SBI PO REASONINGN PRACTICE TIPS AND TRICKS
We will be providing important pointers about the Prelims Exam first. So, let us begin by understanding the exam pattern for SBI PO Prelims 2017, followed by Tips to crack SBI PO Exam.
These are the most important chapters in the Reasoning section from the SBI PO exam point of view. These have appeared time and again. You must be very comfortable with these questions as these questions hold the best chance of you clearing the exam.
(1) Coding & Decoding
(2) Inequalities
(3) Syllogisms
(4) Puzzles (Esp Seating Arrangement and Double Line up)
Topics expected to be covered in the Reasoning exam are as follows:
(a) Machine Input Output
(b) Coding-Decoding
(c) Puzzles
(d) Direction and Distance
(e) Order and ranking
(f) Syllogism
(g) Blood relations
(h) Seating arrangement
(i) Arrangement and pattern
(j) Inequalities
Now let us have a look at the Time Management because it is going to play a very crucial role in the exam.
Reasoning is a subject in which most people have a strong hand in and consider it to be their ace or ticket to clearing the cut off as they call it.
It might seem unfair to you that we are giving more preference to reasoning but the fact is that most of the people who have cleared the SBI PO preliminary exam have scored maximum in reasoning. You can mould the time management according to your strength and weaknesses because in the end, you are going to decide everything. It's just a guidance, not the final picture.
Yet we find students making errors and coming out dissatisfied and unsure about the section after the exam. This usually happens when people get attached to questions and end up wasting their time. Do not forget that the purpose of these exams is not to test your knowledge but to test your ability to manage your time and speed. So attempt as many questions you can and that too accurately.
Below are some points that you should take care of:
Do not attempt puzzles or seating arrangements first, do them after you have attempted all the other questions of the section and if you are still left with time in the 20 mins time limit. The reason why we say this is that off late the level of these questions based on puzzles has gradually increased and require more time to solve them. So spending 10 mins for 5 marks doesn't make sense in the exam where you have only 60 minutes to prove your worth.
While solving the questions, skip all the time consuming questions and attempt only those which easily click. Any question that takes more than a minute to solve is meant to be left.
Use the allotted 20 minutes judicially such that the difference between the number of attempts and the number of questions done accurately is very low.
Last but not the least practice online mock exams daily if possible, as this will give you experience and a chance to apply all these tips enabling you with an error free experience in the real battle.
Note: The aim is to attempt a minimum of 15-20 marks at least in this section and approximately 45-48 marks overall to be on a safer side. The willing aspirants should start practicing mock test on last days of exam. It will be useful for them in improving speed and solving the section in stipulated time frame. Candidate should keep one thing in mind that Exam hall is not a place of doing more experiments. Candidate should attempt only those questions of reasoning section on which they are extremely sure.
Now how best to practice and appear in exam?
Make sure you solve at least 4-5 puzzles on a daily basis. Practicing puzzles helps the mind to develop and get accustomed to confusing and complicated situations in a question.
But this does not mean that during the exam you make a promise to solve all the questions. Remember you are not there to prove your knowledge about the subject but to score maximum marks possible in a given time. So best to attempt the easy questions first.
Do not attempt puzzles or seating arrangements first, do them after you have attempted all the other questions of the section, but do keep the time frame in the mind aswell.. The reason for this is that puzzles are usually lengthy and spending 10 mins for 5 marks doesn't make sense in the exam where you have only minutes to prove your worth.
While solving the questions, skip all the time consuming questions and attempt only those which easily click. Time consuming and complicated questions are meant to be left, they are put in the paper to trap the student. So BEWARE
Use the allotted 30-35 minutes judicially such that the difference between the number of attempts and the number of questions done accurately is very low, i.e. you should try to attempt accurately in the exam. Stay away from guess work.
Last but not the least practice on-line mock exams daily if possible, as this will give you experience and a chance to apply all these tips enabling you with an error free experience in the real battle
We have also noticed majority of students struggling in verbal section of reasoning or as you call analytical reasoning. The only way out in this topic is PRACTICE. yes practice daily without fail. initially you will find yourself getting almost all questions wrong for days together, but after each question, go through the answer, and try to make sense out of it. Slowly you will get the hand of it. This is the only way out no substitute of practice in this section.
How best to deal with a difficult paper?
Well if the level of the paper is difficult, then best to become a scavenger hunting for the easiest possible question and getting over with it first, and then peacefully working out the difficult questions. But make sure that you can differentiate between the difficult that are doable and the one which are not, so use your time judicially and do not exceed the time that you have stipulated for each section.
Is it possible to do well in a difficult paper?
Absolutely! If not do well but definitely clear the cutoff comfortable, provided you allocate your time smartly and follow the tips given above.
How does an average student appear for such a paper?
An average student should start by doing the topics that he or she is comfortable in first and aim to clear the cutoff. Do only those questions in which you are 100% sure, no guess work at all. Then move to the other types of questions.
At the end the main advice is to start thinking fast/quick! Do practice a lot! Learn new ways yourself! This is the only section where nobody can teach you the perfect logic! You yourself have to devise those logics that fit for you...
