SBI Clerk Exam 2025 Expert Tips to Score 85+ in Prelims

SBI Clerk 2025 Exam: The SBI Clerk 2025-26 notification has been released on their official website. The SBI Clerk 2025 Prelims is the first step of the selection process. The Prelims exam consists of three sections: English Language, Numerical Ability, and Reasoning Ability, each with a sectional time limit of 20 minutes. To score 85+ marks in the SBI Clerk Prelims sections, we are providing the strategic tips. Candidates must read our article and boost their score in the SBI Clerk Prelims exam.’

SBI Clerk 2025 Exam: 8 Tips Must Follow to Score 85+ in Prelims

Here we are providing some strategic tips to boost their score of 85+ in the SBI Clerk Prelims section:

1. Understand the Exam Pattern and Syllabus

First candidates understand the SBI Clerk Exam Pattern, including the number of questions, marks and time allotted. Here in this table, we are providing a quick overview of the SBI Clerk exam pattern:

SBI Clerk Prelims 2025 Exam Pattern

Section	No. of Questions	Marks	Time Allotted
English Language	30	30	20 minutes
Numerical Ability	35	35	20 minutes
Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 minutes
Total	100	100	60 minutes

Candidates know the topic-wise weightage and focus on scoring areas so that they can easily crack the SBI Clerk prelims section.

2. Create a Structured Study Plan

Now that only a handful of days are left for the SBI Clerk Prelims 2025 Exam, you can’t be too liberal with your time management. You need to utilise every minute towards your preparation & revision. The duration of this exam is only 60 minutes, so you can easily take a mock test daily until 1 day before the exam. Utilise the remaining time of the day to clarify the concepts of your weak areas, and at the same time keep practising questions from your strong areas. If you get bored, solve some number series questions or some other easy puzzles.

3. Master Time Management

Candidates first solve easy and scoring questions, then solve difficult questions. They follow shortcuts and formulas to solve questions quickly within time limits.

4. Tips for SBI Clerk English Language

1. Keep revising grammar rules.
2. While answering reading comprehension questions, whether you read the passage first or the questions, it doesn’t really matter much. Check which strategy is beneficial for you while taking mock tests.
3. Practice sets of RC, para jumbles, fillers, and error correction on different days.
4. When answering fillers, try to guess the answer without looking at the options. If your guess is there in the option, it is most likely the correct answer.
5. In para jumbles, try to connect the dots by reading the different parts carefully.

5. Tips for SBI Clerk Reasoning

1. Be aware of the different types of seating arrangements & puzzles. Each type has some or the other differences from other types.
2. There is no set formula for puzzles & seating arrangement. It’s the only practice on which you can rely. Solve at least 1 set of puzzles/seating arrangements on a daily basis. In the exam, try identifying the easy puzzles/seating arrangements first and answer it.
3. For inequalities, a basic understanding is a must. This knowledge should be backed by practising a lot of questions. Try to infer the connections from the given statements before going through the conclusions.
4. For syllogism, consider using the Venn diagrams or try memorising the rules, whatever is comfortable for you.
5. Revise all the shortcuts, tricks & formulas. Don’t use any shortcut if you don’t know the methodology behind it. Sometimes, the question can be a bit twisted and using the same shortcut may land you with incorrect answers.
6. Keep practising reasoning questions for free.

6. Tips for SBI Clerk Quantitative Aptitude

1. Clarify the concept of averages, percentages, ratios and profit & loss. These are useful in individual questions as well as data interpretation and data sufficiency.
2. Learn the tables until 30 and squares (until 50) & cubes (until 30). These will help you in simplification & approximation questions.
3. If you are stuck on a number series question for more than a minute and are unable to understand its logic, it’s better to skip that question.
4. Be aware of the different types of charts & graphs including radar table and funnel-based DI.
5. When answering data interpretation questions, understand all the given information carefully and see if the question has any special condition; only then proceed to answer them.
6. Sometimes questions on quadratic equations are so easy that you can solve them in your mind.

7. Attempt Free Mock Test

PracticeMock provides more full-length mock tests, mini-mock tests, topic tests and sectional mock tests. The SBI Clerk Mock tests simulate real exam conditions and help improve time management and accuracy. Candidates take all the mock tests in the section below.

Free Mock Test Links	Paid Mock Test Links
SBI Clerk Free Mock Test	SBI Clerk Sectional Tests
Quant Topic Test	Mock Test 1
Reasoning Topic Test	Mock Test 2
English Topic Test	Mock Test3
SBI Clerk Free Mini Mock Test	Mock Test 4
Previous Year Paper	Mock Test 5

8. Solve Previous Year Paper

Having a look at the previous year’s papers will help you get a glimpse of what questions were asked in previous years. You will get an idea of the difficulty level and the types of questions that were asked. Also, you should try solving the previous year’s questions in the given time limit and see if you can clear that year’s cut-offs. Taking this step will help you with your confidence level.

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SBI Clerk 2025 Prelims Important Topics

The SBI Clerk 2025 Prelims exam consists of three sections:

1. English Language (30 questions, 30 marks)
2. Numerical Ability (35 questions, 35 marks)
3. Reasoning Ability (35 questions, 35 marks)

Here are the important topics for each section:

Topics from English Language

• Reading Comprehension (Main Idea, Synonyms/Antonyms, Inference-based)
• Cloze Test (Fill in the blanks with appropriate words)
• Error Spotting (Grammar-based errors)
• Sentence Rearrangement (Para Jumbles)
• Fill in the Blanks (Double blanks, single blanks)
• Phrase Replacement/Sentence Improvement
• Word Swap

Topics From Numerical Ability

• Simplification & Approximation
• Number Series (Missing & Wrong Number)
• Data Interpretation (Tabular, Pie Chart, Bar Graph, Line Graph, Caselet DI)
• Quadratic Equations
• Arithmetic (Profit & Loss, Time & Work, Time-Speed-Distance, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion, Simple & Compound Interest, Average, Mixture & Allegations)

Topics From Reasoning Ability

• Puzzles & Seating Arrangement (Linear, Circular, Floor-based, Box-based)
• Syllogism
• Inequalities (Direct & Coded)
• Blood Relations
• Direction & Distance
• Coding-Decoding
• Alphanumeric Series
• Order & Ranking

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