Changes Introduced In SBI Clerk Prelims Exam 2018 |

First two days of SBI Clerk Preliminary Examination 2018 are now over and the examination of some candidates is yet to be held on 30th of June. This time, SBI not only surprised all the banking aspirants by setting up a new trend of sectional timing but also, it was observed that the pattern of questions asked in all the shifts was not the same in the different shifts held throughout the day. The major changes seen in SBI Clerk Prelims Exams were observed in the number of questions and topics on which they were asked. Here is the detailed analysis of the changes observed in SBI Clerk Prelims Exam 2018.

Changes Observed In Numerical Ability Section:

Questions on mensuration were asked in the first shift whereas they were missing in rest of the three shifts.
Missing Number Series were asked in the first three shifts whereas in the fourth sift, no number series were asked.
Questions on approximation were asked in the last three shifts whereas they were missing in the last shift.
Different types of DI’s were asked in all the four shifts and a caselet too was asked in the fourth shift.
In the 3rd shift there were questions on data sufficiency and in the rest of the shifts, they were missing.

Shift-1	Shift-2	Shift-3	Shift-4
Topics	Topics	Topics	Topics
(Missing )Series	(Missing )Series	(Missing )Series	Simplification
Data Interpretation (Pie Chart)	Data Interpretation (Line Graph)	Data Interpretation (Tabular – Missing Values)	Data Interpretation (Caselet, Bar)
Quadratic Equations	Simplification	Simplification	Approximation
Simplification	Approximation	Approximation	Arithmetic Word Problems
Profit and Loss	Arithmetic Word Problem	Data Sufficiency
Mensuration		Arithmetic Word Problems
Arithmetic Word Problems

Changes Observed In English Section:

Phrase replacement based questions were asked in the first two shifts whereas tehy were missing in the last two shifts.
There were no questions on spellings in the first shift.
No error based questions were asked in the 2nd shift.

Shift-1	Shift-2	Shift-3	Shift-4
Topic	Topic	Topic	Topic
Reading Comprehension	Reading Comprehension	Reading Comprehension	Reading Comprehension
Sentence Rearrangement	Sentence Rearrangement	Sentence Rearrangement	Sentence Rearrangement
Phrase Replacement	Phrase Replacement	Spellings	Spellings
Error detection	Single Filler	Sentence Correction	Fillers
Fillers	Spellings	Fillers	Error Detection

Changes Observed In Reasoning Section:

Questions on coding-decoding were asked in the first two shifts whereas they were missing in the last two shifts.
Questions on order and ranking were only asked in last shift.
No questions on alphabets were there in the first shift while they were asked in rest of the three shifts.
Questions on inequalities were asked only in the last two shifts.

Shift-1	Shift-2	Shift-3	Shift-4
Topics	Topics	Topics	Topics
Alpha-numeric series	Alpha-numeric series	Alpha-numeric-symbol series	Alpha-numeric series & Numerical Series
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	Puzzles and Seating Arrangement
Direction Sense	Direction Sense	Direction Sense	Direction Sense
Blood Relation	Blood Relation	Blood Relation	Blood Relation
Data Sufficiency	Alphabet	Inequalities	Inequalities
Coding Decoding	Coding Decoding	Alphabets	Alphabets
Numerical Series	Numerical Series	Numerical Series	Order and Ranking