Prepare / Crack UIIC Assistants Exam (United India Insurance) 2017

If you are preparing for United India Insurance Company UIIC Assistants Exam 2017. Here’s few important information regarding the UIIC Assistant Exam 2017. It was in the month of August when UIIC released the notification for the post of 696 Assistants Vacancy. And the exam is going to held in the moth of September itself. So this is the high time to prepare for UIIC Assistants Exam 2017. In this post you will be getting very important information about How to crack UIIC Assistants Exam 2017 – an Online Test

Admit Card is also available for the UIIC Assistants Exam 2017 – Click here to download

Exam date for Prelims – 22 September 2017

– The very important thing is to be aware of couple of things like prescribed syllabus, Previous cut off marks for UIIC Assistant Exam, you must have checked UIIC Assistants exam previous papers and authentic source of study material. Having these information will save your precious time in preparation, you will get to know how much of hard work you need to do and also it will get you the knowledge of right way of preparation.

I have searched 10s of individual sites, official sites and many other sources to gather all these information. Read all the related information below

United India Insurance UIIC Assistants Exam Pattern:

There is a total change in Exam pattern. It used to be only one exam of 200 marks with 4 sections. Now lets have a look at New Pattern

You need to clear three stages to get a job as a Assistant In United India Insurance

1. Prelims
2. Mains
3. Regional Language test

Now the Prelims test is of 100 marks and 100 questions and you will only have 1 hr to attempt all the questions

Test	Questions	Marks	Time
English	30	30	60 Minutes
Reasoning	35	35
Quant Apti	35	35

** There will be Sectional cut off and Overall cutoff in both Prelims & Mains Exam like in Bank PO / IBPS PO exam
** There will also be negative marking for each wrong question

The Mains exam of UIIC Assistants is divided into five sections carrying a total of 200 Marks and you need to answer all questions in 120 Minutes. This is also Objective type test

Test	Questions	Marks	Time Allotted
Reasoning	40	50	2 Hours
English	40	50
General Awareness	40	50
Quant Aptitude	40	50
Computer Test	40	50

If you are able to crack Mains Exam, you will have to take Regional language test. Language test will be of qualifying nature means marks scored in regional language test will not be added in the final selection process. If you are able to clear regional test then you are eligible for final selection process which will be done on the basis of marks scored in Mains Exam.

Here’s United India Insurance UIIC Assistants Exam Syllabus with difficulty level (Very good analysis by Gradeup) in detail:

English (Pre + Mains)

Topic	Number of Question
Reading Comprehension	10-15 ( Easy, Moderate, Difficult – you need to select questions those are easy to answer) Difficult ques may consume lot of time
Cloze test	5-10 (Scoring, moderate to difficulty, based on grammer or vocablury (Must prepare it well)
Error Finding	5-10 (Could be easy, moderate or difficult, prepare grammer very well specially exceptions)
Para Jumbles	0-5 (Moderate in all aspects like difficulty level, time consumption & accuracy) (Practice well to score)
Para Completion	0-5 (Moderate in all aspects like difficulty level, time consumption & accuracy) (Practice well to score)
Sentence Connector	0-5 ( Time Consuming, you can’t make sue if you are 100% correct) – Practising could reduce the time consumption
Double Fillers	5 (Mixture of Grammer & Vocab ( Less time consuming, easy to moderate in difficulty)
Sentence Correction	5-10 ( Less time consuming if you are well prepared)
Idioms/ Phrases / Odd one out	0-5 (Easy to difficult , Less time consuming)

Reasoning

Topic	Number of Questions
Seating Arrangements (Cirular, Linear, rectengular, with directions, blodd relarions etc)	10 (Could be easy, moderate or difficult, less time consuming if you know the technique to solve & practised enough)
Syllogisms	0-5 (Scoring, Less time consuming if you have done lot of practice)
Coding & Decoding	5 (Easy but Very Time consuming)
Inequalities	0-5 (Easy, Less time consuming, Scoring)
Puzzle	5-10 (less time consuming, easy to Moderately difficult) Need practice
Input – Output	0-5 (Moderate in all aspects)
Blood relations, distance-direction, ordering-ranking, Alphanumeric series	5-10 (Easy, Moderate, Difficult) – you need to smart here, identify the easy questions and skip the difficult
Verbal Reasoning (Statement & Conclusion, Statement & course of action, Statement & Arguments, cause & effect, Arguments & Assumption, Assertion Reason & Decision Making)	10-12 (These are relatively easy if you prepare well and practice often)

