SBI Clerk Mains 2020: The 2021 mains exam of SBI Clerk is about to happen in the coming months. It’s better to have a look at last year’s paper for setting the preparation strategy in the right direction.
| S. No. | Section | No. of Question | Total Marks | Duration |
| 1. | General English | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| 2. | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 minutes |
| 3. | Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 minutes |
| 4. | General/Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 minutes |
| Total | 190 | 200 | 2 hours 40 minutes |
The table below mentions the difficulty level presented in the last year’s mains exam.
| Sections | Difficulty level |
| English Language | Moderate |
| Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | Moderate to Difficult |
| Quantitative Aptitude | Moderate |
| General Awareness | Moderate |
| Overall Difficulty level | Moderate |
| Sections | No. of Questions | Good Attempts |
| English Language | 40 | 25-27 |
| Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 50 | 30-32 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 30-36 |
| General Awareness | 50 | 30-35 |
| Total | 190 | 115-130 |
As per the reviews mentioned by the students who appeared at the first shift on the October 31 described quantitative section as lengthy and time consuming. The following topics were asked in the paper that day:
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Data Interpretation | 19 | Moderate |
| Data sufficiency | 6 | Moderate |
| Alphabetical series | 7 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Arithmetic) | 18 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Moderate |
The level was described to be moderate to difficult by the aspirants. The following types of questions or topics were asked for the reasoning ability section of SBI clerk mains 2020, 1st shift, October 31:
10 seats – 8 people inside and 2 vacant seats
7 boxes – colour
9 letters arrangement – West to East
30 stairs – 3 people standing and moving according to conditions
Not a single question was asked from computer aptitude section in the SBI clerk mains 2020, 1st shift, October 31.
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles | 25 | Difficult |
| Coded Inequality | 5 | Moderate |
| Direction sense | 5 | Moderate -Difficult |
| Machine Input- Output | 5 | Moderate |
| Logical (Course of Action, Statement, and Assumption, Consequence) | 6 | Moderate- Difficult |
| Alphabet based series | 1 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 3 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Moderate-Difficult |
As usual and expected, the English section was dominated by the reading comprehension questions. Other than passage-based questions, there were cloze test/fillers, inference-based questions, word arrangement, etc. Passage-based questions were all clubbed into many parts of reading comprehensions. The first passage was on ‘plastic waste’ and the second one was about ‘sleeping routine.’
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Reading Comprehension | 12 | Moderate |
| Vocabulary Based (Identify Synonym/Antonym) | 5 | Moderate |
| Error Detection | 5 | Moderate |
| Sentence & Phrase Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Idioms | 2 | Moderate |
| Fillers | 5 | Moderate |
| Cloze Test | 6 | Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate |
All the 50 questions were dominated by current affairs and banking awareness questions. Apparently, questions from static awareness weren’t asked.
List of all the 50 GA-based question asked in SBI clerk mains 2020, October 31, 1st shift
| Score out of 200 | – | ||||
| State/UT | Gen | OBC | EWS | SC | ST |
| West Bengal | 86.75 | 69.25 | 70.75 | 65.5 | 60 |
| Gujarat | 82.75 | 73 | 74.5 | 66 | 60 |
| Maharashtra | 84 | 77.5 | 76.5 | 75.5 | 60 |
| Telangana | 86.75 | 81.75 | 81.5 | 69.25 | 60.75 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 90.25 | 78 | 82.25 | 64.25 | 60 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 87.25 | 72 | – | – | – |
| Andhra Pradesh | 88.75 | 83.75 | – | – | – |
| Uttarakhand | 91 | – | – | – | – |
| Rajasthan | 90.25 | 82.75 | 80.75 | 66.5 | 60 |
| Tamil Nadu | 92.75 | 89.75 | 72.25 | 74.75 | 60.75 |
| Karnataka | 80.5 | 75.25 | 74.25 | 64.25 | 60 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 89.25 | – | 81.5 | – | – |
| Delhi | 98.75 | 83 | 87.5 | 73.5 | 62.25 |
| Chandigarh | 96.75 | 81.75 | 94.75 | 77.25 | – |
| Punjab | 96.25 | 78.75 | 88 | 69.25 | – |
| State Name | Cut-off (Out Of 200 For General) |
| Bihar | 96.00 |
| Chhattisgarh | 91.50 |
| Delhi | 104.80 |
| Gujarat | 85.00 |
| Haryana | 99.00 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 98.25 |
| Jharkhand | 86.00 |
| Karnataka | 83.90 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 92.60 |
| Maharashtra | 85.65 |
| Odisha | 88.80 |
| Punjab | 100.65 |
| Rajasthan | 96.75 |
| Tamil Nadu | 93.75 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 96.00 |
| West Bengal | 95.30 |
Sectional Cut Off is available for SBI Clerk 2018 followed by category wise cut off in the given table
| Sno | Subject | Total Marks | Cut Off |
| 1. | General/Financial Awareness | 50 | 22.5 |
| 2. | General English | 40 | 21.75 |
| 3. | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 30.25 |
| 4. | Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 60 | 19.5 |
| 5. | Total Marks | 200 | 93.75 |
| Category | Marks Obtained |
| SC | 67.25 |
| ST | 60.4 |
| OBC | 82.5 |
| GEN | 96 |
| LD (OH) | 75.2 |
| VI | 90.85 |
| HI | 63.3 |
| XS | 63.05 |
| DXS | 66.2 |
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