Hello respected BankersAdda Readers/Followers,
Today, I am going to share my State Bank Of India Probationary Officers-2015 success story with you which started a few months ago. But before that I would like to introduce myself to you guys.
My name is Divya Srivastava, native of Uttar Pradesh. I passed 10th in 2008, 12th in 2010 and B.E. in Electronics Engg. in 2014 with quite a good percentage. I was recruited through campus selection in TCS, a very well known IT company. My career objective was very clear to me since starting – I had to work in some company for sometime then after gaining experience I had to pursue MBA.
So when I got placed in TCS, I was very happy and relaxed. All I had to do is join there. Though I am an Electronics Engg., but i was very much passionate about software sector. So TCS was like a dream job to me. Soon my joining came and I was called to Kerela for my training. With all the hopes and happiness my family sent me there. But it didn’t last long. Due to some mishappening(health issues) I had to return in a week. I couldn't report on my joining date. So within few days I lost my dream job. I tried searching for other jobs, but no job was comparable to my degree and talent and TCS too. I never wanted to compromise with any job in terms of salary especially.
Defeated, I started teaching in a coaching centre coz I wanted to help my family. My mom was adamant that i should prepare for banking. But frankly speaking, banking was the last thing I ever thought of. I was going through a depressing phase, seeing everyone around me working; even my juniors too got placed. I being the topper of my school, college, was jobless. I m an egoistic girl and so this phase was hard for me to deal with. Besides, along with my career, my personal life was also going through ups and downs. I was becoming mentally and emotionally unstable with time. But my family, friends and one more person were there for me, I desperately needed these people around me. For gaining some knowledge on banking and at the same time getting myself engaged, my parents forcibly made me to join a coaching centre. My seniors suggested few websites to me for this purpose – bankersadda.com was one of them. I like this site very much, but I had no idea that it was a coaching centre too. One day I decided to go through comments section too. From there I came to know that this is also a coaching centre and on searching more i found out that it was also in my city –Lucknow. By the time, I was already impressed with the website and also I had made up my mind ki ab shayad banking me hi jana padega....
So i joined Career Power (formerly Bankersadda)... Though I only attended classes for max. 2 months, but it did help me a lot; especially in G.A.
And whosoever says that for cracking bank exams u need to prepare for one year or more, I don’t agree with that... I am not boosting up but with proper strategy, anyone can crack in 2-3 months like i did.. Yes I started my preparation from last week of March, 2015.
I gave total of 6 papers:
1. BOB PO – Manipal : Paper obviously was tough and as it was my first bank exam, I attempted 130 without knowing if it was enough for me to clear the exam. And in Maths I cud attempt very less – jst 11 questions. But thanks to my accuracy that i got full 11 marks, cleared the cutoff.
2. NICL assistant : By the time i have becum bit confident and learnt from my mistake of giving very less time to Maths. So I attempted 179.
3. SBI PO Pre : The most awaited of all – I attempted 70, got 65.
4. SBI PO mains : 131 attempts.
5. IDBI PO : By this time my accuracy and speed was more than even I had expected. I attempted 162 questns. Secured 143 marks. I am really proud of my IDBI performance.
6. RBI Assistant : 188 questions.
I cleared all, including interviews too... Yes this was all so unbelievable for me that in jst few months I got 6 Govt. Jobs and that too in top organisations. And it was all possible through two things – jst two things : My parents and a proper strategy that I made to clear all written exams. Trust me, I never was a hard worker and this time too I didn’t do hardwork. I only discovered that instead of giving time to 1 mark questions, its better if we try to practice bulk wale questions – like DI, simplification and inequalities in Maths; Puzzles, seating arrangement, syllogism, machine I/p and inequalities in Reasoning; Rearrangement, cloze test, errors in English. And for G.A. yes u need a bit of hard work like daily note down the important current affairs – Bankersadda’s daily current affair section is very good for this purpose. I just needed to note it down on a copy.. and revise it once a week or a month. That was enough.
Next phase in any exam is Personal Interview. In SBI PO one more step was there : Group Discussion before PI. I could not prepare it well as I was involved with other exams too. I started feeling nervous as the time came near. The SBI PO interview Capsule provided by Bankersadda was of immense help in PI. And also I went through the Wikipedia Profile of SBI. But what i noticed with the interview experiences of all my exams that in my case since my academics was always good so they concentrated more on my CV. They used to talk to me and ask me various questions on things I had mentioned in my CV.
My GD topic was “Death penalty should be abolished.” I think I did average or satisfactory. I raised some different points and my PI was good.
Finally, after a long wait, results came on 17th October, 2015. Saw my roll number in it and was normal for sometime, I actually couldn't feel if I am happy or what, as honestly again Banking was never my dream, but it was the dream of my Parents, especially my mum. They have really sacrificed a lot and faced lots of financial crisis for this. I was adamant that I would never go for banking, I would join some low salaried Pvt. Job instead of this but at the same they were adamant that they would see me in Govt. Job, and the safest for me was banking according to them. So on hearing the result, they started jumping like kids, my father was all teary-eyed. My whole family – chacha chachi, dada dadi and cousins – all were so much overjoyed that I felt something in me. I don’t know what it was – but it was something that I guess I would never be able to express; I guess it was a sense of satisfaction to see those people happy; For that one moment I completely forgot that IT was my passion – it felt as if Banking was all i have ever dreamt of. And right now I am posted in Lucknow itself for few months as a PO. Its been a week since I have joined And till now it feels that this was all i have wanted. I feel happy and satisfied. Its not that bad. LoL. Its good. The power, the comfort – everything feels good, and more than anything, the proud with which my parents tell people that my daughter is in SBI – is above all......
I don’t know if this has inspired anyone of you or not, but this was all it took for me to become a SBI PO. Credit of this success goes to my Mum, Papa, and one more person whom I didn’t mention earlier, but the person was no less an important part in my success story; My parents sacrificed very much – but one thing that lacked in my motivation to being successful was inspiration and this one person gave me that too- became my inspiration to do something; this one person was always silently behind me motivating and inspiring me for this – these all people stayed by my side through all thick and thin and supported me. I would also want to thank Bankersadda.com, especially respected Vivek Sir, Prajapati Sir, Gaurav Sir and Lal Sir. And friends here who have ever helped me, a big salute goes your way. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
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