IBPS clerk prelims examination is scheduled to be held on December 2, December 3, December 9 and December 10. It can be a stressful period for even the most hard-working students as it is going to be the examination for a post in a public sector bank through IBPS.
One really needs to make strenuous efforts to get through a fight with lakhs and lakhs of banking aspirants. Do bear it in mind that you need to have a positive mindset to ace this exam as letting the exam nerves get upon you will only spoil your performance in the examination. You can only make the best use of your knowledge if you are unladen. So, try to keep all the negativeness as far as possible and go with a refreshed mind to appear in the IBPS clerk prelims examination.
Here are section-wise tips for all aspirants:
Numerical ability
The trick to scoring marks in numerical ability section is to attempt the questions on quadratic equations, simplification and approximation first and then going for number series. After having attempted all these questions efficiently, go for data interpretation
The number of questions based on DI in the examination can range from 10 to 15. In every DI, three questions are always doable and the rest two are a bit tricky and calculative. The remaining few questions will be based on miscellaneous topics like CI and SI, time and work, pipes and cisterns, partnership, etc
The average time to be spent on this section should be 25 minutes.
Reasoning ability
The trick to attempt the maximum number of questions in Reasoning section in minimum time is to attempt the difficult puzzles in the end
Start with the questions that are not in the form of puzzles, you can choose to start with questions based on inequalities, direction and distance, syllogism, coding-decoding, alphanumeric series, and other random topics
Then try to start with puzzles that appear easy to be solved and proceed with moderate and difficult puzzles in a similar way. This is how you have to manage to attempt this section
Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this section.
English language
If you are good at vocab and reading then attempt the reading comprehension first and proceed with close test and other miscellaneous topics like error detection, para jumbles, phrase replacement, double fillers, etc
To perform well in errors, you need to work on parts of speech, adjective, and subject-verb agreement
Try to do this section within 15 minutes.
