EPFO SSA Exam 2019: Best Preparation Strategy

By Gaurav Singh Bhadouria|Updated : August 20th, 2019

EPFO SSA Exam Preparation Strategy. As we all know that EPFO SSA exam is scheduled to be held on 31st August 2019, so with only a few days left in the exam, it becomes very important to utilize these days wisely and in a planned manner. If we look at the recently held exams, we will see that the level of clerk/assistant exam is very easy. Even in the SBI Clerk prelims exam, an enormous change was seen. The cut off of SBI Clerk 2019 is very high this year. From this data, we can say that the difficulty level of the upcoming exams is going to be almost the same. So, in order to score well in exams, prepare well work on your calculation speed and accuracy.

EPFO has recently conducted the preliminary exam for the post of Assistants. The difficulty level of the exam was very easy as reported by many students. Students even attempted 95+ marks out of total 100 questions. So, we can say that the preliminary exam for the post of SSA is going to be almost the same. So keeping in mind this thing, try to attempt as many sectional and full-length mocks to increase your calculation speed and accuracy. After this, analyze your weak areas and try to improve those before the exam.

After getting a rough idea of the trending exam patterns, let us have a look at the section-wise strategy to fetch good marks in upcoming EPFO SSA Preliminary exam 2019.

Strategy for the English Language

  • Many students fear this section. But the fact is, this is the most scoring section in the preliminary exam but only if you have  the right approach to solve this section
  • Though the new pattern questions are asked in this subject in the exams nowadays, yet you can score well in this section by practicing it daily
  • Make a habit of reading a newspaper on a daily basis. Note down the new words that you come across ad revise them from time to time
  • Reading newspaper will also increase the reading skills that will help you in solving Reading Comprehension 
  • You must know how to attempt a sectional test and do not forget to analyze it otherwise it will be of no help
  • While practicing, first attempt vocab based questions in reading comprehension and then, cloze test, fillers, Para jumbles, and other remaining topics
  • While attempting reading comprehension, first attempt questions based on vocabulary and then jump to the rest of the questions
  • Go through the rules of important topics of grammar like subject-verb agreement, preposition, noun, pronoun, verbs, etc.
  • Daily practice a sectional mock to increase your speed and accuracy

Strategy for the Reasoning Ability

  • Practice as many puzzles and seating arrangements as you can. We have seen the majority of the questions are asked from this topic
  • The more you practice these topics, the more confident you become in solving the puzzles
  • Practice the different types of puzzles asked in recent bank exams
  • While practising this section, attempt topics like syllogism, inequalities, alphanumeric series, direction based questions, etc. first and then move to other topics
  • Go through latest pattern syllogism and practice them thoroughly. We have seen a change in the type of questions asked from this topic
  • Daily give at least one sectional test, check and analyze your exam preparation

Strategy for the Quantitative Aptitude

  • To score well in this subject, you must have a good calculation speed with accuracy
  • Practice topics like number series, approximation, simplification, and quadratic equations well. These are scoring topics and takes less solving time as well
  • Practice all different types of Data Interpretations. In all the preliminary exams, you will find a minimum of 10 questions from this topic
  • Learn tables up to 40, squares up to 30 and cubes up to 20. This will help you in doing calculations fastly and effectively
  • After this, prepare arithmetic topics like profit and loss, SI and CI, Ages, Partnerships, Boats, and Streams, etc. It is seen that nowadays a good chunk of questions are asked from these topics 
  • Practice, practice, and practice. Only practice will help you fetch good marks in the exam

Attempt EPFO SSA Mini Mock daily 

That was all about the strategy to score well in this exam. To help you out with your exam preparation, we advise you to attempt our daily quizzes to boost your score. The links are given below:

Daily English Quizzes

Daily Quant. Quizzes

Daily Reasoning Quizzes

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