The exam will test candidates for English language, reasoning and numerical ability skills.
The entrance examination for recruitment of clerical positions in various public sector banks in India is conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS).
The IBPS Clerk Prelims examination for the year 2015 is scheduled to be conducted on December 5, 6,12 and 13, 2015.
As per the official notification, the IBPS Clerk 2015 will be conducted in two phases -- Preliminary and Mains.
Those candidates who qualify in preliminary examination will be eligible for the mains exam.
More than 5 lakh candidates will be appearing for this exam, contesting hard for a handful of seats.
To make matters slightly easy, we have come with some preparation tips curated especially for IBPS Clerk Prelims by our group of experts.
The paper pattern
The IBPS Clerk Prelims will be conducted according to the following pattern:
Maximum marks: 100
Test duration: 1 Hour (60 minutes)
Sections
The test will contain three sections, namely:
English: 30 questions
Numerical Ability: 35 questions
Reasoning: 35 questions
The test will consist of 100 questions, with one mark awarded for each correct answer and 0.25 marks deducted for every wrong answer.
Syllabus
The second step in preparation is getting acquainted with the syllabus for IBPS Clerk Prelims 2015.
1. English Language
There will be 30 questions (easy to moderate difficulty) covering the following topics:
2. Reasoning
In the reasoning section of IBPS Clerk Prelims 35 questions will be asked across all difficulty levels, with most of the questions falling under moderate difficulty level.
The topics to be covered are:
3. Numerical Ability
Comparatively, the toughest section IBPS Clerk Prelims 2015.
The number of questions asked from Numerical Ability is 35, covering the following topics:
Preparation Tips
The day before the exam
If you have followed this preparation plan for IBPS Clerk Prelims, you have prepared exceptionally well.
Have no worries, get a sound sleep of eight hours and have light food. All the best for the next day!
We hope you find the above preparation tips useful.
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The author of this piece, Vaibhav Mehta is education consultant at MockBank.com, a Bangalore–based online test-preparation company for government/PSU jobs.
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