SBI PO 2016 Pattern and Syllabus

By Aruna - May 7, 2016

Dear Aspirants,
Here we are providing you the detailed syllabus & exam pattern for both preliminary and main
examination of SBI PO.Main Examination will have separate timing for every section and there will be no
change in the pattern of Prelims.

SBI PO 2016 Exam Syllabus

Phase I : The Preliminary Exam has 3 sections Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability and English.

Phase II : Objective Test & Descriptive Test

The Main Exam has 4 sections Data Analysis & Interpretation, Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude,
English and General Awareness about Economy/Banking. The Computer section which was asked
separately earlier is now been included with Reasoning Ability.

Descriptive Test:The Descriptive Test of 30 minutes duration with 25 marks will be a Test of English
Language (Letter Writing & Essay).

Quantitative Aptitude

The topics to be covered in this section are

Data Interpretation[ Bar Graph, Pie Chart, Table, Line Graph, Radar Chart, Mixed Graph]
Number Series
Data Sufficiency
Quadratic Equations
Probability, Permutation & Combination
Miscellaneous- Time and Work,Partnership,Profit and Loss,Mensuration,Time, Distance and
Speed Trains, Boats n Streams,Simple and Compound interest,Mixture and Alligation,Ratio
and Proportion, Percentages, Averages.
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude

The topics to be covered for Reasoning Ability are

Machine Input/Output
Syllogism
Blood Relation
Direction Sense
Inequalities
Puzzles Seating Arrangement(North South, Circular), Floor puzzle, etc.
Coding Decoding
Ranking
Statement and Assumptions/Conclusions
The topics to be covered for Computer are

Basics of computer, different generations, hardware/software, etc.

DBMS
Networking
Internet
MS Office and Shortcuts used in MS Office
Input/output Devices, their types
Important abbreviations
English

The topics to be covered in this section are

Reading comprehension including Synonyms and Antonyms

Sentence rearrangement or Para jumbles
Sentence Correction/ Error Finding
Spell Checks
Fillers
Cloze Test
General Awareness about Economy/Banking

The syllabus for this section is remains vast

The topics included are

Banking/Financial terms
Current Affairs covers every current news including related to banking industry, latest
appointments, obituaries, awards and honors, books and authors, new schemes of central and
state governments, sports, etc.
Static GK topics like headquarters of financial organizations (of insurance companies),
country-capital, country-currency, constituencies of ministers, dance forms, nuclear and
thermal power stations, etc.
We will provide you with our GK capsule before some days of exam which will cover almost all topics.

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Descriptive Test

It includes one Essay writing and One letter Writing.

Sample Questions: [From Previous Exams]

Letter:
Write a letter to the bank manager to share an innovative idea on File management system in banks
Write a letter to the newspaper editor on how to stop crime in city
Write a letter to your old teacher to thank him/her for making you a good human being

Essay:

Pros and cons of one rank one pension scheme

Over-dependence on monsoon for farmers
Ethical problems of e-commerce

SBI PO 2016 Phase I : Prelims Exam Pattern

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SBI PO 2016 Phase II : Main Exam Pattern

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Notification
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