The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on the 22nd of June 2019 (Slot 2) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented 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 above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 5 questions (1 set) on Data Interpretation – Bar Graph. These questions on Bar Graph were lengthy and time-consuming. There were 5 questions each on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons were easy solve. There were 8 questions on Simplifications and were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 12 in number. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 25 - 26 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy' tag.

There were 17 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (8 Persons all facing centre), Linear Arrangement (8 Persons all facing North), Box Arrangement, Comparisons) which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Deductions, three questions each on Blood Relations and Symbols & Notations. These questions are easy to solve.

About 27 to 28 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

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

The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 8 questions. Out of these 8 questions 6 were based on passage, three synonyms and two Fillers based on passage. The passage was based on ‘Yoga Day’.
There were seven questions on Cloze Test. All these questions were easy to solve.
5 questions on Sentence Rearrangement were of easy to moderate level of difficulty.
There were five questions each on Fill in the blanks(Single blank) and Phrase Replacement.

Thus, about 22 - 23 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts:

The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on the 22nd of June 2019 (Slot 4) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented 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 above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 9 questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation – One set of 5 questions on Bar Graph and another set of 4 questions on Caselet. These questions based on Data Interpretation were lengthy and time-consuming. There were 5 questions on Wrong number series. Questions on Missing number series were easy solve. There were 12 questions on Simplifications and were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 12 in number. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 24 - 25 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy' tag.

There were 17 questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement (12 Persons two parallel rows; some facing North and some facing south), Box Arrangement, Days based puzzle and Comparisons) which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Sequence, four questions on Deductions, three questions each on Blood Relations and Symbols & Notations. These questions were easy to solve.

About 27 to 28 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

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

The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised eight questions. Out of these eight questions seven were based on passage and one based on Synonym. The passage was based on ‘Study on spending money on expenses’.
There were five questions on Wrongly Spelt/Inappropriate usage. All these questions were easy to solve.
Four questions on Para Forming were given. Five sentences were given, to be arranged to form a meaningful paragraph. The question type included ‘Which of the following is the second sentence after rearrangement? These questions were of easy to moderate difficulty level.
There were five questions each on Fill in the blanks(Single blank) and Phrase Replacement.
The three questions on identifying ‘Grammatically Correct Sentence’ were easy to solve.

Thus, about 24 - 25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts:

The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on the 23rd of June 2019 (Slot 2) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented 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 above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 5 questions (1 set) on Data Interpretation – Table. 2 - 3 questions on Table were lengthy and time-consuming. There were 5 questions each on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons were easy solve. There were 10 questions on Simplifications and were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 10 in number. 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 a 'Easy' tag.

There were 15 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (8 Persons all facing centre), Linear Arrangement (8 Persons all facing North), Day & Month based puzzle) which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions each on Deductions, Coding-Decoding and Sequence. There were three questions on Blood Relations.

About 25 to 26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

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

The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 9 questions. Out of these 9 questions 6 were based on passage, two on Synonyms and one on Antonym.

There were six questions on Cloze Test. All these questions were easy to solve.

There were five questions on Wrongly Spelt/Inappropriate usage. All these questions were easy to solve.

There were five questions each on Fill in the blanks(Single blank) and Error Identification (Traditional).

Thus, about 24 - 25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts: