SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis 2018:
SBI introduced the sectional timing of 20 minutes for the first time this year, and as this is the SBI Probationary Officer Recruitment Prelims Examination, its important for all banking aspirants to go through the review once. Exam analysis and review can help the aspirants who are yet to appear in upcoming shifts of SBI PO Prelims to get an idea of the difficulty level and expected pattern of questions in Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language sections. The examination held in this shift was of Moderate to Lengthy level. The order of occurrence of sections was English, Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude
SBI PO Exam Analysis 2018: Section-wise Analysis
Subject | Good Attempt | Time |
English Language | 21-26 | 20 |
Reasoning Ability | 14-17 | 20 |
Quantitative Aptitude | 18-23 | 20 |
Total | 58-64 | 60 |
Quantitative Aptitude (Moderate)
Topics
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
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Data Interpretation (Pie Chart, Bar Graph)
|
10
|
Moderate-Calculative
|
Quadratic Equation
|
5
|
Easy
|
Missing Number Series
|
5
|
Moderate
|
Quantity Based
|
5
|
Moderate-Dificult
|
Miscellaneous
|
10
|
Moderate
|
|
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Total
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35
|
Moderate
|
English Language (Moderate)
English section was of moderate level. There were only 5 question in the set of Reading Comprehension out of which 2 question was of vocabulary. It is important that candidates choose wisely what to attempt and what to skip. Reading Comprehension was based on an article related to women empowerment.
Topic
No. of Questions
Level
Reading Comprehension
7
Moderate
Identifying Correct Sentence
3
Moderate
Match the column
5
Moderate
Cloze Test
5
Easy-Moderate
Sentence Rearrangement
5
Moderate
Phrase Replacement
5
Easy-Moderate
Total
30
Moderate
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
Reading Comprehension | 7 | Moderate |
Identifying Correct Sentence | 3 | Moderate |
Match the column | 5 | Moderate |
Cloze Test | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
Phrase Replacement | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Total | 30 | Moderate |
Reasoning (Moderate-Lengthy)
- Floor Based Puzzle
- Scheduling Based Puzzle
Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 20 | Moderate |
Coding Decoding | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Direction sense | 3 | Moderate |
Order and Ranking | 3 | Easy-Moderate |
Data Sufficiency | 4 | Easy-Moderate |
Total | 35 | Moderate-Lengthy |