SBI Clerk Mains 2022 Exam: How to Score Full Marks in English Paper?

Gearing up to appear in the upcoming SBI Clerk Mains 2022 Exam? If you’re through with the SBI Clerk prelims exam, you must be thinking about boosting your mains preparation as the exam is expected to be conducted in December 2022/January 2023. Especially, that of English, which is one of the important and scoring sections of the SBI PO Mains exams. A good performance in the English section of SBI Clerk Exam tests your understanding of grammatical concepts, word power, and compositional English. Today, we’ll discuss how you can boost your English score for better performance in the overall exam.

Before jumping on the tips to successfully tackle English for SBI Clerk 2022, let us first see the number of questions, maximum marks, and time allocated for the English Language section of SBI Clerk Mains.

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SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2022 Mains: Phase II

The structure of the main examination (online objective type) would be as follows:

Note: The total time-duration to attempt the SBI Clerk Mains 2022 exam is 2 hours 40 minutes.

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How To Prepare English for SBI Mains 2022

In SBI Clerk Mains exam, you will be required to answer 40 questions in 35 Minutes. Hence, you need to do proper practice or various questions to answer the questions within the time.

Let us now see the various parts of the English Language section you need to focus on. The English Language section generally has questions related to:

• English Vocabulary
• English Grammar
• Comprehension Reading
• Verbal Ability

Apart from improving your Vocabulary, Grammar and Reading Comprehension, and Verbal skills, you must also keep in point a few things to score tremendously in the actual Exam.

How to Improve English for SBI Clerk Mains 2022 Exam?

English section can be tricky and scoring as well. Many students who come from Hindi medium backgrounds feel difficulty in attempting certain questions. But a smart preparation backed by regular Mock Tests practice is the best way to improve your score and attempt all the questions with ease.

Here are the proven tips to improve upon all the areas required to clear this section with flying colours:

1. English Vocabulary

You will have to face common questions related to English vocabulary, like antonyms and synonyms, cloze tests, fill in the gaps, etc. To quickly improve your vocabulary, you must read English Newspapers daily. Make a notebook to pen words that you do not know and want to memorize with sentence examples. Take out words that were being asked in previous years’ papers and memorize them too. Practice questions related to vocabulary, including cloze tests, and fill in the gaps.

2. English Grammar

You need to master English grammar in order to grab good marks in the English Language section as well. This knowledge is all that you gained while you were in High school. You need to master topics like parts of speech, tenses, narration, singular-plural, voice change, subject-verb agreement, degrees of comparison, articles, prepositions, conjunction, etc. Learn every concept and rule from Examples. Practice all grammatical rules and check your accuracy via Mock Test.

3. Reading Comprehension

Comprehension tests could be of two types – fact-based and story-based. In order to be able to answer the questions, you must have a strong vocabulary and a good grip over English grammar. Also, you must be able to read fast and understand them properly. To master this part, you should read English newspapers on daily basis. Improve your reading speed with speed reading practices. Read the summary of whatever you write in not more than 300-400 words.

4. Verbal Ability

You can improve your Verbal ability by practicing the above-mentioned points. VA invites questions on sentence re-arrangement or para jumbles, where you will have to re-arrange 5-6 sentences to form a sensible or meaningful passage. You might also be asked questions from these passages. You can master this type of question is by improving your reading speed and your ability to think logically.

How to Avoid English Mistakes?

Here are the 3 major points you need to keep in mind while preparing for the SBI clerk English portion if you want to score 35+ Marks in the upcoming SBI Clerk Exam 2022:

1. Errors Spotting

In the questions related to spot the errors in the SBI Clerk Exam, the candidates are required to find out the part having an error. The error may be related to the use of, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, articles, the tense of verbs, conjunction, subject-verb agreement, etc. Sometimes the error may also be that of un-English expressions.

Sometimes they may be of superfluous use of some word. Some candidates, who have no good command over grammar rules and their usages use their own shortcuts to answer them in a hurry. You need to properly go through the rules, their usages to find the errors in the actual exam. Mock tests are the best source to check your command over the basic rules of grammar that make a big difference while answering such questions.

For instance, read the sentence given below and find out whether there is any error in it:

*He (a)/ always (speaks) c/ truth. (d)/ No error (e)

Answer: He always speaks ‘the’ truth. (It is an error related to the article)

2. Mistake in subject-verb agreement 

Candidates often get confused in subject-verb agreement which is very simple to understand. Always remember the subject-verb agreement Rules mentioned below to avoid the mistake while attending a question on it:

If the subject is singular, the verb must be singular.

If the subject is plural, the verb must also be plural.

The subject of the sentence must agree with the verb of the sentence. They must agree in two ways, a. In number (Singular vs Plural), b. In-person (First, second or Third Person)

Here are some sentences to understand it in a better way:

(i) I am walking.

(ii) They are swimming.

(iii) You are doing your work.

In all these 3 sentences, the verb agrees with the person of the subject. We use am with first-person, are with the second person, and is with the third person, to make it easy.

Then, look at these sentences given below:

(i) Rahul plays cricket.

(ii) They play soccer.

(iii) Swamiya Sings a song.

(iv) We go to the theatre.

In the above 4 sentences, the verb agrees with the subject in Number.

You’ll be asked to correct a tense like the one given below:

Question: Rahul as well as his sisters were present at the party.

Answer: Rahul as well as his sisters was present at the party.

3. Dealing with cloze test or passage

In the cloze test, the candidates are required to fill in the blanks out of the given choices in the exam. The purpose of this exam is to test the grammatical know-how, to judge the vocabulary power, and the general English sense of the candidate. The candidates must go through the entire passage properly and quickly before beginning to answer the questions.

One or two given blanks can sometimes be difficult to answer or seem to have more than one correct answer. The answer to these blanks has some connection or links with the next sentences. But some candidates, in a hurry, fail to read out the whole passage properly first and commit mistakes. So, you need to avoid it. Close test tests your knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and common sense.

For instance, read the directions given below:

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.

The …(1)… age is the age of machines. From the …(2)… the industrial revolution began in Europe. Man’s life has been changing …(3)… many ways. At first, the change was …(4)…. Now machines have become …(5)… of our daily lives.

Answers: 1. (a) 2. (b) 3. © 4. (a) 5. (b)

Conclusion

If you will keep the above-mentioned three things in mind, you’ll enter the right gateway to success in the English Section of SBI Clerk Mains 2022 exam. You must practice all-important rules and go through enough practice exercises to ace your English section. This can be done by attempting as many Mock Tests as possible. These Mock Tests offer questions related to essential grammar rules related to every sort of question asked in the English Section of the SBI Clerk Exam. Mock Tests coupled with previous years’ examination questions will make you aware of the present trend and pattern of the upcoming SBI Clerk Exam 2022 exam.

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