- SBI Associate PO: Why share experience?
- Online MCQ paper: 200 marks
- Descriptive paper: 50 marks
- Overall Attempt and wisdom
SBI Associate PO Experience Sharing?
- but Problem with these online bank exams= Authorities don’t share the question papers under Right to information act (RTI)
- So, it becomes difficult for the next years’ aspirants to gauge the trend-difficulty level.
Therefore, recently I’ve taken the initiative to get question list from readers.
- RBI Assistant 2014 exam: Question list is now compiled in the article itself. click me
- RBI Grade “B” Prelims: comments from page2 onwards.
- IBPS PO 2014 Prelims: comments from page1 onwards.
One of my team mate Ankiit Srivastava is tasked with preparing list of topic wise questionlist for all of above exam. RBI assistant page already finished. Same will be done with remaining RBI, IBPS and SBI exams. Therefore, I request the players: share their experience in comments below, preferably in following format:
Online MCQ paper: 200 marks
- General Awareness
- Subpart Marketing- nature and no. of questions.
- Subpart Computer- nature and no. of questions e.g. security, OS, DBMS, networking etc.
- What was the span of current affairs (3 months, 6 months, 8 months..)
- How much was current affairs vs static theory?
- How much portion from banking and economy questions? Example questions?
- Within banking segment- how much current vs static theory?
- Did they ask anything from economic survey / budget 2014?
- How much focus on [PIN] persons in news, books, authors, awards etc.? Example questions?
- Overall nature- how many trivial GK type (e.g. how many crores allotted in xyz scheme- this type of questions asked in RBI assistant. so did SBI follow that trend?)
- Overall difficulty level and how many questions did you attempt in this section correctly?
- Reasoning (High-level)
- Variety of questions- sitting arrangement/ syllogism / input-out etc?
- Did they ask non-verbal reasoning? (Image based questions) if yes what variety? (Paper folding / mirror images / dice color etc.)
- Overall Difficulty level and how many questions did you attempt in this section correctly?
- Data interpretation
- How many DI sets given? Avg. no of questions per set?
- Difficultly level of DI sets- (A) easy questions but lengthy calculation (B) difficult questions but easy calculation (C) both questions and calculations were difficult.
- Did they ask any basic maths qs. like interest rate, profit-loss, time work etc. or was it entirely based on Data interpretation sets?
- Did they ask permutation combination probability and Venn diagrams?
- Overall Difficulty level and how many questions did you attempt in this section correctly?
- English language
- How many Qs from comprehension? Their length and difficultly level compared to SBI PO / CAT / CSAT/ RBI Officer?
- Did they ask separate questions on vocabulary, phrases, synonym-antonym etc? (or was it part of the comprehension passage e.g. what is the meaning of underlined word in passage)?
- Did they ask sentence arrangement sets like CDS and CAT exam?
- Did they ask sentence correction, if yes how difficult?
- How many grammar questions (active-passive, direct-indirect, do as directed.)
- Overall, Difficulty level and how many questions did you attempt in this section correctly?
Descriptive paper (50 marks)
- Essay: List of topics given, which topic did you select? What was the word limit and marks?
- Comprehension: how long was the passage? many questions and marks? Difficulty level?
- Précis: did they give separate passage for précis? or were you asked to shorten the same passage from comprehension? and how many marks and difficulty?
- Letter writing / report writing: topics and marks.
Overall
- Overall, how many question did you attempt (out of 200 marks)
- If you had appeared in previous SBI associate PO, what’s your observation about length-difficultly level of this year, compared to last year?
- Any other Wisdom and tips for future aspirants.
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paper1
DIFFICULTY
1.Aptitude: Moderate = one could hit > 25 que
2.Reasoning : Moderate =one could hit >25 que
3.English: Moderate + one could hit > 25 que
4. GA : TOUGH = Good knowledge of monetary and macro required; high class MBA type questions; very few current topics; poor computers = one could hit =35 or more
overall cutoff expectations 100 to 110 for open
paper 2: as usual, simple financial kowledge will help in writing.
ESSAY @ EVENING SESSION
1.Merits and Limitesion of Individual Self Attesttesion declered By govt
Can u plz tell some topics which came in GS section??
hey thnx 4 sharing ue experience….
plzz yeh batao ki GK section me current, comp and marketing se approx. kitne ques the….thnx
Lets start with GK
Most of the questions on banking and economics but i remember a few
Full Form of MMID
What will RBI do if it wants to control inflation (will reduce repo rate, increase repo rate etc. were the options)
A child below 10 yrs who has an account can’t be issued what? (Debit card , credit card , cheques etc.)
What is basis of interest given by scheduled banks(don’t remember exactly :)
A question on Monetary policy
A ques. on Microeconomics ( 4 to 5 ques on microeconomics)
What is NBFC supposed to do.
few questions on Marketing like what is the correct pattern in ( a particular term of marketing was there :( ) and the options were Planning-Implementation – control ( this term was zumbbled in two other options)
CPU speed is measured in Ghz
few question on protocol which were like asked in bank exams held in june to oct.( they looked very similar)
Arundhati Roy author of which book(god of small things)
Who won Nobel peace prize for 2014( Styarthi g was not in the options so i ticked other than these)
GK Paper meri pahunch se bahar tha toh bus yahi yaad raha gk ka
Now English
Two reading comprehesions ( i didn’t attempt)
some question on Find the grammatical errors(easy)
5 to 6 questions on Find out the bold phrases whether they need correction or not ( not so easy)
Last 6 to 7 questions were on a cloze test which was a para on employees behaviour towards commitment to promotions( very boring para) and i was not able to find exact word which could suit that boring para
few questions on sentence arrangement( not an easy question but maine panga le liya)
Now Reasoning
A question on input output( very easy)
A question on circular sitting arrangement
A question on straight direction sitting arrangement . this question was like PQRSTUVW are living in a colony and flats are numbered from 1 to 8 . Ground floor is no. 1 and so on. This was question no. 46 and i doubt this question. All the conditions were justified except the last one . It was about S and V positions
few ques on syllogism, inequality, statements and conclusion(were easy) .
u were given few question statement and course of actions
a question was like cause and effect and what could be the reason behind govt’s such policy as stated in statement
Now DI
ques 1 was a pie chart which had moderate questions
A table was given showing total population , age group 0-6 , Literate persons of few cities. and we had ques like find out 18% of illiterate persons of x city (illiterate persons were also some percent of something a condition was given there)
then a bar graph showing production of A,B,C companies and good ques were there
then a line graph was there and questions were there like find out the difference between collective production of A and B in 2004 and collective production of B and C in 2006
questions on DI were like find out the percent increase in the production in year 2005 to year 2010
pie chart question was like : 2 pie charts were there which showed female workers working in departments A to E and other pie chart showed male workers in same manner . Simple questions were there. one should focus on speed otherwise questions were OK.
in the end 3 questions on probability which was u have 4 green, 4 red and 6 yellow balls. 3 balls are drawn at random , what is the prob. that it is not a yellow ball.
and yes , few question 41 to 47 were on sets. i think a paragraph was given and we had to find out the answers using Sets union, intersection or we can say Venn diag
A data was given in tabular form showing votes and valid votes. one had to answer those invalid votes( few questions were there)
Finding out odd numbers were also which i could not do.
Now come to descriptive paper
we were given 10 minutes rest.
then 5 questions came on screen
first- write a letter – 3 choices were given
1- as a manager of bank write a letter to ur client who has already taken some loan from ur bank, politely say no to another bank loan demanded by ur client .
2- write a letter to ur parents asking for money for the tour to delhi,chd,manali :)
3-i don’t remember
para writing- 3 choices
importance of setting personal goals
my first day on new job
third one I forgot.
then an unseen passage on comany’s income statement, balance sheet, price earning ratio etc and 5 questions were there which we had to write on paper( i was very dukhi when i had to copy questions from the screeen onto the paper as we were asked to do so)
a precis on a paragraph which was describing university and students. ugc and state govt do not encourage student participation in administrative and academics affair. they should focus on democratic platform. students opinions turn in to controversy and demands into protest. politics also added to sorry state of affairs and
last question i didn’t even visited becoz time our :D
and most important when u start writing ur answer in sheet then first click on computer save and next becoz if u donot then even if u wrote the answer they won’t count it
just as i did .. i wrote the whole precis but forgot to click on ‘Save & Next’ ( hmmmm…..mai toh gayeeee)
hey alka what u r talking about. i hav enquired that if any body fail to hit “save answer” then it no matter.
when i ended the exam there were only 3 questions in ‘Answered’ column but i had done 4 questions so it is confirmed they will evaluate only 3… :(
Same happened with me
Did 5 ques but marked only 4 in descriptive
me too forget to click on ,’save answer’……minami :(
Thank you very much.
I have confirmed with IBPS there is no problem for this all answers will be evaluated if you got shortlisted
Thanks a lot…
Thank you Alka for the detailed analysis and question list.
ur welcome sir
THANKS ALKA REALLY HELPFULL !!!!
Thanks Alka for sharing your experience.. :) and All the best for future :)
HI Alka,
thank u so much for your valuable review. it will surely help …
ur welcome supriya
Ek dum HALWA paper aa rha h….kha jao…..
Saare hi sections bahut aasan aaye h….
Tera dimaag khraab hai kya be..
itna aasan bhi nahi tha samze naa…
rrb wala halwa thodi h.
Guys how many question did you attempt
I did 129
But issue is with descriptive, many students forgot to mark answer in system, dnt know how they will evaluate
What is C in CAR ,ECB,PMJDY overdraft after how many months ,1 rupee note issued by whom, country and capital identify wrong pair ,marketing
questions were tricky di easy calculation, 5 series questions , one paragraph giving info .reasoning simple data sufficiency qur on boat and streams
alka
i did’nt get u
descriptive ka computer me type karna tha kya????
No, friend we got seperate answer sheet for descritive.
objective paper was for 2 hrs.
after that 10 min. break and answer sheets for descriptive paper were distributed during this break
and then 1 hr. descritive paper was there.
YEs People are saying Descriptive ka screen pe save karna tha .. I too didn’t notice dat:(
descriptive ka hume likhna toh sheet me hi tha but questions screen pardiye they jo hume sheet me bi copy karne they aur screen par bhi tick karne they jo jo humne sheet me attempt kiye the,,,
jaise agar humne question 1 i.e. letter writing attempt kar dia toh hume screen par ques. no. 1 par click karna hoga i.e. ‘Save & Next’ button par and fir hume 2nd question milega. agar save & next par click nahi kara toh chahe aapne sheeet me likha bhi ho tab bhi wo question count nahi hoga…
agar aapne pehle kabhi online exam diya hai toh ab toh baat samajh aa jani chahiye. :)
haanji alka
ab samjh gya
Hey Alka ji i have one query we have to copy the question from the system is it mandatory?. or we can simply write the answers after writing the subsequent ques no. and save and next the same please
Thanks Alka for sharing this . I have this exam on coming Saturday. Hope it will serve many aspirant s like me as BE ‘CAREFUL’.
But as far online banking exams (PO) are concerned, this seems to be new for descriptive paper. Generally, we get printed sheets (with questions) including blanks (for answers). I guess, the institution is saving the cost of printing. Lol
Regards
Sushil
so all the best for Saturday Saturday!!!
Attempted 103 question with 15 in quant . Will that b sufficient . Could someone guide me how many question to attempt in various section .
Is the descriptive english just for qualifying
thanks in advance
descriptive paper will be evaluated only if you cross the cut off in objective paper
I Dont Mean to discourage You.But the chances are very minimal.But you are definitely not out of the race.Considering the exam was Bit easier as compared to Sbi po 2014,the cut-offs would move higher than that for SBI(SBI cut-offs are not given yet).But definitely will be lower than that for sbi po 2013.Let everyone complete the exam.We will have a clearer picture.Also we still have to consider the normalisation process for the scoring.
PS: How much are you expecting?
alka tumhe itna sab yaad kese ???
yaad toh rehna hi tha…itni tension hai bank exams ki :)
mrunal sir Data Interpretation mein bhi DATA SUFFCIENCY ke question puche jaane lage hai…….. probability ke kuch question the…… DI ke the …………..piew chart, line chart, bar chart, series ke the……
Reasonning mein as usual… Input – Output wale… syllogism….. circular sitting arrangement……. parallel rows wale…… SIR RS AGGARWAL mein SEATING arrangement wale question bahut purane ho gye hain SBI wale bahut chaalaak ho gye roj new new seaing arrangement ke question dete hain jo kisi buk mein dhekne ko nhi milte………. bahut hi time consuming question………
is baar DEscripvtive paper ke questino bhi paper na hoker…… Computer SCreens per dhikaye gaye… this was new method evolved by SBI
GK was easy………….
English………was moderate…….
@homie
I attempted 132 questions….however i could attempt more….but thats all i attempted
@Nobita
could u give me the break up of attempts
English- 42
General Awareness – 40
DI – 18
Reasoning- 32
Hi,
I have attempted 111. English 31, data interpretation 23, reasoning 27 And general awareness 30. I have attempted all 5 questions of descriptive paper. What are my chances of clearing??
Please Please, somebody let me know.
Kailash satyarthi related which campaign ppf limit, ecb , Jan dhan yojna, water resources minister,
Q. How much gold RBI has in its reserve?
Q. What does IRDA do?
Q. What is aggregate demand.
ENGLISH :
1. Two to three passages followed by 5-6 questions .A passage related to banking reforms in spain etc. ,general passage about mobile technology/smart phones.
passages included following words of which the same or opposite meaning were to be given:
Nascent,touted,lament were some of them
2.sentence correction :5-6 questions.
3.then six sentences (ABCDEF) were given and 5 questions followed regarding that. Which will be the first,sec……,last sentence from ABCDEF.
4. 15 questions were fill in the blanks type in complex sentence form or paragraph.
GK:
1. Questions required core marketing terms.
2. some gk questions were :
oldest currency in world?
C in CAR?
B in ECB?
PMJDY -overdraft facility?
wrong match of country and capital?
dubai-oman
spain-madrid
portugal -lisbon
ACC. TO coinage act 2011 one rupee currecy notes issued by?
Commercial paper issued in 1990 is for which market operations? (short term money market)
what is the total amount of good and services produced in country?
inflation?
Aggregate supply?demand? questions
In CA , output device ,
microsoft word extension,?
what is required to type an internet address?(http)
OVERALL ca and GK were easy and could be comfortably handled?
IN DI, questions were easy but calculations were consuming lot of time .
DESCRIPTIVE:
1.Letter:
Write a letter to bank manager ie your debit card has been locked….and u need to do urgent transactions?
or
letter to store forfurniture at ur bank?
or
to editor regarding absence of safeguards in waterparks and entertainment hub in case of accidents?
2. Paragraph:
All that gllitters is not gold
or
an entice of free subsidies to populace?
or
demerits of nuclear family?
3.Comprehension (easy)
4.precis
5.ESSAY:
MERITS and demerits of self attestation approved by govt?
or
WAYS by which banks coud implement CSR?
OR
Cant remember!!
My attempt:1st
English=49
GK=44
DI=28
REASONING =21(blunder
TOTAL=142(had very little time left for last section!…….need to balance section time of DI and REASONING keeping in mind sectional cut offs)
BEST OF LUCK TO ALL!!!
bhai thnx 4 sharing ue experience….
plzz yeh batao ki GK section me current, comp and marketing se approx. kitne ques the….thnx
please try to update the full gk questions .. onyone.. thanks in advance….
Hi friends…Can anybody please tell was there any questions on work & wages, work & time, speed dist & time, boat/train and any other basic que on average, interest or
only DI and probability was asked
and if u can remember can u pls tell approx how many questions were asked on pie chart, table, bar & line graph
thanks in adv
Hi,
The paper was quite easy from the SBI PO paper and straight forward.
Starting with the GK Comp, and marketing questions moat of the were from static part and one could easily solve through option elimination. There were questions based on facts and figures. Very recent events mostly 2 were asked noble prize and water resource minister.
Then coming to English there were 2 passages 1st was quite lenghty and tiresome to read it. there were 10 with it. the second passage was lengthy but not as 1st one but left it out and solve only similar and opposite meaning questions.
Reasoning were quite easy and straightforward with a little practice one can easily solve it. seating arrangement, statemnt-conclusions, statmnt-assumption, statmnt-inference inequalities and family tree.
