All those candidates who qualified the Prelims of SBI Clerk 2019 appeared for the Main exam today. SBI Clerk Main Exam 2019 would be conducted in two time slots - morning and evening. A total of 190 questions had to be answered in 160 minutes. All the other sections, except the English Language section, were available bilingually, that is, in both English and Hindi. There was a negative marking of one-fourth marks assigned to that question for every incorrect answer.
The detailed break-up of SBI Clerk Mains Exam 2019 is as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Total Marks |
Level of Difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Time Taken (In Minutes) |
General/Financial Awareness |
50 |
50 |
Easy-Moderate |
32-35 |
35 |
General English |
40 |
40 |
Easy-Moderate |
24-27 |
35 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
50 |
50 |
Moderate |
22-25 |
45 |
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude |
50 |
60 |
Moderate-Difficult |
19-22 |
45 |
Total |
190 |
200 |
Moderate-Difficult |
105-115 |
160 |
Note: Section wise and overall cut-offs are not uniform for all states.
The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate. Most of the questions came from the Banking Awareness, Financial Awareness and Current Affairs of last 5-6 months. There were some questions from the static section of General Awareness. 30-32 questions were from current affairs. 10-12 questions were from banking awareness. 3-4 questions were from budget.
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
Reading comprehension – (Mostly questions were based on Inference and Passage based. Some were based on Fill in the Blanks, Error and Rearrangement.) |
4 + 4 + 4 + 5 |
Moderate |
Idioms based – One idiom was bold in a passage. |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Fill in the blanks – 2 words and 3 sentences were given in each question. Identify the sentence in which both the words will fit. |
5 |
Moderate |
Vocabulary based - Synonym/Antonym based |
5 |
Moderate |
Cloze Test |
5 |
Moderate |
Spot the Error |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
The overall difficulty of this section was easy to moderate.
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
Comparison of Quantities: Quantity I and Quantity II (Topics were Time, Speed and Distance, Time and work, Ages, Quadratic Equations etc.) |
5 |
Moderate |
DI (Pie Chart + Table) |
6 |
Moderate |
DI (2 Bar Graphs)-Average weight based. |
5 |
Moderate |
DI (Bar Graph + Table) |
5 |
Moderate |
DI (Bar Graph) – Percentage based |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Sufficiency – Topics were Boat and Stream, PLD and SI/CI etc. |
5 |
Moderate |
Wrong Number Series – There were 2 wrong series in each question. |
6 |
Easy-Moderate |
Miscellaneous (Quant based word problems –Time and work, Mixture & Alligation, Boat and Stream, PLD, SI/CI, Average, Ratio & Proportion, Percentage, Mensuration, Probability etc.) |
13 |
Moderate |
The DI sets were calculation based and time consuming. The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of difficulty |
AR (Data Arrangement- Box based) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
AR (Linear Seating Arrangement – Single row – facing north/south) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
AR (Data Arrangement –Companies based) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
AR (Data Arrangement –3 teachers, 5 subjects and classes were given.) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
AR (Data Arrangement – 8 persons, 3 months and 3 years were given.) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Directions –Set based |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Input-output |
5 |
Moderate |
Mathematical Inequalities |
4 |
Moderate |
Coding-Decoding |
4 |
Moderate |
Alphabet based series |
1 |
Moderate |
Logical Reasoning (Course of action, Statement and assumption etc.) |
6 |
Moderate |
The sets of Analytical Reasoning were moderate-difficult and lengthy. Level of difficulty of this section was moderate to difficult. There were no questions from Computer Aptitude and there were no questions of syllogism.
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All the Best!
Team CL