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IBPS Clerk 2018 Official Notification arrives as an enchantment to the banking candidates who have a great passion to work in public sector banks of India. Sectional Timing is introduced this year for IBPS Clerk Preliminary Exam especially leaves you, people, in astonish as like SBI and IBPS PO exams.

As an aspirant, it is vital to analyze the exam pattern and syllabus of IBPS Clerk 2018 before starting the exam preparation. The introduction of sectional timings i.e., 20 minutes for each section is considered to be the foremost transform in this recruitment. The Prelims Exam will take place on 8^th, 9^th, 15^th, and 16^th December 2018.

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IBPS Clerk-VIII Prelims Exam Pattern:

S. No.	Section	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1.	English Language	30	30	20 minutes
2.	Numerical Ability	35	35	20 minutes
3.	Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 minutes
	Total	100	100	1 hour (60 minutes)

The sectional timings illustrate that the aspirants need to focus on each section during the exam preparation. Earlier, most of the students will spend hardly 10 to 15 minutes for the English Section and they will spend the remaining time on the aptitude and reasoning topics.

But now, you have to spend 20 minutes on each section and so you have to clear on your strategy and attempts. A well-planned approach helps you to perform well and score better in this clerk exam.

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IBPS Clerk Prelims Syllabus 2018:

English Language:

Topics	Level	Type of Questions
Reading Comprehension	Easy to Moderate	One or two passages can be asked with synonyms, antonyms, and title based questions.
Error Spotting	Easy to Moderate	Aspirants need to find out the errors in the given sentences.
Cloze Test	Easy to Moderate	A passage will be given with a number of blanks and so students choose the right option for each blank.
Para Jumbles	Easy to Moderate	4 to 5 sentences of a paragraph will be given. Rearrange it in a correct sequence to make a meaningful paragraph.
Fill in the blanks	Easy to Moderate	Questions will be asked in single or double fillers.
Phrase replacement	Moderate	In these questions, a certain word will be highlighted. Students have to replace the word with an exact phrase.
Sentence Improvement	Easy to Moderate	Highlighted sentences need to be improved as per the grammatical rules or else no improvement required.

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Reasoning Ability Topics:

Topics	Level	Type of Questions
Inequality	Easy	Questions will be in based on either coded or direct inequality.
Alphanumeric/ Number Series	Easy	A series of numbers, symbols and alphabets are combined in these questions.
Syllogism	Easy	Aspirants can expect 4 to 5 questions in this topic.
Coding -Decoding	Easy to Moderate	Old or new pattern questions will be asked. You can expect word or sentence based coded questions.
Data Sufficiency	Moderate	Questions with statements will be given. Students need to choose which statement will be sufficient to answer the question.
Miscellaneous	Moderate	This section includes the question from topics like direction, blood relations, order and ranking, etc.,
Seating Arrangement and Puzzle	Easy to Moderate	Questions will be based on linear, circular, square arrangement. Puzzles will be mostly on floor, box, month, etc.
Input and Output	Moderate	Students need to find the pattern of given example and it need to be applied on the question to find the output steps.

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Quantitative Aptitude Topics:

Topics	Level	Type of Questions
Number Series	Easy to Moderate	Questions will be asked in missing or wrong terms.
Simplification/ Approximation	Easy to Moderate	Aspirants need to be well-versed in squares, cubes, tables and fast calculations.
Quadratic Equations	Easy	Solve the equations to find the values of the given variables.
Data Interpretation	Easy to Moderate	1 or 2 sets of DI questions will be asked based on bar, line, table, pie, missing or caselet types.
Quantity based	Moderate	Two quantities will be given and the students need to find the relation between them.
Data Sufficiency	Moderate	Questions followed by two statements will be given. Students need to find the statement which can be used to find the answer.