Quant Aptitude Syllabus (Pre +Mains)

Topic	Number of Ques
Simplification & Approximation	5 (Easy, Less time consuming, Scoring)
Number Series	5 (Scoring, Moderate in difficulty, Moderate in time consuming)
Quadretic Equation	0-5 ( Easy, less time consuming if you know the shortcuts)
Data Interpretation (DI)	10-15 (atleast 7-10 easy, 3-5 difficult)(Easy ques and are less time consuming if your know the shortcuts, Scoring)
Misc (Average, Percentage, Ci & SI, Profit loss, Time speed distance, Time & Work, Problem on ages, Probability, Permutation & Combination etc.)	10 (combination of easy & difficult, quickly & intelligently glance through for easy questions)
Data Sufficiency (Generally comes in mains)	0-5 (Tricky, You can’t be sure if answer is correct, little bit time consuming)

United India Insurance UIIC Assistant Exam 2017 Previous Cut Off Marks :

In the past the pattern was totally different. There used to be only 1 exam of 250 marks. Last time UIIC exam held in 2015 with cutoff marks 170 (unofficial) out of 250 . Let’s have a look at expected cut off for 2017

Exam	Overall	English	Quant	Reasoning	Computer	GK
Prelims	70-75	22-24	22-24	30-33	NA	NA

UIIC Assistant Previous Year Question Paper – As I said the pattern was totally different in the past, syllabus was also different. This time Pattern is different, question became tougher than before. Insurance exams are more like bank Po exams. You need to prepare hard, prepare very well to clear the exam. I personally won’t advise you to rely on previous papers because they outdated. Time has changed alot and so the syllabus, pattern & difficulty level. Instead of preparing on the basis of previous paper check model papers for 2017. Still if you want to have a look at the previous years question, i found couple of them

UIIC Assistant Exam 2013 Question Paper

UIIC Assistant Exam 2015 Question Paper

Few important points to remember and Sources to Prepare United India Insurance UIIC Assistants Exam 2017 :

• Read the syllabus carefully and prioritize the topics, since you don’t have much time to prepare focus on topics which are scoring & easy to attempt. Prioritizing will helps you to cover more syllabus in less time.
• I spoke with my couple of friends who cleared the exam. according to them one thing is very important that is “Practice“. So before it is too late you must consider this aspect. Practice is just like spending time with your partner. More you spend time with questions, more you understand them and will get familier with them. And it becomes very easy for you to attempt and answer the question in less time while taking exam.
• “Time management” is important while taking exam. Since you need to answer 100 question in 60 Minutes. And it is impossible to answer all the questions. So you need to select the questions carefully which you need to answer. Select easy and less time consuming questions.
• While preparing make notes of all maths tricks and shortcut and revise them frequently. And also note down the exceptions from English Grammar that will help in solving “finding errors”
• Join some test series so that you can identify your weak areas and work on them. So you need to physically go some coaching center, everything is online there are plenty of website that provide online test series like GradeUp, Testbook, MeritShine etc.
• To prepare Maths tricks watch youtube videos by MeritShine, Very helpful videos, you will get enough confidence after watching and learning maths tricks. Watch videos published on SBI PO Quant section. Don’t worry these videos are not only for SBI exam. It covers major topics that may appear on any government exam. These videos are helpful to prepare Quant section of any exam. Only differnce that I have noticed in SBI PO quant and Other exam Quant is level of difficulty. SBI PO quant is relatively difficult than Others. So If you prepare for difficult, you will able to attempt easier question efficiently. Questions in UIIC Asst exam may be easier if we compare it with SBI PO exam, but in reality it is a diffcult exam which require a lot of practice and hard work.

