What to Target For IBPS Clerk

Dear Friends,

With IBPS Mains getting over, it is better to set target for upcoming exam. The upcoming exam list contains RBI Grade B, NABARD Assistant and IBPS Clerk Pre. And the most number of students are targeting IBPS Clerk Pre because of the two reasons:

(i) Number of Vacancies

(ii) The level of exam is easy

Friends, you need to understand the level of competition that you are going to face in the clerical exam. In this article you will get to know the important ingredients of the composition of Preliminary exam and you need to be choosy while attempting questions. The IBPS PO Preliminary exam showed various changes in the cut-off as compared to the SBI PO Prelims. Friends, now you need to concentrate more on individual cut off rather than focussing on overall cut off. We have seen many students qualifying in the overall cut-off but failed to clear individual cut-off. Now you should understand the need of the time. Now is the time when you need to implement certain things and the most important one is Smart Planning. Those who have planned it in the IBPS PO Prelims have made it to the mains. Now let us make a section wise strategy that will help us understand the coverage of the Prelims.

English

This subject proved to be the villain of the whole preliminary process. We found many people clearing the overall cut-off but failed to clear individual cut-off. Many students have been asking for the safe score but it becomes more hard to predict anything after what happened in IBPS PO Pre. So let us discuss what will be the role of English section in the exam. Below is the pattern observed for all the Preliminary exam held till now:

The best way to deal with it is to maintain the accuracy and attempt less questions. You should also prioritize your topics as per your convinience. Just make sure what topics you are comfortable with and then go with it. You can choose Cloze test, Antonyms and Synonyms, Error Detection first and then go for the next ones. Coming to the time constraint, we can say 10-15 mins is sufficient and giving more time to this section will not result in more marks. So its better to leave at that point and move forward.

Maths

This is one of the toughest sections of the exam. Regular practice of the questions are required to score smoothly in this section. That pattern for IBPS Clerk will be a bit different from what we saw in other preliminary exam. Below is the diagram depicting the probable topics for IBPS Cler Pre exam.

After looking at the above diagram, you must be thinking whether Quadratic Equation will come in the pre or not. But if it comes in the exam, then it will replace one DI set. This is all that IBPS can play with.

Reasoning

Coming to the favourite subject of all, we can say that IBPS will not play with your mind, specially in Pre. We know what happened in IBPS PO Mains but Pre will be exactly opposite to it. The puzzles will be tough but not as much tough as mains puzzles. Below is the topic wise distribution of Reasoning.

From the above diagram, it is clear that there will not be much difference from the past exams and in fact it will remain closer to the same pattern

The above analysis is based on both previous year pattern and what changes occured recently. It doesn't mean that you have to leave other topics. Just revise all the topics and make sure that you practice regularly. This will help you overcome the pressure. We will keep posting quizzes related to all the upcoming exams because we want to make every moment count.