A complete syllabus and preparation are needed for good results, just like complete ingredients are required for a good dish. A bad preparation with an incomplete syllabus always leads to failure and a waste of time and energy. You need to have a good overview of the SBI Clerk exam to help yourself figure out how to properly start your preparation for the State Bank of India Clerk exam.
And, for that, you need to keep in mind all the little things that make a big difference in formulating a plan to beat the SBI Clerk exam.
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| Stages | 3 (Preliminary, Main, and Test of Opted Local Language) |
| Mode of Exam | Online |
| Level of Difficulty | Easy to moderate |
| Negative Marking | 0.25 marks |
| Time Duration | 1 hour for Prelims and 2 hours 40 minutes for Mains (Both separately timed) |
| Maximum Marks | 100 for Prelims and 200 for Mains |
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Given below are exam patterns of both Prelims and Mains exams. Pay heed to the distribution of marks amongst all the different sections of the exam to get a better idea about how much time you need to invest in each section of the exam:
| Sections | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 min. |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 min. |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 min. |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 1 Hour |
Note: As per the latest official SBI notification, you must take care of the following points before accelerating your preparation for the Prelims:
| Sections | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| General/ Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 min. |
| General English | 40 | 40 | 35 min. |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 min. |
| Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 min. |
| Total | 190 | 200 | 2 Hr. 40 min. |
Note: Each test will have separate timing as mentioned above. Candidates should retain about 8 copies of the same photo to be uploaded at the time of Application as these would be needed for further stages of this selection process.
As the notification for SBI Clerk 2022 is not released yet, the information about the prelims exam will be released along with the notification. SBI Clerk Syllabus for Prelims will have questions from aptitude in order to check a candidate’s knowledge and rationale.
The topics included are:
| Alphanumeric Series |
| Ranking/ Direction/ Alphabet Test |
| Data Sufficiency |
| Coded Inequalities |
| Seating Arrangement |
| Puzzle |
| Tabulation |
| Syllogism |
| Blood Relations |
| Input-Output |
| Coding-Decoding |
| Simplification |
| Profit & Loss |
| Mixtures & Alligations |
| Simple Interest & Compound Interest & Surds & Indices |
| Work & Time |
| Time & Distance |
| Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere |
| Data Interpretation |
| Ratio & Proportion |
| Number Systems |
| Sequence & Series |
| Percentage |
| Permutation Combination |
| Probability |
| Cloze Test |
| Para jumbles |
| Miscellaneous |
| Fill in the blanks |
| Multiple Meaning /Error Spotting |
| Paragraph Completion |
The SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus Topics are:
| Reading Comprehension |
| Fillers |
| New Pattern Cloze Test |
| Phrase Rearrangement |
| Old Sentence out cum Para Jumbles |
| Inference |
| Sentence Completion |
| Connectors |
| Paragraph Conclusion |
| Phrasal Verb Related Questions |
| Error Detection |
| Word Usage/Vocab Based Questions |
| Data Interpretation (Bar Graph, Line Chart, Tabular, Caselet, Radar/Web, Pie Chart |
| Inequalities (Quadratic Equations, Quantity 1, Quantity 2) |
| Number Series |
| Approximation & Simplification |
| Data Sufficiency |
| Miscellaneous Arithmetic Problems (HCF, LCM, Profit-Loss, SI & CI, Problem on Ages, Word & Time, Speed Distance & time, Probability, Mensuration, Permutation & Combination, Average, Ratio and Proportion, Partnership, Problems on Boats and Stream, Problems on Trains, Mixture and Allegation, Pipes and Cisterns) |
| Current Affairs: news on the banking industry, awards, and honours, books, and authors, latest appointments, obituaries, new schemes of central and state governments, sports, etc. |
| Static GK: country-capital, country-currency, headquarters of financial organizations (of insurance companies), constituencies of ministers, dance forms, nuclear and thermal power stations |
| Banking/Financial terms |
| Static Awareness |
| Banking and Financial Awareness |
| Internet |
| Machine Input/Output |
| Syllogism |
| Blood Relation |
| Direction Sense |
| Inequalities |
| Puzzles |
| Coding-Decoding |
| Ranking |
| Statement & Assumptions |
| Hardware |
| Software |
| Generation of Computers |
| DBMS |
| Networking |
| Internet |
| MS Office |
| Input-Output Devices |
| Important Abbreviations |
Preparing for SBI Clerk Exam without a good preparation plan is like planning to hinder one’s success. Lakhs of aspirants, including you, will be appearing in the Clerk exam this year. With such a high level of competition, only the best candidates will be able to beat the exam. If you want to be one of them you need to prepare well by following the latest SBI Clerk syllabus and exam pattern. Plus, you need to pay heed to some important tips and tricks that will surely accelerate your preparation.
Check out these top 5 major tips and tricks to crack the exam:
As said earlier, the first and foremost thing to beat the SBI Clerk exam is to analyze the exam pattern and marking scheme. You need to analyze every topic included in each section of the exam. Decide which topics or areas need more time to study and make a plan to invest proper time in each section. Don’t forget that certain topics are more important than others. Once you get a clear idea about the syllabus, you can smartly plan your SBI Clerk exam preparation accordingly.
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You need to create a realistic timetable as per the latest SBI Clerk Exam syllabus. Stick to that timetable. If you feel you’re weak in any subject or topic, spend more time on it. It always makes your preparation easy and increases your concentration levels.
All you need to do is understand all the theories and concepts to answer confidently in the SBI Clerk Exam. You can apply shortcuts and techniques to questions on Numerical Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, or Reasoning Ability to solve them quickly and easily. So, after understanding the concepts and getting to know all the related theories, you can quickly learn the shortcuts. For example, the knowledge of basic grammatical rules, structures, and other useful tricks can help you quickly answer the questions from the English Language section.
Regularly reading the newspapers and magazines can be rewarding in SBI Clerk Exam. You need to allot a two-hour daily time slot for this task in your timetable. Allotting two hours daily for reading newspapers will pay you heavily. Then, you should also maintain a notebook and note down all the new words to add to your vocabulary, for better reading comprehension. This will not just help to solve the English Language section, but also cater to the questions from the General Awareness and Computer Aptitude Section of the SBI Clerk Exam.
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To get good results in the SBI Clerk Exam, you need to practice to try to attempt more questions within a short time duration. This exam demands not just accuracy but also speed. You need to take care of your time management skills with accuracy to answer. A good balance between accuracy and time always results in gaining a high score. Hence, try to solve the practice questions in a time-bound manner.
Take full-length SBI Clerk mock tests and try to assess your performance after completing the whole SBI Clerk Exam syllabus. You need to identify your weak areas and try to improve.
Solve as many as previous year’s question papers as you to get an idea of the actual SBI Clerk exam.
Now that you’ve got the complete syllabus for the SBI Clerk 2022 exam, you must have got an idea of how to speed up your exam preparation. With all the general tricks, tips, and exam patterns mentioned above, you can now easily plan your daily study schedule more systematically. It will surely help you invest proper time and energy in different concepts and sections that are part of the exam.
Try to motivate yourself to study and start your preparation well in advance. It will save you from getting overwhelmed with the robust syllabus. And do not get demotivated if you procrastinate for a day or two. When you have a vast syllabus ahead of you, getting started may seem like a mammoth task. Break up your big study goals into many tiny ones and achieve all your big study goals.
Lastly, get into the right frame of mind before you start studying every day, and you will surely succeed. Nobody is asking you to follow a study system that you dislike, just think logically and creatively about what works best for you and approach the study material accordingly.
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