50+ Error Spotting Questions for IBPS Clerk 2025 with Answers

Error spotting is an easy, scoring and frequently asked topic in the English Language section of the IBPS Clerk 2025 exam. Candidates who practice this section thoroughly can save time and increase their accuracy in the preliminary exam. Error-spotting questions test your grammar knowledge and sentence correction skills. In this article, we are providing answers to 50+ error spotting questions. Along with the questions, we will also share some tips, rules and strategies to solve them effectively.

Why Error Spotting is Important for IBPS Clerk 2025?

• It checks basic grammar knowledge (subject-verb agreement, articles, prepositions, tenses, etc.).
• Helps improve reading comprehension and sentence correction skills.
• In prelims, it helps candidates maximise scores quickly.

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Directions (Qs. 1-5): In the following question, a sentence is given, divided into 5 parts. Part (A) is grammatically correct. Out of the other four parts, only one part is without error. Mark the option containing the part with no error. If none of the parts have errors, mark ‘No error’ as your answer. 

Question 1

Although the Sikhs are a (A)/ regional community in India, but by (B)/ availing of modern opportunities (C)/ they have extended their enterprises (D)/ all over the country. €

a) B
b) D
c) E
d) C
e) No error

Question 2

Every community has the (A)/ responsibility of educating its (B)/ next generation, for education is (C)/ the master-key which will (D)/ opened all closed doors. (E)

a) B
b) C
c) D
d) E

e) No error

Question 3

As the telegraph triggered the (A)/ development of newly technologies, communication (B)/ became progressively footloose, (C)/ liberated from the constraints (D)/ of space and time. (E)

a) C
b) B
c) D
d) E
e) No error

Many American politicians (A)/ have been blaming the (B)/ continuous lose of American jobs (C)/ on globalisation aided (D)/ by digital technology. €

a) D
b) E
c) B
d) C
e) No error

Ans: (d)

Question 5

Awaiting more unambiguous medical assessments, (A)/ WHO and the International Commission on (B)/ Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection have use available scientific (C)/ evidence to provide exposure limit guidelines, based on (D)/ which DoT has set up safety norms in India. (E)

a) C
b) B
c) D
d) E
e) No error

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Tips to Solve Error Spotting Questions in IBPS Clerk 2025

• Before identifying the errors, read the entire sentence carefully, which will help you spot the error
• Check the subject-verb matching first – this is the most tested rule.
• Look out for preposition errors, which are common in exams.
• Review frequently confused words and unnecessary words.
• Practice previous years’ question papers to understand the IBPS pattern, which will help you a lot.
• When in doubt, eliminate the options systematically and attempt only those questions that you know well.

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