SBI Clerk July

Can you provide me syllabus and paper pattern for the post of Clerk in SBI or State Bank of India as I want to check it before applying for the post?

[Shaleen]

The syllabus and paper pattern for the post of Clerk in SBI or State Bank of India are as follows:

SBI Clerical Syllabus

Quantitative Aptitude:
 Number system
 Simplifications
 Roots & Averages
 Surds & Indices
 Percentages
 Profit&Loss
 Ratio& Proportion
 Partner ship
 Chain rule
 Time & work
 Pipes & Cisterns
 Time & Distances
 Problems on trains
 Boats & streams
 Allegation & mixtures
 Simple Interest
 Compound interest
 Stocks&Shares
 clocks&algorithms
 mensuration
 Volume& surface area
 permutations& combinations
 heights& distances


Data Integration:
 Line graphs
 bar graphs
 pie charts
 Tabulation

Reasoning Ability:

SBI Clerical Syllabus – Verbal reasoning
• Analogy
• Coding & decoding
• Blood relations
• Sitting arrangements
• Series completion
• syllogisms
• Decision making
• Statement reasoning


SBI Clerk Syllabus – Non verbal reasoning
• Analogy
• Series completion
• Classification


General English
• Vocabulary
• synonyms
• Antonyms
• Word formation
• Sentence completion


Comprehension
• Theme detection
• Deriving conclusions
• Passage completion
• Error detection
• Passage correction
• Sentence correction



SBI Clerical Syllabus – Spelling
• Grammar
• Idioms
• Phrases


General Awareness
• Knowledge of current events
• Sports , history, geography, culture,Indian constitutions
• News about technology and researches
• News on India and its neighbouring countries


Marketing Aptitude
• Economy, banking and finance


Computer Awareness:
• Computer hardware
• Operating System concepts
• Shortcut keys
• Ms word, excel
• Ms power point, access
• Internet & networks
• Basic security concepts
• Latest technologies

SBI Clerk Exam Pattern for Question Paper
• Questions will be objective type/multiple choices in nature.
• For each question, 4-5 options would be given, out of which one would be correct.
• Candidate has to mark the correct response to get the marks assigned for each question.
• There are 5 sections in the question paper – (i) General Awareness (ii) General English (iii) Quantitative Aptitude (iv) Reasoning Ability (v) Marketing Aptitude/Computer Knowledge.
• All the questions would be in Hindi and English except the English section.
• Each section would be of 40 marks.
• Total marks in the exam are 200.
• Total time given to the candidate to attempt the questions is 135 minutes.
• Candidate can surf between questions and sections as many times as he wants.
• For each wrong answer, ¼ marks will be deducted.
• For each correct answer, 1 mark will be given.