How to Prepare for IBPS RRB Officer Scale 1/ Office Assistant

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How to Prepare for IBPS RRB Officer Scale 1/ Office Assistant

Hello, friends!

IBPS is going to conduct the examination for the posts of PO and office assistant in the upcoming months for Regional Rural Banks.. This is a golden opportunity for the candidates who are willing to serve in Banking Sector.

 

In this post, our focus will be on reasoning section in the preliminary examination of the examination.

 

Pattern of Exam

 

Section	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
Quantitative Aptitude	40	40	Composite times of 45 minutes
Reasoning Ability	40	40
Total	80	80

 

Each question will be of 1 mark and for every wrong answer, there will a deduction of 0.25 marks from your score.

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Syllabus 

   The topics which you have to cover for the preparation for the reasoning ability are given below

1.     Machine Input Output
2.     Coding-Decoding
3.     Puzzles
4.     Direction and Distance
5.     Order and ranking
6.     Syllogism
7.     Blood relations
8.     Seating arrangement
9.     Inequalities
10.     Statement And Assumptions
11.     Statement and course of action
12.     Cause And Effect
13.     Statement And Argument

Strategy for Solving Questions

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1.   The reasoning section consists of 40 questions. This includes 5 questions each from Inequality, Syllogism, and Coding-Decoding, 15 questions from Seating Arrangement and Puzzles, 6–8 questions from Logical Reasoning (Statement – Course of Action, Assumptions, Conclusion), and 2–3 questions from Blood Relation and Direction Sense. It is recommended to attempt these 35 questions in 22 minutes, ensuring you have sufficient time to focus on other subjects in the exam.
2.     Pick the questions of syllogism and inequality first. They are easy to solve and these 10 questions can be done in 5-7 minutes.
3.     Solve coding-decoding afterwards, these questions can be solved in 5 minutes. Now you have solved 15 questions in average 10-12 minutes. So you have safely crossed the sectional cutoff of this section.
4.     Now move to questions related to Blood Relation and Direction Sense. There will be 2-3 questions from these two topics.
5.     Then move towards logical reasoning section i.e. Statement- Course of Action, Assumptions, Conclusion, where you will be getting 7-8 questions. Try to solve them in 4-5 minutes.
6.     Now you have 3-4 minutes left which you have to utilise on seating arrangement. Try to solve 2-3 questions out of 5 of them.

    So in this section in 22 minutes you have solved around 27-28 questions which will pace up your composite cutoff.

 

Useful reference books– For Verbal Reasoning part use book ‘Verbal Reasoning (Commonsense Reasoning) by K.Kundan of BSC Publications. Puzzles can be practised from ‘Magical Book on puzzles’ By K.Kundan of BSC Publications. For logical reasoning solve the level 1 & 2 questions of the book ‘How to prepare for Logical Reasoning’ by Arun Sharma.

 

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