The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2023 Prelim exam held on the 6th of January 2024 (Shift 3) 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 session as reported by our students, is given below:

Numerical Ability:

This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’ but time-consuming.

This section had a similar topic-wise split as compared to the exam conducted across various shifts on 5th Jan and 6th Jan 2024, except for Data Interpretation where nine questions (five on Table and four on Caselet) were present, instead of the regular five questions on Data Interpretation.



The questions in the Data Interpretation based on Table were easy whereas the questions based on Caselet were time-consuming. There were five questions on Number Series (Missing Number) which can be rated as easy to moderate. There were twelve questions on Simplifications, of which eight to nine 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, and Mensuration were nine in number. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones. A few questions were lengthy to solve.

A student could, therefore, have solved around 20 - 22 questions in 20 minutes if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given an 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

This section was lengthy and time-consuming.

There were eighteen questions on Puzzles Linear Arrangement (Unknown number of persons), Square Arrangement (eight persons), Scheduling (one after the other), and Distribution (Months and Dates) which were easy to solve. There were three questions each on Symbols and Notations (Inequalities), Blood Relations and Deductions (Syllogisms). There were five questions on the Sequence (Only numbers).

About 23 to 25 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 to Moderate’. The section was time-consuming as reported by our students.

This section was on similar lines to the exam conducted on 5th Jan and 6th Jan (various slots) in terms of topic-wise split and difficulty level, except that the questions on the Cloze Test 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 nine questions. The passage is based on ‘Scarcity of water’.


• There were six questions on ‘Error Identification’, and five questions each on ‘Para Forming Questions’ (five sentences) and Wrongly Spelt words/Inappropriate usage’.


• There were three questions on Phrase Replacement and one question each on ‘Match the Clauses (Column-based)’ and Sentence Rearrangement

Thus, about 21 - 23 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: