SBI Clerk Prelims previous year papers
12 official SBI Clerk Prelims papers with 1,524 questions in total. Each paper is fixed, so everyone who attempts it gets the same questions and your percentile is a genuine comparison. Attempts run in the real CBT interface with the exam's own marking scheme.
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See topic analysis for SBI Clerk Prelims
Share of topic-tagged questions in each section, counted across the 12 papers listed below. Questions without a topic tag are left out, so read the shares as a guide to what repeats, not an exact syllabus split.
Reasoning
| Topic | Questions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning Ability | 158 | 32% |
| Inequalities | 60 | 12.1% |
| Syllogism | 59 | 11.9% |
| Blood Relations | 57 | 11.5% |
| Coding-Decoding | 57 | 11.5% |
| Direction Sense | 53 | 10.7% |
| Ranking & Order | 50 | 10.1% |
General Awareness
| Topic | Questions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| General & Financial Awareness | 50 | 50% |
| Basel Norms, NPA Framework & Banking Reforms (concepts) | 8 | 8% |
| Regulators & Financial Institutions (SEBI, IRDAI, PFRDA, NABARD, SIDBI, EXIM, NHB) | 8 | 8% |
| Banking Structure & Types of Banks | 7 | 7% |
| Banking Terms & Abbreviations (KYC, NPA, SLR, CRR, MCLR concepts) | 6 | 6% |
| Financial Markets & Instruments | 5 | 5% |
| RBI Functions & Monetary Policy Tools (concepts) | 5 | 5% |
| Banking Products, Deposits & Loans | 4 | 4% |
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106 questions · 60 min · +1 / −0.25
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103 questions · 60 min · +1 / −0.25
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115 questions · 60 min · +1 / −0.25
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108 questions · 60 min · +1 / −0.25
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116 questions · 60 min · +1 / −0.25