SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis, Review & Expected Cut-off : 6th May 2017 (Shift 1) |

Dear All,

SBI PO 2017 Prelims exam started on last weekend and it will conclude on this week-end. Today (6th May 2017) is the third day of the exam (earlier exam has been conducted on 29th April & 30th April).

SBI PO Prelims 2017 Exam Analysis 29 April

SBI PO Prelims 2017 Exam Analysis and Review: 06th May 2017 Slot 1

Now, SBI PO Prelims 2017 exam’s Slot 1 of 06th May is over and what we can see the exam was same as last week i.e 29th and 30th April pattern remains the same. A lot of students appearing for their prelims exam today and this will bring them to a step closer in their journey of getting a becoming a Probationary Officer in State Bank of India, which is undisputedly the most sought after recruitment in Banking Sector. Without wasting any moment, let’s get straight to the analysis for which you are all waiting for. This SBI PO Prelims 2017 exam analysis can help you a lot if you are to appear in next shifts or slot. The level of the examination in this slot was Easy to Moderate and we feel cut off may be bit high.

SBI PO Exam Analysis 2017: Section-wise Analysis:

Subject	Good Attempt	Time
English Language	16-18	15
Reasoning Ability	19-22	20
Quantitative Aptitude	21-23	25
Total	58-61	60

Exam Analysis: Quantitative Aptitude (Easy-Moderate)

What an easy exam it was. If we talk in terms of the level of difficulty, then the paper was not at all difficult. Quant was of Easy to moderate level. The trick was to solve DI, Simplification, and Series first and then move on to the Misc. portion. Missing Number series was asked in this shift of SBI PO Pre exam. One can easily attempt questions if they have practised well. DI was asked of following types:

Line Graph

Tabular DI

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
(Missing )Series	5	Easy
Data Interpretation	10	Easy- Moderate
Inequality	5	Easy
Approximation	5	Easy
Miscellaneous (SI,CI, Speed &Time, Profit and Loss, Time and Work, Averages, Ages, Ratio etc.)	10	Easy – Moderate
Total	35

Number series Questions asked:

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Exam Analysis: English (Easy-Moderate)

English Section was a sight of relief in SBI PO Prelims 2017. Students were relieved to see that 10 Ka Dum continued in this exam as well. You just need to pick the right topic for yourself and you can easily score good marks. We are sure that students can score nice marks if they have even read the RC and they can easily score well in cloze test. Cloze test was with a little twist where they gave a word in front of the blank and asked if the given word is appropriate then select option (e) otherwise select the appropriate from the rest of 4 options. There was one new topic of Phrase Replacement which was not so difficult. There were 3-4 vocab questions in Reading Comprehension.

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension (Refugees of Lebanon and Syria)	10	Moderate
Close Test (Economics and Banking)	10	Easy- Moderate
Phrase Replacement	10	Moderate

Exam Analysis: Reasoning (Easy-Moderate)

Reasoning section was a big score maker for the students in this examination. It was of easy to moderate level. There were no questions of syllogism. We have seen variety in terms of questions asked. You need to invest a little bit of extra time on reasoning.

There were 4 puzzles and Seating Arrangement which are given below:-

Linear

Floor

Order & Ranking based (Date of Birth based) Puzzle

Comparison based Puzzle

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Inequalities	5	Easy
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	23	Easy- Moderate
Direction Sense	2	Easy
Blood Relation	2	Easy
Order and Ranking	2	Easy
Coding Decoding	1	Easy
Total	35