How to Crack IBPS Clerk Preliminary Exam in 50 days

IBPS Clerk Prelims Preparation in 50 Days

Day 1-10 :

• Starting today, make sure you have a thorough  understanding of the syllabus and pattern
• Go through previous your question papers to have an idea about your strengths and weakness and accordingly chalk out a strategy.
• Identify your strong and weak topics and write them down.
• Since 50 days are left for the exam, you can afford to give time on weaker areas as well.
• However, focus most of your strength on sharpening your strength.
• Start reading English newspapers for increasing your reading speed and improving your vocabulary

Day 11-15 :

• Now that you have identified your strengths, weak sections it’s to time to get cracking at concepts.
• The time divided between strong and weak sections should ideally be 50-50 at this time.
• Go through individual concepts and solve basic questions.
• If you find some topics in which you are strong but they are taking a lot of time in solving, put them in weak sections.
• Keep reading English newspapers.

Day 16-25:

• After the end of the second week, you now have gained fundamental knowledge of all the topics and have reached average or above-average reading speed.
• Identify short tricks and tips tricks for the topics in which you are strong.
• Start using these newly learned tips and tricks to solve questions.
• The ratio of time allotted to strong vs weak sections should be 60:40. i.e. 60% time should be allotted to topics that you are strong in, learning new ways to attempt questions in that and 40% of time should be allotted to weaker sections.
• Start giving full-length and sectional mock tests and evaluate them from an expert.
• Keep reading!

Day 26-35:

• By now some weak sections must have turned to sections that you are confident with.
• Leave other weak sections in which you are still not confident.
• 100% attention should be on questions you can solve confidently and correctly.
• Analyze your performance in mock tests and identify questions that are gobbling up the most time.
• Solve maximum questions from that section and keep improving your solving speed.
• The benefits of reading 1 hour daily will start to show its effect now.
• You would notice you can go through questions swiftly, i.e. you can read the question quickly and get more time to actually solve the questions. This enables you to solve at least 4-5 questions more than you could normally do. This can be the difference between selection and failure.

Day 35-49: 

• You can now solve the entire mock test in a given duration.
• Scan for previous year’s question papers and start solving them in time bound test.
• If you can solve the previous year’s paper and clear the respective cut-offs, then you are good to go.
• If you find you are lagging with some marks, then focus on areas where you can increase your scores.
• Keep practicing hard.
• Revise concepts and again solve some basic questions(mind you that’s necessary. You tend to forget the basics when you go deep into the difficult questions).
• Don’t go for unnecessary advice from others as it will put undue pressure on you.

Day before the exam:

Give yourself adequate rest and have a strong mindset that whatever questions may come you will answer them correctly.