Sources to prepare for UIIC Assistants Exam 2017 :

Subject	Books with Author
English	General English (For Grammer) – SP Bakshi – Buy on Flipkart (Buy this when you have sufficient time to prepare)Vocabulary – Norman Lewis- Click here to Buy (Buy this when you have sufficient time to prepare like minimum 2 Months) Revision – Paramount Coaching Notes – Click to Buy
Reasoning	Reasoning Videos by Meritshine – CLick here to Watch Bankersadda for free practice sets (Click to Visit) Kiran’s Practice book – Click here to buy
Quant Apti	Quant Videos by Meritshine – Click here to watch (Very Nice Source)Magical Maths by M.Tyra – Click here to Buy (Only buy if have sharp memory and ability to remember shortcuts. This book gives no explanation, only shortcuts to answer a question, deal with this book carefully. If you won’t remember you will mix up everything) Bankersadda for free practice sets (Click to Visit) Kiran’s Practice book – Click here to buy
Computer	Will update Soon
GK	Will update Soon

Thats all for now, prepare for Prelims while I work to find important information regarding UIIC Assistants Exam Mains section.

Good luck all!

9 Important Points you must Read before you start preparing for Govt Job in India

All those who want to get a Govt job in India, must read these points before start preparing for an exam.  This will help you save your precious time and your parents’s hard earned money.

1. Realize your Aim. This is a very important step. It is important to analyze your capability and decide what exactly you want to be in your life. If you have no aim, no goal, you will reach no where.

2. Know everything about the job profile ( Duties, responsibilities). Next step is to know everything about the job profile. When you know everything about the Job profile you get to know the importance of that position.And during preparation always keep in mind those things that you will achieve after you clear the exam. This thing will keep you motivated. Self motivation is very important to clear any govt exam or to get a govt job. Generally students start preparation with too much aggravation and in couple of months they just dump everything. And some students prepare irregularly (Means prepare 2 months and skip 1 month, prepare for another 1 month and skip 2 months) , they take couple of attempts, get frustrated, feel boredom and say “this is too difficult”. Exam is not difficult, difficult is to keep yourself motivated, difficult is to be regular and punctual in your preparation. So if you start preparing for any exam, and gets frustrate in couple of months or couple of attempts, just don’t stop preparing. Keep yourself motivated and trust yourself.

3. Read the Prescribed syllabus carefully. Analyze all Subjects. Analyze the topics you are weak in, and also the topics you are Good in and make a table. As you need to work hard on the topics you are weak in. If you have 2 tier exam (Prelims and Mains), take them altogether. Do not think like “first I will prepare for pre and if I get through I will prepare for mains” . This statement means you don’t trust yourself and you are not going to prepare well. Have faith in yourself and take both tiers together. Two reasons why should prepare for both tiers together (i) You won’t have enough time to prepare for mains (ii) However the syllabus is approximately same but you find more difficult questions in mains. So if you prepare for the hard exam (Main) you will be able to clear the easier one (Prelim) without any difficulty

4. Analyze time. Analyze how much time you have for the upcoming exam and how much time you need to prepare for that particular government exam. Make a time table and decide your study hours in a day and stick to that time table. This will help you complete your syllabus or preparation on time.

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5. Division of Topics. Divide your topics from all the subjects in the days you have to prepare. Prepare all the subjects altogether For e.g if you have subjects and have 5 hours a day to study. Then read all 4 subjects for 1 hours, in the last hour revise what you have studied and practice some questions. Because if you prepare subjects one by one, and when you reach to subject 4, you will forget everything that you have studied 1st subject. There you will take more time to revise 1st subject.

6. Study Material. Find the right and authentic source to prepare for the govt exam.Do not multiple publisher’s books for one subject. Watch Youtube videos, there are plenty of videos on Youtube where you can learn tricks. Remember buying more and more books will not get you through. Buy less books and make sure whatever study material you are buying contains relevant content.

7. Practice Often as it will improve your performance and will increasing your speed in answering the question. Afterall, govt exams are all about knowledge, Speed and Time Management.

8. Join test Series. Prepare for a week and take test on Weekend. This will help you find your where you are lacking and will help you find your weaknesses and it is very important to mitigate weaknesses.

9. Take Regular Mock test for atleast last 20 days before the examination.Doing this will improve your accuracy and will help you find where will you stand in the real examination.

