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State Bank of India (SBI) conducts objective type exams regularly for the recruitment of clerical cadre. SBI Clerk Exam is conducted in two phases i.e. preliminary and mains exams. Candidates who qualify both the phases will be selected as Clerks in the State Bank of India.

This year’s notification for SBI Clerk recruitment has been released by the bank and you all must have already started to prepare for the same. When you prepare for a competitive exam, you should keep yourself abreast of what was asked in the previously conducted exams for the same recruitment process. If we talk about SBI Clerk 2018-19 Exam, the preliminary examination was conducted in the month of June and the main exam was conducted in August 2018.

The questions asked in the three sections viz. English Language, Reasoning Ability and Numerical Ability were based on the conventional pattern of SBI Clerk Prelims Exam. No new pattern questions were observed in any of the shifts conducted all throughout. The main examination of SBI Clerk 2018 was difficult and lengthy when compared to previous main examination. Given below are the exam pattern and cut-off scores of SBI Clerk Exam 2018-19 respectively:

SBI Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis

23rd June 2018: Slot 1

Numerical Ability (Easy-Moderate)

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
(Missing )Series	5	Easy
Data Interpretation (Pie Chart)	5	Moderate
Quadratic Equations	5	Easy-Moderate
Simplification	8	Easy
Profit and Loss	1	Easy
Mensuration	2	Easy
Time, Speed and Distance	1	Easy-Moderate
Problem on Trains	1	Easy-Moderate
S.I. and C.I.	1	Easy-Moderate
Quantity 1- Quantity 2 Type (Avg, Pipe and Cistern, Train, Boat & Stream etc.)	5	Easy-Moderate
Time and Work	1	Easy
Total	35	Easy-Moderate

English Language (Easy-Moderate)

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	7	Moderate
Sentence Rearrangement	5	Moderate
Phrase Replacement	5	Easy-Moderate
Error detection	8	Easy-Moderate
Fillers	5	Easy
Total	30	Easy-Moderate

Reasoning (Moderate)

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Alpha-numeric series	5	Easy-Moderate
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	15	Moderate
Direction Sense	3	Easy
Blood Relation	2	Easy
Data Sufficiency	3	Moderate
Coding Decoding	2	Easy
Numerical Series	5	Moderate
Total	35	Moderate

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SBI Clerk Main Exam Analysis

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE (Moderate – Difficult)

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Data Interpretation	27	Difficult and Calculative
Quantity-1, Quantity-2	5	Moderate
Quadratic Equation	5	Moderate-Difficult
Data Sufficiency	3	Difficult
Miscellaneous (Boat and Stream, Mixture and Allegation, Time and Work etc)	10	Difficult
Total	50	Moderate-Difficult

ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Moderate)

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	12	Moderate
Vocabulary Based (Identify Synonym/Antonym)	5	Moderate-Difficult
Single Filler	5	Moderate
Sentence Rearrangement	1	Moderate
Connectors	4	Moderate
Idioms and Phrases	3	Moderate
Cloze Test	5	Moderate
Vocabulary Based (Identify correctly spelt word and mark its antonym)	5	Moderate-Difficult
Total	40	Moderate

REASONING AND COMPUTER APTITUDE (Difficult)

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles	30	Difficult
Coding Decoding	5	Difficult
Coded Blood Relation	3	Moderate
Input- Output	5	Moderate-Difficult
Logical ( Couse of Action, Statement and Assumption, Consequence)	3	Moderate-Difficult
Numerical Series	4	Easy-Moderate
Total	50	Difficult

GENERAL AWARENESS (Moderate)

This section had 50 questions and a time limit of 35 minutes. Overall the level of this section was Moderate. Most of the questions were from the current affairs of May, June and July. 8-10 questions related to Banking and Financial Awareness and 4-5 questions were asked from static general awareness portion.

SBI Clerk 2018 Cut-Offs

SBI Clerk Prelims 2018 Cut Off:

State Name	Cut Off
Uttar Pradesh	69.25
Chhattisgarh	67.25
Bihar	66.50
Assam	51.25
Maharashtra	57.00
Madhya Pradesh	66.25
Karnataka	63.00
Kerala	69.00
Odisha	62.75
Delhi	71.75
West Bengal	66.50
Rajasthan	69.00
Telangana	68.00
Punjab	71.50
Haryana	70.50
Gujarat	57.50
Andhra Pradesh	71
Tamil Nadu	60
Himachal Pradesh	68.75

SBI Clerk Mains 2018 Cut Off:

State	Cut-off
Uttar Pradesh	96.00
Haryana	99.00
Madhya Pradesh	92.60
Punjab	100.65
Rajasthan	96.75
Bihar	96.00
Gujarat	85.00
Chhattisgarh	91.50
Maharashtra	85.65
Jharkhand	86.00
Tamil Nadu	93.75
Karnataka	83.90
Himachal Pradesh	98.25
Delhi	104.80
West Bengal	95.30
Odisha	88.80