Syndicate Bank PO 2017-18 (2nd Shift) Exam Analysis

There are 4 Sections in Syndicate Bank exam namely English, Reasoning, General Awareness and Quantitative Aptitude. Overall the examination was of easy-moderate level. 2nd shift exam was similar to 1st shift exam.

OVER-ALL ANALYSIS

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE (moderate)

The level of this section was quite moderate and quant was also very calculative. There were graph DI, Pie Chart, one Missing DI and one caselet. Even the questions from approximation were calculative.

The questions were:

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Number Series(missing)	5	easy-moderate
Approximation	5	Moderate
Data Interpretation	20	easy-Moderate
Data Sufficiency	5	Moderate
Miscellaneous(SI,CI, Speed &Time, Profit and Loss, Time and Work, Averages, Ages, Ratio etc.)	15	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Moderate-Difficult)

This section was overall moderate-difficult in comparison with other sections of this examination. There was one Reading Comprehension, a total of 10 questions from RC and it also had questions of vocabulary in it. 


The questions were:

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	10	Moderate
Close Test (old pattern)	10	Moderate
Para-Jumbled	5	Moderate
Sentence Error Detection	5	Moderate-Difficult
Fill in the Blanks (Double filler)	5	Moderate
Sentence Improvement	10	Moderate
Odd one out	5	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

REASONING ABILITY (Easy-Moderate)

Reasoning section was of easy to moderate level. There were 5 questions of syllogism. There were questions of circular seating arrangement and floor puzzle.

The questions were:

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Coding-Decoding	5	Easy
Syllogism	5	Easy-Moderate
Ranking & Direction	5	Easy
Blood Relation	2	Easy-moderate
Sitting Arrangement (Circular)	5	Moderate
Puzzles	5	Moderate
Machine Input Output	5	Moderate
Logical Reasoning	13	Moderate-Difficult
Data Sufficiency	5	Moderate-Difficult
Total	50	Easy- Moderate

GENERAL AWARENESS (Easy-Moderate)

G.A section was of Easy to moderate level and most of the questions were from banking and current affairs portion of January & February 2017. There were 5-6 questions from the budget.