All these point will contribute towards your govt job preparation. I got these points from those candidates who already cleared some or other government exam. And I am sure if you trust yourself, be serious and punctual and prepare for the exam properly, you will get through.

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Important Tips to Crack RBI Assistant Exam 2020

Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Central banking institution has released the notification for 623 Assistant Vacancy. All the eligible and interested candidates have a very good opportunity to grab a job in RBI. So to give you a little hand we have done some research on RBI Assistant exam latest pattern, RBI Assistant syllabus latest, RBI Assistant Exam previous cut off and of course we have few tips on how to crack RBI Assistant Exam 2017.

Understanding the RBI Assistant Exam pattern, Syllabus is very very important. So do not skip this part. It wont take long to understand the things But It can save a lot of time for your preparation. This exam faces a lot of competition as lakhs of candidates apply for the post. So you must have all your tools ready.

If you want, You can Check Eligibility & Job notification Here

RBI Assistant Exam Pattern for Prelims & Mains [Latest] :

This time RBI has made few changes in the exam pattern (Mains). Check the important points in the next line. It is a 3 tier exam Viz. Prelims, Mains & Language Proficiency Test (LPT).

Important Points to remember (2 changes in the pattern) :

1. (1st change) This time there is Sectional Time Limit in the Mains Exam. It means you can’t switch between sections now.

2. (2nd change) In total now you will get 2 Hours 15 minutes instead of 2 Hours.(In Mains)

3. If you remember, last year Interview was replaced with language proficiency test (LPT). So it’s important to clear the LPT, if you fail to clear the LPT you will be disqualified. 1st you need to clear the Prelims. With in a month after Prelims, you will take Mains (Only if you clear Prelims). And if you are able to clear Mains Exam, You will have to take LPT in Regional/Local Language.

4. Candidate’s selection will be done on the basis of Main Exam Only. So you just need to reach cut off marks in Prelims. You need to make a strategy to score maximum marks in Mains. And again in LPT you just need to qualify it

5. There will be a -ve Marking of 1/4 marks for each wrong answer in both prelims & mains

Prelims

Test	No. of Questions	Marks	Time Allotted
English	30	30	1 Hour
Reasoning	35	35
Quant Aptitude	35	35

Mains

Test	No. of Questions	Marks	Time Allotted
English Language	40	40	30 mins
Reasoning	40	40	30 mins
Quant. Aptitude	40	40	30 mins
General Awareness	40	40	25 mins
Computer Knowledge	40	40	20 mins

RBI Assistant Syllabus for Prelims & Mains [Latest] :

Check the RBI Assistants Exam Syllabus in detail below
1. English Language

• Reading Comprehension
• Error finding or Error Spotting
• Phrase Replacement
• Cloze Test
• Fill in the blanks (Based on Vocabulary or Grammer)
• Parajumbles
• Sentence Improvement

2. Reasoning

• Circular, Linear, Rectangular Sitting Arrangements
• Syllogism
• Puzzles
• Blood Relation
• Data Sufficiency
• Series
• Inequality
• Distance & Direction
• Rankings
• Coding & Decoding
• Arrangements & Pattern (Number, Alphabets & Other)
• Decision Making
• Double Line-Up
• Grouping & Selection (Based on teams, Committees etc)

3. Quantitative Aptitude

• DI (Data Interpretation)
• Quadratic Equation
• Simplification / Approximation
• Number Series
• Simple & Compound Interest
• Profit & Loss
• Average
• Percentage
• Mensuration
• Problems on Ages
• Ratio & Proportion
• Boats & Streams
• Pipes & Cisterns
• Partnership
• Allegations
• Time, Speed & distance
• Time & Work
• Permutation & Combination, Probability

4. General Awareness

• News related to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) & Other Banks
• Bank Rate, Repo, Reverse Repo, Bank Rate etc. (Just glance through all bank related rates)
• Banking / Financial Awareness / Economics news
• Current Affairs – Questions may come from various fields such as: National, International, Awards, Sports, Defence, Summits, Appointment, Books & Authors and Obituary etc.

