Summary: SBI SO System: Pattern, Exam Analysis, Reasoning Analysis, Quantitative Aptitude Analysis, English Analysis, Professional Knowledge Analysis, Expected Cutoff, Professional Knowledge Cut-offs
This Article is regarding Exam Analysis of last Year’s Exam.
To Check the Exam Analysis of Exam Conducted this year, today (20th Jan 2017), Check here–>> SBI SO Exam Analysis 2017 – System Officer Examination
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SBI conducted Online exam for recruitment of Specialist Officers on 17th January 2016. Below is the section-wise analysis of SBI SO Systems Online Exam and you can check expected cut-offs at the end of this post.
SBI SO System: Pattern
Test- 1: 90 mins (Qualifying in nature and marks will not be reckoned for arriving at the Merit list)
- Reasoning (50 questions 50 marks)
- Quantitative Aptitude (35 questions 35 marks)
- English Language (35 questions 35 marks)
Test – 2: 45 mins
- Professional Knowledge (50 questions 100 marks)
SBI SO System: Exam Analysis
Overall, the Exam was moderate difficulty level. A good number of attempts in the exam were 115 – 130.
SBI SO System Reasoning Analysis
The reasoning section was easy to moderate. Well prepared students could easily attempt 30-35 Questions.
- Seating Arrangement – 10
- Blood Relation – 2
- Strong, Weak Argument – 5
- Statement-Assumption – 5
- Puzzle -5
- Syllogism – 5
- Coding Decoding: 5
- Inequality -3
- Misc-10
SBI SO System Quantitative Aptitude Analysis
Quant was moderate in nature. Well-prepared candidates could easily attempt 20-25 Questions.
Topics from which questions were asked:
- Quadratic Equations: 5
- Caselets: 5
- Series: 5
- Arithmetic Questions( Age,Boats,Percentage, Boats and Streams etc) : 10
- Data Interpretation: 10
SBI SO System English Analysis
English was the easiest section and well-prepared students could easily attempt 25-30 Questions. Topic wise breakup of this section: –
- Reading Comprehension – 10
- Spot the error – 5
- Cloze test – 10
- Fill in the blanks – 10
SBI SO System Professional Knowledge Analysis
Questions of this section were of moderate difficulty level. Major topics from which questions were asked: OSI Model, TCP/IP Model, RDBMS, Oracle9i, Cloud Computing etc. Good no of attempts in this section were 30-35.
SBI SO Systems Expected Cutoff
| S No | Subject | Total Marks | SC/ST/OBC/PWD | General |
| 1 | Reasoning | 50 | 3-5 | 7-9 |
| 2 | Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 2-4 | 4-7 |
| 3 | English | 35 | 3-5 | 6-9 |
SBI SO System Professional Knowledge Cut-offs
| Category | Marks (Out of 100) |
| General | 60 |
| OBC | 58 |
| SC | 54 |
| ST | 45 |
| OH | 55 |
| VH | 45 |
| HI | 41 |
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