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Ready To Face IBPS Clerk Mains Exam? Kick-Start Your Preparation

IBPS has conducted IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam on 7th and 8th December 2019. Aspirants who have attempted IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam must have analysed their performance. You can check your performance at IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam analysisAfter going through the analysis, a candidate must have recorded their analysis and should be in a position to start their preparation for mains exam. IBPS Clerk Mains Exam is scheduled to be held on 19th January 2020. 

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Not much time is left for the IBPS Clerk Mains Exam. Aspirants who want to pursue their career as a clerk in various Public Sector Banks must not leave a single stone unturned for the upcoming exam. With a total of 12075 vacancies, IBPS is all set to throw new challenges for apsirant as there of thousands of aspirants who are trying their best to get through the IBPS Clerk Exam. 

IBPS Clerk 2019 Mains Exam Pattern:

Before going deep into the preparation guide, let us guide you through the IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Pattern.

Sr. No Name of Tests(NOT BY SEQUENCE) No. ofQuestions MaximumMarks Medium of Exam Time allotted for eachtest (Separately timed)
1 General/ Financial Awareness 50 50 English & Hindi 35 minutes
2 English Language 40 40 English 35 minutes
3 Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude 50 60 English & Hindi 45 minutes
4 Quantitative Aptitude 50 50 English & Hindi 45 minutes
Total 190 200 160 minutes

Important Note – Marks obtained by the candidates in the Main examination will be considered for shortlisting for final merit list.

There will be negative marking for every wrong answer in both Preliminary and Main Examination for which there is a penalty of ¼ or 0.25 of the marks assigned to the particular question.

IBPS Clerk Mains Preparation Tips

Every government examination demands patience and consistent hard work. When we talk about IBPS Clerk Exam, it has huge vacancies and the level of prelims examination is generally moderate, so lakhs of aspirant attempt this exam. We have come up with IBPS Clerk Mains Preparation Tips:

Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude Section Strategy

  • The trick to attempt the maximum number of questions in the 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 the 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 solve and proceed with moderate and difficult puzzles in a similar way.
  • Computer Aptitude is a subject that many students are already good at. Although not many questions are asked from computers, as an aspirant yearning to score maximum in the exam, you should revise this subject too.
  • For Computer Aptitude, you need to be familiar with the basics of computers and proper definitions. You can refer to the computer capsule available on Bankersadda and Adda247 App for quick revision.

English Language Section Strategy

  • The trick to scoring in the English section can vary from one person to another depending on his/her strengths and weaknesses.
  • If you are good at vocab and reading then attempt the reading comprehension first and proceed with Cloze Test and other miscellaneous topics like Error Detection, Para Jumbles, Phrase Replacement, Double Fillers, etc.
  • But if you are good at grammar, attempt Reading Comprehension in the end.
  •  Reading comprehension too should be attempted in a way that you attempt questions based on vocab and phrases first and then the questions that need a deeper penetration through the paragraphs.
  • The important topics for cloze test are subject-verb agreement, preposition, and verbs. These topics may help you do some other questions too that will be based on grammar. So make sure that you have these topics on your fingertips when you are to attempt the examination.

General/ Banking/ Economy Awareness Section Strategy

  • So much is happening every day that unless you keep yourself abreast of these changes you cannot adjust yourself to them or tackle the GA section of any exam smoothly and easily.
  • To save your precious time, we provide you with an alternative that is Adda247’s “Daily GK Update” (Available in both Hindi and English languages) that contains only the news that is important from the point of view of competitive examinations. It contains all the news that is likely to be asked in the IBPS Clerk Mains  Examinations.
  • Avoid the habit of ignoring the everyday news, telling yourself that you will do it in the end when the examinations are close, you only end up lying crushed under a pile of news.
  • You can go through the Monthly Capsules provided by Bankersadda for both Current Affairs as well as Banking Awareness.

Data Analysis & Interpretation Section Strategy

  • The trick to scoring marks in Quantitative Aptitude 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 remaining few questions will be based on miscellaneous topics like CI & SI, Time and Work, Pipes, and Cisterns, Partnership, etc.

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