Detailed View of SBI PO 2015 - Expected Pattern

SBI PO examination is one of the most important examinations not only for the banking
aspirants, but for the civil services and UPSC aspirants as well. SBI has reported 2000 vacancies
this year and also brought some pattern change in the recruitment process by including
Preliminary Exam. With this change in the process many students sent their queries asking like
“Paper kaisa hoga”, “Kya kya aayega”, “Prelims ke liye kitna padhna padega”.
In this article, we will explain the syllabus in detail and we will try to forecast the way it is going
to be so that none of our regular student misses this wonderful opportunity. In this post of
Bankers Adda, you will find the whole syllabus with the number of questions expected in each
sections.

Let’s Begin

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
Now let‟s talk about the most important part of the whole recruitment process i.e. the Mains
examinations. This part will need more effort and time management skills. With the most of the
reported instances, we can say that if you mange to do it in time, then you will be having an
advantage over others. There is no hard and fast rule that you need to follow. I am showing you
an example to divide your time that most of our readers can follow or you can make your own
time division analysis :

This Division of time helped a lot of students to clear their examination and get through all the
recruitment processes of IBPS, RBI, NABARD, LIC, NIACL, NICL, GIC, etc. Now if you are
thinking about number of questions to be attempted in the examination, then let it be clear that
you need to attempt as many as possible and all the attempted questions should be correct and no
need to go for any ‘Tukka’ because that „Tukka‟ can make a difference between your marks and
cut-off marks.
Now coming to the bifurcation of the questions from the mains exam, we would be providing
you the detailed division that will definitely make your way towards clearing the exam.
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 Bankers Adda is 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 Bankers Adda. 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 coered in
this section.

a) Letter-Writing (Formal and Informal)

b) Essay
c) Precise Writing