SBI ASSOCIATES CLERK EXAM STRATEGY
ONE BANK-ONE STATE
Above no of
posts are further bifurcated state wise,
As Clerk is State Cadre, One can apply only for one bank and in one
State. The best option is State Bank of Patiala for North Region Aspirants.
Preferable State is in this order Punjab > Haryana> HP
PATTERN OF EXAM
Following is the pattern of exam
This Exam is
Divided in Five Section and weightage of each section is 20%, 40 questions of
40 marks in every section. Like other bank exams this exam will also be
conducted online. The total time to tackle this will be 2hours 15 min.
The test will be online objective type, consisting of
(i) General Awareness
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40
QUESTIONS
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40 MARKS
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(ii)
General English
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40
QUESTIONS
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40 MARKS
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(Iii)
Quantitativeaptitude
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40
QUESTIONS
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40 MARKS
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(Iv)
Reasoningability
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40
QUESTIONS
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40 MARKS
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(v)
Marketingaptitude /Computer Knowledge
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40 QUESTIONS
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40 MARKS
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TOTAL
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200
QUESTIONS
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200 MARKS
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There will be negative marks for wrong
answers
TARGET SETTING
This is very important exercise. In our day to
day life, if we are planning to visit some place, the very first thing we will
do is to know the target Distance of that place which we have to cover. In this
exam on basis of previous Cut-offs, the following is the general Target for
each aspirant.
The target
will give us insight about the distance we have to cover.
The above is
for general strategy, but we need to be specific, for that you need to
understand two concepts
1.
Category of
Questions.
2.
Category of
Aspirant.
QUESTIONS
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ASPIRANT
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Type
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MATHS/
REASONING
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ENG/ GK MARKETING /COMPUTER
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MOCK TEST SCORE
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Type
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EASY
60-70%
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Less
Lengthy
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Important
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70% &
more
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Excellent
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MEDIUM
10-20%
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Lengthy
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Less Imp
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60% - 70%
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Good
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DIFFICULT
5-15%
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Very
Lengthy
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Rare/ Not
Important
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Less than
60 %
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Poor
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1. Category of
Questions.
In any exam
there are three types of questions- Easy, Medium & Difficult. The cracking
any exam is like winning a game. FIFA winner Germany won it by one Goal, in the
same way No questions you are attempting is not important, but comparatively
how you are performing is more important.
As you need
a strategy for any game in the same way you need it for your exam. Your
strategy should be attempting all the Easy Questions, then half of Moderate
questions if time available, by skipping Difficult Questions, because they are
like hurdles for you. We can check the
Comparative performance on basis of previous year question paper and its
cut-off. On that basis we have figured out that easy questions share the
maximum part, but they are hidden behind the difficult questions. We need to
figure out them.
2.
Category of Aspirants: -There are
three categories of aspirants; we need to find our category. Give one Mock Test
first, and then on basis of our marks in each section and total score, we will
find out our category and we will try to improve in each section, if we are
POOR we will try to become GOOD, if we are GOOD, and then try to be excellent.
Quantitative Aptitude
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Reasoning
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·
Simplification
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HCF/LCM
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Numbers
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Average
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Ages
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Percentage
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Ratio & Prop
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SI & CI
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Time Speed Distance
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Profit Loss
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Permutation & Combination
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Data Interpretation (Table, Line Graph, Pie Chart
and Caselet)
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·
Blood
Relation 1 & 2
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Symmetry
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Coding-Decoding
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Direction
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No.
Series
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Letter
Series
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No.
Ranking
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Alphabet
Series
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Syllogism
(Possibility Que)
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Symbo
Operations
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MIX
reasoning
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Puzzles
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Argument
/assumption
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Source:- Quant Books of R.S.Aggarwal and
kiran
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Source:- Reasoning Books of R.S.Aggarwal and
kiran
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General Awareness
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English
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Marketing/Computer
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Banking + Current Affair
Banking Awareness
+
Jigaysa Monthly magazine
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Grammar + Comprehension + Vocab.
English book of Arihant
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Basic Concepts
Banking Awareness
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Jigaysa Monthly magazine
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In GK- Don’t put question on
“mark n review”.
Reason: if you don’t know the answer for a general
awareness question on the first timereading, there is very low chance that you
can solve it by “mark and review” (unlike mathematics or reasoning question).
Here in GA question, you’ll just waste time in mark-n-review, and in the worst
case, your mind will seduce you into tickingsome wrong answer just to overcome
to the imaginary cut-offs.
In Comprehension
Suppose, after reading the paragraph, you’ve
to answer five question andsuppose you can answer only 3 question. Remaining
two questions are difficult. Now you decide to putother two on “mark and
review”.
Problem= when you come back to review the
same question at the end of exam, the passage wouldhave evaporated from your
head, and you’ll need to re-read the whole passage again just for thosetwo
question =lot of time wasted. Therefore, solve all Comprehension questions at
once after readingthe passage, if you can’t solve any, then just leave it,
don’t come back later for mark& review.
TIME STRATEGY
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TOPIC
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TARGET MARKS
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TIME ALLOTMENT
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OTHER DETAILS
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General
Awareness
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30+
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20min
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Time is very valuable and we
need to be careful while spending it.
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Marketing
/Computer
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30+
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20min
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English
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30+
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25min
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Quantitative
Aptitude
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25+
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35min
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Reasoning
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25+
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35min
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Total
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135+
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135
min
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