Analysis of SBI Clerk (Prelim) Online exam held on 20th Sep 2025 (Shift 1)
The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on the 20th of September 2025 (Shift 1) has been presented below.
Snapshot of the Exam:
Test Area | No. of questions | Duration |
Numerical Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
Reasoning Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
English Language | 30 Questions | 20 Mins |
Total no. of Questions | 100 Qs | 60 Mins |
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 sections in the exam appeared in the following sequence:
- English Language
- Reasoning Ability
- Numerical Ability
Numerical Ability:
This section can be rated as Easy to Moderate.
There were no questions on Number Series and Quadratic Comparisons.
Data Interpretation: There were fifteen questions (3 sets) based on data interpretation.
One set was based on a Table, the second on a Bar Graph, and the third on a Caselet. The Table and Bar Graph were easy, whereas the Caselet was moderate.
Simplifications: There were ten questions, mostly easy.
Individual Quant Questions: Ten questions from topics like Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Interest, Mixtures, Boats and Streams, Mensuration, etc.
A student could solve around 23 - 24 questions in 20 minutes.
Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
Data Interpretation (Table, Bar Graph and Caselet) | 15 | Easy to Moderate |
Simplifications | 10 | Easy |
Individual Quant questions | 10 | Easy to Moderate |
Reasoning:
This section was rated as Easy.
Puzzles formed the majority (18 questions). Other topics included Symbols & Notations, Direction Sense, and Syllogisms. About 32–33 questions could be solved in 20 minutes.
Topic | No of Qs | Difficulty Level |
Set of words | 5 | Easy |
Direction Sense | 3 | Easy |
Symbols and Notations (Inequalities) | 3 | Easy |
Deductions (Syllogisms) | 3 | Easy to Moderate |
Miscellaneous (Coding-Decoding, Meaningful Word, Word Arrangement) | 3 | Easy |
Puzzles – Floor Arrangement (8 Floors) | 5 | Easy |
Puzzles – Unknown number facing North | 5 | Easy |
Puzzles – Month & Date (4 months, 2 dates) | 5 | Easy |
Puzzles – Scheduling (gifts order) | 3 | Easy |
English Language:
This section was tagged as Easy.
- Reading Comprehension (Sea Pollution) – 8 questions
- Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank) – 6 questions
- Para Forming (6 sentences) – 5 questions
- Error Identification – 5 questions
- Word Interchange (4 words) – 5 questions
- Word Usage (1 word, 3 usages) – 1 question
Topic | No of Questions | Difficulty Level |
Reading Comprehension | 8 | Easy to Moderate |
Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank) | 6 | Easy |
Para Forming Questions (six sentences) | 5 | Easy |
Word Interchange (4 words) | 5 | Easy |
Error Identification | 5 | Easy |
Word Usage (1 word; 3 usages) | 1 | Easy |
Overall, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.
Good Attempts:
Test Area | Good Attempts |
Quantitative Aptitude | 23 – 24 |
Reasoning Ability | 32 – 33 |
English Language | 24 – 25 |
Overall | 79 – 82 |
Analysis of SBI Clerk (Prelim) Online exam held on 27th Sep 2025 (Shift 1)
The analysis of the SBI Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on the 27th of September 2025 (Shift 1) has been presented below.
Snapshot of the Exam:
Test Area | No. of questions | Duration |
---|---|---|
Numerical Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
Reasoning Ability | 35 Questions | 20 Mins |
English Language | 30 Questions | 20 Mins |
Total no. of Questions | 100 Qs | 60 Mins |
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 sections in the exam appeared in the following sequence.
- English Language
- Numerical Ability
- Reasoning Ability
The section-wise analysis of the above-mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:
Numerical Ability:
This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’.
There were no questions on Number Series and Quadratic Comparisons.
Data Interpretation: There were fifteen questions (4 sets) based on data interpretation.
One set was based on a Table (Number of pencils, pens and books sold by three shopkeepers), the second set was based on a Bar Graph which contained the details of students who have opted for singing and dancing. and the remaining two sets were based on Caselets (one with three questions and the other with two questions). The questions on the Table were time-consuming, and the questions on the Bar Graph were easy to solve, whereas the questions on the Caselet were easy to moderate, as calculations were involved.
Simplifications: There were ten questions on Simplifications, of which three questions were calculations-based, and the rest were easy to solve.
Individual Quant Questions: There were ten questions from topics of Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Mixtures, Boats and Streams, Mensuration, etc. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.
A student could, therefore, have solved around 23 - 24 questions in 20 minutes if he chose judiciously.
Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
---|---|---|
Data Interpretation (Table, Bar Graph and two Caselets) | 15 | Easy to Moderate |
Simplifications | 10 | Easy |
Individual Quant questions | 10 | Easy to Moderate |
Reasoning:
This section has been given an 'Easy' tag.
There were eighteen questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (8 persons, all facing towards centre), unknown number of persons facing North, Month and Date based (8 persons, 4 months & 2 dates), Linear Arrangement (8 persons, all facing North), which were easy to solve.
There were three questions each on Symbols and Notations (Inequalities), Directions Sense and Syllogisms (Deductions). The questions in Syllogisms were based on 3 statements and 2 conclusions. The questions on Directions Sense, Inequalities and Syllogisms were easy to solve.
There were five questions based on a set of words, which were easy to solve.
About 33 to 34 questions could be solved in 20 minutes. As reported by our students, the topic-wise split is as given below.
Topic | No of Qs | Difficulty Level |
---|---|---|
Set of words | 5 | Easy |
Direction Sense | 3 | Easy |
Symbols and Notations (Inequalities) | 3 | Easy |
Deductions (Syllogisms) | 3 | Easy to Moderate |
Miscellaneous (Letter Odd one out, pair of words) | 3 | Easy |
Puzzles - Circular Arrangement (8 persons, all facing towards centre) | 5 | Easy |
Puzzles - Unknown number of people, all facing North | 3 | Easy |
Puzzles - Month and Date based (4 months & 2 dates) | 5 | Easy |
Puzzles - Linear Arrangement (8 persons, all facing North) | 5 | Easy |
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. The passage was based on the topic ‘Startup company on memes’. There were three questions on ‘Synonyms’, and one question on fill-in-the-blank.
- There were six questions on the Cloze Test.
- There were five questions each on ‘Sentence Reordering’ and ‘Word Interchange (4 words)’.
- There were four questions on Grammatically Correct Sentences, out of which two were on identifying the Correct sentence and the remaining on identifying the incorrect sentence.
- There were two questions on Word usage (1 word; 3 usages).
Thus, about 25 - 26 questions could be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:
Topic | No of Questions | Difficulty Level |
---|---|---|
Reading Comprehension | 8 | Easy to Moderate |
Cloze Test | 6 | Easy |
Sentence Reordering | 5 | Easy |
Word Interchange (4 words) | 5 | Easy |
Grammatically Correct Sentences | 4 | Easy |
Word Usage (1 word; 3 usages) | 2 | Easy |
Overall, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.
Good Attempts:
Test Area | Good Attempts |
---|---|
Quantitative Aptitude | 23 – 24 |
Reasoning Ability | 33 - 34 |
English Language | 25 – 26 |
Overall | 81 - 84 |
Analysis of IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim Exam held on 4 th Oct 2025 (Shift 1)
The analysis of the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on 4 th Oct 2025 (Shift 1) is presented below.
Snapshot of the Exam:
Test Area | No of Questions | Max Marks | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Mins |
Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Mins |
English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 Mins |
Total | 100 | 100 | 60 Mins |
Number of choices per question – 5
Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question
According to feedback received from our students who took this exam, it can be rated aseasy.
The sections in the exam appeared in the following sequence.
- Numerical Ability
- English Language
- Reasoning Ability
The section-wise analysis of the above-mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:
Numerical Ability:
According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as easy.
There were no questions on Number Series and Quadratic Comparisons.
The twelve questions on Simplifications were easy to solve. There were ten questions (2sets) on Data Interpretation (Table and Line Graph). The questions on Data Interpretation were easy to solve. The table contains details of two persons selling English books, Hindi books and Urdu books. The line graph contains details on the number of books sold by four different book sellers.
Individual Quant Questions: There were thirteen questions from topics of Ages,Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Mixtures,Boats and Streams, Mensuration, etc. These were a combination of easy and moderateones. A student could, therefore, solve around 26 to 27 questions in approximately 20 minutes,provided he chose judiciously.
Topic | No of Questions |
---|---|
Data Interpretation (Table & Line Graph) | 10 |
Simplifications | 12 |
Quant Questions: (Ages, Percentages, Profit & Loss, Partnership, Mixtures, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Time & Distance and Mensuration etc.) |
13 |
Reasoning:
This section has been tagged as Easy.
In this slot, there were five questions on Sequence and three questions each on Symbols Notations (Inequalities), Blood Relations and Direction Sense. These questions were easy to solve.
There were eighteen questions on puzzles – Circular Arrangement (Eight persons; all facing inside), Month-based (Eight months; non-consecutive), Linear Arrangement(Uncertain number of persons), and Box-based puzzle (Eight boxes). The questions on Puzzles were easy to solve.
