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The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2020 Prelim exam held on the 22nd of Feb 2020 (Slot 1) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.
Snap shot of the Exam:
| Test Area | No. of questions | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Numerical Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
| English Language | 30 Questions | 20 Mins |
| Total no. of Questions | 100 Qs | 60 Mins |
No of choices per question – 5
Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question
As per feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, the exam can be rated as easy to moderate.
The section wise analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:
Numerical Ability:
This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.
There were no questions on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.
There were 5 questions (1 set) on Data Interpretation – Table. There were 5 questions each on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons were easy solve. There were 10 questions on Simplifications and were easy to solve.
Individual questions were 10 in number. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.
A student could therefore, have solved around 25 - 27 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.
| Topic | No. of Questions |
|---|---|
| Data Interpretation (Tabular data) | 5 |
| Quadratic Comparisons | 5 |
| Series (Missing Number) | 5 |
| Simplifications | 10 |
| Individual Questions (Percentages, Partnership, Averages, Mixtures & Alligations, Boats & Streams, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Mensuration etc..) |
10 |
Reasoning:
This section has been given a 'Easy' tag.
There were 15 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (8 Persons, all of them facing the centre), Distributions (Persons & Designations) and Comparisons) which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions each on Coding-Decoding and Deductions/Syllogisms (Two questions based on the model ‘Only a few’). These questions are easy to solve.
About 27 to 29 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.
| Topic | No of Qs |
|---|---|
| Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (8 Persons, all of them facing the centre), Distributions (Persons & Designations) and Comparisons) |
15 |
| Directions Sense | 3 |
| Symbols & Notations | 3 |
| Coding - Decoding | 5 |
| Deductions / Syllogisms (Two questions based on the model ‘Only a few’) |
5 |
| Set of Numbers | 4 |
English Language :
This section has been tagged as 'Easy’ by our students.
- The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 10 questions. Out of these 10 questions 7 were based on passage, one question each on Synonym and Antonym and FIB.
- There were five questions on Cloze Test. All these questions were easy to solve.
- There were five questions each on Sentence Rearrangement, Wrongly spelt word in sentence and identifying Grammatically Correct Sentence.
Thus, about 24 - 26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:
| Topic | No of Questions |
|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 10 |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 |
| Cloze Test | 5 |
| Grammatically Correct Sentence | 5 |
| Wrongly spelt word in a sentence | 5 |
Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.
Good Attempts:
| Test Area | Good Attempts |
|---|---|
| Numerical Ability | 25 - 27 |
| Reasoning Ability | 27 - 29 |
| English Language | 24 - 26 |
| Overall | 76 - 82 |
The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2020 Prelim exam held on the 22nd of Feb 2020 (Slot 3) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.
Snap shot of the Exam:
| Test Area | No. of questions | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Numerical Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
| English Language | 30 Questions | 20 Mins |
| Total no. of Questions | 100 Qs | 60 Mins |
No of choices per question – 5
Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question
As per feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, the exam can be rated as easy to moderate.
The section wise analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:
Numerical Ability:
This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.
There were no questions on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.
There were 5 questions (1 set) on Data Interpretation – Table. There were 5 questions each on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons were easy solve. There were 10 questions on Simplifications and were easy to solve.
Individual questions were 10 in number. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.
A student could therefore, have solved around 25 - 27 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.
| Topic | No. of Questions |
|---|---|
| Data Interpretation (Tabular data) | 5 |
| Quadratic Comparisons | 5 |
| Series (Missing Number) | 5 |
| Simplifications | 10 |
| Individual Questions (Percentages, Partnership, Averages, Mixtures & Alligations, Boats & Streams, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Mensuration etc..) |
10 |
Reasoning:
This section has been given a 'Easy' tag.
There were 21 questions on Puzzles (Square Arrangement (8 Persons some facing centre and some facing away from the centre), Certain Linear (Number of persons not given), Floor Arrangement (10 persons & 10 floors), Distribution (8 persons, 4 months and two dates) and Comparisons) which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Direction Sense and Symbols & Notations. These questions are easy to solve.
About 26 to 28 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.
| Topic | No of Qs |
|---|---|
| Puzzles (Square Arrangement (8 Persons some facing centre and some facing away from the centre), Certain Linear (Number of persons not given), Floor Arrangement (10 persons & 10 floors), Distribution (8 persons, 4 months and two dates and 1 questions on Comparisons (length of ropes)) |
21 |
| Directions Sense | 3 |
| Symbols & Notations | 3 |
| Set of Numbers | 5 |
| Miscellaneous | 3 |
English Language :
This section has been tagged as 'Easy’ by our students.
- The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 10 questions. Out of these 10 questions 7 were based on passage, one question each on Synonym and Antonym and one question on Phrase Replacement. The passage was based on ‘Work-Life balance’.
- There were five questions on Cloze Test. All these questions were easy to solve.
- There were five questions each on Sentence Rearrangement, Fill in the blanks(Single blank) and identifying Grammatically Correct Sentence.
Thus, about 24 - 26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:
| Topic | No of Questions |
|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 10 |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 |
| Cloze Test | 5 |
| Grammatically Correct Sentence | 5 |
| Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank) | 5 |
Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.
Good Attempts:
| Test Area | Good Attempts |
|---|---|
| Numerical Ability | 25 - 27 |
| Reasoning Ability | 26 - 28 |
| English Language | 24 - 26 |
| Overall | 75 - 81 |