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Greetings,
I am Abhishek Kumar from Bhubaneshwar, India. I recently got selected in NIACL AO and would like to share my story with you.
I did my B.tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIST, Berhampur. I passed out in April 2016, so I’m basically a fresher. During my campus recruitment drive, I was selected in Infosys and Capgemini India, and I was supposed to join both these companies in the month of May and June respectively.
But IT was not a sector that I wanted to get into. So, I told my parents that I want to pursue a career in banking and insurance and hence, rejected both the job offers and started my preparation from the month of June.
Leaving 2 jobs was not an easy decision to make. They say “A bird in hand is worth two in the bush” for a reason. I had 2 in my hands, but then you cannot get everything in life. I knew preparing for the exams while doing a job would be a difficult task. And it made no sense to me to do that since anyway I wanted to work in the bank or insurance and not IT. Almost all friends of mine where against my decision, but then it was my choice to make and I got all the necessary support from the right quarters, my family!
I started my preparation with a sight on the upcoming SBI PO-2016 exams. I cleared the prelims successfully, scored almost double the cut off in English, Quant’s and Reasoning, but missed out on general awareness by 2 marks. It was a heart-breaking moment. It would have been a great story to tell- clearing the prestigious PO written exams in the first attempt itself. But I guess I had a different story to tell!
Until then, I had never heard of bankersadda. It was only after failing in the mains section that I started looking for new ways and means of preparation and then got to know about it. From then on, I worked really hard on my general awareness section in particular.
The thing about these exams is that, you need to give 3-6 months of complete dedication to strengthen your quant, reasoning and english skills. Once you have done that, you don’t really need to keep preparing this section chapter-wise. Solving mock papers on a regular basis, along with the topics that your weak in will give you enough practice for them, so all you really need to be looking to prepare hard after that is the general awareness paper. That I think is the right strategy.
The next exam that I appeared for was BOB PO. I did well in the written exam, cleared it and started preparing for the interview. In the meantime, I also wrote the exam for BOM, IBPS, IPPB and NIACL. I got selected in Bank of Baroda and was supposed to join in the first batch starting in december, 2016; but again, I took the decision to not take up that job( since it involved a 9 month course first, which was also offered by BOM whose exam I’d cleared. So, if nothing works out, I could join that). I had my eyes set at IBPS and so took the hard decision of leaving BOB.
Next, I had the interview for BOM. Sadly,when I went for the interview, I was informed that I wasn’t eligible for the post because of an issue with my marksheet,and so I was sent back without my interview being taken.
That was an extremely frustrating moment. I had left 3 job offers. It was already 6 months since I was at home, I was counting on this interview since the process for IBPS takes a long time, and then I was sent back without an interview being conducted.
Immediately after that, I had my interview for IBPS PO. I was really scared, I was also the first candidate to be interviewed on that day, so I wasn’t confident at all. But I guess I performed decently and was pretty satisfied with my interview.
Next, I had the interview for NIACL. I gave it my best shot, but I was not fully satisfied with my performance, and didn’t have very high hopes. As I was waiting and waiting for the results of IBPS PO to come, the results for NIACL were announced and I had made it.
It was a very proud moment for me and my family. It had not been easy for them to explain to dozens of people who kept questioning them what their son is doing sitting at home when people of his age are busy working. I guess it was all worth it in the end!!
I owe a lot of my success to bankersadda, from their app to their youtube channel to the sheer amount of content available on the website, it is all anybody needs to excel in these exams. And I would urge all aspirants to stick to it and make full use of it and do well.
Not all decisions in life are going to be easy. Some of them will really make you question “Is this something that I really want so badly that I am willing to leave everything else behind?” Don’t lose heart when people question you, mock every decision you take, show no confidence in you and give suggestions of what to do instead. It’s just you and you alone who has to live with the choices you make, and nobody else. The same people who question you at each step will come heaping praise on you once you have become successful.
So, choose wisely and don’t let anything or anyone come between you and what you wish to achieve in life.
Thank you!
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