English Reading Comprehension asked in various Exams for IPPB,IDBI

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Banking sector reforms in India were introduced in order to improve efficiency in the process of financial intermediation. It was expected that banks would take advantage of the changing operational environment and improve their performance. Towards this end, the Reserve Bank of India initiated a host of measures for the creation of a competitive environment. Deregulation of interest rates on both deposit and lending sides imparted freedom to banks to appropriate price their products and services. To compete effectively with non-banking entities, banks were permitted to undertake newer activities like investment banking, securities trading and insurance business. This was facilitated through amendments in the relevant acts which permitted PSBs to raise equity from the market up to threshold limit and also enabling the entry of new private and foreign banks. This changing face of banking led to an erosion of margins on traditional banking business, promoting banks to search for newer activities to augment their free incomes. At the same time, banks also needed to devote focused attention to operational efficiency in order to contain their transaction costs. Simultaneously with the deregulation measures prudential norms were instituted to strengthen the safety and soundness of the banking system. Recent internal empirical research found that over the period 1992-2003, there has been a discernible improvement in the efficiency of Indian banks. The increasing trend in efficiency has been fairly uniform, irrespective of the ownership pattern. The rate of such improvement has, however, not been sufficiently high. The analysis also reveals that PSBs and private sector banks in India did not differe significantly in terms of their efficiency measures. Foreign banks, on the other hand, recorded higher efficiency as compared with their Indian counterparts.

LIC AAO 2017 Notification of 650 Vacancies

LIC AAO Recruitment 2017 Apply Online for 650 Vacancies of Assistant Administrative Officer Posts at www.licindia.in 

Life Insurance Corporation of India has recently issued an advertisement regarding Recruitment of Assistant Administrative Officer Posts on its official website at www.licindia.in. Like every year, the LIC India is back with another recruitment notification to fill up 650 available posts of Assistant Administrative Officer (Generalist) in various states of India in 2017. The candidates who have passed Graduate Degree, can apply against this recruitment. The LIC India Board is inviting Online Application from young and enthusiastic candidates for selection of deserving candidates as AAO Generalist post.

English Reading Comprehension 4 Asked in Various Exams for IPPB,IDBI

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given.

It is difficult to imaginje the extraordinary number of controls on Indian industry before 1991. Enterpreneurs needed permission to invest and could be penalized for exceeding production capacity. Even with the given investment capacity they had, entering certain areas was prohibited as these were reserved for the public sector. If they had to import anything, they required licences. To get these licences was tough, they had to persuade a bureaucrat that the item was required but even so permission was unvailable if somebody was already producing it in India.

Reasoning Important Puzzles(8) asked in Various Exams for IPPB and IDBI

Puzzle 1:

A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are eight family members sitting around a circular table, facing the centre, but not necessarily in the same order. Each member likes a different genre of music viz. Rock, Metal, House, Jazz, Pop, Trance, R&B, and Folk, but not necessarily in the same order.

A is the head of the family and sits third to the left of wife B. G has two sisters and sits second to the right of his grandfather, who likes listening to Rock. D sits on the immediate left of her brother, who sits in front of his father. F sits between the person who like Metal and the person who like Jazz. Her favorite music genre is Pop. B has two sons and one of the son's like Jazz. H sits in front of her mother-in-law who likes Folk music. E's son likes R&B. C and his sister-in-law like Jazz and House respectively.

English Reading Comprehension 3 Asked in Various Exams for IPPB,IDBI and Other Exams

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questins given below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.

Rural India faces serious shortages – power, water, health facilities, roads, etc. these are known and recognized. However, the role of technology in solving these and other problems is barely acknowledged and the actual availability of technology in rural areas is marginal. The backbone of the rural economy is agriculture, which also provides sustenance to over half the country’s population. The ‘green revolution’ of the 1970s was, in fact, powered by the scientific work in various agricultural research institutions. While some fault the green revolution for excessive exploitation of water and land resources through overuse of fertilizers, it did bring about a wheat surplus and prosperity in certain pockets of the country.

Aptitude High level Data Interpretation (1) Asked in Various Exams for IPPB,IDBI and Other Bank Exams

Directions (Q. 1-5): The following pie-chart shows the percentage distribution of total population of six cities, and the table shows the percentage of males among them.

(Total population of City F = 1526000).

Reasoning Important Puzzles (7) asked in Various Exams for IPPB,IDBI and other Banking Exams

Puzzle 1

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

A, B, C, D, E and F are seated in a circle facing the centre. A and C are seated adjacent to each other and E and B are also seated adjacent to each other. B is to the immediate left of F. There are two persons between D and E. A is not seated adjacent to E.