SBI PO Exam Analysis 2019 Prelims: 9th June Shift 1

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SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis 2019:

Today is the second day of SBI PO Prelims 2019. For day 1, aspirants appeared for the exam in great numbers and that too with great enthusiasm. It’s a dream job for most of the banking aspirants so we can expect a tough competition this year as well. This makes the analysis and review of the examination important so that students who have the exam in upcoming shifts get the gist of the pattern followed by the questions in Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language sections. SBI introduced the sectional timing of 20 minutes for each section last year and this pattern will be followed this year as well. We hope to deliver a helpful review and analysis like yesterday and ease of your preparation for today. Overall the level of today’s 1st shift was Easy.

SBI PO Exam Analysis 2019: Section-wise Analysis

Subject	Good Attempt	Time
English Language	23-26	20
Reasoning Ability	30-32	20
Quantitative Aptitude	18-22	20
Total	62-66	60

Quantitative Aptitude (Moderate)

The level of the Quantitative Aptitude section was moderate. One can easily attempt questions if they have practised well. There were 3 sets of DI in today’s 1st shift, following were the types of DI asked:

Pie Chart
Tabular DI
Caselet

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Data Interpretation	15	Moderate
Wrong No. Series	5	Moderate
Quadratic Equation	5	Easy
Miscellaneous Word Problems	10	Moderate
Total	35	Moderate

English Language (Easy)

The English section was of easy level. There were only 8 questions in the set of Reading Comprehension out of which 2 questions were of vocabulary. The topics asked in Day2 Shift 1 of SBI PO Prelims English section were similar to that of yesterday’s shifts. The topic of RC was on a passage based on the economy.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	08	Moderate
Error Detection	07	Easy
Sentence Rearrangement	05	Easy
Spelling Error Detection	05	Easy
Match the following based Sentence Formation	03	Easy
Word Fillers	02	Easy
Total	30	Easy

Reasoning (Easy-Moderate)

The level of reasoning was also easy to moderate. There were 4 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement:

Square Seating Arrangement, 8 persons (the person who was sitting in the middle was facing inside and the those sitting on the corners were facing outwards)
Linear Seating Arrangement, 2 variable- 5 people, 5 birds
Year-Age-based puzzle
Box-based puzzle

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	20	Moderate
Coding-Decoding	05	Easy
Inequality	05	Moderate
Number Based	01	Easy
Alphabet Based	01	Easy
Blood Relation	03	Easy
Total	35	Easy-Moderate