IBPS AFO Agriculture Field Officer Study Plan 2020

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Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is an autonomous agency involved in recruiting candidates to various Public Sector Banks. The Specialist Officer cadre is one among them. Usually, the notification will be released by November. In this article let us check the IBPS AFO study plan to organize your preparation.

Practice the sectional mock tests for IBPS SO Prelims 2020.

The preparation strategy should cover all the topics within the scheduled time period. As the competition is increasing a tough competition can be expected. A smart plan and its execution will really help the candidate to crack the examination. The revision and time management strategy is very important for these competitive examinations.

IBPS Agriculture Field Officer Exam Pattern

Prelims Exam

Sections	No. of Questions	Total Marks	Duration
Reasoning	50	50	40min
English Language	50	25	40min
Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	40min
Total	150	125	120min

Attempt full-length prelims mock a test of IBPS AFO.

Mains Exam

Professional knowledge related questions will be asked for the main exam. The exam will be having 60 questions for 60 marks. The duration of the exam will be 45 minutes.

Professional Knowledge:

Basics of Crop production
Horticulture
Seed Science
Agronomy and Irrigation
Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Practices
Soil resources
Animal Husbandry
Agroforestry
Ecology
Government Schemes

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IBPS AFO Study Plan

Candidates should give equal importance to the prelims and mains examinations. So, should start the preparation for professional knowledge along with the prelims. Crossing the cut off is required for the prelims. Mains examination will be conducted immediately after the prelim’ result declaration.

Day	Quantitative Aptitude	Reasoning	English Language	Professional Knowledge
Day 1	Practice a full-length mock test of the IBPS SO Prelims and thoroughly check your strong and weak portions. Also, get an idea of the exam pattern.			Refer the Mains question Paper
Day 2	Simplification, Missing Series, Quadratic Inequalities	Order and Ranking	Sentence Improvement	Refer the Mains question Paper
Day 3	Time and Work	Inequality	Cloze tests	Agricultural Current Affairs
Day 4	Simple Interest and Compound Interest, Misc. DI	Directions	Grammar	Horticulture
Day 5	Speed Time Distance, Partnership	Blood Relations	Reading Comprehension	Crop production and Agricultural Practices
Day 6	Profit and Loss,	Coding-Decoding		Varieties of crops
Day 7	Mensuration	Alphabet series and Miscellaneous		Varieties of crops
Day 8	Practice topic-wise mock tests			Preservation techniques of fruits and vegetables
Day 9				Practice topic-wise mock tests
Day 10				Practice topic-wise mock tests
Day 11	Mensuration, Approximation	Box Puzzle, Inequality	Phrasal Verb fillers	Agricultural Current Affairs
Day 12	Pipes & Cistern, Quantity Based	Puzzles- Square Puzzle, short puzzle	Grammar portions	Agricultural Economics
Day 13	Boat & Stream, Wrong Series	Linear puzzles and mixed puzzled	Starters, Inferences, fillers	Types of cropping system
Day 14	Ratio and Proportion, Percentage	Circular arrangement	Sentence rearrangement	Herbicides and pesticides
Day 15	Speed Time Distance, Data Sufficiency, Simplification	Floor Puzzle, Logical miscellaneous	Antonyms- synonyms	Various crop diseases
Day 16	Practice topic-wise mock tests
Day 17	Practice topic-wise mock tests
Day 18	Trains, Misc. DI, Quadratic Inequalities	Month based puzzles and mixed puzzles	Error detection	Soil Resources- Indian soil
Day 19	Time & Work, Approximation	Data sufficiency questions	Sentence rearrangement	Animal Husbandry
Day 20	Profit and Loss, Number system, Missing number series	Revision	Revision	Dairy Technology
Day 21	Partnership, Average, Ages	Input-Output	Word usages and Conjunctions	Ecology and Agroforestry
Day 22	Simple Interest and Compound Interest,	New question patterns from each topic	Idioms and phrases	Rural welfare activities in India-Various schemes
Day 23	Misc. DI, Simplification	Syllogism	Word Replacement	Rural welfare activities in India-Various schemes
Day 24	Averages and Linear Equations	Miscellaneous	Revision	Agricultural Current Affairs
Day 25	Revision	Revision	Revision	Revision
Day 26	Practice full-length mock tests and Previous Question papers.
Day 27
Day 28
Day 29
Day 30

IBPS AFO Study Materials.

Preparation Tips

Use your time wisely. Make a study plan and follow them diligently.
Mock tests are very useful to assess your daily preparations. So, it highly recommended doing short mock tests daily.
Candidates can rely on online platforms like Entri, for IBPS SO prelims mock tests.
Don’t jump over topics, so that, you won’t be able to cover topics thoroughly.
Concentrate and focus on completed topics. Keep the faith and be confident.
Try previous question papers and the new pattern mock tests regularly.

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