First slot of SBI PO Preliminary exam is over now. Now I am writing the exam analysis.
Final tip for all the readers who are going to appear for SBI PO Prelim
exam is to download the Free Model papers here and solve them. Many questions were repeated from them.
Data interpretation sets were bit time consuming. Remaining questions were easy.
Series questions were tricky.
Difficulty level of the exam was same as Model papers that I shared during past few days. There was no surprise factor.
Final tip for all the readers who are going to appear for SBI PO Prelim
exam is to download the Free Model papers here and solve them. Many questions were repeated from them.
Quantitative Aptitude
Difficulty level - EasyData interpretation sets were bit time consuming. Remaining questions were easy.
Series questions were tricky.
| Topic | No. of Questions |
|---|---|
| Arithmetic ( Time and work, Time and distance, Profit and loss, SI &CI, Mixture and alligations, Boats and streams, Ages etc) | 8 |
| Series | 5 |
| Data Interpretation (Simple line diagram and tables) | 10 |
| Quadratic Equations | 5 |
| Probability | 2 |
| Simplification | 5 |
Reasoning
Difficulty level - ModerateEasy questions - Syllogism, Inequalities, Coding & decoding, Blood relation
Difficult questions - Departments puzzle
Except puzzles, this section was easy.
| Topic | No.of Questions |
|---|---|
| Syllogisms | 5 |
| Seating Arrangement (Circular seating arrangement) | 5 |
| Blood Relations | 3 |
| Puzzle (Linear seating arrangement and in second puzzle we need to match people with departments) | 10 |
| Inequalities | 5 |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 |
English Language
As expected, this section was easy. Most of the students wasted too much time on Reasining puzzles and end up giving just 8-10 minutes to this section. According to me English was the most scoring section. It was easy to attempt even 30 within 20 minutes.Easy questions - Sentence correction, Cloze test,
Difficult questions - Para jumbles
| Topic | No. of Questions |
|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 10 |
| Sentence Correction | 5 |
| Sentence re-arrangement | 5 |
| Cloze Test | 5 |
| Grammar Errors | 5 |
Ideal attempt
| Section | Ideal attempt |
|---|---|
| Quantitative Aptitude | 20-22 |
| Reasoning | 17-20 |
| English language | 22-25 |
| Total | 55-60 |
