Syllabus
Bank PO Prelims Syllabus has three sections:
- Quantitative Aptitude
- Reasoning Ability
- English Language
Please find section-wise topics from which the SBI will ask questions in the SBI PO Prelims Exam have been tabulated below:
State Bank of India (SBI) PO Recruitment 2023 (Prelims/Pre Exam) | ||
Quantitative Aptitude | Reasoning | English |
Simplification/ Approximation | Alphanumeric Series | Reading Comprehension |
Profit & Loss | Directions | Fill in the blanks |
Mixtures & Alligations | Logical Reasoning | Cloze Test |
Permutation, Combination & Probability | Data Sufficiency | Para jumbles |
Work & Time | Ranking & Order | Vocabulary |
Sequence & Series | Alphabet Test | Paragraph Completion |
Simple Interest & Compound Interest | Seating Arrangement | Multiple Meaning /Error Spotting |
Surds & Indices | Coded Inequalities | Sentence Completion |
Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere | Puzzle | Tenses Rules |
Time & Distance | Syllogism | |
Data Interpretation | Blood Relations | |
Ratio & Proportion | Coding-Decoding | |
Number Systems | Input-Output | |
Percentage | Tabulation |
Syllabus For Quantitative Aptitude Includes :
- Simplification and Approximation: BODMAS, Square & Cube, Square & cube root, Indices, fraction, percentage,etc.
- Number Series: Missing Number series, Wrong number series, etc.
- Inequality: Linear equation, Quadratic equation, Quantity comparison (I and II), etc.
- Arithmetic: Ratio and Proportion, Percentage, Number System, HCF and LCM, Average, Age, Partnership, Mixture and Alligation, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time and Work & wage, Pipe and Cistern, Profit and Loss &Discount, Speed Time Distance, Boat And stream, Train, Mensuration 2D and 3D, Probability, Permutation, and combination, etc.
- Data Interpretation (DI): Table DI, Missing Table DI, Pie chart DI (single and multiple pie chart), Line chart DI(Single and multiple line), Bar chart DI, Mixed DI, Caselet (Simple table-based caselet, Venn diagram based caselet, Arithmetic based caselet) etc.
- Data Sufficiency (DS): Two Statement Data Sufficiency
Syllabus For Reasoning Ability includes :
- Seating Arrangements – Circle/Square/Triangle/Linear/ Uncertain number of persons
- Puzzles - Category/Comparison/Designation/Box/Box/Day/Month/Year/Floor & Flat
- Inequalities – Direct and indirect
- Syllogism – Only a few
- Input-Output – Shifting and arranging based
- Data Sufficiency – 2 statements
- Blood Relations – Normal Blood Relation
- Coding Decoding – Chinese coding
- Order and Ranking
- Alpha/numeric/symbol Series
- Distance and Direction
- Miscellaneous – Odd one out, Word pair, Number pair, Number operation
Syllabus For English Language includes :
- Cloze Test
- Sentence Correction
- Para Jumbles
- Fill in the Blanks
- Reading Comprehension
- Spotting Errors
- Sentence Improvement
- Para/Sentence Completion
- Sentence Rearrangement
- Column Based, Spelling Errors
- Word Swap
- Word Rearrangement
- Sentence Based Errors
- Idioms & Phrases
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