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SBI Clerk Time Management Tips-Magic of Mock Tests!

The two most important skills needed to beat any competitive exam are speed and accuracy. Your reading and learning ability alone cannot get you good results. The same applies to the SBI Clerk Exam candidates. To score well, you need to practice mock tests along with reading books to test your preparation level.

Mock tests can give you an almost exam-like experience by letting you answer a specific number of questions for a specific amount of time. With regular practice, mock tests can help you overcome your mistakes and answer maximum questions within a given time. Apart from this, there are a few more benefits of taking mock tests for your exam preparation. Keep reading to know more.

Get help in building the right Exam strategy

Mock tests train you to build the right exam strategy. Often, many aspirants sit in the exam well-prepared, but the lack of speed and accuracy in solving answers through shortcut methods bar them from scoring good marks.

Some aspirants even fail badly, taking too much time on a single question and end up solving half of the paper or even one-third of it.

Improve your time management skills

Most of the time, many candidates answer questions they don’t know or get confused and fail to answer those they know. That’s where the time management skills come into the picture.

You need to be very careful with the time spent on every question. You should start answering the questions that you can easily solve and later work upon those questions you think are taking more of your time.

Take Mock Tests regularly and dedicatedly

Mock tests reveal your flaws in a constructive way. They are the harbingers who inform you about your level of preparation and highlight your mistakes that may otherwise creep out on the actual exam day.

Read books, study notes, and SBI Clerk Syllabus-related videos, followed by a good mock tests series. Keep testing yourself until the exam knocks at your door.

Thus, you should start working on your flaws from the beginning of your preparation until the completion and improve your chances of scoring good marks in the upcoming SBI Clerk Exam.

Tricks and advanced methods to solve longer questions

You cannot do magic to solve questions within seconds but you can definitely use some tricks and advanced methods to solve longer questions in a much shorter duration. Try learning such tricks if you want to qualify for any competitive exam. The more tricks you can apply to solve mathematical questions, the more you’ll able to save for yourself to solve the rest of the question paper.

Don’t ignore the benefits of mock tests in helping you prepare for competitive exams.

Grab a set of Mock Test today and start working your way to a better future!

Some Time Managements Tricks

Here are some tips and tricks that can help you in the actual SBI Clerk exam:

Tips to Attempt Quant in 15 minutes

Quantitative Aptitude requires calculations, but it is a pretty scoring section. Previous years’ exam paper’s show that the following seven topics get repeated in every exam:

  1. Simplification
  2. Number Series
  3. Quadratic Equation
  4. Data Interpretation
  5. Approximation
  6. Miscellaneous

A set of 5 questions come from all the above-mentioned topics and around 10-15 questions are being asked from the Arithmetic section. So, you should plan the sequence of topics to be attempted first and decide to leave the ones to be attempted later. Similarly, simplification, approximation, and Data Interpretation should be the least time taking topics.

In short, try to attempt easy topics first. Try to attempt at least 25 questions in 15 minutes with complete accuracy. When you’ll try to complete them in 15 minutes in the Mock Tests you will be able to surely solve them in 20 minutes in the actual SBI Clerk Exam.

Tips to Attempt Reasoning in 15 minutes

Reasoning section is a tricky section. You need to analyze the problems quickly to answer them. Here are some of the topics in the SBI prelims exam that you should work on:

  1. Coding-Decoding
  2. Inequality
  3. Order and Ranking
  4. Syllogism
  5. Blood Relation
  6. Direction Sense
  7. Series (Numeric, Alphanumeric, Symbol, etc.)
  8. Seating Arrangement and Puzzles

Try to practice more than 100 questions on each topic. This will train your mind to solve questions in the SBI Exam easily and quickly. Try to attempt more than 20 questions in the time span of 15 minutes. When you’ll try to complete them in 15 minutes in the Mock Tests, you will be able to surely solve them in 20 minutes in the actual SBI Clerk Exam.

Tips to Attempt English in 15 minutes

Most of the students attempt this question at last and only succeed in attempting few questions. But as the sectional timing has come into effect, you must try to answer as many questions as you can.

  1. Sentence Correction/Improvement
  2. Error Detection
  3. Para jumble Cloze Test
  4. Phrase Replacement
  5. Fillers
  6. Reading Comprehension

You will get 20 minutes to attempt 30 questions and you must try to attempt more than 20 questions in this section. Here is the list of 6 topics that can be asked in the exam. Concentrate on Basic English grammar and structure of sentences. Practice 50+ questions of all the topics to strengthen your command. When you’ll try to attempt as many questions as possible in 15 minutes in the Mock Tests, you will be able to solve as many questions as possible in the actual SBI Clerk Exam.

Analyze the Mock Test Results

Mock Tests are the best way to know your strong and weak points and areas. They help you in finding out where you are lacking and what needs to be done. They help you to improve your weak areas and work on your mistakes and stop you from repeating them.

Asad Yar Khan

I write and oversee the creation of informative educational blogs centering around study strategies, exam techniques, and more, to guide aspirants in clearing SSC, banking, engineering, and other competitive exams. I ensure a range of subjects are covered with precision and clarity. With over 7 years of diverse writing experience, I share a wealth of wisdom and expertise with thousands of students, through PracticeMock every day, helping them achieve their goals.

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