Have you started your preparation for the SBI Clerk Prelims exam 2022? SBI will surprise you soon with the notification for Prelims exam to fill up the clerical posts. The State Bank of India is expected to announce the SBI Clerk Notification 2022 in April 2022 via its official website. The SBI Clerk application form 2022 will be issued the day after the SBI notification is released. As you might be knowing, the SBI clerk exam is a national-level-yearly exam. It is a computer-based online mode test.
In this post, we are sharing a 2 months study plan along with preparation tips which will help you all in cracking SBI Clerk Prelims Exam 2022.
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In SBI Clerk 2022 , the Candidates who pass the SBI Clerk preliminary exam are entitled to take the SBI Clerk mains exam. The Mains exam is followed by a local language test. Check out the exam pattern of Prelims and Mains exams for the year 2022 to know the subject-wise distribution of Marks before moving on to the best tips as both are closely related to each other:
| Sections | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 min. |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 | 20 min. |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 min. |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 1 Hour |
Note: As per the latest official SBI notification, you must take care of the following points before accelerating your preparation for the Prelims:
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An SBI Clerk Exam preparation without a good preparation strategy is like a preparation without a roadmap for success. Millions of aspirants, including you, will be appearing in the SBI Clerk 2022 exam this year. With such a high level of competition, only the best candidates will be able to beat the exam. So, frankly, if you want to succeed in clearing the upcoming exam you need to have a good preparation strategy that suits best for your [reparation style keeping in mind the latest SBI Clerk syllabus and exam pattern.
Here are some important tips that will accelerate your preparation, revision and help you to crack the exam:
It is said that well begun is half done. So, begin well by first analyzing the exam pattern, syllabus, and marking scheme. You need to analyze every topic included in each section of the exam. Decide which topics or areas need more time to study and make a plan to invest proper time in each section. Don’t forget that certain topics are more important than others. Once you get a clear idea about the syllabus, you can smartly plan your SBI Clerk exam preparation accordingly.
Here are the section-wise important topics you need to invest more time on:
You need to create a realistic timetable as per the latest SBI Clerk Exam syllabus. Stick to that timetable. If you feel you’re weak in any subject or topic, spend more time on it. It always makes your preparation easy and increases your concentration levels.
All you need to do is understand all the theories and concepts to answer confidently in the SBI Clerk Exam. You can apply shortcuts and techniques to questions on Numerical Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, or Reasoning Ability to solve them quickly and easily. So, after understanding the concepts and getting to know all the related theories, you can quickly learn the shortcuts. For example, the knowledge of basic grammatical rules, structures, and other useful tricks can help you quickly answer the questions from the English Language section.
It is essential to read the newspapers and magazines regularly, as it can prove to be tremendously rewarding in the upcoming SBI Clerk 2022 Exam. You need to allot a time slot of 2-hours daily for this task in your timetable. Allotting 2 hours daily for reading newspapers will pay you heavily. Plus, you should also maintain a notebook and note down all the new words to add to your vocabulary, for better reading comprehension. This will not just help to solve the English Language section, but also help you in knowing day-to-day affairs. Hence, you’ll also be able to successfully counter the questions from the General Awareness and Computer Aptitude Section of the SBI Clerk Exam.
Solve as many previous year’s question papers as you to get an idea of the actual SBI Clerk exam. It will help you to understand the changing pattern of questions through previous exams. Apart from this, you will also get to know the difficulty level of questions that are being asked in the exam to help you during your preparation.
The Quantitative Aptitude section requires a number of formulas to solve the questions. Moreover, the derivations of the formulas too are of utmost importance. So, you need to practice them regularly by applying them. It will help you to derive a formula if you’ll forget it during exam time.
Practice a lot and get to know your strong and weak areas in each section. Once you are familiar with it, focus on strengthening your strong areas as well as work upon your weak areas by giving more time accordingly.
Practice makes a man perfect. Practicing regularly in any competitive exam is always fruitful. The same proverb applies to the SBI Clerk Exam. So the moment you finish a topic or section, try to solve questions from that topic only. It will help you to test your progress and help you improve. Practice as much as you can. Solve easy questions first and then go for the difficult questions. Always tick the questions you find difficult to answer and revise them later on. Revise whatever you have learned regularly to avoid forgetting it. Hence, allocate at least 2 hours daily for revision.
To get good results in the SBI Clerk Exam, you need to practice to try to attempt more questions within a short time duration. This exam demands not just accuracy but also speed. You need to take care of your time management skills with accuracy to answer. A good balance between accuracy and time always results in gaining a high score. Hence, try to solve the practice questions in a time-bound manner.
