Byline: Akshay Raj Singh, Special Correspondent Dateline: Mumbai/New Delhi
"It's not fancy," admits Priyanka Verma (26), who cleared SBI PO in 2024 in her third attempt. "There are no QR codes, no glossy pages. But it teaches you why you fail. The chapter on 'Puzzles' alone has 15 levels. If you finish level 10, you crack the exam."
But what is a good reasoning book in 2025? Is it a static relic of solved papers, or a dynamic algorithm in print? We dove into the Rs. 400-crore test-prep publishing industry to find out. Visit any Patel Nagar market in Delhi or Ashram Road in Ahmedabad, and you’ll see the same spectacle: pyramid-shaped stacks of yellow, orange, and blue paperbacks. The B. Sc. Mathur, the Kiran Prakashan, the Arihant Expert Team. But ask a topper—any topper—for their bible, and one name rises above the noise: A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Aggarwal.
Byline: Akshay Raj Singh, Special Correspondent Dateline: Mumbai/New Delhi
"It's not fancy," admits Priyanka Verma (26), who cleared SBI PO in 2024 in her third attempt. "There are no QR codes, no glossy pages. But it teaches you why you fail. The chapter on 'Puzzles' alone has 15 levels. If you finish level 10, you crack the exam." reasoning book for bank po
But what is a good reasoning book in 2025? Is it a static relic of solved papers, or a dynamic algorithm in print? We dove into the Rs. 400-crore test-prep publishing industry to find out. Visit any Patel Nagar market in Delhi or Ashram Road in Ahmedabad, and you’ll see the same spectacle: pyramid-shaped stacks of yellow, orange, and blue paperbacks. The B. Sc. Mathur, the Kiran Prakashan, the Arihant Expert Team. But ask a topper—any topper—for their bible, and one name rises above the noise: A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Aggarwal. The chapter on 'Puzzles' alone has 15 levels