Failed in IBPS Clerk 2 Interview

Can you provide me some questions for preparation of IBPS or Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Clerk Interview section as I have failed in my 1st attempt and do not want to take a chance next time?

[shikha]

Some questions for preparation of IBPS or Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Clerk Interview section are as follows:

1. I can see you’re entrepreneurial, but you want to work in banking. Why is that?

2. What attracts you to a career in banking?

3. What kind of lifestyle do you expect to have in banking?

4. Why have you chosen banking over consulting?

5. Do you know what you’re letting yourself in for?

6. What would you be doing if you weren’t in finance?

7. Do you know about the investment banking lifestyle? Why don’t you have a problem with it?
8. What are some of the most significant deals our bank has completed in the last 12 months?

9. What is our current stock price?

10. What do you think this bank’s biggest regulatory threats are at the moment?

11. What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of this business/division?

12. What differentiates our firm?

13. Who’s our major competitor? How do we measure up? What are the risks and opportunities we face?

14. Tell me everything you know about our business model.

15. Which area of our business is strongest?

16. Who’s our CEO?

17. What do you think this position requires, and how well do you match those requirements?

18. Why should we hire you?

19. What do you think this job entails?

20. How many pigs are there in China?

21. A snail climbs a 10 foot pole. It climbs three feet every day and sleeps at night. While sleeping, it slides down by one foot. When does it reach the top?

22. You have eight red socks and 11 blue socks in a drawer. They are identical but for the colour. You must select your socks in the dark. How many socks, at a minimum, must you take out of your sock drawer before you have a matching pair?

23. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average/FTSE as of today’s opening bell?

24. What is the Bank of England base rate/Fed funds rate as of this morning?

25. What’s the different between prop trading and market-making? (We have an explanation of this here).

26. Why would you or would you not invest in Apple?

27. What are your opinions on the Greek crisis? What’s going on in China?

28. Where are the 1-year, 5-year, and 10- year Treasury yields?

29. Would you invest in UK real estate now?”

30. What do you think is going to happen with interest rates over the next six months?

31. What has the market been doing? Why? What do you think it will do in the coming 12 months?

32. Tell me about some stocks you follow. Why should I buy them?

33. What does the yield curve look like now?

34. What major factors drive M&A? What are the major factors driving M&A in your sector? How do you see them evolving in the next year?

35. Where is the market (for bonds/equities/FX) going?

36. How would you hedge against the risk of a Greek default?

37. Where do you see the euro in 2018?

38. Walk me through a deal you did in the past six months.

39. Walk me through your CV/resume without looking at it.

40. Why did you leave your last position?

41. What have been your failures and what have you learned from them?

42. What are your proudest accomplishments?