SBI DESCRIPTIVE PAPER APPROACH

Descriptive:

                  Descriptive consists of 5 topics and you have to answer a question on each and every topic within an hour. Descriptive paper is for 50 marks.

The topics in descriptive include:

  
  Ø  Letter writing

  Ø  Short essay

  Ø  Comprehension

  Ø  Precis writing

  Ø  Long essay

Letter writing:

                   In letter writing, two questions will be asked and we need to answer any one of them. One formal letter and one informal letter will be given generally. Formal letters are those kinds of official letters which are written to professionals like bank managers. Analysis suggests that most questions on formal letters in SBI PO are like “write a letter to your manager for 3 days leave”/”
write a letter about your missing credit card to your branch manager”. Informal letters are those
kinds of letters which we write commonly to our parents/friends.

                   To write a letter first you must know the basic skeleton of the letter. Like where to put the commas and full stops and where to put the appropriate salutations etc. These are the things that evaluators observe while evaluating.

                   Remember that you've to write the British format, not the American format. You can Google it to get an idea.

                   Learn how to write both kind of letters but my personal suggestion is to prefer formal letter. Letter writing carries 10 marks.

Short essay (150 words limit):

                   You’ll be given three topics and you have to write an essay on any one of them in not more than 150 words.

                   For the same, you've to read a lot of articles on general and contemporary issues to get different ideas and you need to also have an idea of how to present those ideas in the passage.

Any essay must have 3 basic things:
1.Introduction
                -> In the introduction you've to explain the definition of the topic.
2.Body
                -> The body must be in 3 paragraphs. In 2 paragraphs write about the positive aspects of the topic and in the next paragraph, write about the negative aspects of the topic, if the topic is appositive one like globalization, automation. It must be the other way around if the topic is a negative one like terrorism, corruption.

3.Conclusion

                -> In the last paragraph conclude it in a proper way.

So a proper essay will have 5 paragraphs. This question carries 10 marks.

Comprehension:

                  You've been doing this since your elementary school days. You’ll be given a passage followed by 5 questions. You've to read the passage and write down the answer for each question.

My advice is to first read the questions and while reading the passage underline the answers with a pencil and write the answer then itself. Each question carries 2 marks, so 5 questions carry 10 marks.

Precis writing:

                  Precis writing actually means summarizing. Here a passage will be given and you’ll be asked to summarize it within a word limit. All you have to do is underline the key points while reading the paragraph and write them down in a simpler version which can be understood by everyone.

This section carries 10 marks.

Long essay (250 word limits):

                  Same as short essay. Just the wording limit is increased here. This section carries 10 marks.