Data analysis was easy and straightforward u could solve some questions with a quick glance not much calculations.
then the written exam was the worst the questions were asked in the computer and we had to write answers in sheets but we also had to write questions. once u submt the objective paper dont be in hurry clicking next as you may inadvertently start the written exam with a timer. be care ful.
overall the paper was easier than expected from the standard of SBI
yes i agree overall paper was easy, and gk questions could be solved if I had given a little more effort….
evening shift GK question
What does B stands for in ECB ? – Borrowings
What is the full form of RRB ? – Regional rural Bank
What is the upper limit of PPF ? – 1.5 lakh
What is the oldest currency in the world? – Pound sterling
Which among the following is not an output device ? – Scanner
Who is the author of the book Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar ? – Dilip D’ Souza
What will Inflation result in ? –
Which among the following is a volatile memory ? – RAM
Question based on the definition of GNP (Gross National Product)
What is an windows explorer ? Browser
What is the extension used for MS word ? – .doc,.docx
What is the first step of buying ? – need recognition
In which of the following areas there is no 100% FDI in railways ? –
who is water resource minister ? – Uma Bharti
the 5000 ₹ overdraft in Jan dhan will be applicable only if the account is active for how many months.
The slogan ” I have a dream” is given by which American activist in his public speech ? – Martin Luthor King
which PSU is responsible for insurance over export? – Export Credit Insurance
Which is an insurance regulatory body- IRDA
Reasoning section
input output shifting problem
5 question on syllogism
puzzle question
sitting around a circle looking toward the centre and opposite
data inference
Aptitude
pie chart
bar graph
probablity question on selecting 2 balls from three types of ball
data sufficiency
english was easy to moderate.30-35 good attempt
and in the descriptive paper please mark the question which are done in the answer book
u have to write all the questions in answer book provided will consume time
Windows explorer is a folder management application. The browser you are talking about is internet explorer, I guess.
Gr8 review… Its really helpful.. Thanx a lot Alka.:-)
:)
noble prize winner satyarthi role-child labour
which labour law and social welfare scheme encacted by govt in 2005- MNREGA
questions related to treasory paper
one quetion related to dance of state which is wrongly match
exam was easy.
I could able to attempt 150 questions.
Wow…even I attempted 111….
But I know
mrunal sir…….. a websire gr8ambitionz.com has uploaded SBI PO 2014 question in pdf format which was held in june in ONLINE mode….so …… after sometimes… it will also do the same for this paper also………no need to wrry for online exam question………if anyone is not in HURRY…….
Please…………koi g.k. ke question detail me batao…….if he remembered apki ati kripa hogi…….apka mrunal.org classmate
Ipv6
Mmid
Host computer
Processor speed – gigahertz
Pdf full form
Nps full form
Cooperative bank and rrb regulator – nabard
Gk main to sab economic bhara pada Hua hai usika khyal rakho .or microeconomics pe to sabase jyada dyan do …kyu Ki Isi ke upar hai sab…..
hi mayur…
what type of ques are asked in micro-economics or macro-economics ???? Please give 1-2 example
iske koi notes hai kya ?????
paper was easy as compared to SBI PO 2014 especially DI my attempt in DI 34 and total attempt 148 approx with 95% accuracy,hope 4 the best…
I attempted 135 questions. 40 in GK, 19 DI, 45 Eng, 31 Logic.
GK was easy. Abbreivations like ECB, CAR, etc, Union ministers, Author of a book, One on PMJDY etc.
Paper is easy. DI is all expected. I unnecessarily felt tensed and wasted 8 mins on seating arrangement. Few face centre and few face away from the centre. Advise you if to attempt other questions first in LR and then at last if time is available, go for it. Rest seating arrangements are easy.
Descriptive- lot of scope for general questions.
The parallel seating arrangement …was that easy ? Should we attempt or not ?
I attained SBI PO NOV 2014 on-line test
This time I feel
ENGLISH
this part wast easy compared to others
GA
Banking related questions was more based on RBI and bank polices
DATA ANALYSIS
very less analytical, reasoning question based on the conclusion and data addictive to solve given problem more then 30 questions,
REASONING
seating arrangements 15 questions with tricky and twisty varieties.
I did expected length and tough questionnaire, but this time its a whole new level.
please let me know I am not only one feeling this way ?
I was unaware to mark answers in descriptive…bt did all 5 v welll….. I dnt how they ll evaluate…my 1st paper was good…can any1 tell how they take my 2nd paper?
Same here bro:(
GK questions _Sunday ( 9/11 ) Afternoon batch
RRB full form.
Reason of vijay mallaya as a defaulter
Oldest currency
What did styarathi do.?
Who wrote the book Final test -exit.
OD eligibility for jan dhan yojna .
ISDN full form.
Which of these is not a computer language.
extension of Microsoft word .
Which of them is not an output device.
Fiscal deficit difference
………………….yaad nai aarahe , em sorry in office , will update you guys later .!!