5. Computer Knowledge

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint & Other)
• All About Internet
• All about a computer, Memory system, Drive, Operating System etc
• Computer Generation
• Computer Hardware
• Abbreviations related to computer

RBI Assistant Previous Years Papers :

Assistants Exam Pattern has changed alot over the last few years. Difficulty level of questions has increased. You previous years questions were comparatively easy. So don’t just depend upon previous papers. Check latest model papers on internet. Anyway if you want have a look few here we have the links to download previous papers

• RBI Assistants 2012 Question PDF
• RBI Assistants 2013 Question PDF
• RBI Assistants 2014 Question PDF
• RBI Assistants 2015 Question PDF

Click here to buy a nice Practice set book, It is based on latest pattern and made specifically for Prelims

RBI Assistant Previous Years Cut Off Marks [Official] :

• Click to check Prelims 2016 Cut Off
  2016 Mains for General – Reasoning (14). English (14), Quant (14), GK (14), Computer Awareness (14)
• Click here to know overall state wise Cut off for 2015 ,2014, 2013 & 2012

Important Tips to Crack RBI Assistant Exam 2017 and Sources to prepare :

1. Prepare both prelims and mains together. Many candidates commit this mistake. They prepare for only prelims and decide to prepare for mains only if they clear Prelims. This approach is very wrong. By chance or by luck (which happens very rarely) if you clear the prelims, you won’t have enough time to prepare for Mains. Mains exam is just an advanced version of prelims with much more difficult questions. So if you prepare for advance (Mains) you can easily crack basic (Prelim exam). However there are few that you will see in Prelims but not in Mains & Vice Versa. So prepare those topics accordingly

2. Make sure you go through full syllabus and determine or make a list of very important and less important topics. Do it for prelims and mains both.

3. Now make a list of those important topics you are Weak in. Because thats what make you crack the examination. And definitely you need to work hard in topics you are weak in. Working hard includes fixing the study hours, learning all kinds of shortcuts, lot of practice (important), take tests, Join test series (important), analyzing yourself from time to time, checking on a regular interval whether you have overcome your weaknesses or not etc.

4. Practice lots of questions on a particular topic. Practice is extremely important to crack any government exam. If you just keep learning tricks and not trying to solve question, that is just waste of time. Let’s say you have fixed 5 hours a day for your preparation. Then you should study or learn shortcut or tricks for 3 hours and you should practice questions in the remaining 2 hours. Practice is very very important.You can skip it if you have an extraordinary brain. ? ? Just kidding. But do practice.

5. Don’t buy too many books to learn tricks. Buy Books that gives you variety of questions to solve.

Click here for Practice Questions for Prelims (A nice workbook by Kiran Prakashan)
Click here for Practice Questions for Mains (Again by Kiran Prakashan)

6. If your English section is weak. Then it is time to make it strong. Aspirants generally take this section very lightly, which is not good. This is the section which takes very less time, due to lack of preparation in english candidates make lot of mistakes. So you can take benefit of this section. You can use this section as a weapon to defeat the monster. Take this section very seriously if you haven’t taken it seriously. It contains two sections – Grammer & Vocabulary. Examiner generally ask for exceptions. If you haven’t read those exceptions, you will definitely get negative marks. There are two important books, you must check those books atleast once. Very nice books, extremely helpful.

–> For Vocabulary – Word Power made easy by Norman Lewis (Click here to check). You will love reading this and you will see improvement in vocabulary as you keep on reading.
–> For Grammer – Objective General English by SP Bakshi (Click here to check). Very nice book for those with weak grammer. It contains lots of exceptions which are helpful from exam point of view. You may find this book a little boring. But content in this book is very nice.

7. Make sure you complete your preparation 15-20 days in advance. Keep these 15-20 days for Test series. Take 1 full length test everyday. Check your result. With the help of this result you will be able to find your weak areas or weaknesses that you can mitigate in other few days. This also helps you in time management.

8. Time Management. Very important thing and it require good strategy when you are taking the real test. Very basic thing to understand is, you will have 60 minutes to solve 100 questions. Right? and you know practically it is not possible to answer all 100 questions. Agree? So you have to select the questions carefully that you can answer in time and reach the cutoff. In real exam you may find few easy questions which are really easy and you can answer them in few seconds. You may also find other easy questions which you can’t answer in few seconds. which may take upto 2 or 3 minutes to answer. Those questions are generally a trap. Very easy, attractive but time consuming.

