SBI PO Syllabus, simple interest and compound interest

Posted by thetubeguru on February 14th, 2017

Firslty, the exam is mainly divided into two parts i.e. preliminary and mains. The difficulty level for both the exam is different. Mains is a little bit more tricky and reasonable as compared to Prelims. There are some special instructions given at the last, please read carefully. Each question carries one mark, hundred questions are going to be asked. So the maximum maks will be 100.
The Prelims exam is divided into three major categories :-
1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE (30 Questions)
2. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE(35 Questions)
3. REASONING ABILITY(35 Questions)

All the sections have a very easy(less time consuming), easy(moderate time consuming) and tough questions(high time consuming). Following is the SBI PO syllabus according to the sections and question distribution (denoted by Q) :-

• ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  • Very easy:- fill ups (0-5 Q)
  • Easy:- Reading compression(7-10 Q), para jumbles(0-5 Q), cloze test (5-10 Q), Error splitting (5-10 Q)
  • Tricky/Tough:- Word association pair (0-5 Q), spelling (0-3 Q), sentence correction (0-5 Q), paragraph correction(0-5Q), phrase idiom meaning (0-3 Q).
  
  
• QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
  • Very easy:- Simplification (5-10Q), number system(0-1Q), average(1-2 Q), percentage(1-2 Q), ratio and proportion(1-2 Q), interest compound and simple (1-2 Q) ,number series (0-5 Q).
  • Easy:- Coding-decoding(1-2 Q), profit and loss (1-2Q), speed distance and time (1-2 Q), algebra(0-6 Q), Mensuration(1-2 Q), data interpretation(5-10 Q).
  • Tough:- Time and work (1-2 Q), permutation and combination (0-1 Q), mixture problem(1-2 Q) , probability(0-1 Q), data sufficiency(0-5Q).
  
  
• REASONING ABILITY
  • Very easy:- inequalities(5 Q) , ordering and ranking(0-5 Q), direction and distance(2-5 Q).
  • Easy:- blood relations(2-3 Q) , Syllogism(0-5 Q).
  • Tough :- circular seating arrangement(5-7 Q), linear seating arrangement(5-11 Q), double line up(0-6 Q), scheduling(0-6 Q), grouping and selection(0-5Q), making judgements(0-5 Q)

The Mains exam is divided into six major categories :- 
1. REASONING
2. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
3. ENGLISH LANGUAGE
4. GENERAL AWARENESS
5. COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
6. MARKETING 
The syllabus for similar categories is the same but for the different categories is as follows:-

4. GENERAL AWARENESS
• news related to RBI, economic news,current affairs.

5. COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
• basics, short forms(like Jpeg,CD,DVD,pdf,mp3 etc.), andriod news and apple news.

6. MARKETING
• basic, market segmentation, Marketing manage, branding, advertisement, products life cycle, 4 P's and 4C's of marketing.

SIMPLE INTEREST AND COMPOUND INTEREST:-
In this segment 1-2 questons will be there.
The exam has some SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS as listed below :-
● This exam is a bilingual test i.e. (except for English) this test is available in two languages which are English and Hindi. ● there will be some negative marking and each wrong answer takes a quarter of the marks assigned to that question.
● Each section has it's own cut-off. Overall cut-off will be decided by SBI.