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SBI Clerk Expected Reasoning Topics

SBI Clerk Reasoning Topics 2024: The SBI Clerk 2024 Prelims is on the 5th, 6th, 11th, and 12th of January 2024. Candidates should be wrapping up their preparations by now. While revising, candidates should make sure to prioritise topics that are most expected. To help you know which topics to focus on during the revision of the Reasoning section, this article will provide the expected topics for reasoning in SBI Clerk Prelims based on 2018-2022 data.

SBI Clerk Reasoning Topics 2024 – Exam Pattern

First, let’s check out the exam pattern and the reasoning section’s weightage for SBI Clerk Prelims and Mains.

SBI Clerk Preliminary Exam Pattern 2024

The Prelims Examination for SBI Clerk is held according to a fixed pattern. The table given below helps in understanding the pattern. There is a 1/4th negative marking for each wrong answer.

Serial No.	Section	No. of Question	Total Marks	Duration
1	English Language	30	30	20 minutes
2	Numerical Ability	35	35	20 minutes
3	Reasoning	35	35	20 minutes
	Total	100	100	60 minutes

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SBI Clerk Mains Exam Pattern 2024

The Mains Exam for SBI Clerk will be tentatively held in Feb 2024. The mode of exam for SBI Clerk is Online Objective Test. It has a total of 190 questions within the time of 2 hours 40 minutes. There is a 1/4th negative marking for each wrong answer.

Test Name	No. of Questions	Marks	Duration (in mins)
General/Financial Awareness	50	50	35
General English	40	40	35
Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	45
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude	50	60	45
Total	190	200	2 hours 40 minutes

Note: The exam of SBI Clerk Prelims will not affect the final selection in the main exam.

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SBI Clerk Reasoning Topics in 2022

The following table gives the number of questions asked from specific topics in the Reasoning section and their difficulty level.

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Puzzle and Seating Arrangement	18	Easy
Inequality	5	Easy
Syllogism	4-5	Easy
Number Series	5	Easy
Direction and Distance	1	Moderate
Meaningful Word	1	Easy
Overall	35	Easy

Puzzle Types

Puzzles make up a chunk of the questions from the reasoning section. The following are the type of puzzles seen in the 2022 iterations of the recruitment exam:

Type of Puzzle	No. of Questions
Uncertain Number of People	3
Box Puzzle	5
Flat and Floor	5
Month-based	5

SBI Clerk Reasoning Topics in 2021

The following table gives the number of questions asked from specific topics in the Reasoning section and their difficulty level.

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Puzzle and Seating Arrangement	15	Easy-Moderate
Inequality	4	Easy
Syllogism	3	Easy
Alphanumeric Series	5	Easy
Direction and Distance	3	Easy
Blood Relation	2	Easy
Miscellaneous	3	Easy
Overall	35	Easy-Moderate

Puzzle Types

The following types of puzzles were seen in SBI Clerk Prelims 2021.

Box Puzzle
Sequence-based
Year and Month

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SBI Clerk Reasoning Topics in 2020

The following table gives the number of questions asked from specific topics in the Reasoning section and their difficulty level.

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Puzzle and Seating Arrangement	15	Easy-Moderate
Inequality	3	Easy
Syllogism	4	Easy
Numeric Series	5	Easy
Direction and Distance	5	Easy
Alphabet-based	3	Easy
Overall	35	Easy-Moderate

Puzzle Types

The following types of puzzles were seen in SBI Clerk Prelims 2020.

Circular seating arrangement
Order and Ranking based puzzle
Designation-based puzzle

SBI Clerk Reasoning Topics 2024 – Overall Trend

The following table shows the overall trend when it comes to reasoning topics in SBI Clerk.

Topics	2021	2020	2019	2018
Puzzle and Seating Arrangement	15	15	15	15
Direction Sense	3	5	–	3
Numeric Series	–	5	1	5
Syllogism	3	4	5	–
Inequality	4	3	5	–
Alphabet-based Series	5	3	5	5
Blood Relation	2	–	4	2
Data Sufficiency	–	–	–	3
Coding-decoding	–	–	–	2
Miscellaneous	3	–	–	–