For those who are preparing for SBI Clerk
Exam, we are providing here a brief on the pattern of SBI Clerk Exam as well as
some very important tips on how you should tackle this very important exam. You
should remember that with good preparation you can have very good chances of
clearing SBI Clerk Exam because in SBI Clerk Recruitment number of vacancies
generally remains high.
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Pattern
of SBI Clerk Exam:
Test
|
Questions
|
Max Marks
|
General
Awareness
|
40
|
40
|
General
English
|
40
|
40
|
Quantitative
Aptitude
|
40
|
40
|
Reasoning
Ability
|
40
|
40
|
Marketing/Computer
|
40
|
40
|
As you can see that there will be 5 papers of
40 marks each. Total time allowed will be 135 minutes or 2 hours 15 minutes. You
need to qualify each of the 5 papers. There will also be negative marking hence
you have to be very careful while attempting the paper. You can understand
about negative marking and methods to tackle it by clicking here.
Level
of Questions: In SBI Clerk Exam difficulty level of the
questions is not going to be very high. Most of the questions will be straight
forward therefore a well prepared student can solved most of the questions
quickly and with high accuracy.
Time
Management: You should allocate your time in a manner
that you should complete the paper 10 minutes before the time. Last 10 minutes
you should devote towards attempting the remaining questions and towards
checking your answer sheet. You should devote your time like this, General
Awareness 15 minutes, General English 20 minutes, Quantitative Aptitude 35
minutes, Reasoning 35 minutes, Marketing/Computer 20 minutes and the remaining
10 minutes for checking and attempting remaining questions.
Skip
Difficult Questions: There are always a few questions which you
will find difficult to answer so you should not waste time on such questions.
Your first objective should be to solve all the easy questions because so many
aspirants, who do not skip difficult questions, end up with leaving many easy
questions.
Accuracy: You
should attempt your paper with high accuracy particularly in QA & Reasoning
Paper, as you can score very high marks in these sections if your accuracy
level is good. Do not ever made blind guess, attempt those questions on which
you are confident and also attempt those questions on which you are even 50%
sure because negative marking is 25% only.
What
is a safe score? If you can perform well in all sections and
overall if you can manage 65% correct answers than you can have a very good
chance of qualifying. However if you are a well prepared student you can easily
score over 80% in SBI Clerk Exam.
Check
your Answer Sheet: Please take utmost care while filling up the
answer sheer and while giving other information on answer sheet as huge number
of answer sheets are rejected because they are not properly filled in.
Other
important tips:
You should remember that in a competitive exam even a fraction
of mark can change the result so remain 100% focused during the exam and try
to solve maximum questions.
Attempt practice sets daily before the exam and after attempting
the set you should work on those questions which you could not do.
While attempting practice sets try to finish your sets at least
15 minutes before the actual exam time, this will enhance your speed.
Study from quality books only, poor books can spoil your
preparations.
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