How to Crack IBPS SO Prelims in 2 weeks

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IBPS is all set to conduct IBPS SO Prelims Exam on 28th and 29th December 2019. IBPS has releases a total of 1163+ vacancies to recruit candidates who want to work in their own field of study like Information Technology, Marketing, Agriculture, HR, Law etc. The main function of Specialist Officers is to coordinate with other bank official to ensure systematic delivery of banking & financial service. It is a challenging versatile job in Public Sector Banks and demands a particular strategy to deal with it. This article will help you in providing with the IBPS SO Prelims strategy that will help you sail through the exam in just two weeks.

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IBPS SO Strategy

Cracking any competitive examination demands a consistent smart efforts in a right direction. Only two weeks are left for the examination, so it is necessary for an aspirant to focus on the key areas that will give you assured result in the examination. Before, the strategy, we have come up with the IBPS SO Exam Pattern:

IBPS SO Prelims Exam Pattern:

Exam Preparation is incomplete without a detail analysis of exam pattern. IBPS SO Prelims Examination pattern is different for different post. The objective test is consist of 2 hours. With few days left in your bucket, let’s take a glimpse of IBPS SO preparation strategy.

For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari:

No.	Name of Tests	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
1	English Language	50	25	English	40 minutes
2	Reasoning	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
3	General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
	Total	150	125

For the post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer:

Sr. No.	Name of Tests	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
1	English Language	50	25	English	40 minutes
2	Reasoning	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
	Total	150	125		120 minutes

Now, let us discuss IBPS SO strategy to help you clear all the sections. Here we have provided IBPS SO IT officer strategy and strategy for other post as well.

IBPS SO 2019: Last 2 Weeks Plan

Dedication and proper time is needed to crack any competitive examination. Talking about IBPS SO Exam, it is all about time management and right guidance. With few days in the examination, what you need is a perfect plan. We have IBPS SO Tips for you here:

How To Prepare For IBPS SO 2019 Exam?

IBPS SO Tips:

Previous Year’s Paper: Going through previous year’s paper is very crucial stage for acing through a particular examination. It gives you an overall synopsis of the particular examination. Candidates are advised to analyze the entire paper carefully and segregate the scoring topics and trend so that they don’t have to look for various websites.

Syllabus: Previous year’s paper helps in providing with all the topics that will help in easily sailing through the examination. In case, you have a command on most of the concepts related to Quant, Reasoning, etc, you should than go through the syllabus carefully. Going through the IBPS SO Syllabus is a also one of the important key areas that will guide you with the topics required to be prepared for the examination.

Plan: Make a strategy and work on it strictly. Focus more on revision and mock test. Make slot for each section. You can plan your day by giving timing to new things, revision, mock test and analysis. Do not skip revision. Tight your belt and do not waste a single minute.

Practice: Bank exam are all about how much effort you put in practicing the concepts. So, it is important for an aspirant to practice for the important topics of the Quant, Reasoning and English to get through the examination.

Mock test: With 2 weeks left in the IBPS SO Prelims Examination, it is important for candidates to attempt atleast 5-7 mock with their thorough analysis. It not only maintain your speed but also brings the best version of your journey.

Section-wise Strategy

Quantitative Aptitude (For the post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer): Practice is what Quant section is made of. You can not skip sectional mock test within a prescribed time limit ot deal with this section. As only few days are left for the exam. Shift your focus to Data Interpretation (DI) and miscellaneous topics that will help you in clearing the sectional cut-off easily. If you are not good enough in Quant, do not pick mensuration topic at any case.

How To Prepare Quantitative Aptitude for IBPS SO 2019

Important Topics of Quantitative Aptitude for IBPS SO Prelims Exam

Data Interpretation
Miscellaneous (Percentage, Ratio, Time & Distance, etc)
Series
Data Sufficiency

Reasoning: Reasoning section has a higher weightage carrying a total of 50 questions and 50 marks in total. Short-tricks is needed to ace this section. Candidates are advised to make a hold on this section. You should solve daily quizzes and sectional mock to understand the area of strength and weakness.

Important Topics of Reasoning for IBPS SO Prelims Exam

Blood Relations
Coding-decoding
Alphanumeric series
Order and ranking
Seating arrangement
Puzzles
Syllogism

English Language: The English Language has 50 questions in total with 25 marks. You don’t need to go deep in this section but just clearinn the basic concept can help you sail through this section. If you have a strong hold in English language than you can directly sole the mock, if not than you need to read news article and related things daily with solving mocks. Keep taking free English Quizzes available. You can take up Sectional Tests. Always analyse the tests after you take it as it shows you the concept and approach to solve a particular question.

English Section Strategy For IBPS SO Prelims 2019

Important Topics of English Language for IBPS SO Prelims Exam

Reading Comprehension
Fillers
Cloze Test
Jumble Words

General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry (For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari)

Read the newspaper and magazines daily. This will help you cover all the news and all that is happening around you. Make sure of making notes of the important news and headlines for revision. Watch news on a daily basis. So that if you missed revising something, this will cover all you have missed so far. Practice from ADDA247 daily quizzes that are being provided on the app as well as on bankersadda.com.

Most of you have a habit of simply glancing through the headlines of important news which can cost you much-required marks in the exam for minute detail about the news are being asked in the banking and insurance examinations. Keep revising at regular intervals. Do not leave anything important from the examination point of view. Learn each and every thing that is helpful to you. Keep brushing up your knowledge.

How to Prepare GA for IBPS SO Law Officer & Rajbhasha Adhikari

So, candidates all the best for the examination. We hope you will utilize the rest of your time in making your dream come true. Utilize your time and focus on time management and accuracy to ace IBPS SO Prelims Exam.