How to Prepare the English Language For IBPS PO Exam

IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) conducts a common written test every year to recruit candidates for the bank post for various job profile like Probationary Officer, Clerk and Specialist Officer in the top banks of India, listed with IBPS. In all the common written test of IBPS and many other competitive exams, the English Language is the main subject.

The English language is a subject in which most of the students are scared of because it is a bit complex, even the people who are well-versed with this subject usually end up making mistakes. But if a student gets the basic tips and tricks to solve the question then he can easily score the sectional cutoff required for English. Here we have compiled a list of tips to solve as well as prepare for the English language for IBPS PO Exam.

Before the preparation for the exam is started, it is always better to know the pattern of the Exam.

IBPS PO English Exam Pattern:

Topics	Expected Number of Questions
Reading Comprehension	10
Cloze Test	10
Fill in the blanks	0-5
Multiple meaning/error solving	0-5
Paragraph Complete/ Sentence Correction	5
Para Jumbles	5
Miscellaneous	5

Before we start with the tips first you must always be familiar with the basics and proper usage of grammar and with that always makes sure that sentences you form is clear and concise. It should be making sense.

Tips to prepare for Grammar

Topic covered under Grammar are Re-arranging sentences, spellings Check, idioms & phrases, spotting the Errors, Antonyms, Synonyms, Sentence Completion, etc. These topics are the one that needs thorough practice, So always make sure that you solve one of this topic every day either in morning or before going to bed.

Tips to prepare for Comprehension

For most of the students, Comprehension means the Questions which are to be answered from the passage, but it is actually set to analyze the reading and understanding capacity of the candidates, and frankly, this is one of the favorite topics as many have always scored full marks in comprehension. First of all, forget the conception of reading full comprehension to answer the question, In the exam, there are many questions which do not require reading the full paragraph given. Click here to know 4 Strategies to Master Reading Comprehension and score full marks in Comprehension.

Tips to avoid spelling mistakes and sentence formation

The English language is the collection of sentences which are written to convey a message and a sentence is a collection of words which are brought together to make sense of those words and word has spellings, if one spelling goes wrong the whole sentence can go wrong and ultimately the whole English language goes wrong and therefore it is very important to keep your spellings perfect. To make your spelling perfect, every day just take out 5 minutes and try to take dictations, ask someone to dictate an article from the newspaper or a magazine. Usually, an article in newspaper or magazine contains all the words which are used on daily basis and are a bit complicated and will help you to improve.

Tips to prepare for Error Spotting question

For this section the candidate needs to have their basic knowledge in the English language, though the questions for error-spotting are from simple grammar or spelling, but the questions are placed in such a way that it gets hard to spot the error and to spot the error the candidates themselves end up making an error. Check the link here to get an in detailed procedure to handle the questions related to Error Spotting.

We hope that the tips provided above will help you to ace your exam and get you a secured Career