Most Important English Topics for SBI Clerk Mains 2021

The upcoming SBI Clerk Mains Exam 2021 may be triggering feelings of anxiety, for the candidates who are unaware of the type of questions and important topics that are expected to be featured in the English Section. Plus, those students who did well in SBI Clerk 2021 Prelims Exam must be searching for the important topics for the Mains Exam as well.

If you too have the same demand, you need to know that there are several important chapters that specifically pop up in the mains only.

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This article will shed light on all those important topics which you must cover to fetch good marks in the English Section.  But before exploring the important topic, we have to keep in mind the key highlights of the General English section, given below:

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General English Exam Pattern for SBI Clerk Mains 2021

Here is the Exam pattern of General English:

Section Name	No. of Questions	Total Marks	Duration
General English	40	40	35 minutes

Note:

• There will be a total of 40 questions in SBI Clerk Mains 2021 in the English section.
• There will be a sectional timing 35 minutes to complete this section.
• Each question will carry one mark each and 0.25 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer marked.
• You can expect some changes with regard to old pattern questions or the examiner may tweak the questions to give it a new form as IBPS does.
• The difficulty level of the English section would be from Moderate to difficult in the mains exam.

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Three Most Important Topics for SBI Clerk Mains-English Language

Many aspirants, who try to just memorize the rules of Grammar and composition fail in solving the question quickly and accurately. The best way to approach the questions is by strengthening your comprehension power.

1.    Reading Comprehension

RC questions are not just very crucial but scoring, both in prelims and mains. Candidates have to face around 10-15 questions based on RC. To get command over it, you need to ace your reading speed. The aspirant should be ready to comprehend a comprehension coming from various fields like literature, politics, history, economics, science, and other important subjects. The best way to ace your preparation for RC is by reading the newspaper, articles, and Practice Reading Comprehensions asked in previous years’ Exams. To understand a text, you must have sufficient knowledge of Vocabulary. The questions in the RCs as seen by the previous year’s questions are inference-based. That is to say, these questions are not direct questions, but you’ll have to infer from the given passage. There will be one or more conclusions given in the question to choose one.

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2.    Cloze Test

The purpose of the cloze test is to judge the grammatical know-how and vocabulary power you’re your common sense. In it, you’ll receive a passage with ten or twelve blank spaces. You will be required to fill in the blanks out of the given choices. You must go through the whole passage before starting to answer the questions. However, sometimes, you’ll find one or two blanks that will seem difficult to answer or seem to have more than one correct answer.

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3.    Spotting the Errors/Sentence Improvement

You can expect 5 questions on this topic. In spotting the Error, a sentence is usually given, which is divided into four or five parts marked ‘a’ to ‘e.’ ‘e’ refers to no Error. You will be required to find out the part having an Error. The Error may be related to the use of the article, Tense of verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, subject-verb-agreement, etc. You can also find, an error that of un-English expression or superfluous use of the same word. There is no shortcut to answering Error related questions. You should have good command over Grammar rules and their usage. So, you need to practice questions from the previous year’s question papers, to successfully counter such questions.

The above-mentioned three topics are the most important topics from the point of view of the weightage they carry. If you look at the previous papers of SBI Clerk Mains, a number of the questions were being asked from these topics. You may face differences in the language of the question or difficulty level, but the topics remain the same.

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4.    Other important topics

You can expect up to 5 questions on sentence correction, 5 questions on Para jumbles/Sentence Rearrangement, 5 questions on Fill in the blanks, 5 questions on Sentence Connector, and 3-5 questions Odd one out. You need to prepare all these topics very well. Give as many Mock Tests as you can, to test your English skills and make further improvements in speed and accuracy.

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English Language: Total Questions – 40 (Level Moderate)

Let’s now take a look at the No. of Questions Asked from topics from the English Section in previous Exams:

Topics	No. of Questions Asked	Difficulty Level
(1) Reading Comprehension	10 (1 set)	Moderate
(2) Cloze Test	10	Moderate
(3) Para jumbles/Sentence Rearrangement	5	Moderate
(4) Sentence Improvement/Sentence Correction	5	Easy
(5) Spotting Error	5	Tough
(6) Fill in the blanks	5	Easy to moderate
(7) Sentence Connector	5	Easy to moderate
(8) Odd one out	3-5	Moderate

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Analyze Your Strengths & Weaknesses via Mock Tests

Go for Mock tests and boost your preparation. Give at least 1 Mock Test every day, if you have taken 2 months to complete the syllabus. And after attempting every Mock Test, analyze it properly and work on your weaknesses and practice more. Then compare the results and analysis of this Mock Test with the other one you are going to take after it. Therefore, the more you invest in it, the more will the chances of getting an edge over other aspirants.