SBI Clerk Most Scoring Topics For English Language Section: Cracking the SBI Clerk exam is not an easy task for aspirants. It is considered one of the most competitive exams in India. Such types of exams require a lot of study, preparation strategy, a study plan, and much more to easily crack the exam. The SBI Clerk prelims exam consists of a total of three sections including English Language, Numerical Ability, and Reasoning. In this blog, we are providing the SBI Clerk most scoring topics for English Language section including their basic knowledge, tips, and some sample questions that candidates must solve. The English Language section of SBI Clerk consists of 30 questions that candidates are required to attempt in 20 minutes. Each question carries one mark. Candidates who are preparing for the SBI Clerk prelims exam must read this blog carefully and answer the sample questions. It will help them in their exam preparation.
Here we have provided the topic-wise weightage of the questions for the English section. The SBI Clerk prelims topic-wise weightage for the English section is provided from 2019 to 2023 for a better understanding of the important questions in the SBI Clerk prelims exam.
| SBI Clerk Prelims Topic-Wise Weightage for English Section | |||||
| Topics | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2023 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2022 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2021 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2020 | SBI Clerk topic wise Weightage 2019 |
| Reading Comprehension | 8-10 | 7-10 | 7-8 | 9-10 | 8-10 |
| Error Detection | 3-7 | 4-5 | 4-6 | 5 | 5-7 |
| Misspelt | 3-5 | 0-5 | 0-6 | 2-5 | 0-5 |
| Para Jumbles | 4-5 | 0-5 | 0-5 | – | – |
| Fillers | 3-5 | 0-5 | 0-4 | 3-5 | 0-5 |
| Sentence Improvement | – | 3-5 | 0-4 | 0-5 | 0-5 |
| Word Swap/ Word Rearrangement | 1-5 | 4-5 | 0-5 | – | – |
| Phrase Replacement | 4-5 | 0-5 | 2-6 | – | – |
| Cloze Test | 5-6 | 0-7 | 5-8 | 5-6 | 0-5 |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 3-5 | 0-5 | – | 0-5 | 0-5 |
| Word Usage | 2-5 | 0-5 | 0-2 | 0-5 | – |
| Column Based | 1-2 | – | – | – | – |
Above we have provided the weightage of topics in the English Language section. After analyzing the table provided above we have chosen some important topics whose weightage is very much in the exam. Below we have explained those topics from the SBI Clerk exam point of view. Candidates must read these topics carefully, it will help them to understand the basics of the topic.
The SBI presents questions from RC passages to check your comprehension and reading level of the passage. Very often, tasks involve identifying the tone, theme, or inference, which is why it is so important to work on reading stories, articles, blogs, novels, newspapers, and any other education-related materials.
This topic tests your knowledge of grammar and sentences in the English language. You have to distinguish misuse of certain sentences, tenses, subject-verb agreement, or parts of a sentence. One can score well on this topic by practicing the different types of questions and practicing exercises to easily identify some of the regular grammatical mistakes.
The task is to complete a passage to choose the most suitable words for blank spaces. It helps to make sure that you check your vocabulary and put it into practice by identifying the context. Emphasize recognition such precursory hints in the text matter to choose the appropriate word.
Here, you will have to group the following sentences as they are all written in a mixed-up way. This topic challenges you on the formation of your paragraphs and the level of flow between them. Knowing connectors, pronouns and the relationship between the sentences will enable you to solve such questions.
This topic entails identifying spaces in a phrase where either a single or double dotted word should be inserted. The SBI presents questions from this topic to analyze your language proficiency and your ability as far as grammar is concerned. You will find that learning synonyms and general improvement in vocabulary will assist you do well in this.
Among all the topics, questions based on RC/synonyms/antonyms are most frequently asked. This section checks the provisions of the concerned field so to succeed in this section, you should extend your all round knowledge of words and should try to learn new words frequently. Candidates are advised to make a routine of learning daily at least 10 new synonyms and antonyms and also try to write them down in a notebook by which they can revise them during the last days of the exam.
In this topic there is a provided sentence with the underlined part and in that lowest possible number of changes you have to rewrite the sentence. It requires the participants to exercise their grammar and sentence construction skills hence good sentence correction skills are relevant.
Here we have provided the sample questions related to the SBI Clerk English Language section. Candidates must solve these questions to know the types of questions asked in the exam.
Directions: In the following question, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If the sentence is free from error, select ‘No Error’.
Question 1:
a) She had not gone to school before
b) and her role in the family
c) was main helping her
d) mother with domestic chores.
e) No error
Question 2:
a) When the people in
b) the streets ran after the
c) thief, each person knew
d) that others would joined in.
e) No error
Question 3:
a) I used to work at
b) a grocery store, and would go
c) home each night thoroughly
d) annoyed and aggravated.
e) No error
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SBI Clerk 2024 most scoring topics for the English Language section are reading comprehension, error spotting, close test, para jumbles, fill in the blanks, antonyms and synonyms, etc.
Candidates can find the basic knowledge of SBI Clerk 2024 most scoring topics for the English Language section in this blog.
We have provided some sample questions with their explanations and answers in this blog.
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