SBI Clerk Syllabus & Exam Pattern: SBI Clerk exam is conducted by SBI (State Bank of India) for the post of Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) in one of the many branches of State Bank of India across the country. SBI Clerk is one of the most demanding after bank exams today and a huge number of candidates appear for the same every year. In this article let’s understand in detail the SBI Clerk latest exam pattern and Syllabus.
SBI Clerk Exam Pattern:
The SBI Clerk Exam Pattern will be consist of two phases i.e, Prelims and Mains.
Prelims Exam Pattern:
- SBI Clerk Prelims Exam will be conducted through Online mode.
- This Exam will be consist of 3 Sections i.e, English Language, Numerical Ability & Reasoning.
- There will be 100 questions of 100 marks will be asked in the Exam.
- Candidates need to complete the exam in 1 hour.
- There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests and 1/4th of the mark assigned for a question will be deducted for each wrong answer.
Distribution of questions and marks given below:
| 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 |
Mains Exam Pattern:
- In Mains Exam there will be 4 sections i.e, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and Computer Aptitude & General/Financial Awareness.
- There is 190 Question having a total score of 200 marks.
- The Exam duration will be 2 hours & 40 minutes.
- The questions in objective tests, except for the test of General English, will be bilingual i.e., English & Hindi.
- There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests and 1/4th of the mark assigned for a question will be deducted for each wrong answer.
| Serial Number | Section | No. of Question | Total Marks | Duration |
| 1. | General English | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| 2. | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 minutes |
| 3. | Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 minutes |
| 4. | General/Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 minutes |
| Total | 190 | 200 | 2 hours 40 minutes |
SBI Clerk Syllabus:
The SBI Clerk syllabus is almost the same for both stages. An extra section of General Awareness is added to the SBI clerk syllabus for the mains exam. Given below is the SBI clerk exam syllabus in detail:
Prelims Syllabus:
| Reasoning | Numerical Ability | English Language |
| Logical Reasoning | Simplification | Reading Comprehension |
| Alphanumeric Series | Profit & Loss | Cloze Test |
| Ranking/Direction/Alphabet Test | Mixtures &Alligations | Para jumbles |
| Data Sufficiency | Simple Interest & Compound Interest & Surds & Indices | Miscellaneous |
| Coded Inequalities | Work & Time | Fill in the blanks |
| Seating Arrangement | Time & Distance | Multiple Meaning /Error Spotting |
| Puzzle | Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere | Paragraph Completion |
| Tabulation | Data Interpretation | |
| Syllogism | Ratio & Proportion, Percentage | |
| Blood Relations | Number Systems | |
| Input-Output | Sequence & Series | |
| Coding-Decoding | Permutation, Combination &Probability |
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Mains Syllabus:
| Quantitative Aptitude | General English | General/Financial Awareness | Reasoning Ability | Computer Awareness |
| Simplification | Reading comprehension including Synonyms and Antonyms | Current Affairs – awards and honors, latest appointments, news on the banking industry, books and authors, obituaries, new schemes of central and state governments, sports, etc. | Internet | Basics of Computer: Hardware, Software, Generation of Computers |
| Number Series | Sentence rearrangement or Para jumbles | Static GK – country-capital, country-currency, headquarters of financial organizations (of insurance companies), constituencies of ministers, dance forms, nuclear and thermal power stations, etc. | Machine Input/Output | DBMS |
| Data Sufficiency | Sentence Correction/ Error Finding | Banking/Financial terms | Syllogism | Networking |
| Data Interpretation | Spell Checks | Static Awareness | Blood Relation | Internet |
| Quadratic Equation | Fillers | Banking and Financial Awareness | Direction Sense | MS Office |
| Time & Distance, Work | Cloze Test | Inequalities | Input-Output Devices | |
| Partnership | Puzzles | Important Abbreviations | ||
| Profit & Loss | Coding-Decoding | |||
| Simple and Compound Interest | Ranking | |||
| Mixture and Allegations | Statement and Assumptions | |||
| Ratio & Proportion, Averages, Percentages |
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