the month of September & October. We will start focusing on IBPS PO & RBI 2016 Exam. Thus, we are providing you Important Mini Mock test based on Previous Years Question Papers which will help you to get a perfect score in the Exam.
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As you all know, SBI PO exam is over and next most important exam in banking is IBPS PO which is going to held in the month of October. We will start focusing on IBPS PO Mains 2016 Exam. Thus, we are providing you important Quiz on Reasoning which will help you to get a perfect score in the IBPS PO & Other Banking Exams.
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As you all know, SBI PO exam is over and next most important exam in banking is IBPS PO which is going to held in month of October. We will start focusing on IBPS PO Mains 2016 Exam. Thus, we are providing you important Quiz on Quantitative Aptitude which will help you to get a perfect score in the IBPS PO & Other Banking Exams.
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BOB Manipal PO 2016 Exam is round the corner and hope you all are well prepared to crack this one. This exam is similar to every other banking exam and has four sections followed by a descriptive test:
Quantitative Aptitude
Reasoning
English Language
General Awareness
Descriptive Test
Hope you all know the pattern of the exam but here we are providing you the exam pattern once again to make sure that you don’t have any kind of doubt regarding the same.
As we can see that all the sections carry equal weightage and the level of exams is increasing so it becomes essential to score good in all the sections. This can become a bit easier if we know the expected questions from each of the topics beforehand.
In this article we are going to discuss about one of the most crucial sections of any banking Exam. i.e. Reasoning section. 50 questions will be asked from this section and 1 mark will be awarded for every correct answer.
Last year, questions asked from various topics of Reasoning Section are as follows:
Seating Arrangement – 10 questions
Puzzle (Floor based) – 10 questions
Syllogism – 5 questions
Inequality – 5 questions
Data Sufficiency – 5 questions
Coding-Decoding – 5 questions
Logical reasoning – 5 questions
Miscellaneous(Blood relation, ranking, Input-Output) – 5 questions
So let us check out the questions from each of the above mentioned topics one by one:
1. Seating Arrangement –
Directions: Study following information and answer the questions given below:
Eight people – Pawan, Sanjay, Piyush, Ranjeet, Puran, Yogesh, Amit, and Pankaj are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. Each of them is of a different profession – Clerk, Typist, HR, Counselor, Marketing, Accountant, Content Developer and Manager but not necessarily in the same order. Sanjay is sitting second to the left of Yogesh. The Manager is an immediate neighbour of Yogesh. There are only three people between the Manager and Pawan. Only one person sits between the Counselor and Pawan. The Typist is to the immediate right of the Counselor. Pankaj is second to the right of Yogesh. Ranjeet is the Manager. Piyush and Puran are immediate neighbour of each other. Neither Piyush nor Puran is a Counselor. The Marketing is to the immediate left of Sanjay. The Accountant is second to the right of the Typist. The Content Developer is an immediate neighbor of the Counselor. Piyush is second to the right of the Clerk.
Q. Who is sitting second to the right of Pawan?
The Accountant
Piyush
The Counselor
Sanjay
Yogesh
Solution:
So Piyush is sitting second to the right of Pawan.
2. Puzzle –
Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:
Seven persons B, E, C, S, G, F and I conduct workshop on Developing Production skills in seven different companies J, K, L, M, N, O and P on a different day of the week from Monday to Sunday. The order of persons, companies and days of the week are not necessarily the same.
E organizes workshop in Company M on Wednesday. S does not conduct workshop for companies J or L and conducts on the next day of G who conducts the workshop for Company O. F conducts workshop for Company N on Friday. I conducts workshop on Monday but not for Company L or P. C conducts workshop for Company J but not on Tuesday.
Q. Who conducts workshop on Saturday?
C
S
G
S or G
None of These
Solution:
3. Syllogism –
In syllogism questions, the options should be true in any case. The best approach to solve these questions is that one should always try to prove the option wrong, if the option can’t be proved wrong in any case then it is definitely true.
Direction: In each of the questions below are given two/three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I & II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements: All metals are black.
Some pots are black. No black is thread.
Conclusions: I. At least some thread are pots.
II. All thread being pot is a possibility
III. Some metals are black.
Only I follows
Only II & III follow
All follow
None follows
Only I & III follow
Solution:
Only II & III follow
4. Inequality –
This category has one statement which is followed by more than one conclusion. We have to observe the given statement and then we have to check whether the given conclusions follow or not.
Directions: In these questions, relationship between different elements is shown in the statements. These statements are followed by two conclusions.
Statements :
P >=Q = R; Q < S <=T
Conclusions:
I. S > P
II. T > R
Only conclusion I follow.
Only conclusion II follow.
Either conclusion I or II follows.
Neither conclusion I nor II follows.
Both conclusions I and II follows.
Solution:
‘Only conclusion II follow. ‘
5. Data Sufficiency –
The best thing about data sufficiency questions is that we don’t have to solve the given questions. We only need to find out which statements are required / sufficient to solve the questions. So these questions are easy in comparison to other questions where we have to do the exact calculations.
Directions: Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
Q. Among five friends A, B, C, D and E sitting around a circular table and facing the centre, who is sitting to the immediate left of A?
I. A sits third to the right of B. D is not an immediate neighbour of B.
II. B is an immediate neighbour of C.
The data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
The data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
The data in statement I alone or in statement Ii alone are sufficient to answer the question.
The data in both the statements I and II are not sufficient to answer the question
The data in both the statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.
Solution:
‘The data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.’
6. Coding-Decoding –
These questions have one example and one question. We have to decode the pattern from the given example and apply that pattern for finding the answer for the question asked. These questions are in the paper to check the observation power of individuals. Once we are able to find the pattern, these questions are easiest of all in the section.
Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow :
If ‘A × B’ means ‘A is father of B’.
If ‘A + B’ means ‘A is wife of B’.
If ‘A ÷ B’ means ‘A is daughter of B’.
If ‘A – B’ means ‘A is son of B’.
Q. How is L related to Q in the expression ‘L ÷ M × O – P ÷ Q?
Granddaughter
Niece
Daughter-in-law
Daughter
Cannot be determined
7. Logical Reasoning –
Q. It has been reported in recent years that a very large number of seats in engineering colleges in the country remain vacant at the end of the admission session. Which of the following may be the probable cause of the above effect?
There has-been a considerable decrease in hiring of engineering graduates due to economic slowdown in the recent years.
Students have always preferred to complete graduation in three years, time instead of four years for engineering.
The Govt. has recently decided to provide post- qualification professional training to all engineering graduates at its own cost.
There has always been a very poor success rate among the engineering students.
None of these
Solution:
‘There has-been a considerable decrease in hiring of engineering graduates due to economic slowdown in the recent years. ‘
Economic slowdown affects the hiring of engineering graduates. Due to this reason admissions in colleges has been affected.
8. Miscellaneous –
Few questions from the categories i.e. direction, blood relation and ranking will be asked which can be seen anywhere in the question paper and should be solved instantly because skipping these questions is not a good idea. The reason is that these questions are good for taking stress out and building the confidence.
Q. How many such pairs of letters are them in the word DISTINGUISH, each of which have as many letters between them in the word as they have between them in the English alphabet?
None
One
Two
Three
More than three
Solution:
Hence four such pairs of letters are formed.
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