Analysis of SBI PO 2024 (Prelim) Online exam held on 8th March 2025(Shift 4)

The analysis of the SBI PO 2024 Prelim exam held on the 8th March 2025 (Shift 4) 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 easy to moderate.

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

There were three questions each on the Quadratic Comparisons and two questions on Data Sufficiency (2 Statements) which were easy to moderate in nature.

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

A student could, therefore, have solved around 17 - 18 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 (Total Eight persons, a few facing North and a few persons facing South; persons facing North is greater than persons facing South), Designation based puzzle (nine persons and nine designations; Day based puzzle (Monday to Sunday + City), Square Arrangement (8 persons; persons sitting at the corner are facing inside and at the centre are facing inside + Variable), Box based puzzle (9 boxes), which were of easy to moderate in terms of level of difficulty.

There were three questions on Inequalities (Symbols & Notations) which were easy to solve.

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 ‘Pigeons and their impact on Human Health’. There were two questions on Synonyms and 1 question on FIB with the phrase. The passage contains about 400 to 500 words.
• There were six questions on Phrase Replacement. These questions were easy to solve.
• There were six questions on the Cloze Test; a few questions had blanks to be filled with a word, and for a few questions, blanks had to be filled with a Phrase. The question types presented were traditional. The passage was based on ‘Social Media Influencers’. The questions can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’.
• There were five questions each on Para Forming Questions (5 sentences) and fill in the blanks (2 Blanks). The questions on Para Forming were moderate, whereas the questions on Fill in the Blanks were easy to moderate.
• There were three questions on Sentence Reordering which were easy to solve.
• There were two questions on Word Usage. 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 Easy to Moderate.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs: