5 Tips to Get Full Marks in Reasoning Ability Section-IBPS RRB PO Prelims Exam 2021

It’s no accident that the Reasoning Ability questions have become one of the foundation stones of popular banking Exams, including the IBPS RRB PO (Officer Scale 1) Prelims Exam. Reasoning Ability questions occupy their space to test the candidate’s critical thinking or analytic reasoning capability. You need to develop a higher logical reasoning ability to score more in this subject.

Some important topics covered under this subject include:

• Coding Decoding
• Distance and Direction Test
• Blood Relations
• Input-Output
• Data Sufficiency
• Inequality
• Seating Arrangement
• Syllogism
• Puzzles
• Logical Reasoning

RRB PO Exam 2021-Reasoning Ability Section

Many students get confused at making a perfect approach for the reasoning section for the RRB PO Exam. We know that the reasoning section brings in tricky questions, but if it is practiced properly then it can surely help you to fetch maximum marks.

This article will throw light on how you should prepare to counter this section, what are the important topic you need to focus on, and a strategy to finish this section in less than 20 minutes in the RRB PO Prelims Exam!

Here we are going to provide some of the tips for scoring well in the reasoning portion of the paper in IBPS RRB PO or Officer Scale-1 2021.

Go to Exam with proper plan and strategy

You need a go-to Exam with a proper and logical strategy, related to the number of questions to be attempted correctly. It is recommended that you attempt at least 35 out of the 40 questions. If you will succeed in it, you will speed up your progress in the actual RRB PO Exam.

1.   Solve easy questions first

The RC section is a time-consuming section, where most aspirants waste a lot of time due to the wrong strategy of choosing questions to answer. To avoid wasting your time, you must attempt questions that seem easy to you instead of getting stuck on questions you feel will take more time to be solved. You can mark it for a later review to save your time.

2.   Solve questions on paper to save time

Some of the topics in this section need more time than others and can be solved quickly and accurately on paper. Topics like blood relation, syllogisms, inequality, directions, syllogisms, etc. So, you should solve these questions in the paper to improve your score in less time.

3.   Use Venn Diagrams

We can solve syllogism questions with the help of Venn Diagrams. It helps us in reaching the conclusion easily. 

3 Rules or points to remember:

• First draw Venn diagrams as per the statement
• In case, the definite conclusion fails to satisfy the basic diagram, then there is no need to check the possibility diagram
• In case, the definite conclusion satisfies the basic diagram, then it must naturally satisfy all possibility diagrams.

• Definite conclusion must satisfy both Actual and Possibility Diagram
• Possibility conclusion can satisfy any one of the possibility Diagram

4.  Don’t begin with puzzles questions

To avoid being worried about the clock ticking or getting stuck on a puzzle question, and wasting your time, you should solve the arithmetic questions first. The puzzle section can become the trickiest of all the sections in the Exam, as it tends to take more time. If you will succeed in attempting all the puzzle questions with speed and accuracy, you will have you’ll have an edge over the other candidates who are weak in it.

5.   Learn and practice reasoning tricks

It is an advantage to have the know-how of the reasoning tricks to solve the paper quickly. You should learn or practice these time-saving tricks for the upcoming RRB PO Exam. You can also improve your skill and performance via reasoning short tricks.

Do a smart revision

Some topics are frequently asked every year in the exam, because of their importance in understanding your reasoning ability, like Seating Arrangement and Puzzles. To effectively solve the topics like puzzles, you need to pay heed to the variables in them. For questions on Seating Arrangement, pen down the direct information before coming to any conclusion. Make diagrams to understand it logically to solve questions from this topic.

Attempt Mock Tests to Test your speed & accuracy

If you are really serious about mastering this section to get good marks, you should practice Reasoning Ability questions via Mock Test. It will quickly let you know which questions you have not still mastered and encourage you to focus on your speed and accuracy and your weak areas. Since Mock Tests stimulate revision and studying, they check and encourage earlier learning and so space out learning, which will most likely improve your retention. Hence, you need to make sure that practice various Reasoning Ability questions every day for better retention and better results.