How to prepare for bank exams at home free

Set up a place and a time

Home study fails most often for practical reasons, not lack of ability. Before you open a single question, fix two things.

• A place. A table, a chair and a wall to face. Not the bed. If the house is busy, early morning or late evening may be the only quiet hours; use them.
• A time. The same slot every day, written down. "Whenever I get time" turns into "never" within two weeks.

Tell the people at home what your slot is. Most families are supportive once they know a phone call or errand can wait for two hours.

Two home timetables

If you are a student or not working

If you work full time

The working professionals' plan goes further for people with jobs.

What to use, all free

• Practice: about 5,950 questions with solutions across 76 topics. Thirty topics generate new questions so practice does not run out.
• Notes: each syllabus topic has study notes you can read before practising.
• Mocks: Prelims, Mains, sectional, 30-question mini and custom tests.
• Plan: the 8-week plan for Prelims.
• Reference: a 282-term banking glossary and 129 answered candidate questions in the FAQ.

Outside the site, a daily newspaper or reliable news site is the only other thing you truly need, for current affairs in Mains.

A weekly rhythm that keeps you honest

Daily practice builds skill. Weekly tests show whether the skill is actually there. Keep this rhythm:

1. Monday to Thursday: topic practice, one new topic every two or three days.
2. Friday: a sectional mock in your weakest subject.
3. Saturday: a full Prelims mock (or a mini mock in the first month).
4. Sunday: review the week's mocks, clear the mistake book, rest.

Staying on track without a teacher

At home there is nobody checking on you, so let numbers do it. Every Sunday, write three lines in a notebook: your mock score, your weakest topic on the dashboard, and how many days you studied that week. If the number of days drops below five two weeks in a row, the timetable is too ambitious. Shrink it rather than giving up on it.

Distraction is the other enemy. Put your phone in another room during practice and mocks. If you use your phone to study, turn off notifications for the session.

When motivation dips, which it will around week three or four, look at your accuracy on the dashboard over the past month. Slow, real progress is easier to see on a chart than in your head.

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