The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2023 Prelim exam held on the 6th 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:

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.

The section-wise analysis of the session as reported by our students, is given below:

Numerical Ability:

This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’.

This section has a similar topic-wise split as compared to the exam conducted across various shifts on 5th Jan 2024, except for Data Interpretation where Line Graph was present instead of Bar/Table.

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

Individual questions from topics of Ages, Ratio, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Time and Work, Mixtures and Alligations, Boats and Streams, Mensuration were ten 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 (Line Graph)	5
Simplifications	15
Number Series (Missing Number)	5
Individual Quant Questions	10

Reasoning:

This section has been given an 'Easy' tag.

This section is on similar lines to the exam conducted on 5th Jan (various slots) in terms of topic-wise split and difficulty level, except that the questions on Coding-Decoding and Blood Relations were missing in this particular slot.

There were nineteen questions on Puzzles Linear Arrangement (Unknown number of persons), Linear Arrangement (Eight persons facing North), Circular Arrangement (Eight persons facing Centre), and Distribution (Months and Dates) which were easy to solve. There were three questions each on Symbols and Notations (Inequalities), Direction Sense and Deductions (Syllogisms). There were five questions on the Set of words. These questions were easy to solve.

About 28 to 30 questions could be solved in 20 minutes. As reported by our students, the topic-wise split is as given below.

Topic	No of Qs	Difficulty Level
Set of Words	5	Easy
Symbols and Notations (Inequalities)	3	Easy
Direction Sense	3	Easy
Deductions (Syllogisms)	3	Easy to Moderate
Miscellaneous (Pair of Letters, Number Arrangement)	2	Easy
Puzzles Linear Arrangement (Unknown number of persons)	4	Easy
Linear Arrangement (Eight persons facing North)	5	Easy
Circular Arrangement (Eight persons facing Centre)	5	Easy
Distribution (Months and Dates)	5	Easy

English Language:

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

This section is on similar lines to the exam conducted on 5th Jan (various slots) in terms of topic-wise split and difficulty level, except that the questions on Phrase Replacement were missing in this slot whereas the questions based on ‘Match the Clauses (Column-based)’ found a place in this slot.

• There was a single passage on Reading Comprehension and comprised eight questions. Out of eight questions, one question was based on Filler.
• There were five questions each on the ‘Cloze Test’, ‘Error Identification’, and ‘Para Forming Questions’ (five sentences). The questions on the Cloze test, Error Identification and Para Forming were easy.
• There were three questions on ‘Match the Clauses (Column-based)’ and four on ‘Wrongly Spelt words/Inappropriate usage’.

Thus, about 25 - 27 questions could be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions
Reading Comprehension	8
Cloze Test	5
Para Forming Questions (five Sentences)	5
Error Identification	5
Wrongly Spelt / Inappropriate Usage	4
Match the Clauses (Column-based)	3

Overall, the paper can be rated as easy.

Good Attempts:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Numerical Ability	25 - 27
Reasoning Ability	28 - 30
English Language	25 - 27
Overall	78 - 84