Aspirants targeting IBPS PO 2020 exam must have started their exam preparations and the most challenging section is English section. It has given lot of surprises in the recent years with a drastic change in the exam pattern giving goose bumps to the aspirants.
Let us discuss a plan where you can easily score 20 plus in English Section of IBPS PO exam.
The best way to start with the preparation is that one should get familiarized with new question patterns that have been asked in recent exams. The expected topic-wise marks distribution is: – Reading Comprehension (10 Questions), Cloze Test/Fill Ups (5 to 10 Questions), Sentence Improvement/ Phrase Replacement (5 to 10 Questions), and Error Spotting (5 Questions).
It will be easy if you make a topic-wise strategy: –
Reading Comprehension:
1. Properly read questions and try to identify keywords. Thereafter, do read the passage, while looking for keywords given in the question.
2. On the basis of the context, try to guess the meaning of difficult words. Do read the previous and following sentences to guess the meaning of these words and eliminate options that are based on positive or negative context.
3. You should try to learn the difference between logical, admiring, decisive, thoughtful, retrospective tone of the author.
4. Pay attention to the implied meaning and try practice guessing implied meaning and analyze small passages.
5. Avoid learning new words randomly. Read news articles on financial and economic issues and learn new difficult words and notice its usage and meaning in the sentences.
Cloze test/ Double Fillers/ Fill in the Blanks:
1. Make yourself familiar with perfect tenses. Always remember that all sentences with auxiliary verb have had or has is a sentence in perfect tense and the verb must always be in the V3 form.
2. Learn the basic rules of prepositions like preposition is always followed by a noun and only an adjective can be placed between the two. It is very important rule for any type of fill in the blank questions and cloze test.
3. Learn to identify word class. If students can identify whether the word is a noun, verb or adjective than they can eliminate wrong answers on the basis of grammar rules.
Sentence Improvement/ Phrase Replacement:
1. Read the sentences and then study the options to see in which part changes have been made.
2. Pay attention to meaning
3. Identify nouns, verbs and adjectives in the highlighted phrase
4. Learn common noun and adjective suffixes
5. Familiarize with perfect tense.
6. Learn commonly used prepositional collocations.
7. Learn the usage of the definite article ‘the’.
8. Learn the usage of common prepositions such as ‘on’, ‘at’, ‘by’, ‘of’, ‘in’.
Error Spotting/ Detection:
1. To solve complex sentences, practice on Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA). It will be helpful in error correction and detection.
2. Make yourself recognizable with perfect tenses and students should remember that all sentences with auxiliary verb have had or has is a sentence in perfect tense and the verb must always be in the V3 form. It is very important rule to remember in solving fill in the blank and error detection question types.
3. Always remember that a modal verb (can, could, should, might, may, etc.) is always followed by the verb in its first form.
4. Always remember that an article is always followed by a noun and only an adjective can be placed between the two. This rule will be of great help in answering fill in the blank questions and cloze test.
It is advisable to practice these topic-wise strategies then it will be easy scoring 20 plus marks in English section in IBPS PO exam. It is “smart-work” designed for students and should be practiced systematically to attain perfection in every mentioned topic. In case you need more assistance than you may join any reputed BANK COACHING institute or Bank online coaching to enhance the score.
