Review of SBI PO Online Exam held on 22nd June 2014 - Morning Session

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Review shared by Kaivalya Kashyap

Friends, Today (22-06-2014) I had my exam in the morning session... And the exam was difficult as everyone said..

As I have read previous week's reviews and yesterday's ones, I could manage the time in section... I solved only 12 questions in DI in 55 minutes.. For me the General awareness section seemed to be difficult... There were more questions from Banking and Marketing, of which the latter was a bit difficult and questions from Computers were fewer today... The questions were very tricky and no straight questions.. Only one question was direct: Which was declared the Best Movie in the 64th National Awards.

DI was too calculative and very time consuming... Full of Pie charts, bar diagrams and all other stuff.. Reasoning was okay... To my surprise, there was no circular seating arrangement... Only one seating arrangement that too in a single straight row, some sitting facing north and some South... Syllogisms were easier.. 3 questions came from possibilities type.. English was also okay... Skipped the passages, so had enough time to do the remaining...

Descriptive was easy... Essay Topics: Effect of National Economy ion Common people; Friend's influence on us..; Letter Writing: Write a letter to the manager, asking to make your daughter as the nominee..

Over all the exam was Moderate - Difficult

Section wise analysis:

• DI - Moderate - Difficult
• Reasoning - Moderate
• English - Moderate
• General Awareness - Tricky & Difficult...

Review shared by Arti Khatri

Hello friends this is Arti from Jaipur...i want to share the review of today's paper.

GA quite easy I attempted 35 in 15 mins

English easy I attempted 32

Reasoning moderate I attempted 33 ques

DI toughest section actually not tough but too much calculation is involved I attempted only 11 with doubt in 1 ques...

Descriptive paper very easy

Questions of letter writing

1. Write a letter to your friend telling him about health hazards of junk food
2. Letter to branch manager to add your daughters name as second nominee in your savings account
3. I didn't remember this exactly..its a letter to editor about feathers of birds causing allergy

Paragraph

1. Influence of friends in life
2. Qualities of a good bank officer
3. Forgot the 3rd one

Essay

Effect of economy on a common man

this is all I remember...

Review shared by Santhosh Reddy

hi I am Santhosh Kumaar Reddy... I took my SBI PO exam today in the morning session... I'm very sorry to inform that the paper is very hard..

DI :  Very Hard

Reasoning : Hard

English : Moderate

GK : Moderate

Data Interpretation:

This section is very tough with full of calculations. Every question information say total income and ratio of men and women in it which takes a lot of time.

Reasoning:

This section normal level of syllogisms, cause effect problems but the Seating arrangement problems are very tough

English:

very lengthy passages, easy blanks and error corrections

Time taking parajumble

GK:

GK questions were moderate and computer as well as marketing questions were easy..

Descriptive paper was normal...

Letter to friend to advice him to avoid junk foods....

Essay on nations economy impact on common man

Passage on marketing

Precise on progress of marketing..

Review shared by Venu Latha

Hi friends, I am Venu from Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh). I've appeared today's SBI PO Online Exam. I'm a regular follower of gr8ambitionz.com. So I have been reading the reviews posted by our friends here. As a number of people have been saying that the Data Interpretation paper was very tough, I was mentally prepared for that. But, to my surprise, today's General Awareness and English sections were also tough. In general awareness maximum questions are from marketing and banking acts. The English section was also time consuming. There were two passages in English section. Below is my version of review on today's exam.

General Awareness : I felt this is the toughest with all those marketing terms and acts.

Reasoning : Moderate section. I feel few questions are same from yesterday's paper. Somebody shared the question of seating arrangement (8 people on a single line facing north and south). I could see maximum number of questions from comparisons ( >, <, => type questions).

Data Interpretation : I was mentally prepared for this section. But I felt today's DI was easier. One question was a mixture of bar chart and tables. Two tables, The descriptive question was about the staff of an office who read different news papers. One question was different ( I don't know what it called). It appeared like bar chart, but the bars have three shades in it (three different values). The question is about the metal production of various states (UP, Bihar, MP, Goa and Andhra Pradesh). Some questions are given for 7 marks.

English Language : I felt this section was also tough. There are two reading comprehension exercises. One from banking and other is from Marketing. Both are time taking in reading. I usually feel that english is a cake walk section for me. But, This section told me that I should reconsider my English skills.

Descriptive Test :

• Letter Writing :
• Letter to your friend asking him to avoid Junk food (you have to convince him by saying all the health problems with junk food)
• Letter to editor complaining about the Kabhootarkhana (a place where people feed pigeons) in a park near your home, by saying that you are facing allergies due to the pigeons droppings and feathers.
• Letter to the Bank manager asking him to add your daughter as the second nominee in your account.
• Paragraph writing :
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• Essay writing :
• Pros and cons of opening savings accounts for 10 year old
• Precis was about Marketing expansion
• Comprehension was about Banking

Review shared by Arjun

Hi, I am Arjun from Kerala. Today I gave my exam in morning shift. Here is my review.

I attempted around 120 questions in total with more than 95% accuracy.

Time allocation and questions attempted
GA- 10 mins- 35 questions.
English- 25 mins- 34 questions.
Reasoning- 35 mins- 30 questions.
DI- 50 mins- 21 questions.

I think GK section is getting tougher and tougher. The first day questions were way more direct and simple.

English and reasoning were not at all difficult. There were passages, and one was a bit lengthy. I didn't bother to read the second passage.. just did the antonym/synonym question from it. Reasoning section also has got a similar story to tell.. Most them were doable. But I skipped a complex puzzle.

I had 50 mins left when I reached DI section. I was expecting the worst so didn't get surprised by seeing the questions. As mentioned by many others all the questions were involving lengthy calculations. Managed to do 21 in 50 mins and I think all are correct.

Advice for the coming session candidates:

Just stick on to your plan and clear the sectional cutoffs of difficult sections.

Actually I would recommend everyone to allot just 40 mins to DI (if you are confident of answering atleast 15 questions). The time you save on DI can be used in some other section such as reasoning or english (Actually I did a big mistake in allotting 50 mins to DI, I could have given some more time to reasoning since the reasoning questions takes only less time to solve). Oh yeah.. One more thing.. There will be around 10 sets of DI questions, and out of them each set will have at least 2 less complicated questions. Just try to answer those.. I will guarantee your success in getting past the sectional cutoff by miles.

Best of luck everyone!!

Review shared by Sunny Sharma

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii……all my exam is today(22/06/2014)in morning shift. Exam started from sharp 9…..and now  the battle starts ….i started with GA its is normal as expected computer and GA is too easy and straight forward….and marketing is practical tht is which is answer from ur basic and high level of knowledge of marketing...its level is moderate …after then I shift to english which is also normal two paragraph one cloze test ,sentence rearrangement and error finding ….this section is also as u expect …level we can say is moderate …then I came to reasoning …I done selected questions from here without involving in puzzles ….input/output is very easy nd tht  too is syllolism…I cant able to comment on puzzle as I skip it …I attempted 22 here……now its cruciai I have 43  minute left with me ….and it’s the most horrible type DI need to be answered in this time ….i got a good system and my vision is also good ….but I really face problem in interpreting the diagram as it is small…..really too much calculation tht u cant even imagine…after solving eleven questions ….times ends .
Now Descriptive…..
1-Essay on prons on cauns of allowing Minor of age 10 year and above to open Saving account.
2-Paragraph on good Qualities  a bank manager should have.
3---Precise on Changing Scenario of market.
4---Comprehension on Intermediaries (mainly bank)…..Descriptive is really easy no need to bother about it…

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