IBPS CLERK PRELIMS STUDY PLANNER 2018 – New Pattern Error Spotting- Day 9

Dear Banking Aspirants,

IBPS CLERK Prelims Exam – 2018 – Study Planner. English is one of the sections which haunts the aspirants because many aspirants chances to go to the next level in the Banking Exams are hindered due to this section. According to recent statistics, only 30% of the aspirants score above 10 marks in the Preliminary Examination in English Section and many aspirants struggle to get the required cutoff marks.

We have already provided 8 days of English Language Quizzes in our Bankersdaily website to enhance the preparation of the aspirants. Attend the Quizzes daily without any fail to score more marks in the IBPS CLERK Prelims Exam 2018. We have only less number of days to finalize the preparation strategy to crack the Preliminary Examinations.

After the SBI PO, SBI CLERK & IBPS PO Exams IBPS Clerk will be the most expected one to crack the banking job for many aspirants. Since IBPS has also changed the exam pattern similar to SBI, we are providing practice sets on the basis of IBPS CLERK 15 Days Study Planner.

Students are advised to practice the questions regularly and crack the IBPS Clerk 2018 which will be held shortly. Since this will be the dream job for most of the aspirant’s everyone should work hard and act smart to achieve their own destination.

We at Bankersdaily will be providing daily questions for the IBPS CLERK Prelims Exam 2018 through this IBPS CLERK Prelims 2018 – Study Planner to assist the aspirants in their preparation. All the Three sections Quants, Reasoning and English Langauge questions will be available regularly in Bankersdaily.

Quizzes will be released every day by the timing given below:

• Quantitative Aptitude – 8:00 P.M
• Reasoning Ability – 8:15 P.M 
• English Language – 8:30 P.M

D.1-5) In the following questions, each statement is segmented into three parts (I), (II) and (III) and alternatives are suggested below it. Identify the part(s) which have an error in the statement and choose the suitable (correct) alternative below the statement. If the given statement is grammatically correct as it is then, choose “No correction is required”.

Q.1) The Judicial Services Commission, which (I)/ appoints judges, has 23 members, only (II)/ four of who are appointed by the president. (III)

I) The Judicial Services Commission, whose

II) appoints judges, have 23 members, only

III) four of whom are appointed by the president.

a) Only I

b) Only II

c) Only III

d) Both I and II

e) No correction is required.

Q.2) Let me drop some festival wisdom: (I)/ when everyone else is throwing money around like (II)/ Santa, it is best to behave like Scrooge. (III)

I) Let me drop some festive wisdom:

II) when everyone else are throwing money around like

III) Santa, it is best to behave likes Scrooge.

a) Only I

b) Only II

c) Both I and III

d) Only III

e) No correction is required.

Q.3) The path to the next election in Zimbabwe (I)/ should be defined by the time required to implement (II)/ and embed the reforms necessary to make it credible. (III)

I) The path of the next election at the Zimbabwe

II) should be define by the time required to implement

III) and an embed the reforms necessary to make it credible.

a) Only I

b) Only II

c) Only III

d) Both I and II

e) No correction is required.

Q.4) If, like Federer, like Dhoni, he can entertain (I)/ his fans and give joy to his countrymen, (II)/ let they not detract him by asking him to stops. (III)

I) If, like Federer, like Dhoni, he can entertaining

II) his fans and give joys to his countryman,

III) let us not detract him by asking him to stop.

a) Only I

b) Only II

c) Only III

d) Both II and III

e) No correction is required.

Q.5) The company has tested a prototype and hopes its motorised (I)/ wheels will be available in 2019 for fitting onto (II)/ versions of the Boeing 737, and later onto other aircrafts. (III)

I) The company has tested a prototypes and hopes its motorised

II) wheels will be available on 2019 for fitting onto

III) versions of the Boeing 737, and later onto other aircraft.

a) Only III

b) Only II

c) Only I

d) Both I and II.

e) No correction is required.

D.6-10) Each sentence is divided into four parts find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. (The part which has been highlighted is free from error.) Below the sentence, you are provided with five options. Choose the part(s) which has/have an error. If all the parts are correct, then choose ‘no error’.

Q.6) Chinese manufacturers (1)/ hope that swanky new public (A)/ facilities will boost the market for (B)/ smart toilets, in which they compete (C)/ fierce with the Japanese. (D)

a) Only A

b) Only B

c) Both A and D.

d) Only D

e) No error.

Q.7) The striking medicos (1)/ has decided to intensify their agitation (A)/ against the government decision to raise (B)/ the retirement age of medical college teachers (C)/ and doctors under the State Health Services Department. (D)

a) Only D

b) Only B

c) Only A

d) No error.

e) Only C

Q.8) The President lauded (1)/ NIMHANS for its commendable record (A)/ of treating about 7 lakh patients (B)/ every year, most of who are (C)/ from the poorer sections. (D)

a) Only B

b) Both D and A.

c) Only C

d) Only A

e) No error.

Q.9) Agricultural researchers (1)/ in Tanzania and Uganda plans (A)/ to use Oxford Nanopore’s devices (B)/ to help identify the viruses (C)/ that plague cassava crops. (D)

a) Only A

b) No error.

c) Both A and C.

d) Only B

e) Only C

Q.10) Two persons hailing (1)/ from Palakkad were taken into custody (A)/ with the police on Saturday in (B)/ connection with a cell phone text message (C)/ threatening to kill Kerala Minister Vijayan. (D)

a) Only C

b) Only B

c) Only A

d) Only D

e) No error.

Aspirants can check the Answers for the above Questions here.

Q.1) c) Replace ‘who’ by ‘whom’. The Relative Pronoun ‘who’ is in subjective case whereas ‘whom’ is in objective case. Whenever a pronoun is preceded by a preposition, the pronoun will be in objective case.

Q.2) a) Replace ‘festival’ by ‘festive’; festive-adjective; festival-noun.

Q.3) e) No correction is required.

Q.4) c) Replace ‘they’ by ‘us’; After let, if a pronoun is used, that pronoun must be

in the objective case.

Q.5) a) Replace ‘aircrafts’ by ‘aircraft’; Some nouns have same form in both singular and plural.

Q.6) d) Replace ‘fierce’ by ‘fiercely’; Adverb error.

Q.7) c) Replace ‘has’ by ‘have’; ‘medicos’ plural noun takes plural verb. (medicos-a medical practitioner or student.)

Q.8) c) Replace ‘who’ by ‘whom’; The Relative Pronoun ‘who’ is in subjective case whereas ‘whom’ is in objective case.

Q.9) a) Replace ‘plans’ by ‘plan’; Here, the subject ‘Agricultural researchers’ is plural subject so it takes plural verb.

Q.10) b) Replace ‘with’ with ‘by’; sentence is in passive voice.

Aspirants can check the Day 5 – IBPS CLERK Prelims Exam 2018 from the below-given links 

IBPS CLERK Prelims 2018 Planner – Aptitude – Day 8 – Percentages & Averages

IBPS CLERK Prelims 2018 Planner – Reasoning – Day 8 – Blood Relation

IBPS CLERK Prelims 2018 Planner – English Language – Day 8 – New Pattern Phrasal Replacement

Aspirants can check the Whole planner of IBPS CLERK Prelims Exam 2018 from the below-given link. 

IBPS CLERK prelims Exam 2018 – Planner