Today was the first day of the SBI PO Preliminary Exam 2019. Spanning a period of one week (ending June 16, 2019), the exam is being conducted in four time slots: 2 each in 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.
| Section | Total Questions | Level of Difficulty | Good Attempts | Time Taken (In Minutes) |
| English Language | 30 | Easy-Moderate | 22-24 | 20 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | Moderate | 20-23 | 20 |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | Easy-Moderate | 24-27 | 20 |
| Total | 100 | Easy-Moderate | 61-66 | 60 |
| General | OBC | SC | ST | |
| Overall Objective Test (Out of 100) | 54–58 | 52 56 | 47-51 | 41-45 |
| Topic | Number of questions | Level of Difficulty |
| Reading Comprehension (based on Renewable of energy)- 2 Qs. were based on vocabulary. | 7 | Moderate |
| Cloze Test (based on the use of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing) | 6 | Easy |
| Spot the Error – Grammatical Error – 5th Option was No Improvement Needed. | 5 | Easy |
| Spot the Error - Error Finding - 5th option was All are correct. | 5 | Easy |
| Fill in the Blanks - Single FIB - 5 words based | 5 | Easy |
| Match the statements - Column A/Column B | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
The English Language section was along the same lines as the old pattern. Questions on Spot the Error were based on fundamentals of grammar. Reading Comprehension (RC) was moderate. Two questions were from Vocabulary. Overall, the level of difficulty of this section was easy to moderate.
| Topic | Number of questions | Level of Difficulty |
| Number Series (Missing Number Series) | 5 | Moderate |
| Comparison of Variables: Quadratic Equations | 5 | Easy |
| DI (Pie Chart + Bar Graph) | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Bar Graph) | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Caselet - Three companies A, B and C based) | 5 | Moderate |
| Time and Work | 1 | Moderate |
| Time, Speed and Distance - Boats and Streams | 1 | Moderate |
| Ages | 1 | Moderate |
| Partnership | 1 | Moderate |
| Time, Speed and Distance - Trains | 1 | Moderate |
| Mixtures and Alligation | 1 | Moderate |
| Profit, Loss and Discount | 1 | Moderate |
| SI and CI | 1 | Moderate |
| Mensuration - 2D (Circle based) | 1 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Quant based) | 1 | Moderate |
DI part was calculative and time taking. The questions on Missing Number Series were moderate. The Arithmetic-based questions were primarily from Time and Work, Partnership, Mixtures, Boat and Stream, SI/CI, etc. The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
| Topic | Number of Questions | Level of Difficulty |
| AR (Data Arrangement - 10 Floors based) | 6 | Moderate |
| AR (Linear Seating Arrangement - 2 Parallel Rows – facing North/ South based) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR(Data Arrangement - Box/Color Based Puzzle) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR(Circular Seating Arrangement) | 3 | Moderate |
| Direction based Set | 3 | Easy |
| Coding-Decoding | 1 | Easy |
| Ranking Arrangement (Comparison based) | 3 | Moderate |
| Blood Relation – Set based | 4 | Moderate |
| Syllogism | 5 | Easy |
Analytical reasoning sets were moderate. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
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