SBI Clerk Study Plan 2021: Section-wise Prelims Plan & Quizzes

SBI Clerk Study Plan 2021: SBI Clerk 2021 notification has been officially announced on 26th April 2021. The candidates should be aware of the Prelims date which is tentatively scheduled for June 2021. And the mains exam will be held on 31st July 2021. For the preparation of the Prelims exam, candidates must ensure the right approach and study plan so that they can achieve better results to move ahead to the next phase. Thus, we at BYJU'S Exam Prep providing you with the detailed 30 days study plan for the SBI Clerk Prelims 2021 exam preparation. The SBI Clerk Prelims study plan 2021 is updated on a daily basis to practice the topics, quizzes, and mock tests.

SBI Clerk Preliminary examination will consist of 100 questions with a total mark of 100, with a time duration of 60 minutes. There is sectional timing of 20 minutes for each section. This paper will be objective in nature. The SBI Clerk Preliminary Examination  includes 3 sections:

• English Language
• Numerical Ability
• Reasoning Ability

Thus, our experts have shared the detailed and flexible SBI Clerk Study Plan for your reference. We advise you to complete the assignments given in the table on a daily basis. As time is limited. Ace up your preparation to sail through the SBI Clerk exam. Candidates who are aiming to crack the exam this year must be preparing hard. Many of you would be attempting the exam for the first time. It is important for every aspirant to follow an effective approach for SBI Clerk 2021 exam. 

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Before moving on to the study plan, we'll walk you through some of the key preparation tips for the SBI Clerk exam which you must follow in the remaining time span. Follow the below-mentioned points whole-heartedly to taste the success in SBI Clerk Prelims Exam -

Strict Time-table - The Foremost Requirement

(i) For the remaining days, plan your time very well. You should forget everything except studies for this one month.

(ii) Schedule all your breaks, sleep cycle, study time within the boundaries of your timetable. Make sure you stick to it.

(iii) Cover the entire syllabus properly. Give more attention to important topics. Mark the important points with pen and later revise them anywhere you get the time.

(iv)Take the study sessions. For example, at least 3 study sessions of 3 hours each are required daily. You can cover three subjects in a day or a subject per day or a week. It’s up to you.

Mock Tests - The Best Tool

(i) Attempting the mock test is the best way to analyze your preparation level. It also helps a lot in time management during the exam as well as in handling exam pressure during the actual exam.  In short, attempting a mock test is the best way to gauge your skills.

(ii)Through attempting a mock test you can easily know about the scope of improvement in each section. You can easily analyze your strengths and weaknesses afterward and can work upon them to improve. 

(iii) Daily practice of mock tests will help you a lot in improving your speed as well as accuracy.

Practice - Solve Exercises Regularly

(i) As the old proverb says, 'Practice makes a man perfect'. To get a high score daily practice is required along with a clear understanding of the concepts.

(ii) Practice concepts of each and every section. You can take 2 sections for practice in a day like reasoning and English a day, while quantitative aptitude the next day followed by a mock test which you can take on a daily basis.

(iv) Now only a few weeks are left for the exams so start with practicing more and more quizzes and mini mock tests which are available on gradeup. Then analyze your performance.

Speed and Accuracy - The Important Parameter 

(i) With the introduction of sectional time, speed and accuracy will play a major role in the selection of candidates. To score well in all three sections focus on speed and accuracy.

(ii) As a smart approach, solve the easier question at first and leave the tough ones. Once you are done with easy to moderate questions, you can switch on to tough questions, if time allows.

(iii) Spending too much time on a single question will waste your precious time, so if you are not able to solve it within 1 minute then you should move on to the next question.

English Language

• The level of the English section has been increasing day by day, so don’t take this section for granted.
• Go through all the grammar rules from Wren & Martin's book and try to understand them. Do not try to cram the rules. Just go through them with solved examples and automatically those rules will feed in your mind.
• Read English articles on daily basis. You can prefer The Hindu or the economic Times. Try to note down the new words in a separate note to revise later.
• Continue this process and revise the written words regularly.
• Try to enlarge your vocab power and include as many words as possible in it.
• Focus on cloze test, fillers, sentence correction, spotting error chapters.
• With consistency and persistent effort, you can easily score around 25 in this section.

Reasoning Ability

• Topics of this section are quite easy if you know the underline concepts and you have practiced them thoroughly.
• Practice 2-3 puzzles on daily basis. On exam hall, choose the puzzle with the lesser number of variables.
• Focus on syllogism, inequality, order & ranking, coding-decoding, direction distance, and blood relation chapters as these chapters are relatively easier and easy to solve in the exam hall rather than solving time-consuming puzzles.
• This section requires some basic concepts initially. After clearing concepts, you need to solve as many questions as possible to be master in this section.
• This section requires only practice and imagination power.
• With sufficient practice and proper understanding of concepts, you can easily score 30+ in this section.

Quantitative Aptitude

• This can be the most scoring section if prepared well.
• In the initial days focus on remembering squares up to 40, cubes up to 20, tables up to 30, fraction to a percentage, and percentage to fraction conversion up to 1/25.
• Also, try to know some Vedic tricks and rules for faster calculation in the exam so that you can save time and invest more time in the miscellaneous questions and in the difficult questions.
• After this, start covering basic and fundamental chapters like number series, quadratic equation, average, ratio proportion, percentage. These 3 chapters are applied in almost every arithmetic chapter. So first try to know the deep concepts of these 3 chapters.
• After this, you can go for time & work, partnership, time speed distance, mixture alligation chapters.
• Practice different types of data interpretation sets like a bar graph, tabular DI, etc.

• Start from the root level. Clear all your concepts. Do not go for short tricks without learning basic concepts.
• Go through the previous years' paper to have a proper understanding of the expected topics, or must-do topics.
• Go through basic grammar rules. As most of the part in the English Language section is based on grammar.
• Work on your calculation. Try to save as much time as you can while doing calculations.
• Always manage your time according to the exam pattern. 
• After revising the conceptual approach, work on your time management as you will have only 20 minutes for each section.
• Practice section-wise questions to attain maximum efficiency and accuracy.
• Take mock tests to analyze your performance and work on your weak areas then.
• Set small realistic goals that are achievable. 
• Target to attempt at least 90+ questions with accuracy.
• Devote maximum of your study hours to the important topics.
• Follow the study plan not to miss any important topic from the SBI Clerk examination point of view.

SBI Clerk 2021 Revision Tips

As the SBI Clerk exam is going to start from 10th July 2021, there are few days remaining for the exam. As you have already followed the 60 days study plan mentioned above, you must be thorough with all the chapters and nuances of the syllabus. Now it's time to keep in mind some key points before the SBI Clerk prelims exam.

• Do revision with efficient time management.
• Do not miss out on any important formula or concept.
• Question selection would be of utmost importance on exam day.
• Do not forget about speed and accuracy.
• Do a last-minute revision.
• Follow our last days' exam strategy.