SBI Clerk Important Topics

The SBI Clerk 2021 Preliminary examinations are gone, and now it’s time for SBI Clerk Mains to test the candidates next. If you are preparing to join the prestigious SBI clerical cadre as Junior Associates, you must be now preparing hard for the SBI Clerk Mains examinations, which were postponed this year and the new exam dates will be released soon by the SBI.

With a few months to go for the exam, it is the best time to kick-start your preparation by investing time and energy on important topics that are expected to come in the SBI mains 2021.

In this article, we bring to you a section-wise preparation strategy for SBI Clerk preparation 2021.

Before we dive into the preparation strategy, let’s take a quick look at the SBI Clerk 2021 exam pattern.

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SBI Clerk Syllabus 2021 for Mains Exam

SBI Clerk 2021 syllabus for mains exam has 5 sections:

1. General/Financial Awareness
2. General English
3. Quantitative Aptitude a
4. Reasoning Ability
5. Computer Aptitude

As per the SBI Clerk exam pattern 2021, the exam will test you with a total of 190 questions worth 200 Marks. The total duration of the test will be 2 hours and 40 minutes.

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SBI Clerk Mains Exam Pattern

Given below is the structure of the online Exam pattern that you must keep in mind while preparing for the Exam:

S. No.	Name of Test	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Duration
1	General/ Financial Awareness	50	50	35 min.
2	General English	40	40	35 min.
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	45 min.
4	Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude	50	60	45 min.
	Total	190	200	2 Hr. 40 min.

Note: Each test will have separate timing as mentioned above. 1/4th of the mark assigned for a question will be deducted for each wrong answer.

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One can notice that the SBI Clerk prelims 2021 paper essentially has 3 separate papers of 20 minutes each. That said, having an effective question selection strategy becomes of the utmost importance. Making the most of these 20 minutes and attempting the maximum possible number of questions with a good accuracy factor is what will decide your fate in the examination.

SBI Clerk Important Topics – Based on Previous Years’ Exam Analysis

Given below are important topics based on previous years’ papers. You must not must these topics while doing your preparation for SBI Clerk, as they have been coming again in the last many Exams.

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SBI Clerk Important Topics for Numerical Ability Section:

Here are the 5 important Reasoning topics that came in the Exam last year and can probably come this year too:

S. No.	Important Topics
1	Simplifications
2	Number Series (Missing & Wrong)
3	Quadratic Equations
4	DI (Table & Bar Graph-based)
5	Miscellaneous Word Problems (Arithmetic)

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Important topics for SBI Clerk Mains 2021

 Given below are the section-wise important topics that you must cover in order to get good results:

Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude

RA & CA Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude section is one of the most crucial sections of the SBI Clerk Exam without any doubt. You can fetch maximum marks in it with regular practice. You must concentrate on tricky questions, like Puzzles and questions on the new pattern as they require a lot of practice to master. We are supplying you with some very important Reasoning topics that you must cover for better results. You should note that this section has been inviting questions on reasoning and no questions have ever been seen on the computer for the last two years.  

1. Puzzle & Seating Arrangement

Questions on puzzles are mostly tricky and they become trickier and harder if you do not practice them well. It has been observed through analysis that the number of variables has increased in questions in this topic. Also, this topic is often merged with other topics like blood relation and Direction Sense.

You need to practice questions on various types of puzzles, mentioned below, to master this section:

• Floor based
• Linear based
• Double Linear arrangement
• Circular seating arrangement
• Square seating arrangement
• Triangle seating arrangement, etc.

Practice Puzzle & Seating Arrangement questions via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

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2. Syllogism

This is another tricky topic to cover. The pattern of the Mains Exam is usually different from that of the prelims Exam. You will have to find out the statement from the given options from which the conclusions can be drawn. Practice questions on Syllogism via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

3. Inequality

Questions on inequality are usually easy and you can fetch maximum marks in it without much effort and time. You will be required to choose the right option depicting the correct relation between two alphabets. This relation may be:

• Greater than
• Smaller than
• Greater than equal to
• Smaller than equal to

Note: To make these questions tough, the questions setter merges it with coding-decoding or Direction sense. For instance, the relation can be coded in a certain symbol or a certain direction will tell the relation. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

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4. Coding-Decoding

Coding-Decoding is going to be a tricky question to tackle. It requires a lot of practice to develop a mastery over it. In this topic, certain statements will be coded in a certain language or order and you will be required to decode it to answer the questions. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

5. Blood-Relation and Direction Sense

Questions on this topic keep on popping up in every SBI Clerk Exam. You need to do a lot of practice in order to solve these tricky questions on which are usually merged with Coding-Decoding. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

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6. New Pattern Questions

Be ready to face some interesting new pattern questions on certain logic and which you can answer by the logic provided in the question. Some other topics that you can expect, based on previous year’s questions, are coding-decoding, blood relation, and alphanumeric symbol series.

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General English

The General English section is one of the most important and scoring sections of SBI Clerk Mains. If you know English Grammar well and you possess an arsenal of vocabulary, you can easily and quickly score maximum marks. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

1. Reading Comprehensions

This section simply checks or tests your ability to read the given text, process it, and clearly understand its meaning. This section is going to test your knowledge of Vocabulary and Text-Comprehension. 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. Plus, you’ll be coming across one or more conclusions given in the question to choose one. This section requires a lot of practice of questions(passages) based on topics from science and technology, Politics, Arts, and Economics. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

2. Error detection

You need to focus on your grammatical rules and structures to master this section, as all the questions are rooted in grammatical rules. Practice the questions well. This is the only way to prepare this topic well, as this topic is here to test your grammar skills. You will be required to mark the correct statement out of the given statements or to reframe the already given statement without grammatical errors. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

4. Para Jumbles

You can end up wasting a lot of time in making the correct sequence in questions on Para Jumbles if you haven’t practiced them well beforehand. Therefore, practice the questions well to know the right approach in answering the questions quickly and accurately. You may find a question in this topic where you will have to first arrange the statement itself and then rearrange the statements in the correct order. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

Quantitative Aptitude

If you want to ace this section then the tip is to get your hold on the basics of arithmetic topics strongly. There is no way you can attempt even a single question from this section if you haven’t practiced arithmetic questions enough. All the topics written below are just different ways of asking a concept of arithmetic. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

1. Data Interpretation

To solve questions in time, you will have to practice them well. Otherwise, it will become a very time-consuming section of the exam. You can expect questions based on Line Graphs, Bar Graphs, Pie Charts, Tabulation. Be ready to face a combination of two DI or questions on Missing DI or Caselet DI. To fetch good marks in it, you should understand the data or graph carefully before attempting the questions. Plus, you can come across mixed DI questions, which can be challenging and time-consuming at times. But you also have an option of attempting all 5 questions of the DI set from the given options.  You can choose what you think is easy to answer. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

2. Data Sufficiency

If you are good at arithmetic, you can surely tackle the Data Sufficiency topic well. In these questions, you will have to deal with a number of statements to extract the data and answer the question.

3. Quantity based

Quantity-based questions are based on Quadratic equations but are rooted in arithmetic. Therefore, you need to master arithmetic by practicing questions on it to master these types of questions. Also, these questions can be a combination of different arithmetic topics. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

4. Number Series

With a good command of number series, you can easily fetch maximum marks in quick time. But sometimes these questions too can be tricky in terms of finding the exact pattern. Therefore, you should practice questions on it as much as you can. Practice via Mock Test to increase your speed and accuracy quickly!

General Awareness

Current Affairs is the dominating topic in the GA. You are required to keep following the latest trends to master them in order to score maximum marks in them. To make the preparation simple and easy, you should regularly read newspapers coupled with the Daily GK Update. Always pay heed to all the important events like the visits of the head of states to or country and any important event in their country. Plus, you must know the current news on national parks and the names of all the newly appointed chief ministers and the governor. Read the Hindu for general news and The Economic Times to cover important news related to the Indian economy. Also, cover the topics on Banking and Financial Awareness which is a part of the current affairs.

Conclusion

In addition to all the points mentioned above, you can also watch a few YouTube videos to understand the types of questions and then test your knowledge and skills via Mocks. Try to solve a puzzle in 2–3 minutes’ time. You may also avoid starting your paper with puzzles or sitting arrangements. This is because, in case, you are stuck in a puzzle, your beginning will be ruined. Try to solve critical reasoning questions. Start with any topic you are good in, say critical reasoning or any other.

Wishing you the best of luck with the exam!