Government & Defence Entrance Exam

Aspirants must begin their preparations for NDA SSB interview without waiting for the written exam result. Whatever method candidates choose for preparation, they should stay focused. Candidates should be sincere and systematic in their preparation. Candidates must observe their improvements and at the same time try to minimise their mistakes. Candidates must focus on their physical fitness. The tips and tricks to prepare for NDA exam are given below:

• Making a timetable helps you plan your day accordingly and keep you focused. When you plan your entire day, you get to take time for other things, such as exercise
• In the SSB exams, you must focus on your psychological test. During DSO, creating and narrating a sensible story is what the selection officer needs. Reading books based on psychology will help you bring new and innovative storylines
• Make a habit of reading newspapers and articles daily. Not only does it help you know the country’s current situations a lot better, but it also makes you aware of sensitive issues that the interviewer might ask you
• Story making and narration are essential parts of the SSB screening test. You have to make up a story and narrate it before the interviewer with confidence and no errors. Practice gives you confidence, but it also improves your imagining power

In the General Awareness section of SBI Clerk exam, candidates need to cover Current Affairs Static General Awareness, Banking, and Financial Terms, Banking Awareness, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Important Government Schemes, Awards, and Honours, etc. To prepare this section, candidates need to be thorough with the Current Affairs of past six months or one year. Candidates should read newspapers to know the important national and international events. SBI Clerk syllabus for General Awareness is given below:

• Current Affairs – news on the banking industry, awards, and honours, books, and authors, latest appointments, obituaries, new schemes of central and state governments, sports, etc.
• Static GK – country-capital, country-currency, headquarters of financial organizations (of insurance companies), constituencies of ministers, dance forms, nuclear and thermal power stations
• Banking/Financial terms
• Static Awareness
• Banking and Financial Awareness

The English section appears in both prelims and Mains exams of SBI Clerk. Questions in English Language section of SBI Clerk exam are asked from Reading Comprehension, Fill in the Blanks, Sentence Rearrangement, Cloze Test, Vocabulary, etc. Candidates need to be thorough with the grammar and vocabularly inorder to ace the exam. SBI Clerk prelims and mains syllabus for English is given below:

SBI Clerk Prelims English Syllabus

• Cloze Test
• Para jumbles
• Miscellaneous
• Fill in the blanks
• Multiple Meaning /Error Spotting
• Paragraph Completion
• Reading Comprehension
• Sentence Rearrangement
• Match the Following
• Synonyms and Antonyms

SBI Clerk Mains English Syllabus

• Reading Comprehension
• Fillers
• New Pattern Cloze Test
• Phrase Rearrangement
• Old Sentence out cum Para Jumbles
• Inference
• Sentence Completion
• Connectors
• Paragraph Conclusion
• Phrasal Verb Related Questions
• Error Detection
• Word Usage/Vocab-Based Questions

In the Quantitative Aptitude section, the accuracy of candidates in mathematical calculations is scrutinised. Questions include topics from arithmetic equations, Algebra percentage analysis, quantitative analysis, and categorisation. A total of 35 questions are asked in this section in prelims exam. A total of 50 questions are asked in this section in Mains exam. SBI Clerk syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude is given below.

SBI Clerk Quant Prelims Syllabus 

• Alphanumeric Series
• Ranking/ Direction/ Alphabet Test
• Data Sufficiency
• Coded Inequalities
• Seating Arrangement
• Puzzle
• Tabulation
• Syllogism
• Blood Relations
• Input-Output
• Coding-Decoding
• SBI Clerk Syllabus- Numerical Ability
• Simplification
• Profit & Loss
• Mixtures & Alligations
• Simple Interest & Compound Interest & Surds & Indices
• Work & Time
• Time & Distance
• Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere
• Data Interpretation
• Ratio & Proportion
• Number Systems
• Sequence & Series
• Percentage
• Permutation Combination
• Probability

SBI Clerk Quant Mains Syllabus 

• Data Interpretation (Bar Graph, Line Chart, Tabular, Caselet, Radar/Web, Pie Chart
• Inequalities (Quadratic Equations, Quantity 1, Quantity 2)
• Number Series
• Approximation & Simplification
• Data Sufficiency
• Miscellaneous Arithmetic Problems (HCF, LCM, Profit-Loss, SI & CI, Problem on Ages, Word & Time, Speed Distance & time, Probability, Mensuration, Permutation & Combination, Average, Ratio and Proportion, Partnership, Problems on Boats and Stream, Problems on Trains, Mixture and Allegation, Pipes and Cisterns)