All those candidates who qualified the Prelims Exam of SBI Clerk 2020 appeared for the Main exam today. SBI Clerk Main Exam 2020 would be conducted in two time slots - morning and evening. A total of 190 questions had to be answered in 160 minutes. All the other sections, except the English Language section, were available bilingually, that is, in both English and Hindi. There was a negative marking of one-fourth marks assigned to that question for every incorrect answer.
The detailed break-up of SBI Clerk Main Exam 2020 is as follows:
| Section | Total Questions | Total Marks | Level of Difficulty | Good Attempts | Time Taken (In Minutes) |
| General/Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | Easy-Moderate | 30-32 | 35 |
| General English | 40 | 40 | Easy-Moderate | 23-26 | 35 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | Moderate | 28-30 | 45 |
| Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | Easy-Moderate | 26-29 | 45 |
| Total | 190 | 200 | Moderate | 110-120 | 160 |
Note: Section wise and overall cut-offs are not uniform for all states.
The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate. Most of the questions came from the Banking Awareness, Financial Awareness and Current Affairs of last 5-6 months. About 40 questions were from current affairs.
| Topic | Number of questions | Level of difficulty |
| 2 Reading comprehensions – (Based on Dumping of Plastic Wastage; and Help of sleep in immunity) | 12 | Easy-Moderate |
| Cloze Test – Bold words based | 6 | Easy |
| Fill in the blanks | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Spot the error (Does not have error) | 5 | Easy |
| Idioms and Phrases | 4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Antonyms … a sentence was given. (Double words based) | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 3 | Easy-Moderate |
The overall difficulty of this section was easy to moderate.
| Topic | Number of questions | Level of difficulty |
| DI (Table – Incomplete values based/Ratio of Number of Doctors and Engineers based.) | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Pie Chart + Table: 120000 Amount + 5 Cities based) | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Bar Graphs + Table)-Library/Books issued based. | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Miscellaneous) | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Caselet – Probability/Cards based) | 5 | Moderate |
| Comparison of 2 quantities: Quantity 1 /Quantity 2 | 5 | Moderate |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Quant based word problems –Percentage, Probability, Profit, Loss and Discount, Time and work etc.) | 15 | Moderate |
The DI sets were calculation based and time consuming. The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
| Topic | Number of Questions | Level of difficulty |
| AR (Linear Arrangement- 2 Parallel rows based / Boat based – 2 sides - - 6 members each side.) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR (Data Arrangement – Box based) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR (Data Arrangement –9 letters/West to East/need to arrange in 3 array) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR (Data Arrangement - 30 chairs/3 persons based) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR (Miscellaneous) | 5 | Moderate |
| Alphanumeric Series | 2 | Easy |
| Input-output | 5 | Moderate |
| Data Sufficiency | 3 | Moderate |
| Logical Reasoning (Course of action, Statement and assumption etc.) | 6 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 9 | Easy-Moderate |
Level of difficulty of this section was easy to moderate. There were no questions from Computer Aptitude.
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