Finally the Books or Sources to prepare RBI Assistant Exam 2017

Section	Book
English	General English (For Grammer) – SP Bakshi – Click here to Buy Vocabulary – Norman Lewis- Click here to Buy Revision – Paramount Coaching Notes – Click to Buy
Quant	Magical book on Quicker Math – M. Tyra – Click here to Buy Online videos by Meritshine – Click here to watch (Find SBI PO Videos)
Reasoning	Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning- R S Aggarwal – Click here to Buy Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning Hindi – Kiran Publication – Click to Buy Analytical Reasoning – M K Pandey- Click to Buy
GK	Static GK – NCERT (6 to 10) – Click to Read online for free Current Affairs – Newspaper / Click to read online for free Revision – Lucent’s GK – Click here to Buy

That’s all my friends. If something is missing or something is confusing , do let us know via comments section below.

Good Luck for you exam !! Work hard and win the race.

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Important Tips to Read Newspaper for IAS Exam

UPSC exam is one of the most challenging exams in the country. It requires a lot of dedication, determination and consistency to clear the exam. Current affairs assumes huge importance in all the three levels of this exam. It is impossible to clear the examination without current affairs preparation. An aspirant must make it a habit to read the newspaper on a daily basis. It is important to read at least one newspaper thoroughly and make short notes out of it so that it comes handy at the time of revision. So develop a habit of reading at least one newspaper on the daily basis. Read on to understand how to read Newspaper for IAS Exam.

Things to keep in mind while you Read Newspaper , if you are preparing for Civil Services Exam

• Keep a copy of the UPSC syllabus while reading the Newspaper so that you know the articles that are relevant for the exam. One does not have to read all the articles in the Newspaper, as the questions that are asked in the exam are well within the boundaries of the syllabus.
• Follow one Newspaper regularly. Choose a News Paper, preferably The Hindu and follow it on a daily basis. One does not have to read many Newspapers. Reading one Newspaper thoroughly would suffice.
• You can skip the articles relating regional news as it won’t be asked in the examination. You can read through an article if you think it will help you answer any sort of question related to your region in the personal interview.
• National news is extremely important. Aspirants must focus on the verdicts given by the Supreme Court and the High Court, orders passed by the government, bills tabled in the parliament etc.
• Make sure to cover the Editorials extensively. This is the most important area in the Newspaper which holds relevance in UPSC preparation. Aspirants must read the editorials thoroughly and make short notes out of it, which will come handy at the time of revision. The editorials provide in-depth analysis of the issue in news. This helps in understanding various perspectives to a single topic.
• Avoid reading political news as they do not serve any purpose in the UPSC preparation. Just rush through the articles if you feel that they have relevance to the UPSC syllabus.
• News articles dealing with International issues must also be covered thoroughly. This helps in covering the International Relations part of the UPSC syllabus.
• Business News has relevance to the Economy portion of the UPSC Syllabus. Hence, the aspirant must selectively read the articles related to education, health, women, etc.
• Sports section holds minimal importance for the UPSC Civil Service You can avoid this page unless you like to follow the news relating to your favorite sport.

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Important Tips to Prepare or Crack IBPS Clerk Exam 2020

Now the notification for IBPS Clerk Exam 2017 is out, candidates have been looking for tips or tricks or methods or shortcuts etc to clear the clerical exam for Banks through IBPS. So here in this post you will find many important things that will help you to get through the exam this year. Clerical job is a small post for BE Btech MBA Mtech students. But it is not s small post now. Spend 3 years of your life as a clerk in bank and you will be promoted to Bank PO (Assistant Manager) (I have seen one of my friend recently got promoted in Karur Vyasa Bank from a clerk post an became assistant manager) and after couple of more years you will get a chance to become a manager. Is it really a low status post? Well, I don’t think Bank Clerks is a low status post. You are reading this post which means you made a right decision.

Recently (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) IBPS , a recruitment company has released notification for 7875 Clerks in 20 participating banks. And the last date to apply is 03 Oct 2017.

