new delhi to crack the sbi clerk 218 it is important to have a smart strategy to attempt sbi clerk question paper of prelims exam which is scheduled to be held on 23rd 24th and 30th june 2018 sbi clerk pre 2018 exam have objective questions from the english language with a weightage of 30 marks reasoning and numerical ability aptitude having equal weightage of 35 marks each question is set to have five options a negative marking of 14th marks also comes attached for incorrect answershow to attempt questionsstudents should attempt the exam in the following sequence english reasoning numerical ability though it certainly depends on your strengthgoing by previous years trends students generally prefer to attempt english first followed by reasoning and numerical ability attempting the exam in this sequence would help in securing essential markshow to score vital marksregular practice and appropriate strategy will certainly help you to score good marks in sbi clerk prelims 2018 exam students should be clear with the sections and topics asked in the exam and also where heshe can score maximum marksenglish languageit is always a good idea to start with the basic english grammar rules if you are good with basics of nouns pronouns adverbs adjectives prepositions tenses parts of speech subjectverb agreement conditional sentences and other important topics of english grammar then solving questions of sentence improvement sentence correction error spotting would be a cakewalk for youexpected topics from this section are reading comprehension fill in the blanksdouble fillers error spotting new type also sentence correction sentence improvement cloze test and para jumbles etcnumerical abilitynumerical ability is one of the most scoring section if you have clarity of concepts and strong calculation skillsthe expected topics of this section are number series approximation simplification data sufficiency data interpretation quadratic equation and miscellaneous questionsreasoning abilityreasoning section checks your logical and reasoning skills if you are clear with the concepts then you can easily crack this sectionexpected topics for reasoning are inequality syllogism blood relation direction order and ranking series questions alphanumeric alphabet number series puzzles and seating arrangement are the most important topics