SBI PO (Pre) 2015 - Exam Analysis - 21st June - Slot IV

The Fourth slot of SBI PO PRELIMS is over now. So here we are presenting you the review of the SBI PO Prelims Exam.

The State Bank of India conducted On-line Preliminary examination for the recruitment of Probationary Officer across the country on June 20^st 2015. This is the first time that SBI has conducted its prelims exam.

There were 100 questions in the paper - Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude & English Language. The Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude consists of 35 questions each, while the English Language section had 30 questions only. Each question had 5 options. There was negative marking of one-fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question for all the sections. The exam was of one hour only.

The detailed analysis of the individual sections is given below: 

Section	Total Ques	Max. Marks	Level of Difficulty	Good Attempts	Approx Time Taken (In min)
Reasoning	35	35	Moderate (Difficult Puzzle)	21-26	20
Quantitative Aptitude	35	35	Moderate	12-16	25
English Language	30	30	Easy	15-20	15
Total	100	100	Moderate	48-62	60

Reasoning - 

The details of the section are as follows: 

Topic	Number of Questions
Syllogisms	5
Seating Arrangement (In & Out)	10
Direction Sense	2
Puzzles	5
Inequalities	5
Miscellaneous (Coding-Decoding,Blood Relation  etc)	8

Quantitative Aptitude - 

The details of the section are as follows:

Topic	Number of Questions (Approx)
Profit Loss,  Time, Speed & Distance, Trains, SI,CI, Mensurationetc.	8
Series	5
Data Interpretation	10
Quadratic Equations	5
Data Sufficiency	0
Permutation & Combination & Probability	2
Simplification	5

NOTE -

1. The Level of DI was moderate but calculative. 

2. Quadratic Equations was moderate.

English Section -

The details of the section are as follows:

Topic	Number of Questions
Reading Comprehension	10
Fill ups	5
Para Jumble	5
Cloze Test	5
Errors	5