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June 15, 2014

SBI PO June 14th 2014 Afternoon Session Online Exam Review

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Hi all SBI PO Aspirants, I am Anuya Nagrane. Here I am sharing the Afternoon Session's review of the SBI Probationary Officers online exam held on 14th June 2014. Hope this review will be helpful for all the remaining aspirants. My exam was started at 2:30 PM.

General Awareness Section :

The questions were very easy. Glance through the GK of last 6 months and GK practice sets. Do this and you’ll be good to go.

Eg of questions asked:
  1. RBI controls liquidity through?
  2. Some question on Open Market operations and Money market instrument
  3. Governor of Kerala and recently appointed Deputy Governor of RBI?
  4. A question related to clearing of cheques
  5. Some announcement made by our President
[ Questions related to bankin awareness dominated this section ]

Marketing and Computer :
Computer is not really my domain but the questions asked were very basic in nature, they made me smile, I was like, “Yayyy! I know this, I know this!”. Ditto for Marketing.
If it happens and I know it will that you read the question, its not familiar to you so people generally skip, but, in this section, go through the options, you might be able to answer! Also, there were more marketing questions as compared to computer.
** 40+ can be attempted **

English :
1) There were TWO comprehensions, one was on Economic Reforms 1991 and FDI.. I don’t remember the other one, I skipped it.
2) CLOZE TEST was easy and so were grammatical errors. Rearrangement was the simplest part of this paper.
3) Questions where four words are given and you have to choose nearly the same or opposite type.
EG :: 1) repeat 2) reverberate 3) retaliate 4) reciprocate
a. B-D
b. C-D
c. A-C
d. A-B
e. B-C
Ans: 2
[PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS MY EXAMPLE, IT WAS NOT ASKED IN THE EXAM]
4) Also, questions where there are TWO BLANK SPACES were asked.
On the whole, paper was simple and if you are good with English, you can solve at least 35+ questions without any issue.

Reasoning :
The level was moderate.
1) Circular arrangement question. There were 8 people and the cars that they drive were given. If you’ve practiced seatin arrangement well, this question won’t give you any pain.
2) The next where people sit in a straight line, some of them facin north and some south type question
[There was one more small case study which was very easy as compared to the other 2 mentioned above ]
3) Easy Equality and Inequality , syllogisms , course of action, cause and effect, inference type questions.
4) INPUT OUTPUT question was surprisingly easy! I did not attempt Data Sufficiency questions.

**Practice is a key to crack this section, if you’ve practiced well, Reasonin questions won’t come across as a headache, 30+ is do-able **

FINALLY

Data Interpretation !
Phew!
I found DI to be lengthy and tricky.
1) For the very first time I seen DI based on Compound and Simple Interest!
2) Mixed pie chart
3) Bar graphs, one of the bar graphs was so light, I could hardly see!

THIS SECTION WAS ONLY BASED ON DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION. NO DATA SUFFICIENCY, SPEED, PROBABILITY, PROFIT-LOSS ETC TYPE QUESTIONS.

Descriptive Test :
1) There were 3 letters out of which 2 were formal (bank correspondence) and the 3rd one was an informal one.
2) A small essay of 130 words.
i. Peaceful use of atomic something, I don’t remember whether it was energy or power :/
ii. A stitch in time saves nine.
iii. Dignity of Labour.
3) Comprehension based on Banking followed by 5 questions carryin 2 marks each. (easy)
4) Precis writing. (The passage emphasized on temperature, precipitation and how it affects primary industries and economy.)
5) Essay to be written in about 250 words.
i. Role of newspapers in influencing (society or youth), something like that :/
ii. Future of Banking industry
iii. Suggestions to alleviate unemployment problem.

If it so happens that the comprehension and one of the essays that you are supposed to write are based on the same topic (if you notice, the comprehension was based on banking and one of the essays was also future of banking industry), kindly don’t copy! Don’t use the comprehension as a reference to your essay. Write your own points, use your imagination and frame your own sentences. If you copy blatantly, there is a very high possibility of you losing marks.

Just one advice, don’t lose your composure at any point during the examination, especially Data Interpretation. Go through the questions first in DI, it will give you an idea about the pattern of questions, in that way, you’ll be in a position to prioritize as to what (pie chart, bar graph , table) to solve first.. glancing through the questions will not only give you a general idea about the difficulty level but it’ll also help you in knowing your comfort level i.e the questions that you know will consume less time.

Its all about time management when it comes to DI and Reasoning, so manage your time wisely! All the very best .

Read the Morning Session's review of SBI PO Online Exam 2014 Objective Test from here

Read complete study materials and online tests of SBI PO Online Exam 2014 from here

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53 comments:

  1. Thank you so much Anuya

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  2. Thank u very much.

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    1. There will be 15 min time between online and descriptive. descreiptie i paper pen mode

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    2. Thank you so much

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  3. descriptive paper is written or online ?
    is their time gap betwen two papers?

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  4. Descriptive was written (Paper-pen) .. Yeah They took 5-10min gap for distributing the papers. On the whole paper was a bit tough n really damn time consuming..!! :(

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  5. Guys D.I. k questions sirf time-consuming the wo hi na? Aisa to nahi k impossible to solve type ke the? Plzz someone tell me whether they were answerable or not.? And kon se type k graphs jyada the? income/profit/expenditure type ka koi graph tha kya? Plzz some one reply me.............

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    1. The questions were lengthy and tricky, they weren’t straight-forward but solvable..There was a table based on the statistics of a cricket match, total number of runs scored by 7-8 players and the number of runs scored in 4s and 6s, they had given the formula to find out strike rate … There were 2-3 multiple bar graphs.. There was NO income, expenditure or profit type question but it wasn’t asked in the afternoon session yesterday doesn’t mean it won’t be asked in the upcoming exam sessions..

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    2. they can be answered. only u if u have loads of tym.. very lengthy calculations... even only one ques contained atleast 3-4 calculations.. i reviewed all the questions and attempted only those ques with less calculation.. and those were 11 ques from d.i...

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  6. Thanks Anuya...😊... and al d very bst

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  7. black and white admit card photo copy allowed hai kya?

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  8. what about english......

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  9. do we have " view full paper option" in sbi po online exam.....?

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  10. plz reply black n white admit card allowed hai kya

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  11. Thank you anusha, how many error detection asked in english?

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    1. Its ANUYA... Around 6 questions but very easy.

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  12. I attempted 135 overall.. Gen category

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    1. Post it here only. Plzzzzzz

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    2. @ Shachi

      you can mail them to "Gr8ambitionz@gmail.com"

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  14. TY for the review

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  15. yesterday di paper morning session paper was quite tricky and lengthy too give mixed graphs which were quite time taking to solve it,gk was easy asked about 3-4 awards, sports news, indirect questions about repo rate,film awards 1 question(IIFA) , letter writing : asked about PPF (write a letr to a friend describing about PPF and its uses),reasoning what ever they gave in hand out is totally different just like IBPS po exam , seating arrangement 3 ,jumbled sentences 1 set, syllogisms 5-6,ds 3-4 , marketing they asked in depth ,computer is easy ,1 que about rtgs,neft,rrb act 1 question,tcs chairman , mothers day etc dint remember rest
    all the best guys but DI prepare well coz you cant even get time to review entire paper its too lengthy too

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  16. is there all questions were same for all students in same shift

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  17. Share all the questions of 14th (mng and Eveng) and 15th Mng and eveng shift.

    for study material visit www.uselesshead.blogspot.in

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  18. will there be any relaxation in the cut off this time?
    If yes how much one can expect for General?

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  19. Thank you Gr8amibitionz for this valuable Tips.
    Guyz check out our blog www.uselesshead.blogspot.in

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  20. its satyam,,,,, hey can anyone tell me... all question we can we see in both eng or hindi or not

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    1. ya ,for all sections we can view in english and hindi..(except for english)

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  21. bhai log ye batao ki attempt kitne kiya , section wise?????????????????

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  22. section wise attempt share karein plz sabhi koi, usse pata chalega sahi comparision

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    1. It's depends....One who practiced a lot can attempt 20+ qa...qa section needs several steps to reach d answer.oterwise it is too difficult to answer atleast 10...so those who have exams in coming weeks practice well .

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  23. can any one tell me when the evening session started and ended up...mine is 5th july ...evening.

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    1. started at 2.30pm, objective test was submitted at 4.30pm.. at 4.45pm descriptive paper was distributed and it got over at 5.45pm.

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  24. Thanks Anunya.
    The way u have u have described, it's evident you have done well. ;)
    All d best brother, God Bless you :)

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  25. In descriptive part is all the question r compulsory??? Or there is any option ..

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    1. You'll have internal options in letter writin, 130 words and 250 words essay... but otherwise you have to attempt all the 5 questions.. i.e letter writing, comprehension(no option), 2 essays of 130 and 250 words each and precis(no option).

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  26. Hii Anuya...
    How many questions you attempted??

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  27. I have only attend 10 in DI section? What may be the cutoff?

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  28. Hi... frnds
    After reading ur opinions i thing paper ws tough.... plzzzz tell which book i refer for di.....

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  29. Hi.. I had exam on June 15 afternoon session.. Total attempts 148, but di only 16. I thought DI was my strong pt but cod manage only 16 in 51 mins. Dont know where cut off fo DI wl b..

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  30. Hey can someone tell me can we use pen and paper to solve data calculation questions

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    1. ya they will provide paper for calculations.....we have to use our own pen to solve...

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  31. Data interpretation section was lenghty and time consuming so distribute your time accordingly.....moreover banking general knowledge questions was there rather then just geneal knowledge...

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  32. what type of discriptive question ask in the exam..plz tell me..

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  33. Hey Guys,
    Can any body tell me that what kind of questions were asked in DI. As everybody is saying it was lengthy. Just an example of any question.In which way it was framed.

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  34. Jayasree kishor

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