Analysis of SBI PO 2024 (Prelim) Online exam held on 8^th March 2025(Shift 1)

The analysis of the SBI PO 2024 Prelim exam held on the 8^th March 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 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 moderate.

There were sixteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions each on Bar Graph + Pie Chart, Caselet and six questions on Table). Questions on Data Interpretation were time-consuming and lengthy.

There were two to three questions each on the Wrong Number Series which were easy to moderate in nature.

Individual Quant questions were eleven to twelve in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate, and difficult ones.

A student could, therefore, have solved around 11 - 12 questions in 20 minutes if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

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

There were twenty-five questions on Puzzles(Linear Arrangement (Two row – seven persons facing North and Seven persons facing South), Designation based puzzle (nine persons and nine designations), Distributions (3 Variable; seven persons, 3 cities and seven colours), Floor Arrangement (7 Floors + Fruit), Box based puzzle (9 boxes), which were of easy to moderate in terms of level of difficulty.

There were four questions on Deductions / Syllogisms (Only a few model) which were moderate to solve and one question on Pair of Digits.

About 22 to 23 questions could be solved in 20 minutes. The topic-wise split, as reported by our students, is 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 nine questions. The passage was based on ‘Ban on betting in US’. There were two questions on Synonyms and about 3 to 4 questions based on the True or False model. The passage contains about 1100 to 1200 words.
• There were three questions on Phrase Replacement. These questions were easy to solve.
• There were six questions on the Cloze Test and five questions on Error Identification, which were easy. The question types presented were traditional.
• There were five questions each on Para Forming Questions and Fill in the blanks (2 Blanks). The questions on Para Forming were moderate to difficult, whereas the questions on Fill in the Blanks were moderate.
• There were five questions on Word Interchange (3 words) and two questions on Match the Column (two columns). These were easy to attempt.

Thus, about 24 - 25 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 Moderate.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs: