State Bank Of India has released SBI Clerk Syllabus with the 2022 official notification to recruits candidates for posts like SBI Clerk through their recruitment process.
The candidate who studies the syllabus for the SBI clerk exam can also prepare for other nationalized or private bank exams.
The SBI Clerk syllabus and examination patterns are similar to almost all other bank exams like IBPS, and it will be easy for the candidates to prepare and crack the exams.
Please find the expected exam date for SBI Clerk 2022 before going through the syllabus.
SBI Clerk Preliminary Exam Date | 12th, 19th, and 20th of November 2022 (expected ) |
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Date | December 2022/ January 2023 |
SBI Clerk Exam is difficult to qualify for.
This year SBI has released more than 5000 vacancies for the SBI clerical post. A candidate needs to prepare well the SBI clerk syllabus given by the officials to crack the examination as the competition is getting tougher every year.
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Duration | SBI Clerk Prelims: 60 minutes SBI Clerk Mains: 2 hours 40 minutes |
Marks | 1 Prelims:100 2: Mains:200 |
Nature and No of questions | Multiple choice for both preliminary and Mains exams.
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Negative marking? | Yes. 0.25 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer. |
Language and mode | English and Hindi Online exam for both SBI Clerk Prelims and SBI Clerk Mains. |
The SBI Clerk syllabus is really broad.
SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus have three main subjects – Reasoning Ability, Numerical Ability, and English Language and there are four subjects in the SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus- General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude, and General/Financial awareness. Read further to know more information about the SBI Clerk Syllabus 2022.
The SBI Clerk Syllabus for both prelims and Mains is almost the same with an addition of an extra section of General Awareness in the SBI Clerk Main Exam.
Read further to know more about the section-wise pattern and weightage for SBI Clerk Syllabus 2022 for prelims and Mains.
SBI Clerk Syllabus for Prelims is given below.
Subjects | Number of questions | Marks | Duration (in minutes ) | Sections |
SBI Clerk Syllabus English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 | Cloze Test Para Jumbles Fill in the blanks Error spotting Paragraph completion Idioms and phrases Word swap and rearrangement Odd one out |
Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 | 20 | Profit &Loss Work &Time Data interpretation Ratio & proportion Number systems Permutation &combination Sequences and series Probability Percentage Alligations &Mixtures Simple& compound interest |
Syllabus for Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 | Logical reasoning Alphanumeric series Ranking/direction/ alphabet test Data sufficiency Coded inequalities Seating arrangement Puzzle, tabulation, syllogism Coding decoding Blood relations |
SBI Clerk’s main syllabus covers Quantitative aptitude, General English, General/financial awareness, Reasoning Ability & Computer Awareness.
SBI Clerk Main Exam has objective questions for 200 marks and has sectional timings too. The difficulty of the exam is considered moderate to difficult.
SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus for Mains is tabulated below
Subject | Number of questions | Marks | Duration | Sections |
Quantitative Aptitude Syllabus | 50 | 50 | 45 minutes | Data interpretation Time &work Number series Simple Interest Partnership Ratio &proportion Pipe& Cistern Compound Interest Percentage Speed, distance, and time Up and downstream |
Reasoning Ability& Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 minutes | Statement and assumptions, syllogism, Internet Input-output Basics of computers like hardware, software, generations, abbreviations, networking, and so on. |
General English | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes | Reading comprehension Cloze test Fillers Phrase rearrangement Para jumbles Connectors Paragraph conclusion Vocabulary/word usage |
Financial /General Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 minutes | Current affairs (bank-related news, awards, honors, books, authors, new schemes and policies of central and state governments, sports, obituaries, and so on GK (capital, currency, headquarters, thermal and nuclear power stations, different dance forms, etc.) |
There will be a language proficiency test for the candidates who qualify for the SBI Clerk exam. The candidates who specified their local language in their 10th and 12th mark sheets do not have to attend any language test. Those who were found not proficient in the specified opted local language would be disqualified.
In addition to the SBI Clerk Syllabus, we also listed all the topics along with the weightage that will be asked in the SBI Clerk exam, so you need to prepare for the SBI Clerk Prelims and Mains Examinations.
Once you done with the SBI Clerk Syllabus, it important to know the weightage. Because you need to spend your valuable time on the topics which has more weightage.
So here we have given the topic wise weightage for both Prelims and Mains exams.
