IBPS CLERK Mains 2018 – 10 Days Study Planner – English -Day 2

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IBPS CLERK Mains Exam 2018 is coming fast than you think and there are only less days to make your preparation fruitful. The preparation strategy must be fixed in such a way that the actual ones will help to score more marks in the IBPS CLERK mains Exam 2018.

The IBSP CLERK Mains Exam 2018 is scheduled to happen on 20th December 2019.

As like the last year, sectional timing is also there, and one needs to be prepared in such a way that, the aspirant can attend maximum number of questions.

The key to score more marks lies in scoring in the General Awareness, banking Awareness and English Section. So, one needs to be preparing in such a way that, the aspirant must get maximum marks in the above said section. Practising is the key to score in these topics and aspirants must read at least 6 months Current Affairs to crack the General Awareness Section and Banking Awareness Section.

To enhance the preparation of the aspirants, we have already released the IBPS CLERK Mains Exam 2018 Current Affairs & Banking Awareness Capsule which covers CA & Banking News from June to December 2018.

The other topics like Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability and English Language should also be prepared so that the score soars up.

We have started the IBPS CLERK Mains Exam 2018 – Planner where we are providing practice questions from the above topics which will help the aspirants to increase the solving ability and to learn new questions.

We have also included the New pattern Questions which have been asked in the recent exams like SBI Clerk, IBPS RRB Assistant and others. This will assist the aspirants in analyzing the type of questions and to know the nuances of attending the Different type of questions.


  • Section : English Language
  • Topic: Error Spotting
  • Total Questions: 20
  • Total Timing: 15 Minutes

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D.1-10) A sentence is shown in four parts marked as (a) , (b) , (c) and (d) in each question. Read the sentences carefully and select the part which is grammatically wrong. If every part in the sentence is grammatically correct then, choose ‘No error’ (e) as the answer.

Q.1) Several EU country and the European (a) / Parliament believe that when sharing (b) / data Britain gives security and intelligence (c) / higher priority than privacy. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.2) Its researchers had noticed that (a) / Kenyans were transferring (b) / mobile-phone airtime between each (c) / other as if it was money. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.3) One of the worst things (a) / you can do are write a series (b) / of declarative sentences of (c) / roughly the same length. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.4) Stevens is so consumed (a) / with propriety that (b) / it is natural for him (c) / to tell him story formally. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.5) The findings, which accords with a history of (a) / academic research into disparities, suggest wider (b) / variations in sentencing than in some previous (c) / studies and also show variation between courts. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.6) Just as little people move their bank accounts, (a) / so customers are reluctant to forsake (b) / a money-transfer system that has worked for (c) / them, even if it charges steep fees. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.7) The Trump administration postponed (a) / implementing tariffs on steel and aluminium (b) / imports from countries in the European Union by a month, (c) / saying it wanted more time for negotiations. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.8) The world’s intelligence (a) / agencies had long (b) / assumed as much, (c) / and few of the evidence was new. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.9) The aim are to increase (a) / the number of individual (b) / mobile accounts, and (c) / then of mobile payments. (d) / No error. (e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e

Q.10) Whatever Mr Netanyahu implies, (a) / Iran has kept its side of the agreement (b) / despite not getting many of the (c) / economic benefits it was promised. (d) / No error.(e)

a) a

b) b

c) c

d) d

e) e


D.11-20) Which of the words/ phrases (a) , (b) , (c) and (d) given below should replace the words/ phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it meaningful and grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No improvement is required, mark (e) as the answer.

Q.11) The rule democracy implies is that the Governor is the ceremonial head and real power of administration remains with the Council of Ministers.

a) The implicit rules on democracy is that

b) The rule democracy explicitly that

c) The democracy rule implying that

d) The rules over democracy is implied that

e) No improvement is required.

Q.12) In fact, many other institutes had been contracted over the state to coach students to get into Ramaiah’s Institute.

a) have showed across

b) have pearled across

c) have spreading across

d) have mushroomed across

e) No improvement is required.

Q.13) Manipur remains cut off from the rest of the country as both the NH 2 and NH 37 were damaging by landslides.

a) would affected severely by landslides.

b) might be wrapped by landslides.

c) were disrupted by landslides.

d) will covered by landslides.

e) No improvement is required.

Q.14) Clearly, she was less concerned with the moral constructions and more upset about optics for the club.

a) about the moral underpinnings

b) on the social under happenings

c) off the economic underpinnings

d) about the verging constructions

e) No improvement is required.

Q.15) The ranking system has had a negative impact on students by making a majority of them think that they are inferior to those who have scored better marks.

a) have had a negative impact on students

b) had had a negative impacts on students

c) had has a negative impact on students

d) having a negative consequences on students

e) No improvement is required.

Q.16) If you want to take the aroma and flavour with delicious taste, experiment with an infusion of Indian herbs and spices.

a) flavour with its health benefits

b) flavour arose profile of nick

c) smell will profile up a grooving

d) flavour profile up a notch

e) No improvement is required.

Q.17) Meetings in the run-up to Islamabad have been overcome by requiring India-Pakistan tensions for months now.

a) overshadowed by ongoing

b) raised by getting

c) come up with needs of

d) get through by devising

e) No improvement is required.

Q.18) The afternoon was unusually hot in Pondy and I felt even hotter inside me over witness a lovely scene just outside our home, a government quarters.

a) upon seeing an irritating scenes

b) watching irritating scene

c) over on shown an pleasant scene

d) upon witnessing an irritating scene

e) No improvement is required.

Q.19) Jhoshee strongly believes that being exam-oriented has made students are better in their understanding of engineering.

a) most intelligent in their

b) more superficial in their

c) more developing in their

d) more knowledge on their

e) No improvement is required.

Q.20) The JJ government cannot claim will be more than a hard success for the SAARC process getting derailed in this manner.

a) much more than a pyrrhic victory

b) moreover than a fontal victory

c) better than success hard

d) has been more than a peak victory

e) No improvement is required.


Answers for the above questions are given below. 


Q.1) a) Replace ‘country’ by ‘countries’; After the word ‘several’, the noun must be in plural form.

Q.2) d) Replace ‘was’ by ‘were’; In a few English sentences which are imaginative in nature, the verb is written in a special way. Here, ‘it’ agrees with plural verb.

Q.3) b) Replace ‘are’ by ‘is’; ‘one of the’ is followed plural noun and singular verb.

Q.4) d) Replace ‘him’ by ‘his’; ‘his’- possessive pronoun whereas ‘him’-objective pronoun.

Q.5) a) Replace ‘accords’ by ‘accord’; Here, ‘findings’- plural subject, so it takes plural verb (accord) .

Q.6) a) Replace ‘little’ by ‘few’; Few is used before countable nouns and is followed by plural verb. Little is used before uncountable nouns and is followed by singular verb.

Q.7) e

Q.8) d) Replace ‘few’ by ‘little’; Few is used before countable nouns and is followed by plural verb. Little is used before uncountable nouns and is followed by singular verb.

Q.9) a) Replace ‘are’ by ‘is’; Here, the ‘aim’ is singular subject, so it takes singular verb.

Q.10) e) No error.

Q.11) e

Q.12) d

Q.13) c

Q.14) a

Q.15) e

Q.16) d

Q.17) a

Q.18) d

Q.19) b

Q.20) a


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