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 20st 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
|