Thus, almost 33 to 34 questions could be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.
The topic-wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as follows:
Topic | No of Questions |
---|---|
Analytical Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (Eight persons; all facing inside), Month-based (Eight months; non-consecutive), Linear Arrangement (Uncertain number of persons), and Box-based puzzle (Eight boxes)) |
18 |
Sequence | 5 |
Symbols & Notations (Inequalities) | 3 |
Direction Sense | 3 |
Blood Relations | 3 |
Miscellaneous (Meaningful word, Pair of Digits and Odd-one-out) | 3 |
English Language:
This section too was predictable and was rated as easy.
- The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation,and nine questions were posed from it. There were two questions on Synonyms and one question on fill-in-the-blank. The passage was based on ‘Army Dog’.
- There were six questions on the Cloze Test. The topic was based on ‘Medical Research: Reconstruction from an old skeleton’. The words given in the options were very close, and one should be careful while choosing the answer choices.
- There were five questions each on Error Identification and Word Interchange (3words)
- There were four questions on Phrase Replacement and one question on Word usage.
We can deduce that about 24 - 25 questions could be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:
Topic | No of Questions |
---|---|
Reading Comprehension | 9 |
Cloze Test | 6 |
Word Interchange | 5 |
Error Identification | 5 |
Phrase Replacement | 4 |
Word Usage (One word; three usages) | 1 |
Overall, the difficulty level of the paper in this shift can be rated as easy.
Good Attempts:
Test Area | Good Attempts |
---|---|
Numerical Ability | 26 - 27 |
Reasoning Ability | 33 - 34 |
English Language | 24 - 25 |
Overall | 83 - 86 |
Analysis of IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim Exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 2)
The analysis of the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 2) is presented below.
Snapshot of the Exam:
Test Area | No of Questions | Max Marks | Duration |
Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Mins |
Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Mins |
English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 Mins |
Total | 100 | 100 | 60 Mins |
Number of choices per question – 5
Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question
According to feedback received from our students who took this exam, it can be rated as easy.
The sections in the exam appeared in the following sequence:
- Numerical Ability
- English Language
- Reasoning Ability
Section-wise Analysis
Numerical Ability:
According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as easy.
There were no questions on Number Series and Quadratic Comparisons.
The ten questions on Simplifications were easy to solve. There were twelve questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (Table and Bar Graph). The questions on Data Interpretation were easy to solve. The table contains details of three
places and three modes (Plane, Train and Bus) to reach these places. The bar graph contains details on the number of shops in four cities (P, Q, R, S).
Individual Quant Questions: There were thirteen questions from topics of Ages, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time & Work, Time and Distance, Mixtures, Trains, Mensuration, etc. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.
A student could, therefore, solve around 27 to 28 questions in approximately 20 minutes, provided he chose judiciously.
Topic | No of Questions |
Data Interpretation (Table & Bar Graph) | 12 |
Simplifications | 10 |
Quant Questions: (Ages, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time & Work, Time and Distance, Mixtures, Trains, Mensuration, etc) | 13 |
Reasoning:
This section has been tagged as 'Easy'.
In this slot, there were five questions each on a Set of words and coding-decoding, three questions each on Syllogisms and Direction Sense and two questions on Blood Relations. These questions were easy to solve.
There were fifteen questions on puzzles: Two Row Arrangement (Ten persons; five persons facing North and five persons facing South), Floor Arrangement (eight persons;4 floors & two flats) and Day-based puzzle (Monday to Sunday). The
questions on Puzzles were easy to solve.
Thus, almost 32 to 33 questions could be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.
The topic-wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as follows:
Topic | No of Questions |
Analytical Puzzles: | |
Two Row Arrangement (Ten persons; five facing North & five facing South) | 5 |
Floor Arrangement (eight persons;4 floors & two flats) | 5 |
Day-based puzzle (Monday to Sunday) | 5 |
Set of Words | 5 |
Coding-Decoding | 5 |
Syllogisms (Deductions) | 3 |
Direction Sense | 3 |
Blood Relations | 2 |
Miscellaneous (Pair of Digits and Word Arrangement) | 2 |
English Language:
This section too was predictable and was rated as easy.
- The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and nine questions were posed from it. There were two questions on Synonyms and one question on fill-in-the-blank. The passage was based on ‘Animal Rescue Centre’.
- There were six questions on the Cloze Test. The topic was based on ‘Rafting experience’.
- There were five questions on Error Identification.
- There were four questions each on Phrase Replacement and Word Interchange (3 words).
- There was one question each on Word usage and Match the column.