Click here to read the notification again for IBPS CWE Clerk exam 2020

Before you start preparing for any Exam (Govt exam, college exam, company exam etc ), you must have a full knowledge of syllabus, kind of questions IBPS ask in exam, previous cut off marks, how many candidates took the previous exam etc. All this information will give you a rough idea about the level of preparation you need, how much time you need for preparation, what topics you need to cover to score more marks & several other things.

Lakhs of candidates take the exam. I will not say that all of them are serious but you will find 20-30 % are serious for the exam. If 5 lakh candidates (Just an example) takes the exam. 1 lakh candidates you will find are serious about the preparation.. right? They will try to read all those things that are trying to read. And you know out of those 1 lakh serious candidates only 8000 will get the job (In real competition number of serious candidates would be much higher, i just considered the minimum possible figure). So to get selected in those 8000 candidates you need to extraordinary preparation. You need to grab that important nerve which others are missing. Then only you will be able to crack the IBPS Clerks Exam 2017. I will be telling you about that important nerve that I came to know after watching many videos on preparation and talking to my friends who already cleared the exam, visiting forums where people are talking about the preparations etc.

We will start with the IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2017 [latest pattern] and their Selection Procedure :

There are few changes in the latest pattern this year. read the pattern carefully. IBPS Clerk Exam 2017 will be conducted in two phases. There is no Interview phase for this exam.

I. Preliminary Exam

II. Mains Exam

Important Points regarding the exam pattern of IBPS Clerk Exam 2017 :

• This is just qualifying exam in nature it means marks that you will score in prelims will not be considered for the final result.
• You will be able to take IBPS Clerk Mains exam only after you clear the Prelims exam.
• There will be negative marking of .25 marks in both prelims and mains exam
• There is no Interview
• Marks scored only in Mains exam will be considered for final result.
• There will be Section cut Off as well as Overall cutoff.
• There is an increase if difficulty level in mains 2017. So you have to prepare accordingly. You need to spend more time in preparation.

IBPS CLERK PRELIMS EXAM PATTERN :

Subject	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Time allotted
Reasoning	35	35	1 Hour
Quantitative Aptitude	35	35
English	30	30

IBPS CLERK MAINS EXAM PATTERN :

Subject	No. Of Question	Marks	Time Allotted
Reasoning + Computer	50	60	45 Min
Quant Aptitude	50	50	45 Min
English	40	40	35 Min
General Awareness	50	50	35 Min

This was all about Exam pattern and this is the latest pattern for 2017 Exam

Now, the IBPS Clerk Exam Syllabus 2017 [latest syllabus] and important books to prepare :

Reasoning

Topic	Weightage for Prelims
Sitting Arrangements /Puzzles (linear, circular, rectangular, row, floor based etc)	10-15 Que (Moderate to difficult in Difficulty, time consuming)	Need lot of practice, learn technique to solve.
Number Series	5 Que (Easy if you are able to Identify the pattern)	Need regular Practice, when you solve atleast 500 questions you will come across approx. all possible patterns
Inequality	5 Que (Easy, Less time consuming)	Need to learn proper technique, doesn’t need lot of practice but if you practice no loss at all.
Syllogism	0-5 Que( Easy, Less time consuming)	Easy only if you have proper technique and have done enough practice, else you will end up with wrong answers.
Data Sufficiency & Desicion Making (Generally comes in Mains)	0-10 (Average in difficulty, Avg in time consumption)	Need enough practice
Order and Ranking (arrange by height, weight, age etc)	0-5 (less time consuming, Average in difficulty)	Practice will make you perfect.
Blood Relation	2-5 (Easy, Time Consuming)	Know the trick & practice
Coding – Decoding	0-5 (Time Consuming, Avg in difficulty)	Need to know the technique & require lot of practice
Distance Direction	0-2 (Easy, Less time Consuming)	Practice only

