How to improve Calculation Speed to attempt QA section of Bank Exams?

If you are an aspirant of banking job then it’s a prerequisite that you have to be good in calculations in your professional life too. While cracking any of banking competitive exams (IBPS Clerk, IBPS PO, SBI Clerk or SBI PO exam), a candidate has to crack Quantitative Aptitude Section successfully. If a candidate cracks any of the banking exams then it implies that he has magical calculation speed, which has made stand out from the crowd. If you polish your calculation speed skills then it will also be helpful to you also in your banking career.

In this article, we will primarily discuss effective tips to enhance the calculation speed for banking exams like IBPS PO in detail.

1. Begin with basic four operations

If you want to learn any language then you will always begin with learning alphabets. In a similar way, to enhance calculation speed, the students should begin with four basic operations of Arithmetic and they are: -

• Addition
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Subtraction

These steps may sound insignificant or trivial to many of the students but one must realize that every mathematical solution is a combination of these four basic mathematical operations. The calculation speed is dependent on the speed at which a student is doing it.

2. Learn Multiplication Tables, Square roots etc by heart

Every bank exam aspirant, it’s important to learn multiplication tables, square roots, cube roots, by heart. Likewise, you should also remember square values from 1 to 25 and square root values from 1 to 20. These values will make students arrive at the nearest approximations and will help them while choosing/eliminating a given option in the answers on the examination day. The easiest way to learn these values by heart is to write to them every day and practice it for at least 5 times a day. In similar way, the students should also try to write multiplication tables in forward and backward and practice it hard every day. Do develop a habit of revising it on every day. It will also enhance your memorizing skills.

3. Sharpen Mental Mathematics Skills

To boost calculation speed, practicing on paper is not sufficient and so you are advised to use visualization skills to the greatest extent.  You should habituate your brain to calculate without pen and paper. It will reduce your calculation time. To sharpen your mental Mathematics Skills, you should pick any number randomly and do basic operations in mind. Do practice it day and night and try to find accurate solutions.

4. Become skilled with Proper Techniques of Calculations

If you want to solve questions of Quantitative Aptitude Section accurately in time then you should be skilled with proper techniques of calculations. You should try to learn short cuts and tricks offered by Vedic Mathematics and try to learn and practice them hard. It will improve your calculation speed to a great extent.

5. Study hard with a proper schedule

As we are working hard in memorizing many tables, formulas, short cuts, tricks, etc, so it is important that we should enhance our memorizing skills. Besides this, discipline is the fundamental quality which every aspirant should possess and so it is important to study hard with a proper schedule. The best time to study is in the early morning as your mind is most relaxed in these hours.

6. Prepare as per sectional timing of the exam

In all banking recruitment written exams, sectional timing techniques have been employed, to increase the competitiveness of the entrance examination. It also implies that students will be given a specific time to solve a particular section in the allotted time. So, practice questions of Quantitative Aptitude Section accordingly, by keeping a stop-watch besides you. Do record your timing and try to improvise on it by enhancing your calculation speed.

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