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. Lighthouse Prep plans your preparation as one continuous run instead of 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.

Lighthouse Prep plans the season as one continuous run.

How it structures IBPS PO prep

You configure once:

  • Which exams you're targeting this cycle and their dates
  • Stage for each (Prelims, Mains, or full)
  • Daily study hours you genuinely have
  • Your weakest section

The AI plan builds a daily schedule across Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English, Banking and Economy Awareness, Computer Aptitude and descriptive writing — weighted to whichever exam is next.

A typical IBPS PO study day

  • Weakest section first — scheduled when you're sharpest, 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.

Because the planner runs continuously and brings older topics back automatically, 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.

Both get their own scheduled tracks, weighted lightly while Prelims is close and heavily once it is behind you.

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 schedules every topic back at 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 21 days and 60 days. Across a season with several exams, this is where the compounding actually happens.

Features for IBPS PO prep

  • Multiple exams, one plan — PO, Clerk, RRB and SO with separate dates, shared work counted once.
  • Weak-section weighting — because sectional timing makes it your ceiling.
  • Timed sectional practice — separate from learning sessions.
  • Mains tracks — Reasoning & Computer Aptitude scheduled in their own right.
  • Descriptive writing tracking — essays and letters counted over months.
  • Spaced revision — automatic, most valuable across a long season.
  • Focus timer — measures real study time, not desk time.
  • Lumi AI mentor — explains a reasoning pattern or banking concept in plain language.

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, set your exams and target dates, 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, and this is the main reason to plan banking preparation properly. The syllabuses overlap heavily but the exams land at different points in the calendar. Add each as its own exam with its own date; shared Reasoning, Quant and English work counts once, while each exam keeps its own difficulty weighting and target.
How does it handle sectional timing in Prelims?
Timed sectional practice is scheduled as its own session type, separate from learning. Sectional limits mean your weakest section caps your score, so the plan weights time toward it rather than letting you drift toward what you already do well.
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. It gets its own scheduled track so it accumulates real hours rather than being treated as more of the same.
Does it cover the descriptive paper?
Yes. Essay and letter writing are scheduled as a repeating session with a weekly target, and the planner tracks what you have actually written across months rather than what you meant to.
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?
The core planner, timer and revision system are free.

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