SBI CLERK PRELIMS EXAM STRATEGY: HOW TO CRACK SBI CLERK PRELIMS EXAM
As you all know that SBI has announced the requirement for SBI clerk 2021 for 5000+ posts to great relief for young aspirants who are preparing for government jobs during the pandemic. Competition has increased many a folds, but don’t worry dear aspirants, here we are going to help you to solve your all problems and we will also discuss about some section wise exam strategies to crack SBI Clerk Prelims 2021
Reasoning Section:
Reasoning section contains 35 questions of 35 marks in SBI CLERK Prelims, scoring higher marks in reasoning section is very important in any examination, this is the area which will fetch you more marks and make your success an easy sail.
Firstly you should know the layout of the section in each exam. Here we are going to discuss about the layout of reasoning section in SBI CLERK prelims and then we will discuss the strategies to score higher marks in
Reasoning section in SBI Clerk prelims:
| Topics | Expected Weight age |
| Puzzles and seating arrangement | 15 questions |
| Coding Decoding(New pattern) | 5 questions |
| Inequalities | 5 questions |
| Syllogism(expected) | 5 questions |
| Alphanumeric series | 1 questions |
| Alphabet test/Number test | 1-2 questions |
| Miscellaneous(Blood relation, Direction, Ranking) | 2-3 questions |
Strategies for Reasoning section:
First try to solve the section in which you have great command to solve in minimum interval of time with 100% accuracy.
Start your exam section by solving the questions based on inequalities, direction and distance, syllogism, coding-decoding, alphanumeric series, and other such other topics, which are generally less time taking and easy to solve.
Most importantly, do not waste your time to solve lengthy or tricky question at starting. Just by looking at the question, you should realize if it is time taking or confusing, and you can know it only by regular practice.
Secondly, do not hesitate to skip your weak topics or areas in reasoning section.
SBI Prelims Exam is al about time management skills rather than testing your knowledge, so be smart while attempting questions.
Thirdly, make sure to crack sectional cut off in reasoning section, if you are weak in reasoning.
During your regular practice, keep practicing the questions by setting timer on a daily basis to get used to the types of questions as well as time management, so that you can solve as many as you can in short span of time.
Remember, your overall scores depend upon your speed and accuracy, so try to solve the questions with short tricks.
For Tips for solving reasoning section topics we have separate article.
Quantitative Section
Quantitative section contains 35 questions of 35 marks in SBI CLERK Prelims, so while preparing Quantitative Aptitude for SBI Clerk; you must know what are the important chapters or areas. This article will give you an idea about how to crack SBI Clerk Prelims Examination.
Important chapters in quantitative section:
There are mainly 4 chapters in quantitative section those includes 20-25 marks
- Data Interpretation (5-10 questions)
- Simplification (5 questions )
- Number Series (5 questions)
- Quadratic Equation (5 questions)
Chapter wise weight age:
| Aptitude Topics for Prelims | Weight age of Questions |
| Data Interpretation | 10-5 |
| Data Sufficiency | 2-5 |
| Simplification | 2-5 |
| Menstruation | 1-3 |
| Profit and Loss | 1-3 |
| Time and Work | 1-2 |
| Ratio and Proportion | 1-2 |
| Percentage | 0-5 |
| Quadratic Questions | 0-5 |
| Mixture Problems | 1-2 |
Strategies for Quantitative Aptitude section:
Quantitative section is consider time taking, hard and tricky. Understanding the concept becomes quite necessary to solve various types of problems given in this section. So, always focus on one topic at a time and try to solve the different types of questions and mock tests of that particular topic.
From the above chapter wise weight age it is quite evident that Data Interpretation, Simplification, data sufficiency are main areas to focus to get good score. One should understand that skipping this area would mean that your chances of success become very less.
So understanding and know main areas and where we can score marks.
Topics like quadratic equation is also important, if the examiner gives a question set in this area, you can fetch 5 marks easily.
It is important to analysis the question and do not waste your time to solve lengthy or tricky question at starting. By looking at the question, we should come to a conclusion that the question may be time taking and will waste our precious time. You can know it only when you do lot of practice during preparation in regular practice. Aspirants who solve lot of questions and practice mock test can easily find this.
Remember to practice using the timer is the only solution to improve your accuracy and timing.
For tips for solving aptitude section we will meet in another post.
English Section
English quite neglected topic by many aspirants. If one has a good command on English, we can score good percentile in very less time thereby saving time for other sections.
To score maximum marks in English, you should have complete knowledge about syllabus and exam pattern because cracking SBI clerk exam is not a piece of cake therefore you have to be aware of each and every aspect of it. Since you will be given 20 minutes solely for English section, this section can score maximum marks because earlier, students can attempt this section in only 15 minutes.
So start practicing well before the examination, so that you can attempt maximum questions in only 20 minutes with following strategies:
Exam strategy to score maximum marks in English language in 20 minutes:-
- Practice daily vocabulary provided to you in Rankers Hub in various social media platforms like telegram @rankeshub or FB/Instagram, by daily reading these PDF’s you can improve English vocabulary to large extent, along with this you should read newspaper daily for improving your reading skills, which will help you out while attempting Reading Comprehension.
- When it comes to cloze test and fillers, do not read options first, read the sentence, try to get an idea of the theme, after that imagine a word that best suits that blank. Now go through the options, look for the word that can replace the word you thought about.
- You will have to be good at grammar rules for solving error detection part, we know that many of you find it difficult, but knowing rules are important. You can find good number of videos on our YouTube channel Rankers Hub.
(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgHXQvxHQqa19e8NY4qu-iepZC34X5yxL)
- You will have to use common sense at some places like when article ‘an’ is given before a blank, it is obvious that this would be followed by a vowel. These grammatical clues can help you a lot.
- If we talk about parajumble sentences part, one can score well in this topic because we don’t need grammar knowledge in this section however if you find it difficult to solve yet you can answer 2-3 questions e.g. 1st sentence, 2nd sentence and last sentence.
Follow the above guidelines and we are confident that you will definitely succeed.
All the best
