The State Bank of India has accelerated spot to complete the journey of SBI PO recruitment process and here is the complete exam review. The SBI PO Exam Analysis of Prelims Paper will guide all SBI candidates on how the difficulty level of the paper was, what can be the number of good attempts for qualifying for Mains and the general type of questions asked.
In an attempt to provide clarity to all the candidates about their performance, we now begin our SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis for the 3rd shift.
SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis: 8th July 2018
As we all know, the exam was composed of 3 sections i.e. Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability and English Language. The exam pattern in details is as follows.
The State Bank of India has introduced some major changes this year in SBI PO Prelims Exam Pattern. This Year SBI has Introduced has major pattern changes in it, i.e., sectional timings (20 minutes for each section) for the three different sections (English, Reasoning Ability, and Quantitative Aptitude).
Tier I: Preliminary examination
Preliminary Examination consisted of Objective Test for 100 marks. The test had 3 Sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:
| Name of test | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration | |
| 1 | English Language | 30 | total maximum
Marks 100
|
20 minutes |
| 2 | Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 20 minutes | |
| 3 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 20 minutes | |
| Total | 100 | 1 hour |
Some highlights of the changes made in the exam pattern are given below:
- Each section of the Prelims exam had a separate time slot (20 Minutes each).
- Also, there will not be any sectional or overall cut-off.
- An adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by the Bank will be shortlisted for the Mains Exam from the list of all candidates arranged in descending order of aggregate marks scored.
THE OVERALL DIFFICULTY LEVEL OF SBI PO Prelims Exam (Shift-III) was (Moderate). Let us dig a bit deeper and understand the construct of the paper section-wise.
SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis for English Language Section
- Good Attempts: 20-25
- Level of Difficulty: Moderate
Beginning our paper review with English Section, this section was quite moderate to solve. The English Section in SBI PO Prelims Paper (Shift 3) questions distribution is as follows.
| Name of Topics | No. of Questions |
| Reading Comprehension | 6 |
| Error Detection | 7 |
| Double Fillers | 6 |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 |
| Cloze Test | 6 |
| Total | 30 |
Cloze test questions were different from previous exam pattern, the blanks were already filled. Spotting error questions were the easiest to solve, followed by Cloze Test and then Reading Comprehension in terms of difficulty level escalating. Student finds the RC Section a bit lengthy. We expect most candidates to do well in this section.
SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis for Reasoning Ability Section
- Good Attempts: 13-16
- Level of Difficulty: Moderate & Lengthy
Turning our attention towards Reasoning Ability,
| Name of Topics | No. of Questions |
| Puzzles & Seating Arrangement | 20 |
| Coding Decoding | 5 |
| Direction Sense Test | 2 |
| Inequality | 3 |
| Data Sufficiency | 3 |
| Miscellaneous | 2 |
| Total | 35 |
SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis for Quantitative Aptitude Section
- Good Attempts: 17-22
- Level of Difficulty: Moderate
| Name of Topic | No.of Questions |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 |
| Data Interpretation (Table & Bar Graph) | 10 |
| Wrong Number Series | 5 |
| Quadratic Equation | 5 |
| Miscellaneous | 10 |
| Total | 35 |
From what we can analyze, a total of attempts with optimal accuracy will be a good score for SBI PO Prelims 2018
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