WWW.CAREERPOWER.IN & WWW.BANKERSADDA.COM COMPETITION POWER – NOVEMBER - 2 0 1 6 1 WWW.CAREERPOWER.IN & WWW.BANKERSADDA.COM From the Editor’s Desk Dear Readers, Bankers Adda in collaboration with Career Power brings to you Competition Power (November Edition). The reason why this collaboration is so important and a landmark event as both BA and Career Power has had a long and extremely successful association with students appearing for competitive exams. This magazine includes various initiatives that cover various aspects of Banking and SSC exams in an exhaustive manner. Keeping in mind the upcoming exams, we have covered Current Affairs for not only the month of September but also for the month of August under the name “Current Affairs Zinger”. To make learning easy for the students we have also introduced another initiative by the name "NEWS MAKER OF THE MONTH" which covers all the important people, appointments, awards, etc that have made news. Having covered the GK and CA portion in an exhaustive manner, we have also given equal importance and focus to all the other aspects of the exams, be it Covering each aspect of the various subjects (like reasoning, english, quant, computers) right from building the student's concepts to helping him practice a few topics.or be it Interview Preparation or Guidance and boosting the confidence of students. We Have It All Covered!!! Along with this we have also included Mock Papers on IBPS PO MAINS PRACTICE SET, SSC CGL TIER 1 MEMORY BASED MOCK, IBPS PO PRELIMS PRACTICE SET, IBPS CLERK PRELIMS MOCK PAPERS, IBPS RRB PO PRELIMS REASONING PRACTICE SET AND SSC CGL TIER 2 QUANT PRACTICE SET 2016 following the respective exam pattern for practice for our readers, so that they can increase their speed and accuracy. This edition of Magazine also includes a new series named “Twisted Ones”which will have questions with higher difficulty level. Basically this magazine is a one stop place for all those preparing for government sector competitive exams. Within few months of its launch, it has become quite popular among the students, who love to refer to it for their exams. We believe that each and every student has the hidden potential to reach the unattainable heights, and it is our responsibility to provide them with a platform that hones their skills enabling them to overcome each and every challenge that comes their way while appearing for these exams. Having said this I would like to give special thanks to the specialized mentors of Bankers Adda and Career Power team for providing us with the needed support and making this magazine a success. Good Luck And God Bless Team Competition Power !! WHAT’S THERE? Motivational Artilces | 4 Success Story | 9 NEWSMAKERS OF THE MONTH | 5-8 Handy Notes & Quizzes : CURRENT AFFAIRS | 10-38 - Concept of Trains | 39 India In News | State In News | News From The Banking Sector News - Vocablary Corner | 41 Related To Indian Economy | Business News | Agreement | Mou Signed - Prism, Pyramid & Tetrahedron | 42 | Committees In News | - Data Flow Diagram | 44 Ranks And Reports | Pm Visits | New Appointments | Obituaries | - Simple Future Tense | 46 Awards | Defence | Sports News & more - Computer Terminologies | 47 - RBI | 48 - Mughals Part – 1 | 49 GA Trickky Notes: National Parks | 51 GK Hindu Review : September | 52 MOCK PAPERS & PRACTICE SETS | 76-135 Current Affairs Zinger : August | 59 SSC -CGL (TIER-I) Memory Based Mock held on 27.08.16 – 76 Twisted Ones | 70-74 SSC-CGL (TIER-II) : Quant - 82 | IBPS CLERK PRE– 93 DESCRIPTIVE ENGLISH : How to Write IBPS PO PRE - 102 | IBPS PO PRE -113 an Essay | 75 IBPS RRB PO – PRE : REASONING -134 Volume No. -1 November 2016 Issue - 13 Published and Printed by Anil Nagar Published at 705-706, 7th Floor, Roots Tower, Chief Editor: Gopal Anand On behalf of Metis Eduventures Pvt. Ltd. Laxmi Nagar District Centre, Delhi-92 Team: Prashant, Saurabh, Meena, Aniket, COMPETITIONNeeraj, Printed at POWERAll Time Offset – Printer, NOVEMBER - 2Email: 0 1 6 [email protected] 2 Veer, Vandana, Ashish, Swati & Team F-406, Sector-63, NOIDA (U.P.) Website: www.bankersadda.com & Relationship Officer: Rajat Mehra Contact No: 8750044896 www.careerpower.in WWW.CAREERPOWER.IN & WWW.BANKERSADDA.COM Motivational : IF THEY CAN, THEN WHY CAN’T YOU??? The recent results might have left many of you, some of you Ira Singhal is a name which has become a guiding light for every might also have given up the aspirant of Civil Services. But friends, getting selection in IAS was hopes of getting success in not a bed of roses for her. Ms. life. If so, then this article is Singhal in the year 2010 had also definitely going to help you in cleared Civil Services examination getting over this low and but due to her so called ‘disability’, continue the journey towards she was not able to get a posting. success with zeal. If not, then After being unable to get a posting again this article is going to the first time, she fought and won help you keep the negativity spread by some DOOMSAYERS at her case in the Central bay. Obviously, success is not a piece of cake, you’ll have to work Administrative Service and became constant source of hard, push yourself hard in order to move an extra inch ahead. inspiration for all of us. Such mind numbing toil it is! So, are you competent enough to go through this arduous process of transmogrification? Rather Friends, I know that starting from point zero is quite tormenting. than answering this question with some rhetorical phrases and But, the story of Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla might encourage motivational quotes, I would like to introduce some of those, you. Holla was paralyzed completely at the tender age of one. who have successfully answered this complex question with After a regular shock treatment for two years, her upper body their firm actions. got strength but the lower body remained weak. Irrespective of all the anomalies that came in her The usage of the cumbersome adjectives which I have used path, she decided above might have made you think that, in order to go through to live life in the this so called process of ‘transmogrification’ (transformation), best possibly way you have a mountain to and chose to excel climb. But friends, there in sports. She is actually a brave heart, worked hard and who climbed the won gold in 200m shot put, discuss and Javelin throw at the ‘highest’ mountain even 1989 World Masters games in Denmark. She has over 300 after losing one of her medals in her kitty and is also a recipient of Arjuna Award and leg in an accident. After Padma Shri. this tragic incident, she had two choices, one, to Friends you might have noticed that the points that are sit at home and curse life, destiny and god for being rude to her omnipresent in all these success stories of true achievers are and second, to get over it and set an example for generations to ‘Perseverance’, ‘determination’ and ‘Hard work’. Some of them come. She opted for the second one and today, she is the living fought against the system, some had to win over the social example of courage, passion and dedication. Women barriers and some had to conquer their own fear and physical empowerment indeed!!!! And Friends, that’s Arunima Sinha, the impairment in order to achieve success nevertheless, your fight first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest, for you. is still against yourself in furtherance of becoming a betting you. Keep it in your mind that challenge is nothing but an opportunity The childhood of many of us is marked with the Sunday episodes to boost your skills and come out as a souped up person. So, are of Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana and the melodious jingles you ready to change yourself for good? Are you ready to give all of Ravindra Jain complement it takes to be successful? Are you prepared to be brave enough those memories very to accept your flaws and to work towards ameliorating them? If beautifully. Born visually yes, then congratulations! The answer of the question asked in impaired, Jain started singing the beginning of this article is also in positive. So, keep working at a very young age. He hard and pen down your own success story to inspire the challenged his disability, won generations to come. over it and became one of the most notable music directors of his time. All The Best!! COMPETITION POWER – NOVEMBER - 2 0 1 6 3 WWW.CAREERPOWER.IN & WWW.BANKERSADDA.COM NEWS MAKERS OF THE MONTH – SEPTEMBER 2016 Cabinet approves amendments in projects and investments in Vietnam. India has also granted $5 million to set up a software park in the country. the FDI Policy The 12 MoU’s signed Union Cabinet has given ranging from health to its ex-post-facto approval defence to space. India's for the FDI policy L&T will build offshore amendments announced high speed patrol boats by the Government. This for Vietnamese Coast will liberalise and simplify Guards, while an the FDI policy so as to agreement was signed on provide ease of doing programme of cooperation in UN peacekeeping matters. business in the country. The new limits for the FDI are as follows: Indian Navy and Vietnam Navy will cooperate in sharing of white FDI in the defence sector is now permitted up to 100%, while shipping information. The pacts included agreement on earlier 49% FDI was permitted under the automatic route. exploration and uses of outerspace for peaceful purposes, For single-brand retail trading, norms of local sourcing have agreement on avoidance of double taxation, health cooperation, been relaxed for up to three years.