Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts Specialist Officer (SO) Pre exam 2017 to recruit IT, Agriculture, Law, Rajbhasha, HR and Marketing Officers for various public and private sector bank schedule on 30th & 31st December 2017.You all are well prepared for this exam but some of you might face the nervousness before the exam with lots of queries in your mind so, keep calm and relax, follows the right strategy plan for prelims exam.
Mahendra Guru Helps you to guide what should be the right study plan and what should you prepare before the exam. IBPS SO study plan cover all the important topics that you need to focus and cover all the important topics that you need to cover to qualify the SO Prelims Exam.
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Change in IBPS So Prelims Exam This Year-2017:
In this year, the IBPS SO Pre Exam is taking place in 3 Phase i.e.
1. Prelims
2. Mains
3. Interview
The SO Prelims Exam will be in qualifying nature for all i.e. the marks obtained in prelims exam will not be added in final merit list. But you have to secure the minimum cut-off marks in Prelims exam to get entry for the second phase i.e. IBPS SO Mains exam. Note, that you also have to qualify both the sectional as well as overall cut off in order to qualify the IBPS SO Prelims Exam 2017.
Before discussing the study plan and strategy for the exam you must focus firstly on the exam pattern for IBPS SO Pre Exam. Below is the IBPS SO Prelims Exam Pattern 2017 for various posts:
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Pattern – Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale I:
S.
No. |
Name of Test
(not in sequence) |
No.
of Qs |
Max
Marks |
Time
Duration |
1
|
Reasoning
|
50
|
50
|
2 Hours
|
2
|
English
Language |
50
|
25
|
|
3
|
General Awareness
(With Special Reference to Banking) |
50
|
50
|
|
Total
|
150
|
125
|
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Pattern – IT Officer Scale I, Agricultural Field Officer, HR/ Personnel Officer & Marketing Officer Scale I :
S.
No. |
Name of Test
(not in sequence) |
No.
of Qs |
Max
Marks |
Time
Duration |
1
|
Reasoning
|
50
|
50
|
2 Hours
|
2
|
English Language
|
50
|
25
|
|
3
|
Quantitative Aptitude
|
50
|
50
|
|
Total
|
150
|
125
|
· The Exam will be available bilingually i.e. English and Hindi except the test of English Language.
· There is negative marking of one fourth for every wrong answer which is 0.25 marks.
Strategy to Qualifying Subjects in IBPS SO Prelims Exam:
It is important to clear both sectional cut off of each subject as well as the overall cut off marks to qualify the IBPS SO Prelims Exam. Following strategy will help you to manage your time and increase your selection chances for qualifying the IBPS SO Pre exam 2017.
English Language:
This section is a part of all the Officers’ SO Prelims exam. It is expected that the difficulty level of this section is easy to Moderate. This subject consists of 50 Question worth of 25 marks. It was seen that generally, you all struggle in this section and have a doubt in the mind regarding the pattern of the exam this year. But if you have the right strategy, you can score good marks in this section.
Some important Topics and Weightage:
Reading Comprehension – 10-15 Questions.
Para Jumbles / Odd Sentence out – 0-5 Questions.
Error Spotting – 5-10 Questions.
Cloze test – 5-10 Questions.
Fill in the Blanks – 5 Questions.
Phrase Replacement/Sentence Improvement – 5-10 Questions.
Para Jumbles / Odd Sentence out – 0-5 Questions.
Error Spotting – 5-10 Questions.
Cloze test – 5-10 Questions.
Fill in the Blanks – 5 Questions.
Phrase Replacement/Sentence Improvement – 5-10 Questions.
Above mentioned topics will help you to score good mark.Order to Attempt the questions of this section is - If you are good in grammar section then attempt first Error Spotting / Cloze test/ Fill in the blank / Phrase Replacement/Sentence Improvement / Para Jumbles and then Reading Comprehension.But if you are not too much Confident in grammar section then first Attempt Reading Comprehension, it will help you to secure sectional cut off marks.
You must go through all the topics and a lot of practice and for more practice, you can take an English quiz based on the latest pattern from our Mahendra Guru Website and for tips and tricks you can also watch English video from Mahendra Guru You tube Channel .For More Quizzes and mock test download the Mahendra Guru App.
