Syndicate Bank had few days back issued notification for written exam to select 1000 Agricultural Assistant in clerical cadre. While that...
Syndicate Bank had few days back issued notification for written exam to select 1000 Agricultural Assistant in clerical cadre. While that blog post told you how to apply for this recruitment, focus of this blog article is on to provide you the prep materials for Syndicate Bank Agricultural Assistant Exam – it would provide you the exam pattern along with sample/previous years exam papers of Syndicate bank and prep books for it.
Exam Pattern of Syndicate Bank Agricultural Assistant Exam:
Although this exam is being held to recruit Agricultural Assistants and the minimum eligibility required is graduation in agriculture, the exam paper does not include any specific agricultural test section.
The written test would consist of four test sections -
Reasoning, Numerical Ability, Computer Awareness & English Language, each section containing 50 questions, each question weighing 1 mark. This 200 marks paper has to be answered in 2 hours. Out of these, test section on English Language is purely qualifying. Thus your merit would be based on 150 marks for the other three test sections. With this, the pattern of exam for Syndicate Bank Agricultural Assistants is as given at right.
This exam pattern is identical to clerical exam pattern of any PSU banks.
Minimum qualifying marks:
You have to score minimum 35% (30% marks for SC/ST/OBC/PWD category) in this test. In the test on English Language minimum qualifying marks is 25% (20% marks for SC/ST/OBC/PWD category.
Download Syndicate bank sample/previous years exam papers:
As told you before, the exam pattern for Syndicate Bank is identical to clerical exams pattern of any other PSU banks and hence you can use those papers to practice. I am giving below these exam papers test section-wise so that you can download the same.
First, begin exploring about what are the type of questions you can expect in the Syndicate bank exam through this Clerk Exam booklet of previous years exam (held on 27.06.2010). It will give insight into not only the type of questions asked in each section - Reasoning, Numerical Ability, Computer Awareness & English Language, but will also give you the sample questions. Again, it will tell you how to mark your answers correctly in the OMR sheet.
You can than download the following bank clerk exam papers:
For the test of reasoning:
For the test of Numerical Ability:
For the test of Computer Awareness:
Download this Bank Clerk Exam Computer Awareness Paper – courtesy psexam.
For the test of English Language:
Other thank above downloadable bank clerk exam question papers, I would advise you to go through the sample papers available in Competition Master website as given in my previous blog post titled: SBI Clerk Exam Pattern, Sample papers & Books.
Books for Syndicate Bank Agricultural Assistant Exam:
While the above sample/previous years exam papers gives you an idea about what are the test sections and what type of questions are asked, your actual preparation for the exam should be always based on books.
I searched on the net for Prep Books on Syndicate Bank Clerk Agricultural Assistant Exam and could find following books. These books are available in most of the book stores. You can also order them online from the links below from Flipkart, which offers huge discount (up to 30%), besides free shipping.
Popular Master Guide: Syndicate Bank Probationary Clerks Recruitment Exam by R. Gupta's Publisher: RPH
List Price: Rs. 210; Offer Prie: Rs. 147; Discount: Rs. 63 (30%)
List Price: Rs. 210; Offer Price: Rs. 200; Discount: Rs. 10
In addition to above book, you may wish to go through the following books which has been chosen test-section wise. Buy the book for that section in which you think you should improve upon:
List Price: Rs. 115; Offer Price: Rs. 98; Discount: Rs. 17 (15%)
Numerical Ability & Mathematical Aptitude by Aditham B. Rao Publisher: Jaico
List Price: Rs. 275; Offer Price: Rs. 261; Discount: Rs. 14
Objective Computer Awareness by R Gupta, Publisher: RPH
List Price: Rs. 75; Offer Price: Rs. 64; Discount: Rs. 11 (15%)
List Price: Rs. 200; Offer Price:Rs. 190; Discount: Rs. 10
Hope with above prep material for Syndicate Bank Clerk Exam you can crack the same easily. Best wishes!
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