Foreign exchange, BoP
Commerce + Economics
StrategyStrategy for SEBI Grade A.
Regulator exams give you little time between phases and few seats. Whatever you can’t revise in the last two weeks won’t help you in the exam, so we build everything to be revised.
Study less. Revise more.
- Plan for the last 15 days, not for 4 months
- Read only what you can revise at least 10 times
- Learn it as tables, mnemonics and flash cards
- Write answers early, and get them evaluated
Five rules for SEBI.
SEBI notifications usually leave about 40 days and 11 subjects: roughly 3 days a subject. What not to study matters more than what to study.
- Stay away from bulky material: 2 to 3 days a subject leaves no room for it
- You won’t retain anything you haven’t read 5 to 7 times
- Commerce and Accountancy feel like an extension of engineering: easy concepts and numericals
- For the factual parts, just memorise from the notes
- Market structures fit in one table. Know it by heart
Topics that appear twice in the syllabus.
Revise these more than once. They score in two papers.
Buy-back of shares
Commerce + Companies Act
Bonus shares
Commerce + Companies Act
Rights shares
Commerce + Companies Act
Bonds, derivatives
Commerce + Finance
Monetary and fiscal policy
Finance + Economics
Prepare once, write three exams.
| Subject | RBI Grade B | SEBI Grade A | NABARD Grade A |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Awareness | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Economic and Social Issues / Economics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Finance | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Management | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Agriculture and Rural Development | ✓ | ||
| Accountancy, Costing, Companies Act | ✓ | ||
| English writing (descriptive) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quant and Reasoning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
General stream of each exam, from its latest notification. Preparing for one gets you most of the way to another.
Read the strategy.
Finance
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ReadFinanceFinancial ratios: what RBI and SEBI actually ask
Ratios are now in the RBI syllabus by name. Six things cover 90% of the questions.
ReadSEBISEBI Grade A: 40 days, 11 subjects
About three days a subject. What not to study matters more than what to study.
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