Given below is a 2 months study plan for SBI Clerk Prelims Exam 2022. The following plan is day-wise and section-wise study plan. You can make changes that suits you the best.
| Days | Numerical Ability | Reasoning | English |
| Day 1 | Basics – Tables up to 30, Squares up to 50, cubes up to 20 | Blood Relation | Grammar Rules |
| Day 2 | Average Basics | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Vocabulary Based/Antonyms/Synonyms |
| Day 3 | Ratio and Proportion Basics | Inequalities | Idioms/Phrases/Phrasal Verbs |
| Day 4 | Percentage Basics | Inequalities | Idioms/Phrases/Phrasal Verbs |
| Day 5 | Simplification | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Grammar Rules and Common Errors |
| Day 6 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely! | ||
| Day 7 | Approximation | Order, Raking and Direction | Fill in the blanks/Double Fillers |
| Day 8 | Number Series | Order, Raking and Direction | Parajumble |
| Day 9 | Number Series | Coding-Decoding (New Pattern) | Phrase/word replacement |
| Day 10 | Quadratic Equation | Coding-Decoding (New Pattern) | Phrasal Errors |
| Day 11 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely! | ||
| Day 12 | Tabular DI | Data Flow Diagram | Cloze Test |
| Day 13 | Pie Chart DI | Alpha Numeric Symbol Sequence | Cloze Test |
| Day 14 | Bar Graph DI | Syllogism (New Pattern) | Reading Comprehension |
| Day 15 | Line Graph DI | Syllogism (New Pattern) | Reading Comprehension |
| Day 16 | Mixed DI | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Vocabulary New Pattern |
| Day 17 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely! | ||
| Day 18 | Percentage | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Error Spotting Questions |
| Day 19 | Profit and Loss | Machine Input-Output | Select the sentences which do not have error |
| Day 20 | Average and Ratio & Proportion | Machine Input-Output | Sentence Correction |
| Day 21 | Simple Interest | Blood Relation | Sentence Improvement |
| Day 22 | Compound Interest | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Error Spotting |
| Day 23 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely | ||
| Day 24 | Time, work and wages | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | New Pattern Fillers |
| Day 25 | Time and Distance | Data Sufficiency | Paragraph Completion |
| Day 26 | Boats and Streams | Data Sufficiency | Odd one out |
| Day 27 | Pipes and cistern | Logical Reasoning | Jumbled Paragraph(Odd one out) |
| Day 28 | Mixture and Allegation | Logical Reasoning | Para Summary |
| Day 29 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely | ||
| Day 30 | Problem on ages | Inequalities | Error Spotting (New Pattern) |
| Day 31 | DI: Tabular | Inequalities | Reading Comprehension |
| Day 32 | DI: Tabular | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Cloze Test |
| Day 33 | DI: Pi chart | Logical Reasoning | Spelling check |
| Day 34 | DI: Pi chart | Data Flow Diagram | Spelling Check |
| Day 35 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely | ||
| Day 36 | DI: Missing | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Sentence Connectors |
| Day 37 | DI: Missing | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Words connector/Phrase Connector |
| Day 38 | DI: Line Graph | Order, Raking and Direction | New Pattern vocabulary Questions |
| Day 39 | DI: Line Graph | Data Sufficiency | Analogies (word pair relationship) |
| Day 40 | Simplification | Alpha Numeric Symbol Sequence | New Pattern Error Spotting |
| Day 41 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely | ||
| Day 42 | Number Series | Logical Reasoning | Word Usage (find the incorrect usage of the word) |
| Day 43 | DI: Bar Graph | Coding-Decoding (New Pattern) | Word usage (One common Word fill in the four sentence) |
| Day 44 | DI: Bar Graph | Logical Reasoning | Cloze test |
| Day 45 | Casellete DI (Paragraph DI) | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Parajumble |
| Day 46 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely | ||
| Day 47 | Percentage | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Fill in the blanks |
| Day 48 | Simplification, Number Series | Data Sufficiency | Cloze test |
| Day 49 | Approximation, Number Series | Syllogism (New Pattern) | Reading Comprehension |
| Day 50 | Quadratic Equation | Order, Raking and Direction | Error Detection |
| Day 51 | Data Sufficiency | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Select Appropriate Word (four/five sentence) |
| Day 52 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely | ||
| Day 53 | Data Sufficiency | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Common Erros /Error Spotting Rules |
| Day 54 | Miscellaneous Topics (Of your choice) | Order, Raking and Direction | Reading Comprehension |
| Day 55 | Mensuration | Data Flow Diagram | Vocabulary, Idiom, Phrases, Phrasal Verbs Revision |
| Day 56 | Probability, Permutation & Combination | Logical Reasoning | Grammar Rules revision |
| Day 57 | Miscellaneous Topics (Of your choice) | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Reading Comprehension |
| Day 58 | Formula, Short tricks revision | Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | Topics of your choice |
| Day 59 | Tables, squares, cubes, methods, notes revision | Revision of notes, short tricks, methods | Notes revision |
| Day 60 | Take at least 2 Mock Tests & Analyze them Closely |
With all the tips mentioned above, you must have got an idea about how you can make a good exam strategy and speed up your exam preparation. It will not only help you to easily plan your daily study schedule more systematically but will guide you on how you can invest proper time and energy in different concepts and sections that are part of the exam. Try to motivate yourself to study and start your preparation well in advance. It will save you from getting overwhelmed with the vast SBI Clerk 2022 syllabus. Try to break up your big study goals into many tiny ones and achieve all your big study goals. And the best way to accomplish your day-to-day goals is by taking the latest SBI Clerk 2022 Mock Tests daily. You can take FREE Mock Tests to know how effective they can be to your exam preparation.
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