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 | 21-23 | 20 |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | Easy-Moderate | 25-28 | 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 Artificial Intelligence)- 2 Qs. were based on vocabulary. | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Parajumbles | 5 | Easy |
| Spot the Error – Four sentences based – Find correct/incorrect. | 5 | Easy |
| Match the statements: Column A/Column B | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Fill in the Blanks – Single FIB | 5 | 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. Reading Comprehension (RC) was easy to 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 |
| Comparison of variables: Quadratic Equations | 5 | Easy |
| Simplification/Approximation | 5 | Easy |
| DI (Table + Line Graph) – Boys and girls travelling in three buses A, B and C based. | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Pie Chart) – Males/Females based | 5 | Moderate |
| DI (Caselet) | 5 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Quant based word problems) | 10 | Moderate |
DI part was calculative and time taking. There were no questions on Number Series. The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
| Topic | Number of Questions | Level of Difficulty |
| AR (Data Arrangement – 6 People/3 Floors /2 Flats on each floor based) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR (Linear Seating Arrangement – Single row – 8 people facing North/South) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR (Data Arrangement – 10 floors/10 People based) | 5 | Moderate |
| AR (Data Arrangement – 8 Boxes/Day (Monday to Saturday) based puzzle) | 5 | Moderate |
| Direction based Set | 3 | Moderate |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 | Easy |
| Miscellaneous (Single Question – Ranking/Alphabet based etc.) | 2 | Easy |
| Syllogism | 5 | Easy |
Analytical reasoning sets were moderate. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
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All the Best! Team CL