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