State Bank of India Clerk Preliminary Exam (June 22, 2019): Analysis - Slot III



Today was the first day of the SBI Clerk Preliminary Exam 2019. The exam is being conducted in four time slots: 2 each in the morning and evening. A total of 100 questions had to be answered in 60 minutes. All the sections, except English Language, were available in both English and Hindi. Every correct answer will fetch 1 mark, while every incorrect answer will reduce the score by 0.25. There is sectional timing of 20 minutes.


The detailed break-up of SBI Clerk Preliminary Exam 2019 is as follows:

Section

Total Questions

Level of Difficulty

Good Attempts

Time Taken (In Minutes)

English Language

30

Easy

21–24

20

Numerical Ability

35

Easy-Moderate

23–26

20

Reasoning Ability

35

Easy

27–30

20

Total

100

Easy-Moderate

7583

60

Note:Section wise and overall cut-offs are not uniform for all states.


English Language:

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Reading Comprehension (Based on Dreams) – There were 3 questions based on Synonym/Antonym.

7

Moderate

Para-jumbles/Sentence Rearrangement

4

Easy

Spot the Error - Grammar based (Old Pattern based)

6

Easy-Moderate

Spot the Error – 4 bold words based (Spelling Error)

6

Easy-Moderate

Cloze Test  (Based on Pollution)

7

Easy

The English Language section was more or less along the same lines as the old pattern. Questions on Spot the Error were based on fundamentals of grammar. Questions from the RC passage were mainly factual. Three questions were from Vocabulary (Synonym and Antonym based). Overall, the level of difficulty of this section was easy.


Numerical Ability:

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Number Series (Series Completion)

5

Easy

Approximation/Simplification

10

Easy

Data Interpretation (Line Graph) – Number of books of two types A and B, 4 months March/April/May/June

5

Moderate

Comparison of Variables -  Quadratic Equations

5

Easy-Moderate

Time, Speed and Distance

1

Easy-Moderate

Time, Speed and Distance – Boats and Streams

1

Easy-Moderate

Ages

1

Easy-Moderate

Simple Interest/Compound Interest

1

Easy-Moderate

Average

1

Easy-Moderate

Profit, Loss and Discount

1

Easy-Moderate

Mensuration -2D (Square/Circle based)

1

Easy-Moderate

Mixture and Alligation

1

Easy-Moderate

Ratio and Proportion

1

Easy-Moderate

Percentage

1

Easy-Moderate

There was one set of five questions from Data Interpretation (Line Graph based). The questions on Number Series were easy. The Arithmetic-based questions were primarily from Ratio and Proportion, SI & CI, Percentage, Ages, Profit, Loss & Discount, Time, Speed and Distance, Boat & Stream etc. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy-to-moderate.


Reasoning Ability:

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

AR (Linear Seating Arrangement – 2 Parallel rows, facing North/South)

5

Easy-Moderate

AR (Data Arrangement –Box based)

5

Easy-Moderate

AR (Data Arrangement – 8 Floors based)

5

Easy-Moderate

AR (Data Arrangement – Height arrangement/numerical based)

3

Easy-Moderate

Alphabet/Number/Symbol based Series

5

Easy

Coding-Decoding

5

Easy

Direction based set

5

Easy

Odd One Out – Alphabet based

1

Easy

Alphabet based – No. of pairs of letters

1

Easy

There were four sets of Analytical Reasoning which are as: Two parallel rows seating arrangement, 8 Floors based data arrangement, Box based data arrangement and Height arrangement based. No syllogism questions were asked in this slot. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy.

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