Detailed Review of SBI Associates PO Online Exam 2014

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Hi I’m Khalid, I appeared SBI Associates PO exam morning session (9th Morning). There is so much to digest in those two hours, reproducing perfectly may not be possible but I’ll try my best to pen down my experience. So that even if it helps one aspirant ill achieve my intention of writing this review. I’m writing as per hierarchy which I attempted

1) General Awareness, Marketing & Computers- 10 min- 36 attempt

This section is moderate to attempt compare to SBI PO, IBPS PO, cannot call it easy. Questions were ranging from Banking, GK, Marketing I found difficult, computer is also not so easy. Some of questions were..

1. RBI Established by which commission? Hilton young commission(yes this is same question which has been answered by Maha crorepati winners for 50lakh question in KBC, see how pathetic our condition we attempting for one mark)
2. Who regulate RRB and co-operatives? – NABARD(not sure)
3. Who is the author of God of small thing? Arundhati Roy
   
4. Which facility not enjoyed by minor in banking account?
5. Highest literacy district in census 2011?
6. Related to PM employment program.
7. Related to Bus in networks
8. NPS stands for? National pension scheme
9. RBI policy for supply of money in market - Monetary policy
10. NBFC deals in? -  loans and advances
11. Full form of PDF? Portable Document Format
12. Who won the Nobel piece award 2014? Kailash Satyarthi(not in option, ans is other then these)
13. Who belongs to tennis? options were - djokovic, federer, messi
14. When is world rabies day? 28th setember
15. In which of the following places there is no nuclear plant? – koyna, I attempted. Others I was sure.
16. Processor speed measure in?
17. Using two different brand names single product is called? Co-branding
18. One question on repo rate- like what tool RBI use for money supply
19. What is the function of Ctrl + s in MS Word = to save file or document
20. Ping in computer used in?
21. Some questions on micro and macro economy

2) Reasoning- 30 min+ last 10 min – 30 attempt

This section for which notification says high level is actually easy and scoring.

Syllogism were of ‘some’ ‘no’ ‘possibility’ type but overall all questions were easy to attempt.

Equality inequality- some questions were on single equations where u don’t need to write it on rough paper and some were dividing with semi colon. Overall easy to attempt.

Machine  Input output- observe the question with full concentration simply don’t jump to output, here in single step two things were happening alphabets on right and numbers on left.

Logical questions comprise of assumptions, argument etc of moderate type.

Three puzzle- seating arrangement with some facing inward some outward , floor type and another did not read (may be making table or linear direction). Solved floor puzzle it was very easy. Wasted precious 5 min in seating and could not get answer ;-(

Some direction and blood related are easy

Data sufficiency did not attempt.

3) English Language- 25 min- 33 attempt

Two comprehensions passage each having 10 questions. One on European bank and another on technology and its implication on human. Passage were easy to decipher but questions were confusing and it was like having 4 or 3 statement and selecting among them like A and B are correct so here we may skip some questions in confusion.

Error spotting- easy

Para jumble- Even if you cannot arrange try to find first and last. Observe that first line always opens possibility of many links and last one is of concluding type.

Cloze test- cannot attempt all here some are confusing, it was based on some manager change behavior and then sentence correction- you find it difficult if you don’t know rules of English grammar (like me)

Data Analysis & Interpretation- 19 attempt- 45 min

Now its entry of villain. We were expecting villain like Kancha of Agneepath but to our surprise it was moderate one. Here two possible groups divide, one after reading review makes perfect strategy and make other sessions very scoring type and some believe paper is tough by hearing from other who actually did not prepared well and lost half battle here itself. (Responsibility lies much on First day people).The one who plans well accordingly finds a table in SBI Asso. banks. Trust me compare to other exams like SBI PO, IBPS PO its quite moderate, I myself who scared of aptitude is telling this. Questions were a bit lengthy but can be solved easily

Questions were from Probability like box contains 6 red, 4 blue, 2 green and 3 yellow marbles. (I think now other session batch will gear up to cover this, first day passengers fails to enjoy this luxury)

Data interpretation:

There was question having two pie chart- One consisting Male employees and other female, simple questions like ratio, difference and percentage asked.

There was question on line graph consisting three companies A B C, here also questions asked were bit calculation based but easy to get solution like average, ratio etc

Table based question on population, percentage of vote’s polled and invalid votes.

Paragraph based question- did not solved but I think it’s like venn diagram.

Series and data sufficiency (attempted 2 series rest skipped).

So basically 4 sets of DI's, 5 series questions, 1 set of question on data analysis, probability, 5 data sufficiency

My suggestion to aspirant who appear in coming days, overall paper is moderate, So Relax! Maintain temper till last, Exams like this is not about only IQ but EQ, how well you maintain your nerves till last. It’s not about how well you attempt but how well you sacrifice some questions which eat your time. Whether I make it or not only time will decide, fingers are crossed. As Shahrukh says in HNY- Kismat Sali kutti cheez hai kabhi bhi badal sakti hai.

Descriptive.

This time they are giving questions on computer screen itself and paper to write. So wastage of time in writing questions too.

Letter writing:

1) Your client has taken a loan of 20lakh and repaid 8lakh and he applied now for second time. As a manager write a letter rejecting in polite manner (I wrote this)

2) To parents asking money

3) Complaint to consumer forum

Essay(Short)- your first day in job

Precise- about UGS

Essay- FDI is beneficiary to? Farmer, Consumer or industry.

Comprehension passage writing.

PS- Based on my memory so bear some discrepancy, Good luck to all those who are going to appear in coming days.

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