The SBI PO prelims has started on April 29, 2017 and candidates are busy sharing their exam paper reviews and feedback.Based on these inputs, we know, others will want to prepare for the upcoming shifts.Therefore, here is the detailed SBI PO prelims 2017 review using which all you can analyse your performance to calculate cutoffss.
For those, whose exams are scheduled for the next weekend, may make use of this review and practice accordingly with SBI PO mock tests and test series.
The SBI PO preliminary exam for 2313 vacancies is slated to happen on April 29, 30 and May 6, 7 in various shifts.
SBI PO Prelims 2017: Easy or Tough
Candidates must attend a total of 100 questions within 60 minutes and the exam paper consists of objective type questions in the following sections:
- English Language – 30 marks
- Reasoning Ability – 35 marks
- Quantitative Aptitude – 35 marks
Candidates should qualify in each of the three sections by securing the necessary cutoff marks, which will decided by the bank based on the overall performance of candidates.
Here is the review of April 29 exam paper, as shared by candidates who had actually appeared for the test.
English Language
Topic |
No of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Reading Comprehension |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
Cloze Test |
10 |
Moderate |
Phrase replacement |
10 |
Moderate |
Reasoning Ability
Topic |
No of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Missing Series |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Inequality |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Bar graph/ Table) |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
Approximation |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Miscellaneous |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
Quantitative Aptitude
Topic |
No of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Puzzles |
11 |
Easy-Moderate |
Seating Arrangement |
12 |
Easy-Moderate |
Inequalities |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Direction Sense, Blood Relations, Order & Ranking, Coding and Decoding |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
Overall, the SBI PO prelims 2017 exam held on April 29 & 30 was termed as quite easy as questions were mostly from expected topics only.
Infact, many candidates had attempted more than 50 questions with 99% accuracy.So we can assume the safe number of attempts for SBI PO prelims 2017 could range between 40 – 55.
Checkout SBI PO Prelims Expected Cutoffs and Safe Number of Attempts to Qualify
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