How To Prepare For Quantitative Aptitude for SBI Clerk?

SBI Clerk Quant Preparation Guide

SBI Clerk Quant Preparation Guide: The SBI Clerk Prelims will be in January 2024. Candidates who have completed their application process should be preparing for the same. The quantitative section may intimidate several students, as they may not have an affinity for maths or other reasons. Regardless, the quant section has 35 marks out of the 100 in Prelims so this article provides a guide to prepare for the subject. Candidates can follow these tips to enhance their learning and improve their scores in the section.

How To Prepare For Quantitative Aptitude for SBI Clerk?

Here are the steps that’ll help you prepare for the Quantitative section of SBI Clerk Prelims.

1. Exam Pattern & Exam Syllabus

Digest the Exam Pattern and Exam Syllabus. Knowing what topics are asked and how much time precisely you will be getting to solve the questions is essential. Knowing the exam pattern and syllabus will help you immensely in this exam.

2. Understand Concepts and Practice Questions using Online Classes and Quizzes

Go through the topics under the syllabus and try to practice a sufficient number of questions under that topic through Online Classes. As you practice, you will reckon your liability for each topic. You will notice some topics are easy for you and some topics consume a lot of your time.

3. Identify your Strengths

Identify your strong and not-so-strong topics and write them down. Make your strong points stronger and your not-so-strong points strong. Practicing daily will surely help you to recognize your field of expertise. As someone may be good at DI, and someone else at Simplification. Make sure to recognize what type of questions you find the most interesting and easier.

4. Devote sufficient time to your No-So-Strong Topics

Since the SBI Clerk Exam Dates have not been announced yet, you can still give sufficient time to your not-so-strong topics. Practice a wide range of questions around that topic. This exercise should make you a bit comfortable around the topic.

5. Make your strong topics stronger

However, focus and dedicate a sufficient amount of time and effort to your strong topics. This can do wonders for you in the exam. 

6. Divide your time equally between strong and weak topics initially

The time divided between your strong and no-so-strong topics should ideally be 50-50 at the time when the exam is 40-50 days away. If you find some topics in which you are strong, but they are taking a lot of time in solving, put them in no-so-strong sections. 

8. Learn Shortcuts and Quick Calculation Tricks

Learn shortcuts and quick calculation tricks for the topics in which you are strong. In general, learning quick quants techniques helps you a great deal in quickly solving the question without putting in too much pen and paper calculation. 

9. Take up Sectional Tests & SBI Clerk Mock Tests

After you are done with practise part, start taking Sectional Tests and Full-length Mock Tests. Take up Mock Tests as if you are taking the real exam.

Devote the required time to Mock Tests and then devote the requisite time for Mock Test Analysis. Identify the topics that you are comfortable in solving and questions that are consuming too much of your time. Take up Topic Tests for Quant topics that eat up your time in Mock Tests and improve upon them. 

10. Analyse the Mock Tests

Go through the solution part of the test that offers you the complete solutions to every question with an easy-to-understand approach. The analysis part also gives you an overview as to where you spend too much of your time, what’s your accuracy and the areas that require your attention and improvement. Solve maximum questions on topics that are gobbling up most of your time and keep on improving your solving speed. 

11. Devise your Exam Attempt Strategy.

While you take up the SBI Clerk Mock Tests during your preparation phase, devise your attempt strategy as to how will you attempt the quants/numerical ability section in the exam.

12. Solve Previous Years question papers (Both Prelims and Mains).

If you can solve the previous years’ papers at the same time as is given in the real exam and able to clear the cutoff marks, then you are good to go. 

13. Keep on practising. Revise the concepts, short tricks, and formulae.

Revise the concepts again as the exam approaches near so that you are clear with the basic formulae. 

14. No Mock Tests a day before the exam.

Do not attempt any more Mock Tests just a day before the exam as this can exhaust you and same can have detrimental effects the next day that is on the exam day.

15. Relax and take a sufficient amount of sleep a day before the exam.  

Calm your mind and body for the exam day so that your concentration levels are at the peak on the D-day.

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