SBI Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2020
State Bank of India (SBI) conducts objective type exams every year for the recruitment of clerical cadre. SBI Clerk Mains exam shift-1 is Will be Over Soon. Students must be waiting for the analysis and review to prepare for the upcoming banking exams. DreamBigInstitution.com has covered every minute detail of the SBI Clerk mains exam 2020 (31 OCT ) to help the banking aspirants to make their careers.
We will provide you with the types of questions asked, level of difficulty, and if there was any change introduced in the exam. So students stay tuned on this page for the SBI Clerk mains 31 OCT 2020 exam analysis of both the shifts and check the section-wise details of it. Mail us the state for which you have appeared in this year’s SBI Exam and your good attempts to [email protected]
SBI Clerk Mains Shift Timings 2020
Mentioned below are the mains shift details and exam schedule:
| SBI Clerk Mains Shift 1 | SBI Clerk Mains Shift 2 |
| Reporting Time: 09:00 AM; Exam Time: 10:00 AM – 12:40 PM | Reporting Time: 02:00 PM; Exam Time: 03:00 PM – 05:40 PM |
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2020 Shift-1 (OVER-ALL):
Check the section-wise difficulty level of the SBI Clerk Mains 2020 31st October 01st shift in the below table:
| Sections | Difficulty level |
| English Language | Moderate |
| Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | Moderate to Difficult |
| Quantitative Aptitude | Moderate |
| General Awareness | Moderate |
| Overall Difficulty level | Moderate |
Let’s have a look at the types of questions asked, level of difficulty and changes seen in the exam.
| SECTIONS | GOOD ATTEMPTS |
| English Language | 22-27 |
| Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 26-30 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 28-32 |
| General/Financial Awareness | 30-35 |
| TOTAL | 106-124 |
SBI Clerk Mains Exam 2020: Subject Wise Analysis
Quantitative Aptitude (Moderate)
As per the review shared by the aspirants who appeared in the SBI Clerk Mains exam held today, i.e. on 31st October, the questions asked in the Quantitative Aptitude section was quite lengthy and time-consuming. Questions in this section were asked from Profit and loss, Time and work, Average, Boat and stream, Mixture and allegation, Mensuration, Probability, Percentage, Ratio and proportion, Simple interest and Compound Interest.
The following are the distribution of topics in SBI Clerk Mains 2020:
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Data Interpretation | 19 | Moderate |
| Data sufficiency | 6 | Moderate |
| Wrong number series | 7 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Arithmetic) | 18 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Moderate |
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude (Moderate to Difficulty)
This section had 50 questions and the level of reasoning was moderate to difficult level. Following were types of puzzles asked in reasoning section of SBI Clerk Mains Exam 2020:
- 10 Seats- 8 people inside and 2 Vacant seat
- 7 Box- colour
- 9 Letters Arrangement- West to East
- 30 Stairs- 3 people standing and moving according to conditions.
English Language (Moderate)
Like every year this year too in the SBI Clerk Mains Exam, the English section was comprised of many reading Comprehension. Different topics like word arrangement, cloze test/fillers, inference based questions, passage-based questions all are clubbed into various short passages of reading comprehensions.
2 Reasoning Comprehension was asked 1st on plastic waste & 2nd on a sleeping routine topic
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 12 | Moderate |
| Vocabulary Based (Identify Synonym/Antonym) | 5 | Moderate |
| Error Detection | 5 | Moderate |
| Sentence & Phrase Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Idioms | 2 | Moderate |
| Fillers | 5 | Moderate |
| Cloze Test | 6 | Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate |
General Awareness (Moderate)
This section had 50 questions and a time limit of 35 minutes. Overall the level of this section was Most of the questions were from the current affairs
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- ACE credit Card launched by bank?
- Atal Pension yojna works under which Department
- TRAI Chairman
- Serum Inst. of India Location
- Rajat bhatia associated with which sports?
- Ten Rules of Successful Nation Book authored by?
- RIL stakes in Jio Payment bank?
- Shagun Scheme launched by whom?
- Karmyogi schme for whom?
- S.Korea currency
- Governor, Duputy Gov of RBI
- Minimum Paid up capital for Umbrala entity
- 2nd April which day-
- India Ranking in Global Economic Freedom Index
- 8th October Indian Air force Anniversary
- Tasla Chairman
- Federal bank HQ
- Axis Bank Tie-up
- IPPB Established in which Year
- SBI Titan
- Prime Minister of Japan
- September Retain Inflation
- Home Utsav
- Charity day
- RRB- Centra Govt share?
- Instaclick Saving Account
- MUDRA is a subsidiary of?
- NSDC agreement with whom for Skill Training
- Third Reachest Person based on Huren India Rich List
- Shaurya KGC Card
- Insta Flexi Account
- White Label ATM
- Harley Davidson Plant
- UNDP HQ
- Fortune 500- only Indian Company in top 100
- Autism Awareness Day
- Fiscal Deficit Formula?
- Chambal Project
- 2+2 Dialogue
- JSE Energy Plant Set-up
- CBSE Related
- Parliament standing Committee
SBI Clerk Mains Shift 2nd Exam Analysis and Review
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2020 Shift-2 (OVER-ALL):
| SECTIONS | GOOD ATTEMPTS |
| English Language | 20-25 |
| Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 22-24 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 21-23 |
| General Awareness | 30-35 |
| TOTAL | 93-107 |
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
Difficulty Level: moderate-diffiicult
As per the aspirants who appeared for the SBI Clerk Mains this section was quite time consuming as well as lengthy and there were three sets of DI based on the following topics :
| 1. | Pie Chart+Tabulation |
| 2. | Bar graph |
| 3. | Tabular DI |
| 4. | Caselet |
Let us now discusss the types of questions that were asked in this section and along with their diffficulty level as per the aspirants who gave the SBI Clerk Mains Exam 2020 in Shift-2
| Questions | Number of questions | Difficulty level |
| Data Interpretation | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
| Data sufficiency | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Arithmetic) | 17 | Easy to Moderate |
| Caselet | 13 | Easy to Moderate |
| Quantity Based | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
| Bar Graph | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Easy to Moderate |
In the Miscellaneous (Arithmetic) type of questions there were some topics that were seen frequently, let us look at those topics:
- Profit and Loss-3
- Time and WOrk-1
- Probability
- Mensuration-2
- Approximation-5
- Percentage-2
English Language
Difficulty Level: moderate-diffiicult
Many asirants love this ssectionn becausee they sstetch the chance of scoring marks in this section. The English section was comprises of many reading Comprehensions. Different topics like word arrangement, cloze test/fillers, inference based questions, passage-based questions all are clubbed into various short passages of reading comprehensions which either can be a boon for the aspirants to score marks and if the aspirants havent practiced this section it might prove to be a bane for them.
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Reading Comprehension | 15-16 | moderate-diffiicult |
| Word Usage | 3 | moderate-diffiicult |
| Re-arrangement | 6 | moderate-diffiicult |
| Passage including 2 inference based question and 3 fillers | 2 | moderate-diffiicult |
| Passage with word replacement and inference based questions | 2 | moderate-diffiicult |
| Double Fillers | 6-7 | moderate-diffiicult |
| Phrase Replacement | 5 | moderate-diffiicult |
| Total | 40 | moderate-diffiicult |
REASONING AND COMPUTER APTITUDE
Difficulty Level: moderate-diffiicult
Logical Reasoning and Computer Aptitude is one of the most crucial scoring section and some aspirants find this to be a section where they can cover the chance that they missed in the other sections to score maximum. Following are the types of questions that were asked in the reasoning section:
| S.No | Types of questions | No. Of questions asked |
| 1. | Logical Reasoning | 5 |
| 2. | Puzzle | 30 |
| 3. | Data Sufficiency | 1-2 |
| 4. | Letter arrangement | 5 |
| 5. | Coded Blood Relation | 3 |
| 6. | Machine Input | 5 |
General/Financial Awareness
A total of 50 questions were asked. As per the aspirants who appeared for the exam today for SBI Clerk Mains 2020 this year’s general awareness section was of easy to moderate level. Let us see the questions that were asked in today’s exam:
- Dudhwa National Park
- Rani Laxmibai University location
- BASEL II guidelines
- C used in CFT
- Question on SEBI
- IPL Edition in South Africa
- AMRUT Yojna
- Rana Pratap Sagar Dam
- Tribal Day
- Second Cleanest City above 1 Lakh
- Noble prize in Physics
- Garb/Dandiya Dance
- Summer Olympic in 2024
- Budget Total Amount
- Capital of Brazil
- BOB MD & CEO
- Bharat Net Budgetary allocation or How many Grama Panchayat
- connected-1lkh grama Panchayat
- Stars yojna
- Fisharies Export
- Bhimrao Ambedkar Airport
- Davos in which country
- Make my Trip Chairman
- Rafel nadal first Granslam
- Milk Processing Target
- Private Terminal on which airport
- CRR Section
- CHUNAUTI launch
- EASE Project
- Book By Karan johar
- Positive Pay
- SARFAESI Act 2002
- P K Mohanthy
- RBI Surplus related
- Merger Related
- Boeing Apache
- H R Bhardwaj
- P2P Platform
- FEMA Act
- No. of Unemployment population
- Question on Chess
- 3rd Gulf coutry with Israel
- How many SBI Associates merged with SBI
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