Analysis of SBI Clerk (Prelim) Online exam held on 27th Feb 2025 (Shift 1)

The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2024 Prelim exam held on the 27th of February 2025 (Shift 1) has been presented below.

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'.

Data Interpretation: There were ten questions (2 sets) based on data interpretation, and they were easy to solve.

One set was based on Table (3X3) and the second set was based on a Line Graph which contained the details of Fine Arts and Visual Arts.

Number Series: There were three questions on Number Series (Wrong Number) which can be rated as easy to moderate.

Simplifications: There were ten questions on Simplifications, of which two to three questions were calculations-based, and the rest were easy to solve.

Individual Quant Questions: There were twelve questions from topics of Simple Equations, Ages, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time and Work, and Boats and Streams. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.

A student could, therefore, have solved around 26 - 27 questions in 20 minutes if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given an 'Easy' tag.

There were eighteen questions on Puzzles (Floor Arrangement (8 Floors), Box Arrangement (8 boxes), Square Arrangement (8 persons; persons sitting at the corner facing inside and at the persons sitting at the centre are facing outside), Comparisons (weights)) which were easy to solve.

There were three questions on Symbols and Notations (Inequalities). These questions were easy to solve.

The three questions on Deductions (Syllogisms) (3 statements, 2 conclusions) were easy to moderate in nature. The four questions, on the Letter Sequence and five questions on Direction Sense, were easy to solve.

About 30 to 32 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' by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation and comprised of nine questions. The passage comprised of 350 words. The passage was based on the topic 'Tourism'. There were two questions on 'Synonyms', one question on Antonym and one question on fill in the blank with phrase.
• There were six questions on the 'Cloze Test'. The presentation was traditional .
• There were five questions each on 'Phrase Replacement' and Word Interchange ( 3 words).
• There were three questions on 'Grammatically Correct Sentences', out of which two questions were on identifying the correct sentence out of the given four sentences and one question was to identify the incorrect sentence out of the given four sentences.
• There was one question each on Match the Column and Word usage (1 word; 3 usages)

Thus, about 23 - 24 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: