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SBI Clerk Mains 2018 Exam Analysis
Dear Aspirants,
Today (5th August) was the SBI Junior Associate Mains 2018 Examination. This was the second and final phase for the examination of the recruitment of Clerks in SBI in 2018 and here is the complete exam analysis and review of today’s Shift-II of SBI Clerk Mains 2018.
SBI Clerk Mains 2018 Exam ANALYSIS (OVER-ALL):
SECTIONS | GOOD ATTEMPTS |
---|---|
English Language | 19-23 |
Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 17-21 |
Quantitative Aptitude | 24-27 |
General Awareness | 26-31 |
TOTAL | 109-117 |
- Caselet
- Missing DI- Tabular
- Pie Chart
- Bar Graph + Tabular
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
---|---|---|
Data Interpretation | 20 | Difficult and Calculative |
Approximation | 5 | Moderate-Difficult |
Quantity-1, Quantity-2 | 5 | Moderate |
Missing Series | 5 | Moderate |
Miscellaneous (Arithematic Word Problems) | 15 | Difficult |
Total | 50 | Moderate-Difficult |
- A passage related to trust issues of customers on companies
- The second passage was based on an article on how to solve generalised issues and problems.
Vocabulary based questions were also there in this year’s SBI Clerk Mains 2018 exam. A new pattern of inference based questions were also introduced- A situation or conversation was mentioned in the question and the candidate had to identify an adjective best describing the scene/ quality of the given person.
There were also questions of a grammar-based fill in the blanks – Three or four blanks are given in a paragraph and candidate had to identify a common word that has to be filled in all those blanks from the given set of options.
In word replacement questions, three or four words in a sentence were marked as bold. Below the sentence, those words were given (numbered A,B,C..) and against each word a suggested replacement was mentioned (numbered D, E, F…). Candidates had to identify the correct word to be replaced (if any).
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
---|---|---|
Reading Comprehension | 14 | Moderate-Difficult |
Vocabulary Based | 5 | Moderate |
Grammar-Based Fillers | 4 | Moderate-Difficult |
Sentence Rearrangement | 1 | Moderate |
Inference Based Questions on Identifying correct adjective | 2 | Moderate-Difficult |
Idioms and Phrases | 5 | Moderate |
Paragraph Completion | 5 | Moderate |
Word Replacement | 4 | Moderate-Difficult |
Total | 40 | Moderate |
REASONING AND COMPUTER APTITUDE (Difficult)
This section had 50 questions and The level of reasoning was very difficult. Second shift’s reasoning was even more difficult in comparison with the first shift of SBI Clerk Mains 2018. There were NO questions of computer aptitude. Following were types of puzzles asked in reasoning section of SBI Junior Associate Mains exam:
- Linear Seating Arrangement (with blood relation) – 2 parallel lines
- Symbols and Clock based puzzle
- Circular Seating Arrangement
- Box Based Puzzle
- Mixed Puzzle (related to following a given set of instructions) – odd-even pattern
- Mixed Puzzle (related to following a given set of instructions) – Coding Decoding based
- Random Arrangement Puzzle
- Floor Based Puzzle
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
---|---|---|
Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles
|
33
|
Difficult
|
Coding Decoding (New Pattern)
|
5 | Difficult |
Coding Decoding – Symbols only
|
5
|
Moderate
|
Alphabet
|
1
|
Moderate
|
Logical ( Couse of Action, Statement and Assumption, Consequence)
|
6
|
Moderate-Difficult
|
Total
|
50 | Difficult |
GENERAL AWARENESS (Moderate)