General Awareness:
This section is part of Law Officer & Rajbhasha Adhikari only and it is easy and much scoring section, you can score good marks with less time period. It has a vast syllabus and questions can be asked about happening anything around the world. So, get updated yourself and this section will also have questions from Banking and Finance awareness you must study well all the topic in this section to score good marks. This section includes 50 Ques of 50 marks.
Some important Topics and Weightage:
Banking & Financial Awareness – 15-20 Questions.
Current Affairs – 7-10 Questions.
Static G.K – 5-10 Questions.
Economy – 5-6 Questions.
Current Affairs – 7-10 Questions.
Static G.K – 5-10 Questions.
Economy – 5-6 Questions.
Above mentioned topics will help you secure well both sectional as well as overall cut off marks. Firstly to attempt the topic you should have a good knowledge so that you can secure at least sectional cut off marks then proceed to next.
You must go through all the topics and lot of practice and for more practice, you can take a General Awareness quiz based on the latest pattern from our Mahendra Guru Website and for latest current affairs and learning tips and tricks you can also watch all video General Awareness from Mahendra Guru Youtube Channel.For More Quizzes and mock test download the Mahendra Guru App.
Reasoning:
This section is considered very easy to tough and time taking. Having the right strategy for solving questions and time management will get you over the line and you can also score good marks from this section. This section includes 50 Questions worth 50 marks.
Some important Topics and Weightage:
Coding-decoding – 5-10 Questions.
Direction and Distance – 2-5 Questions.
Blood Relations – 2-5 Questions.
Ordering and Ranking – 2-6 Questions.
Inequalities – 5 Questions.
Syllogism – 3-5 Questions.
Machine Input Output – 0-5 Questions.
Seating Arrangement – 10-12 Questions.
Puzzles – 5-10 Questions.
Data Sufficiency – 3-5 Questions.
Verbal Reasoning – 5-8 Questions
Direction and Distance – 2-5 Questions.
Blood Relations – 2-5 Questions.
Ordering and Ranking – 2-6 Questions.
Inequalities – 5 Questions.
Syllogism – 3-5 Questions.
Machine Input Output – 0-5 Questions.
Seating Arrangement – 10-12 Questions.
Puzzles – 5-10 Questions.
Data Sufficiency – 3-5 Questions.
Verbal Reasoning – 5-8 Questions
Above mentioned topics help you to secure good mark and do practice on these topics more. Order to attempt these topics is followed these sequence Inequalities, Syllogism, Direction and Distance, Coding-decoding, Ordering & Ranking, Machine Input Output, Seating Arrangement, Verbal Reasoning, Puzzles, Data Sufficiency. So manage your time according to this.
You must go through all the topics and a lot of practice and for more practice, you can take a Reasoning quiz based on the latest pattern from our Mahendra Guru Website and for learning tips and tricks you can also watch all video Reasoning from Mahendra Guru Youtube Channel.For More Quizzes and mock test download the Mahendra Guru App.
Quantitative Aptitude:
This section basically tests your mathematical approach to problem-solving. If you know the short tricks of some topics and all formulaes you can easily attempt this section with accuracy and speed and secure good marks. For accuracy and speed do practice a lot.
Some important Topics and Weightage:
Number Series – 5 Questions.
Data Interpretation – 13-15 Questions.
Data Sufficiency – 5 Questions.
Simplification/Approximation – 0-5 Questions
Miscellaneous Topics – 15-17 Questions
Data Interpretation – 13-15 Questions.
Data Sufficiency – 5 Questions.
Simplification/Approximation – 0-5 Questions
Miscellaneous Topics – 15-17 Questions
Practice on above these topics will help you to score more marks.First of all attempt the Number Series, then Simplification/Approximation, then Data Interpretation, then Data Sufficiency, next Miscellaneous Topics manage your time according to this. So, do practice a lot and also do practice from previous year question paper.
You must go through all the topic and a lot of practice and for more practice you can take a Quantitative aptitude quiz based on the latest pattern from our Mahendra Guru Website and for learning shorts tricks and tips and Maths new concept for solving the solving you can also watch all video Quantitative aptitude from Mahendra Guru Youtube Channel .For More Quizzes and mock test download the Mahendra Guru App.
Hope that the above guidelines and strategy for IBPS SO Prelims exam will help you to Qualify the SO Pre exam 2017. Be Confident and Stay calm before the exam.
