SBI Clerk 2021 Prelims – Time Management Tips

SBI Clerk 2021 detailed recruitment notification is now released and many aspirants have already started with their exam preparation. The tentative SBI Clerk 2021 exam dates are also notified thus, candidates can start preparing accordingly. As far as the SBI Clerk Prelims 2020 exam was concerned it successfully took place on Feb 22, 2020. The SBI Clerk 2021 Prelims exam dates are not declared yet and we will get to know these once the official notification for SBI Clerk 2021 is released, however aspirants must have started their exam preparation by now. For those who haven’t take a SBI Clerk 2021 Prelims free mock test attempt the same and analyze your weak areas. For those who are still in doubt related to eligibility criteria, exam pattern etc. must wait for the notification to come. To those who have started their exam preparation in in this article we are helping aspirants with some time management tips.

Before moving further onto the SBI Clerk 2021 Prelims time management tips let’s first catch a glimpse of the SBI Clerk Prelims exam pattern.

SBI Clerk 2021 Prelims Exam Pattern

S. No.	Name of Test	No. of Questions	Max Marks	Duration
1	English Language	30	30	20 mins
2	Numerical Ability	35	35	20 mins
3	Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 mins
	Total	100	100	1 hour

For those who have already started preparing their exam strategy according to the above mentioned exam pattern, here are SBI Clerk 2020 Books and Preparation Resources to help aspirants.

Let’s now move straight towards the section-wise time management tips for SBI Clerk Prelims.

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SBI Clerk Time Management for English Language Section

As far as English section is concerned there are a total of 30 questions worth 30 marks and the time duration is 20 minutes. One must try and attempt more than 20 questions for this section. Below mentioned are the list of topics that may be asked in the exam:

• Error detection
• Para Jumbles
• Cloze Test
• Reading Comprehension
• Filler
• Phrase Replacement
• Sentence correction

You can assign the time frames to each of these topics yourself depending upon your preparation levels and strong and weak areas.

General English Strategy

• Avoid starting with lengthy topics first.
• Attempt cloze test, fillers and error-based questions first
• Don’t guess the answer to any question and try to figure out the answer using option elimination technique.
• Attempt vocabulary-based questions in the RC first
• Practice as much as you can
• In para jumbles try and figure out the first and the last sentence to answer the question.

SBI Clerk Time Management for Numerical Ability Section

As far as numerical ability is concerned, it is a calculative but a scoring section. 35 questions are to be done in a time frame of 20 minutes. Mentioned below are few important topics from which questions may be asked from the section:

• Quadratic equation
• Data interpretation
• Miscellaneous
• Simplification
• Approximation
• Number Series

Also, few questions will be asked from the Arithmetic section. Moreover, aspirants must know short tricks to calculate and solve the questions quickly.

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General Numerical Ability Strategy

• Simplification, Approximation and Data Interpretation are the topics which take less time.
• Practice quant questions well by knowing the short cut tricks.
• In DI try and analyze the answers using graphs and apply option elimination way to figure out the answer.
• Don’t waste much time in analyzing the pattern of the questions specifically in Number series and Quadratic equations.
• Try and attempt maximum questions maintaining the accuracy.
• Practice quant sectional tests and quizzes in order to score well.

SBI Clerk Time Management for Reasoning Section

It is a tricky section that requires lot of practice. The important topics which fall under this section are:

• Inequality
• Syllogism
• Coding-Decoding
• Numeric, Alphanumeric Series etc..
• Blood relation
• Order & Ranking
• Direction sense
• Seating arrangement and puzzles

General Reasoning Strategy

• Practice as many questions as possible of each topic as this will help you solve questions in the real exam quickly.
• Start with the topics like blood relation, inequality, series as these are less time consuming.
• After these try and go for coding-decoding and puzzles. Don’t waste much time on it if you are not able to figure out the answer.
• Get good command over puzzles and this can be done by practicing more and more such questions.
• Try and attempt more than 23 questions in reasoning section.
• Attempt reasoning quizzes and mock tests on a regular basis.

You can try and solve multiple mock tests to get an edge above other aspirants. This brings us to the end of the article. Stay tuned for SBI Clerk 2021 recruitment notification.