Quant Aptitude

Topic	Weightage for Prelims
Simplification (based on BODMAS rule etc)	5 Que (Easy, less time consuming)	Must Prepare, There is a Technique to solve in no time.
Number Series (Missing term, Wrong term, complete the series etc	5 Que (Easy and less time consuming)	You need to do lot of practice to get familiar with the possible patterns
Data Interpretation	5-10 Ques (combination of easy and Average)	Learn Technique to solve questions and solve questions as much as possible. Improve your speed
Algebra	0-5 Que (Easy if know the trick)	Need to know the proper steps to be followed and practice
Quadratic Equation	0-5 (Easy & less time)	Learn trick and Practice
Others (Time & Work, Percentage, Interest, Speed & Distance, Profit & loss, Average, Ratio & proportion, Permutaion & Combination, Probability, Mensuration)	Remaining Questions will be out of these (Mixture of easy, avg, difficult question)	Need to know tricks, You need enough practice and while taking the exam only attempt the easy, less time consuming question. If you don’t know the trick, Don’t start applying Class 7th math formula to solve everything. Waste of time

English

Topic	Weightage in Prelims
Reading Comprehension	10 Que (time consuming, average in difficulty)	Vocab Should be strong, You need Practicing because many question aren’t asked directly, Learn technique
Cloze Test	5-10 Que (less time consuming, Easy to average in difficulty)	Need good command in Vacab, grammer specifically prepositions, Need to practice various type of questions
Para jumbles	0-5 Que (Time consuming, Average in difficulty)	Learn Technique and Practice
Fill in the blanks	0-5 Que (Easy & Moderate)	Strong Vocabulary and good hold of Grammar and of course Practice
Spotting Error	0-5 Que (Easy, less time consuming)	Easy if you have a strong hold of Grammar
Spellings	0-5 Que (easy and less time consuming)

Read the above IBPS Clerk Syllabus 2017 carefully and make your plan accordingly. Find the important books at the bottom of the post

Now the IBPS Clerk Previous year Cut off and IBPS Clerk Previous Year Papers

1. 2015 – Click to see state wise Cut off – Click here for Clerk 2015 Paper – Vacancies 25000 approx

2. 2016 – Click to see state wise cut off – Click here for Clerk 2016 Paper – Vacancies 19243

These figures are the reason why the exam will be difficult to crack this year. Simply the number of vacancies decreased by 60% and the number of applicants have increased. You have to do real hard work.

Important Points to remember while you prepare for IBPS Clerk Exam 2017 and While you take the real Exam:

• Read the syllabus carefully and make a plan to proceed. Select and prepare the important topics first.
• Divide all topics in the remaining days for exam.. Select the topics, Learn the trick to solve the problems and solve questions as many as possible. But do practice because without practice your time is waste, your money is waste. PRACTICE Daily. Find the source below to learn the Tricks
• In the last 15 days before the Real exam, take Mock tests. Mock test will help you indentify your strengths and Weakness. You need to overcome you weak are areas in order to clear the exam.
• Now while taking the real exam, You should focus on Time Management. As it is impossible to answer 100 questions in 60 Minutes. So you need to select the questions carefully that you need to answer.
• Your exam will be a mixture of Easy, Average and difficult questions. And easy questions are generally time consuming question, this is the reason easy questions are there. So don’t fall into that trap. And it doesn’t mean all easy questions are trap. Spend 2-3 seconds to read and understand the question and instantly decide whether it is helpful to attempt or not.

Sources to Prepare for IBPS Clerk Exam 2017

Subject	Books with Authors & links to buy or Read
Quant Aptitude	* Youtube Videos by Meritshine – Click here to Watch (Read Note 1 below) * Magical Maths – M. Tyra – Click to Buy (Only buy if you have good memory to remember shortcut else you will mix up everything * Online Practice – Click here to Practice for free * Offline Practice Set – CLick here to Check
English	* Word Power made Easy – Norman Lewis- Click here to buy * General English for Grammer – SP Bakshi – Click to Buy * Revision – Paramount Coaching notes – Click to Buy
Reasoning	* Youtube Videos by Meritshine – Click here to Watch * Online Practice – Click here to Practice for free * Offline Practice Set – CLick here to Check * Join Test Series by ( Testbook, Gradeup, Oliveboard whatever You think is best)
General Awareness	* Current Affairs – Click to read for free * NCERT (6-10) for Static GK – Click here to read for free * General Knowledge Book by Lucent – Click here to Buy * Join test Series and Practice questions

Note 1 : These Youtube videos have title of SBI PO. But you don’t need to worry, syllabus is approximately same with very minor differences. You will find all tricks in these videos that you need to clear IBPS CWE Clerk Exam 2017

Good luck for your Exam !!

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