SBI Clerk Exam Pattern (Prelims & Mains) & Syllabus

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

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