IBPS Clerk Mains Exam: Exam Pattern

IBPS Clerk is going to be a two-stage recruitment process consisting of Preliminary and Main examination. Candidates who qualify the Preliminary & Main Examination will be absorbed as Clerks in various nationalized banks.

Mains Examination:

The IBPS Clerk (Main Exam) test will have 190 MCQs categorised in four sections. The duration of this test will be 2 hours and 40 minutes with a specified amount of time to be allotted to each section.

Total Marks: 200 

IBPS Clerk Mains Test: Syllabus

• General & Financial Awareness:  

​Current Affairs (National & International issues), Static G.K, Banking/Financial G.K, Information on Indian financial system, World Bank Reports, Economic/Financial Terminology, Monetary Policies, Financial Institutions such as SEBI, RBI, IMF, World Bank, UN etc., Credit Schemes, Stock Market, Government Schemes etc.

• English Language:

Homonyms, Antonyms, Synonyms, Word Formation, Spelling, Spotting Errors, Phrases and idioms, Direct and Indirect speech, Active/ Passive voice, Theme Detection, Passage completion, Topic rearrangement of passage, Deriving Conclusion

• Reasoning:

​Analogy, Classification, Word formation, Statement and conclusions Syllogism, Statement and assumptions, Statement and arguments, Coding Decoding, Blood Relations, Passage and conclusions, Alphabet test, Series Test, Number, Ranking and time sequence, Direction sense Test, Decision making test, Figure series, Input/output, Assertion and reasoning, Sitting Arrangement, series arrangement, odd man out

• Computer Awareness: 

History of Computers, Software and Hardware, Windows OS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Networking, Basic Understanding of Database, Security – Viruses and Tools.

• Quantitative Aptitude: 

Ratio and proportion, Averages, Time and work, Speed, Distance and time, Mixture and allegation Stocks and shares, Percentages, Partnership, Clocks, Volume and surface Area, Bar & Graphs, Line charts, Tables, Height and Distances, Logarithms, Permutation and combinations, Simple and compound interest, Equations, Probability, Trigonometry, Profit, Loss and Discount, Mensuration, Elements of Algebra, Data Interpretation, Pie charts

Tips and Strategies: IBPS Clerk Mains Exam 
 

Cracking the IBPS Clerk exam is not that hard. The difficulty level of this exam is easier than the IBPS PO, IBPS SO and IBPS RRB Recruitment Exams. Below are some tips that should come handy:

• Understand the paper format completely and then plan up your strategies for the exam.

• Gather all the IBPS Clerk essentials before beginning up your preparation and study in such a way that you can complete the entire syllabus before the exam.

• The toughest subject to qualify in IBPS Clerk, is General Awareness because the questions can be come from any topic and from anywhere, so candidates are required to be very well prepared for this section.

• To qualify the GK section in Bank Clerk Exam 2018, the candidates should read the important banking terms which can be asked in exams and books or magazines related to banking awareness.

• The Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning question papers are comparatively easier in IBPS Clerk Exam, so if you practice well with the short tricks and formulas, you can easily score in these two exams.

• English is very necessary for every bank aspirant, as after joining they have to communicate with many people so they should have great communication skills.

• Start Reading English Newspapers and Novels and watch English Movies and TV Shows to improve your English. And for better practices, you can make it a habit of talking in English.

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