The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2023 Prelim exam held on the 5th of January 2024 (Shift 1) has been presented below. The exam had a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.

Snapshot of the Exam:

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’.

The questions based on Data Interpretation were easy to solve. There were five questions on Number Series (Wrong Number) which can be rated as easy to moderate. There were fifteen questions on Simplifications, of which ten to twelve were easy and the rest were moderate.

Individual questions from topics of Ages, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Time and Work, Mixtures and Alligations, Time and Distance were ten in number. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.

A student could, therefore, have solved around 23 - 24 questions in 20 minutes if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given an 'Easy' tag.

There were eighteen questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement (Two parallel rows – five persons in each row), Comparisons and Distributions (five persons and five colours), Box Arrangement (8 boxes), Distribution (seven persons, seven days) which were easy to solve. There were three questions each on Blood Relations and Deductions (Syllogisms). There were five questions on sequence and four on Coding-Decoding. These questions were easy to solve.

About 27 to 28 questions could be solved in 20 minutes. As reported by our students, the topic-wise split is as given below.

English Language:

This section has been tagged as 'Easy’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation and comprised of 7 to 8 questions. The passage was based on the topic ‘Story Book’.
• There were five questions each on the ‘Cloze Test’, ‘Sentence Reordering’, ‘Error Identification’, and ‘Wrongly Spelt words. The cloze test was based on ‘Italian Dish’ and was easy. The questions on Error Identification and wrongly spelt words were easy where as the questions based on Sentence Reordering can be rated as easy to moderate.
• There were 2 to 3 questions on ‘Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank)’. These were easy to solve.

Thus, about 24 - 25 questions could be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Overall, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts: