SBI PO 2016 EXAM PATTERN & TOPICS

1. Pattern of the Preliminary Exam :

a) Reasoning Ability

: 35 Questions

b) Quantitative Aptitude

: 35 Questions

c) English

: 30 Questions

a) Reasoning ability :
Reasoning has always been the difficult section in SBI exam. But Being the
preliminary exam, we can expect that the difficulty level of SBI exam will be
moderate and will include many important topics. We are providing the details in
the following table :

b) Quantitative Aptitude :
Quantitative aptitude used to be the toughest part because it included both time
taking and calculative part and most of the questions was from Data interpretation
and analysis. But in the preliminary section, we can hope questions from all the
topics as this time SBI has written it as Quantitative Aptitude. We can expect the
following topics that one can cover for Prelim exam.

c) English Language :
The syllabus for English section has always been same and is considered to be one
of the scoring sections. This time we can expect that English will be of moderate
level and everyone will be able to do it. The topicwise details are as follows :

2. Mains Examination
Mains Exam will include the following subjects and topics :

a) Reasoning (High Level)

b) Data Interpretation and Analysis
c) General Awareness, Marketing, Computers
d) English Language

This will be the real deal in the whole process and the topicwise details are as
follows :

a) Reasoning (High Level) :

This is one the important section where numbers can be scored easily and one can
devote a good amount of time to to score in this section. Speculations are clear
about this sections as it will be unchanged and will follow the old pattern and the
topics are mentioned below :

b) Data Interpretation and Analysis

This is the most hated part of the paper and most of the students are scared with
this part. They attempt this section to clear the individual cut-off. No one thinks of
getting more marks in this section because it can be dangerous to deal with, in the
paper. Following is the topicwise break up of this section :

c) General Awareness, Marketing, Computers

Now Coming to this part, we can only say that capsule provided by EXAM DOSTis
more than enough to score in this section. The capsule will be out before the exam
and till the time you can prepare from daily quizzes on EXAM DOST. This section is
the one that anyone can easily score and following are the detailed topicwise
bifurcation :

d) English Language
This section is moderate and if one can concentrate on certain topics, then marks
can be scored easily. However one should not go for guess work coz it is always
suicidal in nature. Following is the bifurcation of the topics covered in English
section :

3. Descriptive Test :
This part is the one that most of the readers are curious about and wanted to know
whether it will be typing or pen-paper test. It is clearly mentioned in the recruitment
notice that will be typing. So start practicing the typing on the keyboard so that you
can get well versed with. You can Practice typing by taking part in free typing test
available online. Following are topics covered in this section.
a) Letter-Writing (Formal and Informal)
b) Essay
c) Precise Writing