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SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis Trend
The State Bank of India (SBI) will conduct the SBI PO Prelims Exam from 1, 4 and 6 November 2023 so it is very important to have an insight into the topics asked by the SBI in past few years. SBI PO Prelims Exam Paper Trend will let you understand the changes in pattern and favourite questions of SBI which are asked regularly in consecutive years. In SBI PO Prelims Exam Paper Trend of Last 4 Years will let you understand every section i.e. Reasoning Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, and English Language.
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SBI PO Prelims Exam Paper Trend of Last 4 Years (2019-2022)
Through the SBI PO Prelims Exam Paper Trend of Last 4 Years i.e. 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 candidates can understand the structure of questions asked topic-wise in each section. They can start their preparation with these topics according to the regularity of the topics in consecutive years.
SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis Trend of Last 4 Years: Reasoning Ability
The reasoning ability section contains 35 questions with variations of topics. The most dominating topic of the Reasoning Ability section is Seating arrangement and puzzles as we can see that 20 or more than 20 questions have been asked in the last 4 years from the Puzzles and Seating Arrangement.
Reasoning Ability | ||||||
Name of the Topic | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 20 | 22 (Designation based Puzzle, Year Based Puzzle, Comparison Based Based Puzzle, Circular Arrangement, Classification Based Puzzle) | 24 (Uncertain Linear Arrangement, Square Seating Arrangement, Classification Puzzle, Month Based Puzzle, & Order-Sequence Based Puzzle) | 20 (Parallel Row, Box Based Puzzle, Floor Based Puzzle, Flat Based Puzzle) | ||
Syllogism | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
Blood Relation | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
Number based Coding | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Alphabet Based (to make a meaningful word) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Pair Formation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Coding-Decoding | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
Direction Sense | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||
Order Ranking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Data Sufficiency | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Word Based | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Inequalities | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Overall | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis Trend of Last 4 Years: Quantitative Aptitude
In the Quantitative Aptitude section, a minimum of 10 questions are asked from the Data Interpretation part, and other than DI, word problem or arithmetic questions have also been asked in every exam.
Quantitative Aptitude | ||||||
Name of the Topic | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||
Data Interpretation | 10 (Tabular, Line Graph DI) | 10 (Line Graph, Tabular DI) | 12 (Tabular, Tabular + PI) | 15 (Case let, Pie-Chart, Line Graph) | ||
Caselet DI | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
Quadratic Equation | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | ||
Approximation | 5 | 0 | 6 | 5 | ||
Arithmetic Questions | 12 | 10 | 11 | 10 | ||
Missing Number Series | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
Quantity Based (Q1-Q2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Overall | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
SBI PO Prelims Exam Analysis Trend of Last 4 Years: English Language
In the English Language section, Reading Comprehension always contains more than 8 marks. Sentence Rearrangement is the other favorite topic to ask in the SBI PO exam and the next thing we can observe is that the frequency of Sentence Rearrangement or Para Jumble has been constant in the last 4 years.
English Language | ||||||
Name of the Topic | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||
Reading Comprehension | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | ||
Phrase and Idioms Replacement
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4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
Error Detection | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | ||
Double Fillers | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Sentence Rearrangement/ Para Jumble | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
Word Swap | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Word Rearrangement | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | ||
Single Fillers | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||
Match the Column Based | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
Cloze Test | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Overall | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |