SBI Clerk 2024 Most Scoring Topics for Reasoning: The State Bank of India conducts the SBI Clerk exam every year to recruit candidates for the Clerk post in the SBI bank at several branches across India. The SBI Clerk exam consists of three sections English Language, Numerical Ability, and Reasoning. In this blog, we have provided the SBI Clerk 2024 most scoring topics for the reasoning section. It is considered that among all the sections, reasoning is one of the highest-scoring sections. The SBI presents a total of 35 questions and each question carries one mark. Candidates will get a total of 20 minutes to solve this section. Explore the fundamentals of the topics provided in this blog and also solve the sample questions that will help you in knowing the types of questions, level of the exam, and much more.
Below we have provided the SBI Clerk prelims topic-wise weightage for the reasoning section in a table format. It helps you to categorize the topics as more and less important by which you will be able to make your own study plan.
| SBI Clerk Prelims Topic-Wise Weightage for Reasoning Section | |||||
| Topics | SBI Clerk topic wise Weightage 2023 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2023 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2020 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2019 | SBI Clerk topic wise Weightage 2019 |
| Puzzle And Seating Arrangement | 15-23 | 13-21 | 12-23 | 15-20 | 15-23 |
| Syllogism | 2-5 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 |
| Inequality | 3-5 | 3-5 | 2-5 | 3-5 | – |
| Coding Decoding | 4-5 | 0-5 | 0-5 | 0-5 | 0-5 |
| Alphanumeric Series | 5 | 0-5 | 4-5 | 3-5 | 0-5 |
| Direction | 1-3 | 1-3 | 2-3 | 3-5 | 0-3 |
| Blood Relation | 2-4 | 3-4 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 2-4 |
| Order & Ranking | 2-3 | – | – | 0-3 | – |
| Alphabet Series / Number Sequence | 1-5 | – | – | – | – |
| Miscellaneous | 1-5 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 2-5 | 0-5 |
Read the basics about the highest-scoring topics provided below. Understanding the basic knowledge of the highest-scoring topic is very important.
Syllogism questions test your reasoning skills as you are supposed to come to a conclusion based on provided statements. Mostly, these questions include two or more statements whereby the first statement or statements are used to support the last statement. Based on the classification above, candidates are provided with the inference syllogisms which consist of direct conclusions. One can achieve mastery in this area, and analyze patterns in a number of problems which include: ‘all’, ‘some’, or ‘none’. Grouping of ideas can also be achieved using Venn diagrams hence helps in distilling correct inferences through diagrams.
Puzzle type and seating arrangement questions relate to situations where several subjects – be they people or objects – require proper distribution with reference to certain factors. Some of the most often used arrangements are linear, where the items are placed along a straight line, and circular where the items are placed around a circle (presenting their front or back). To solve these types of questions, candidates are advised to draw diagrams of arrangements and to use the clues systematically in order to satisfy all the conditions provided in the questions as one works through the problem.
Alphanumeric series questions are sequences that relate to both numbers and letters that want you to solve patterns or associations linked to them. Such sequences can be alphabetic only, numeric only or alphabetic numeric both. For answering these questions, candidates are required to concentrate on numerical increases and decreases, and the position’s values of the letters (A=1, B=2 etc). Solving several different alphanumeric series will improve your chances of understanding the different questions based on different patterns.
Blood relation questions check your ability of how much you understand family relationships and figure out the relationships from specific statements. Mateship usually consists of blood relatives, and a blend of those who have a familial bond with a dissimilar degree of closeness as well, such as girls and boys or, more distantly, parents and children. This helps to perceive relationships and is easy to understand in dense cases. To avoid recklessness and confusion in typing the symbols it is also appropriate to use letters representing the members of the family such as M for mother or F for father.
Inequality questions test how well you understand relative comparison, which is usually denoted by, <, >, ≤, and ≥. These problems may cause you to find how different values connect one to the other values. As it has been explained it must be important to start getting to know all those symbols so that one learns their meaning. Solve compound inequalities whereby there are many relationships at once and make a point of indicating these relationships clearly so as to avoid confusion.
Number puzzles require decoding of a message in number form and then re-coding it back into an alphabetical form. These questions can use different types of codes for example letter shifting where one replaces a letter with another certain position below or above in the alphabet, or symbol substitution. One can easily recognize patterns of construction of these codes if he/she has done a well practice and that will go a long way to improve the solving of questions of this type of questions.
Here we have provided the sample questions related to the SBI Clerk reasoning section. Candidates must solve these questions to know the types of questions asked in the exam.
Directions: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live on different floors of an 8-storey building. Four of them like different colors among Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink. Two persons live above C’s floors. Only one person lives below the one, who likes blue color. D lives on odd numbered floor below C’s floor but not on bottommost floor. Three persons live between D and the one, who likes pink color. G lives just above the one, who likes pink color. H lives just above A’s floor but not adjacent to D’s floor. Person, who likes Yellow color, is just below B’s floor. E does not like any color. A likes one of the colors.
Starting Point: Here, we can start with C and D in order to form two cases.
Clues:
1.) Two persons live above C’s floors.
2.) Only one person lives below the one, who likes blue color.
3.) D lives on odd numbered floor below C’s floor but not on bottommost floor.
Inference:
From (3), D lives on either 5th or 3rd floor.
| Case 1 | Case 2 | |||
| Floors | Persons | Colors | Persons | Colors |
| 8 | ||||
| 7 | ||||
| 6 | C | C | ||
| 5 | D | |||
| 4 | ||||
| 3 | D | |||
| 2 | Blue | Blue | ||
| 1 | ||||
Clues:
4.) Three persons live between D and the one, who likes pink color.
5.) G lives just above the one, who likes pink color.
6.) H lives just above A’s floor but not adjacent to D’s floor.
Inference:
So, G lives on either 2nd or 8th floor. Also, H lives on either 8th or 5th floor.
| Case 1 | Case 2 | |||
| Floors | Persons | Colors | Persons | Colors |
| 8 | H | G | ||
| 7 | A | Pink | ||
| 6 | C | C | ||
| 5 | D | H | ||
| 4 | A | |||
| 3 | D | |||
| 2 | G | Blue | Blue | |
| 1 | Pink | |||
Clues:
7.) Person, who likes Yellow color, is just below B’s floor.
8.) E does not like any color.
9.) A likes one of the colors.
Inference:
From (8), case 1 must be rejected. From (9), A likes Red color.
| Case 2 | ||
| Floors | Persons | Colors |
| 8 | G | |
| 7 | B | Pink |
| 6 | C | Yellow |
| 5 | H | |
| 4 | A | Red |
| 3 | D | |
| 2 | F | Blue |
| 1 | E | |
Question 1: Who likes Red color?
A) G
B) A
C) B
D) F
E) D
Question 2: How many persons live above A’s floor?
A) Five
B) Two
C) One
D) Three
E) Four
Directions: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
In a family of eight people, there are three generations and two couples. I is the brother of T, who is the grandchild of M. M is married to U. L is the father of T. U is the father-in-law of J. L is the brother of S and K. K is the aunt of T. Out of three children of M only L is married.
Clues:
1.) I is the brother of T, who is the grandchild of M.
2.) M is married to U.
3.) L is the father of T.
4.) U is the father-in-law of J.
Inference:
As, out of three children of M only L is married so, J must be married to L as U is the father of L and father-in-law of J.
According to the information the following figure can be formed:
Question 3: How is U related to T?
A) Grandfather
B) Grandmother
C) Father
D) Mother
E) None of the above
Question 4: How S related to J?
A) Sister-in-law
B) Brother
C) Mother
D) Brother-in-law
E) Either sister-in-law or brother-in-law
Question 5: In the question below there are three statements followed by two conclusions I and II. You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the three statements disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements:
All English is Subject.
Some English is Literature.
Only a few Literature is Language.
Conclusions:
I. All English can be Language.
II. Some Language is Subject.
A) Only conclusion II follows
B) Both conclusion I and conclusion II follow
C) Only conclusion I follows
D) Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
E) Either conclusion I or conclusion II follows.
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The most scoring topics for the reasoning section are syllogisms, coding-decoding, inequalities, direction sense, blood relation, alphanumeric, puzzle and seating arrangement, etc.
Yes, because SBI can present questions of different patterns from a particular topic.
Yes, candidates are advised to first learn the fundamentals and then start practicing the questions.
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