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For IBPS PO aspirants

An IBPS PO plan that runs the whole calendar, not one exam.

PO, Clerk, RRB and SO cycles overlap through the year. A daily routine that keeps running between notifications beats a series of scrambles.

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Banking preparation has an unusual shape. Notifications arrive through the year, PO and Clerk and RRB and SO cycles overlap, and each has its own Prelims and Mains. Most candidates end up preparing in bursts — intense for a month before each exam, then drifting until the next notification.

The syllabus barely changes between them. What changes is the calendar.

Plan the season as one continuous run instead.

How the planner builds your IBPS PO plan

You tell it:

  • The exam you're preparing for
  • Your exam date
  • How many hours a day you can study, and when you usually study

The AI builds a daily routine of timed sessions across Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English, Banking and Economy Awareness and Computer Aptitude, weighted towards the topics that appear most in previous papers. Preparing for several IBPS exams? Add each one as its own exam with its own date.

A typical IBPS PO study day

  • Weakest section first — at your sharpest hour, because sectional timing caps you there.
  • Reasoning block — puzzles, seating arrangement, syllogism, input-output, coding-decoding.
  • Quant block — arithmetic, DI, number series, quadratic comparison.
  • English — reading comprehension, error spotting, para jumbles, cloze.
  • Banking and Economy Awareness — 20–30 minutes, static plus current affairs.
  • Timed sectional set — against the clock, replicating exam limits.

Why the calendar matters more than the syllabus

If you prepare only in the weeks before each notification, you spend most of every cycle relearning what you already knew. The syllabus is not the bottleneck — retention across gaps is.

Your daily routine keeps running between notifications, and spaced revision brings older topics back automatically, so the month before an exam becomes practice and polish rather than revision from scratch. That is the difference between four attempts in a year and one attempt repeated four times.

Mains asks a different question

Prelims tests speed on familiar patterns. Mains tests whether you can hold a longer, more layered puzzle in your head, and adds Computer Aptitude on top.

Give both a light share of your routine while Prelims is close and a much bigger one once it is behind you. When you switch, rebuild your plan with Plan with AI.

Spaced revision for Banking Awareness

Banking and Economy Awareness is recall, and recall fades. A scheme or ratio learned in month two is gone by month six unless it returns.

Lighthouse Prep brings every topic you study back after 1, 3, 7, 14, 30 and 60 days, with a harder question each time. Across a season with several exams, this is where the compounding actually happens.

Features for IBPS PO prep

  • More than one exam — PO, Clerk and RRB each get their own date and plan; switch between them on Today's Plan.
  • Prelims mock tests — full-length, on the IBPS PO pattern, with sectional timing and negative marking. Your first test is free.
  • A plan from the IBPS PO pattern — sessions weighted towards the topics that appear most in previous papers.
  • Spaced revision — automatic, with harder questions as you master a topic; most valuable across a long season.
  • Focus timer — keeps running when you lock your phone and stops at the scheduled length.
  • Your own sessions — add descriptive writing or interview practice; they run on the same timer.
  • Lumi, your AI mentor — remembers your exam and weak subjects, and checks in when you've gone quiet.

Who this is for

  • Candidates applying across several banking exams in one cycle
  • Repeat candidates who clear Prelims but stall in Mains
  • Working candidates fitting bank prep around a job
  • Anyone who prepares in bursts and loses ground between notifications

Build your IBPS PO plan today

Open the app, add your exam and its date, and start with today's first session.

Frequently asked questions

I'm applying for IBPS PO, Clerk and RRB. Can it plan all of them?
Yes. Add each as its own exam with its own date and plan, and switch between them on Today's Plan. The syllabuses overlap heavily, so practice for one helps the others, and the app has Prelims mock tests for IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk and both IBPS RRB exams.
How should I handle sectional timing in Prelims?
Treat your weakest section as your score ceiling, because sectional limits stop you borrowing time from a strong one. Give it the first block of your day, and sit full-length mock tests on the IBPS PO Prelims pattern, which lock you into one section at a time and apply negative marking, as the real exam does.
What about Reasoning and Computer Aptitude in Mains?
Mains reasoning is a significant step up from Prelims — longer puzzles, more complex arrangements, plus computer aptitude. Once Prelims is behind you, give it daily sessions of its own so it accumulates real hours rather than being treated as more of the same.
Does it cover the descriptive paper?
You can add essay and letter writing to your routine as sessions of their own. They run on the same timer as everything else, so the wastage report shows how much of that time you really spent writing. The planner does not mark your essays, so have someone read a few each month.
How is this different from an SBI PO plan?
SBI leans harder on Data Analysis and has its own descriptive and group exercise stages, while IBPS spreads across multiple banks and multiple exams in one calendar year. The planning problem for IBPS is continuity across a whole season; for SBI it is depth in DI.
Is it free?
Yes. You can build a plan, run the session timer, revise on a spaced schedule and see where your study time went without paying. AI features such as generating study material use credits, and every account starts with 50,000 free.