IBPS Clerk & SBI Clerk
Age Limit – 20 – 28 Years
Qualification Required – Any Graduate
Pattern of Exam- Objective (Negative Marking 0.25)
PRELIMS
Subject Number of Questions Marks Time
English 30 30 20 Minute
Maths 35 35 20 Minute
Reasoning 35 35 20 Minute
Total 100 100 60 Minute
Candidates successfully completing the phase-I will take phase-II.
MAINS
Subject Questions Marks Time
Reasoning & Computer 50 60 45 Minute
Quantitative Aptitude 50 50 45 Minute
English 40 40 35 Minute
General/Financial Awareness 50 50 35 Minute
Total 190 200 160 Minute
IBPS Clerk & SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus
Reasoning Numerical Ability English Language
Logical Reasoning Simplification Reading Comprehension
Alphanumeric Series Profit & Loss Cloze Test
Ranking/Direction/Alphabet Test Mixtures & Alligations Para jumbles
Data Sufficiency Simple Interest & Compound Interest & Surds & Indices Miscellaneous
Coded Inequalities Work & Time Fill in the blanks
Seating Arrangement Time & Distance Multiple Meaning /Error Spotting
Puzzle Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere Paragraph Completion
Tabulation Data Interpretation
Syllogism Ratio & Proportion, Percentage
Blood Relations Number Systems
Input Output Sequence & Series
Coding Decoding Permutation, Combination &Probability
IBPS Clerk & SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus
Quantitative
General English General/Financial Awareness Reasoning Ability Computer Awareness
Aptitude
1. Current Affairs
2. News on the banking
industry
3. Awards and honours
Reading comprehension 4. Books and authors Basics of Computer:
Simplification including Synonyms and 5. Latest appointments Internet Hardware, Software,
Antonyms 6. Obituaries Generation of Computers
7. New schemes of central and
state governments
8. Sports, etc.
Static GK
1. Country-capital
2. Country-currency
3. Headquarters of financial
Sentence rearrangement or organizations (of insurance
Number Series Machine Input/Output DBMS
Para jumbles companies)
4. Constituencies of ministers
5. Dance forms
6. Nuclear and thermal power
stations, etc.
Sentence Correction/ Error
Data Sufficiency Banking/Financial terms Syllogism Networking
Finding
Data Interpretation Spell Checks Static Awareness Blood Relation Internet
Quadratic Equation Fillers Direction Sense MS Office
Time & Distance,
Inequalities Input-Output Devices
Work
Partnership Puzzles
Profit & Loss Coding-Decoding
Banking and Financial Awareness
Simple and
Cloze Test Ranking
Compound Interest
Important Abbreviations
Mixture and
Allegations Statement and
Assumptions
Ratio & Proportion,
Averages,
Percentages
