12 Days Study Plan for SBI PO Mains

Published on Friday, July 10, 2015
SBI PO Mains exam call letters are already out. Today I am going to provide step by step study plan to prepare for Mains exam.


As you have avoid General awareness, computer and marketing during your preliminary exam preparation, it's to focus on it. It is a marks rich section.
SBI Mains Study Plan

Day 1

Download previous three month's GK Digest


You cab supplement the above digests by monthly current affairs question banks.

Day 2

Marketing - Read basic marketing concepts. There will be 12-13 questions from Marketing. It is an easy part.

Most important Marketing topics
  • Basics of Marketing
  • Product life cycle
  • Phases of product development
  • BCG matrix
  • Marketing Strategies
  • Market Segmentation
  • Porter model
  • Du-pont model
  • 5 Ps and 5 Cs of Marketing
  • Difference between Marketing and Advertising
  • Types of Marketing
  • Branding
  • Marketing channels
  • Market leadership - Cost leadership, Differentiation
  • Types of markets

Day 3

There will be at least 12-15 questions from Computer awareness section. It will be the easiest part.

Important chapters :-

  • Basics of computers
  • Generations of Computers
  • Generations of computer languages
  • Hardware devices
  • Computer network 
  • Internet threats
Download Computer notes


Day 4

Data Interpretation was toughest part in previous exam.

Practice at least a dozen of all the following types of questions :-
  • Tables
  • Pie - Charts
  • Bar Graphs
  • Line Graphs
  • Double diagram sets
  • Radar diagrams
Follow Data Interpretation series here

Day 5

Practice Seating arrangement, Series, Syllogism, Machine input output chapters 

Download Reasoning tricks PDF


Day 6

Read Vocabulary list (Download Vocabulary list)

Revise English Grammar rules (Download Grammar digest)


Day 7-8-9

Descriptive paper is a decision maker in many case. You need to learn every question type. 


Download Descriptive ebook here


Day 10-11-12

Take at least 5 full length practice. I will start sharing full length practice papers within next 2 days.

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