EMI Calculations and Checklists

Worked EMI, tenure, flat-rate, eligibility, offer comparison, prepayment and balance transfer sums with the arithmetic shown, plus application checklists.

Two personal loan offers with similar headline rates can cost tens of thousands of rupees apart once tenure, fees, insurance and the way interest is calculated are added in. The guides here do the sums step by step so you can repeat them with your own figures: the EMI formula and amortisation, choosing a tenure, converting a flat rate into a reducing-balance rate, how lenders work out how much you can borrow (FOIR), comparing three offers on APR, prepaying to cut EMI or tenure, and when a balance transfer or top-up actually saves money.

Begin with the personal loan EMI calculation guide, which links to everything in this section. The EMI calculator, processing fee and GST calculator and balance transfer calculator use the same formulas, and the offer checklist collects the questions to ask before you accept.

Every figure in a worked example is an illustrative input chosen to show the method, not a rate any lender is offering.

EMI Calculations and Checklists

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