Exam Clerk Tips 1

This article will try and guide those candidates who applied to UCO Bank notification for 1000 clerks, on how to go about the written test, which is scheduled for 14 November 2010. For any recruitment, it is important to know what sections the written test consists of. In this particular recruitment of UCO Bank, the written test has the following sections:

Test of Reasoning ability (50 questions for 80 marks)

Test of English Language (Qualifying)

Test of Numerical Aptitude (50 questions for 80 marks)

Test of Clerical Aptitude (50 questions for 40 marks)

All the four sections above will be in objective mode for a combined 200 marks with a cumulative time of 95 minutes.

There is also another section, Descriptive paper, which is again only for Qualifying purpose, for 60 minutes.

Apart from English language test, remaining question paper will be printed both in Hindi and English. Also, candidates can write the descriptive paper in English, Hindi or any official Local language of their State.

Although there is no General Awareness paper here, it is important to go through current affairs and recent developments, since most of the descriptive papers are seen to concentrate on latest happenings.

Time Management

This is the most important part of any competitive test. Bank clerical tests are one of the easiest tests seen in India. If given sufficient time, even an average student can solve most if not all the questions given. But since we only have 95 minutes to answer 200 questions and considering that there is negative marking for wrong answers, it is important to choose what questions to attempt. If you need more information on this and want to know how other candidates are performing in clerical tests, please see this Bank written test tips page (especially the comments section).

English Language paper is only of Qualifying nature (Generally the Qualifying marks will be 40% for General and OBC and 35% for SC/ST candidates, but they may change for this test as they like). So if you are sure that you answered at least 40% of the questions correctly, move on to the next section. There is no point solving all since there are no marks for English paper, all you need is to Qualify.

For the rest of 3 Objective sections, question selection is important. If the question looks like it takes time, move to a different question.

Practicing a lot of Reasoning Questions and Numerical Questions will help solve the questions easily and in quick time. Many Books are available in the market for Bank clerical recruitment’s, such as unique publishers etc.

Descriptive paper is the section that most candidates take very lightly and this is where most fail to get qualify in the written test. Although this paper doesn’t have any marks, you are required to Qualify in this section to be eligible for consideration for an Interview call.

Descriptive paper mainly tests your understanding of the given topic and the command on the language that you are writing and for this, you are expected to have sufficient knowledge of the things happening around the World, particularly in Indi