SBI Clerk Prelims Topic-wise weightage Reasoning Ability from 2019-2021 | |||
Topics | SBI Clerk topic-wise weightage 2021 | SBI Clerk topic-wise weightage 2020 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2019 |
Puzzle And Seating Arrangement | 12-23 | 15-20 | 15-23 |
Syllogism | 0-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 |
Inequality | 2-5 | 3-5 | – |
Coding Decoding | 0-5 | 0-5 | 0-5 |
Alphanumeric Series | 4-5 | 3-5 | 0-5 |
Direction | 2-3 | 3-5 | 0-3 |
Blood Relation | 0-2 | 0-3 | 2-4 |
Order & Ranking | – | 0-3 | – |
Miscellaneous | 1-3 | 2-5 | 0-5 |
As the SBI Clerk exam will happen in shifts, candidates cannot expect questions from all topics as mentioned in the SBI Clerk Syllabus. Attend the exam with good question selection skills to score more marks in the reasoning section.
SBI Clerk Prelims Topic-wise Weightage – Quantitative Aptitude from 2019-2021 | |||
Topics | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2021 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2020 | SBI Clerk topic-wise Weightage 2019 |
Data Interpretation | 5 | 5-6 | 0-5 |
Caselets | 0-5 | 0-5 | – |
Missing Number Series | 0-5 | 0-5 | – |
Wrong Number Series | 0-5 | 0-5 | 0-5 |
Arithmetic | 8-13 | 9-10 | 8-10 |
Simplification/Approximation | 10-13 | 10 | 10-12 |
Q1, Q2 | 2-4 | – | – |
Quadratic Equation | 0-2 | 0-5 | 0-5 |
Concentrate more on numbers, DI, Simplification, and quadratic equations. This will help you to score around 20 marks easily.
SBI Clerk Prelims Topic-wise Weightage – English Language from 2019-2021 | |||
Topics | Weightage 2021 | Weightage 2020 | Weightage 2019 |
Reading Comprehension | 7-8 | 9-10 | 8-10 |
Error Detection | 4-6 | 5 | 5-7 |
Misspelt | 0-6 | 2-5 | 0-5 |
Para Jumbles | 0-5 | – | – |
Fillers | 0-4 | 3-5 | 0-5 |
Sentence Improvement | 0-4 | 0-5 | 0-5 |
Word Swap/ Word Rearrangement | 0-5 | – | – |
Phrase Replacement | 2-6 | – | – |
Cloze Test | 5-8 | 5-6 | 0-5 |
Sentence Rearrangement | – | 0-5 | 0-5 |
Word Usage | 0-2 | 0-5 | – |
Concentrate on grammar and increase your vocabulary by reading.
The topic weighting for the reasoning ability and computer aptitude sections of the SBI Clerk mains is listed below.
SBI Clerk Topic wise Weightage for Mains (Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude) | ||
Topics | 2021 | 2020 |
Puzzles & Seating Arrangement | 17 | 25 |
Logical Reasoning | 10 | 6 |
Data Sufficiency | 0-3 | – |
Coded Direction | 4 | 5 |
Coded Inequality | 4 | 5 |
Syllogism | 4 | – |
Machine Input Output | 5 | 5 |
Blood Relation | 0-3 | – |
Miscellaneous | – | 0-4 |
SBI Clerk Topic wise Weightage for Mains (Quantitative Aptitude) | ||
Topics | 2021 | 2020 |
DI + Caselet | 20 | 19 |
Quantity Comparison | 5 | 5 |
Number Series | 0-2 | – |
Approximation | 3 | – |
Caselet | 8 | – |
Data Sufficiency | – | 0-6 |
Arithmetic | 12 | 18 |
SBI Clerk Topic wise Weightage for Mains (English Language) | ||
Topics | 2021 | 2020 |
Reading Comprehension | 14 | 12 |
Error Spotting + Sentence Rearrangement | 4 | 5 |
Misspelt | 5 | – |
Vocabulary (Identify Synonym/Antonym) | 3 | 5 |
Fillers | 4 | 5 |
Para Jumbles | 5 | – |
Idioms | – | 2 |
Phrase Replacement | 4 | 5 |
Cloze Test | – | 6 |
The SBI Clerk syllabus is vast and the aspirants have to study thoroughly to crack the test.
The first thing a candidate must do is properly analyze the SBI Clerk Syllabus 2022, understand which section has more weightage, and then plan the study accordingly. Make a thorough study of all the sections as per the syllabus 2022 and do a proper revision and take repetitive mock tests to crack the SBI Clerk exam
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