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IBPS AFO Study Materials 2020

by Manu K Sabu
July 9, 2020
in Articles, Banking
Study Materials IBPS SO AFO
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Table of Contents

  • Why Agriculture Field Officers?
  • Structure of the Exam
  • Study with Entri
  • Conclusion

Selection of aspirants towards profession is of two types. One the recruiters may search the hand in the sea to get some fish for their needs. Others will select from those that got filtered with a fishing net or something. Metaphor apart, some jobs will seek their aspirants who have completed any degree to perform well in a general examination. The competition will be very high due to the high number of aspirants. Some of the recruiters may seek their aspirants who have a particular degree or qualification for a job to perform will in a specific examination. Again, the competition will be high. Because the questions often asked are of high professional knowledge and there is no mentor for preparation after the graduation. The IBPS Agriculture Field Officer is one of those kinds of exams in which the competition would be high because of the professional knowledge questions it asks. Through this article we discuss the study materials and resources and methodology needed for IBPS AFO exam.

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Why Agriculture Field Officers?

Agriculture Field officer is the Specialist Officer (SO) that is recruited by the Institution for Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) through a common recruitment process. The main duty of an AFO is to provide financial assistance to the agriculture sector by providing loans, aids and other financial packages to the famers for enhancing their agriculture sector. The Agriculture Field Officer provides rural financial upgradation to the primary sector. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. The persons who only have a 4-year graduation in any of the following subjects:

  •       Agriculture
  •       Horticulture
  •       Animal Husbandry
  •       Veterinary Science
  •       Dairy Science
  •       Fishery Science
  •       Pisciculture
  •       Agri. Marketing & Cooperation
  •       Co-operation & Banking
  •       Agro-Forestry
  •       Forestry
  •       Agricultural Biotechnology
  •       Food Science
  •       Agriculture Business Management
  •       Food Technology
  •       Dairy Technology
  •       Agricultural Engineering
  •       Sericulture

So, when you seek the study materials for the IBPS Agriculture Field Officer you have to look for the exam pattern.

Structure of the Exam

The exam will be conducted in three phases. The first phase is the Preliminary phase and the second phase is the Mains exam and third and final phase is the interview. The preliminary phase will have a exam syllabus as:

The structure of the preliminary exam for AFO

Sr No Name of tests NO of Questions Medium of the Examination Duration of the examination Maximum Marks
1 English Language 50 English 40 Minutes 25
2 Reasoning 50 English and Hindi 40 Minutes 50
3 Quantitative Aptitude 50 English and Hindi 40 Minutes 50
  Total 150   120 Minutes 125

The Structure of the AFO Mains

Sr No Name of tests NO of Questions Medium of the Examination Duration of the examination Maximum Marks
1 Professional Knowledge 60 English and Hindi 45 Minutes 60

So, you need study materials separately for the prelims and mains as the two examinations are of diverse patterns.

Study with Entri

The Entri will help you to sort out this problem of having confused with the resources and preparation for IBPS SO (AFO) preparation through Banking 2.0. It is a revamped structure for the preparation for all the bank exams with customised according to the needs and specifications for each. For example the IBPS SO exam recruits aspirants to 6 specialist posts and one of them is Agriculture Field Officer (AFO). The preliminary is the same for all the posts. So Entri introduces a Look Forward- Look Backward- Look into the paper method for this.

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Look Backward- Banking Foundations classes

This is a special method which is designed for the bank exams of this preliminary kind. The preliminary kind will search in you for the basic concepts and the speed in which you are processing. For that Banking 2.0 course has a banking foundation course that refreshes your past forgotten basics of banking questions. It will help you to look backward. The mains feature of the Banking foundation course in Baking 2.0 is All new Video Classes

All New Video Classes (Banking Foundation Course)

This is something a virtual class program that is designed to understand the basics of the banking concepts of questions handling. The classes will be headed by the well-known faculty of the country. The classes are designed to simplify the basic concepts through video portrayal. The Agriculture Field Officers Preliminary Exam is same as that of any banking preliminary exam so the course will be general and the topic will be general. These general topics will be dealt in a specific way through the all new video classes. The video classes will be followed by a discussion forum in order to clear all your doubts regarding the session

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Look Forward – Study Cards in Banking 2.0

Study cards is something designed for the particular subject specialisation. In AFO concerned preparation it will help you to prepare for the mains. The study card section will enable you to have a revision also. This is one of the major attractive part of Banking 2.0 because the specialisation part is not often offered by any mentors. The look forward section is designed for the mains part. The mains part it is asked the professional knowledge associated with each exam. In this regard it is the Agriculture field Officer. For that mains exam it is most often asked the professional questions that are adhering to the latest decisions of the bank and trends of the current affairs that have decided the banking policies. For example, Mains exam of AFO may ask a question like:

CRI stage is the critical stage of what crop? Click Here for the Answer.

The answers for these questions can only be updated with a professional study graduate in the respective subject. For that Entri imparts the look forward method. Entri will be providing the professional knowledge question set in order to refresh your memory. After analysing the set of professional knowledge questions for the past years Entri analysed that the questions that are often asked in tis section will be associated to the current affairs happening at that time. A current affair happened at that year will be related with the question in any way. So, the current affairs section designed under Banking 2.0 is helpful for each professional knowledge mains exam series.

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Download the Previous Year Question Papers of IBPS SO

Look into the Paper – Mock Tests Series (Prelims)

Look into the paper is something that you can relate in every phase of your studies. Whatever you study you have to keep practice by writing mock test. The mock test will help you to gain speed over solving problems and refreshing your memory also. The more you practice the more you familiarise with the question. This phase is termed as look into the paper. You will be familiarised when you write the exam and you will be felt like you have already look into this question paper before.

 

The third phase of the Banking 2.0 is the mock test it provides. Banking 2.0 has a set 24000 mock test series which can make a beginner into pro by making him taking the tests. Not only test is provided, there is a good track of performance and weakness section will be analysed after the mock tests so that you can have a complete progress of yourself.

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Some of the books you may read as study material for Agriculture Field Officer is:

The books relating to:

  •   Soil and its peculiarities
  •   Crops in India and weather
  •   PH Scale and its applicability in soil for Agriculture.
  •   Export and Import of crops in India
  •   Bank packages and policies for Different crop cultivators

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Conclusion

The IBPS SO Officer is the gateway towards the Agriculture Field Officer which is not only a prominent job in the society but also a great social service and helping hand towards the agriculture sector and the farmers in our country. Prepare for the exam with Entri mentoring through Banking 2.0. Keep studying and keep winning.

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