SBI – State Bank of India, is conducting the SBI Clerk Main Exam (Phase 2 of SBI Clerk Recruitment 2019) today, i.e. 10 August 2019. The Phase 1 – SBI Clerk Prelims exam was conducted in June 2019. In this blog, we are going to provide you the detailed section-wise SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 of all shifts being conducted today. Reading this blog will give you an idea about the questions asked in the SBI Clerk Main Exam. Candidates who would be appearing for this exam in future can strategize their preparation accordingly. First lets have a look at the Exam pattern of SBI Clerk Main Exam 2019.
SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – Exam Pattern
S.No. | Name of Test | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration |
1. | General/Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 minutes |
2. | General English | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
3. | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 minutes |
4. | Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 minutes |
Total | 190 | 200 | 2 Hours40 Minutes |
SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – Shift 1
Overall Difficulty level – Easy to Moderate. Reasoning was comparatively Difficult.
SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – General English
Reading comprehension (based on music anhedonia) – 4 Questions
Fillers – 5 Questions
Vocabulary based (theme based passage) – 4 Questions
Phrasal replacement – 5 Questions
Reading comprehension(plane’s software) – 4 Questions
Meaning of given phrases – 4 Questions
Synonym-antonym pairs – 4 Questions
Reading comprehension-atm charges – 4 Questions
Grammar based- 6 Questions
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SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – Quantitative Aptitude
DI – 24 Questions (2 bar graphs, pie chart, tabular)
Quantity comparison – 4 Questions
Data sufficiency – 5 Questions
Wrong number series – 4 Questions
Miscellaneous-13 Questions (time and work, partnership, percentage, ratios, time and distance, boats and streams, mixture and allegations etc)
SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude
Series based input output – 4 Questions
Critical reasoning – 8 Questions
Month and year based puzzle (8 persons) – 6 Questions
Individual AR – 2 Questions
Coded direction sense – 3 Questions
Coded inequality – 3 Questions
Stack based puzzle – 6 Questions
Linear arrangement – 5 Questions
Coding decoding new type (based on rules) – 5 Questions
Designation based puzzle – 5 Questions
Miscellaneous – 3 Questions
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SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – General/Financial Awareness
Majority Questions from Current Affairs from last 3 months
Financial and banking awareness- 15-20
Static-5
Current affairs-25-30
SBI Clerk Main Exam 2019 Questions – General/Financial Awareness
- Budget – 4 to 5 Questions
- Questions on Capital Markets, FDI, FPI, LIC
- Not many Questions form Static GK
- SCO Summit 2018
- 1 crore Withdrawal limit
- War over words
- Tapan Ray Committee
- Capital of Maldives – Male
- A in FBA
- DFCR full form.
- Elephant Rehab Centre
- 1.5 Trillion NPA
- Kaziranga
- National Institute of Agriculture
- G20 Summit
- Questions on People in News – Basant Kumar Birla, Aringita Dey,
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SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – Shift 2
Overall Difficulty level – .Easy to Moderate
SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – General English
Sentence missing – 1 Question
RC (5 sets) – 15 Questions
Phrase replacement – 4 Questions
Double filler in two sentence – 5 Questions
Vocab (antonym-synonym) – 4 Questions
Error detection (paragraph is divided into 7 sentences and each sentence is divided into 4 parts) – 7 Questions
Error detection (one paragraph is divided into 6 parts) – 4 Questions
SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – Quantitative Aptitude
Table DI (based on mutilated notes on which refund is given) – 6 Questions
Caselet DI (3 airbus travel between different locations, number of passengers) – 6 Questions
Bar DI(passport renewal) – 5 Questions
Data sufficiency – 5 Questions
Pie chart (total vacancy and applications on four different position) – 6 Questions
Quantity comparison – 5 Questions
Miscellaneous – 17 Questions
SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude
Logical (reason, assumptions and inference) – 7 Questions
Coded inequality – 5 Questions
Meaningful word – 1 Questions
Syllogism – 2 Questions
Coded blood relation – 3 Questions
Coding decoding – 4 Questions
Stack – 1 Question
Linear arrangement – 1 Question
Circular – 2 Questions
Machine input – 4 Questions
Hexagonal table – 1 Question
Birthday – 1 Question
Puzzle (7 cars parked one beside other including blood relation) – 5 Questions
Coded direction sense – 1 Question
Puzzle (6 people, 3 variables (country, months and days) – 6 Questions
3 parallel rows I, II, III (4 in row 1,8 in row 2 and 4 in row 3) – 4 Questions
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SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis 2019 – General/Financial Awareness
Same as Shift 1, Majority of the Questions were from Current Affairs. 2 Questions were from Budget, very few questions on static part.
SBI Clerk Main Exam 2019 Questions – General/Financial Awareness
Following is the list of topics on which questions were asked -:
Dutte chand
Bad Banks
elephant bond
5th Sept
2023 world cup cricket
2019 WC final Venue
Different Types of Funds
Business risk
Market Risk
Arjun Munda Constituency
NBFC
Commonwealth Ajay Singh
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Solar Charkha Mission
Hanoi is the capital
PMKYMS
Pradhan Matra Vandana Yojana
Anshula Kant
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