Tips to Solve ParaJumbles Smartly for IBPS PO Prelims

IBPS PO Prelims exam is scheduled for 4^th & 11^th Dec 2021 thereby leaving just 10 days in hand for exam preparation or rather you can say revision. With just 10 days are away by this time aspirants must have pulled up their sleeves. This time the number of vacancies is 4135 thus, many would be striving for these many vacancies making the competition even tougher. So, in order to make your IBPS PO prelims preparation strategy easier we are here with handy tips to solve ParaJumbles smartly.

Before moving onto that let’s first take a sneak peak into the IBPS PO Prelims exam pattern.

IBPS PO Prelims Exam Pattern

IBPS PO consists of a total of 100 questions and the time duration is of 60 minutes.

S.No.	Name of Test	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	English Language	30	30	20 minutes
2	Quantitative Aptitude	35	35	20 minutes
3	Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 minutes
	Total	100	100	60 minutes

Para Jumbles is basically a paragraph given in which the sentences are not arranged in the right order and are all jumbled up. The candidates are expected to read the paragraph well and then re-arrange the sentences in the right order so that they make sense.

Though it seems easy, but it is not and is often a feared topic for the aspirants for almost all banking exams. Unlike other sections there is no straightforward approach to solve para jumbles. It is quint essential to follow a systematic approach while solving these kinds of questions especially when it is about IBPS PO Prelims exam.

Aspirants often have a belief that para jumbles are the most difficult questions which comes in the English section; however, it is actually not the case. These can be as scoring as other sections provided you practice it well beforehand. It is just that you have to pay a little extra attention. Here are few handy tips for solving para jumbles in order to ace your IBPS PO Prelims 2021 examination. Before we start with the tips, why not attempt the first mock test in order to get the hang of the exam.

Tips to Score 75+ in IBPS PO Prelims 2021

Tips to Solve ParaJumbles Questions

Each para jumble can make use of one or more tips for solving a given question thus; it will surely help to boost exam preparation for IBPS PO Prelims.

1. First and the foremost thing to solve a para jumble is to read the sentences carefully and try to get the theme or gist of the paragraph. Spotting the theme will make it easier to understand the flow of the whole passage.

• Try looking out for a sentence introducing a person or a place etc. Most likely that sentence in which something is being introduced will likely be the first sentence. Also, figuring out the last sentence shall be helpful and make sure that the last sentence should be concluding and should not be abrupt.

• Next step is of identifying two connectors. Look out for sentences that are connected through connectors such as hence, thus and therefore etc. Identifying such sentences gives you a breakthrough. Try and look for connectors including thus, therefore, hence etc.

• There are times when para jumbled sentences talk about some activity. In such a case analysing the activity being talked about will do the trick.

• In order to properly arrange the sentences a lookout for transition words is important. Such words act as logical connectors and with the help of these mandatory pair of sentences can be identified easily. Mentioned are the most commonly used transition words are: furthermore, therefore, subsequently, in addition, likewise, meanwhile, meantime, for example etc.

• Identify the Pronouns that are connecting the sentences together with each other. Pronouns like he, she, him, her, their, it, they etc are to be figured out. For example, in one sentence it is said that Kabir likes to read books. Another sentence starts with ‘he’ and likewise. In this case it clearly states that‘he’is referring to Kabir and nobody else. So, you will be able to sort this one out easily.

• Adjectives like cleverer, simpler etc are comparative. Such comparative adjectives are always helpful while solving para jumble questions in the exam.

• Last but not the least, sometimes it is not necessary to identify all sentences in order to get the paragraph right. But, even eliminating a few incorrect ones can do the trick in case of para jumbles for IBPS PO Prelims.

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These are some of the tips by following which an aspirant can be through with para jumbles. I hope these tips shall come handy to you while appearing for the actual examination.

Wishing you all the best for your exam.