We can deduce that about 25 - 26 questions could be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:
Topic | No of Questions |
Reading Comprehension | 9 |
Cloze Test | 6 |
Word Interchange | 4 |
Error Identification | 5 |
Phrase Replacement | 4 |
Match the column | 1 |
Word Usage (One word; three usages) | 1 |
Overall, the difficulty level of the paper in this shift can be rated as easy.
Good Attempts:
Test Area | Good Attempts |
Numerical Ability | 27 - 28 |
Reasoning Ability | 32 - 33 |
English Language | 25 - 26 |
Overall | 84 - 87 |
Analysis of IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim Exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 3)
The analysis of the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 3) is presented below.
Snapshot of the Exam:
Test Area | No of Questions | Max Marks | Duration |
Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Mins |
Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Mins |
English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 Mins |
Total | 100 | 100 | 60 Mins |
Number of choices per question – 5
Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question
According to feedback received from our students who took this exam, it can be rated as easy.
The sections in the exam appeared in the following sequence:
- Numerical Ability
- English Language
- Reasoning Ability
Section-wise Analysis
Numerical Ability:
According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as easy.
There were no questions on Quadratic Comparisons.
The eleven questions on Simplifications were easy to solve. There were eight questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (Table and Bar Graph). The table contains details of three persons making toys of three types (Wooden, Metallic,
etc.). The bar graph contains details of two players, A & B and runs scored by them on two days (Monday and Tuesday).
There were two questions based on the Wrong Number Series.
Individual Quant Questions: There were fourteen questions from topics of Ages, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time & Work, Pipes & Cisterns, Time and Distance, Averages, Mixtures, Trains, Mensuration, Numbers, etc. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.
A student could, therefore, solve around 28 to 29 questions in approximately 20 minutes, provided he chose judiciously.
Topic | No of Questions |
Data Interpretation (Table & Bar Graph) | 8 |
Simplifications | 11 |
Wrong Number Series | 2 |
Ages | 1 |
Percentages | 2 |
Profit & Loss | 1 |
Partnership | 1 |
Simple and Compound Interest | 2 |
Time & Work | 1 |
Pipes & Cisterns | 1 |
Time, Speed & Distance | 1 |
Mensuration | 1 |
Averages | 1 |
Mixtures & Alligations | 1 |
Numbers | 1 |
Reasoning:
This section has been tagged as 'Easy'.
In this slot, there were five questions on a Set of words, three questions each on Syllogisms and Direction Sense.
There were twenty-one questions on puzzles: Unknown number of persons (All facing North). (No. of persons <=13), Linear Arrangement (8 persons; all facing North), Months & Date-based puzzle (4 months & 2 dates), Square
Arrangement (8 persons; persons sitting at the corners facing inside and persons sitting at the middle facing outside), Comparisons (6 persons). The questions on Puzzles were easy to solve.
Thus, almost 32 to 33 questions could be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.
The topic-wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as follows:
Topic | No of Questions |
Unknown number of persons (All facing North). (No. of persons <=13) | 3 |
Linear Arrangement (8 persons; all facing North) | 5 |
Months & Date-based puzzle (4 months & 2 dates) | 5 |
Square Arrangement (8 persons; corners facing inside, middle facing outside) | 5 |
Comparisons (6 persons) | 3 |
Set of Words | 5 |
Syllogisms (Deductions) | 3 |
Direction Sense | 3 |
Miscellaneous (Pair of Digits, Number Arrangement and Word Arrangement) | 3 |
English Language:
This section too was predictable and was rated as easy to moderate.
- The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and ten questions were posed from it. There were three questions on Synonyms and one question on fill-in-the-blank. The passage was based on ‘Forest Fire (Wild Fire)’.
- There were five questions each on Para Forming (5 sentences) and Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank). The topic was on ‘Muslims migrating from North America’. The questions on Phrase Replacement were moderate in terms of difficulty level.
- There were five questions on Error Identification.
- There were four questions on Phrase Replacement and three questions on Grammatically Correct Sentences. The questions on Grammatically Correct Sentences were moderate in nature.
We can deduce that approximately 22 - 23 questions could be solved within the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:
Topic | No of Questions |
Reading Comprehension | 10 |
Para Forming Questions (5 Sentences) | 5 |
Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank) | 5 |
Grammatically Correct Sentences | 3 |
Phrase Replacement | 4 |
Word Interchange | 3 |
Overall, the difficulty level of the paper in this shift can be rated as easy.
Good Attempts:
Test Area | Good Attempts |
Numerical Ability | 28 - 29 |
Reasoning Ability | 32 - 33 |
English Language | 22 - 23 |
Overall | 82 - 85 |