Syllabus
SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus 2025
State Bank of India: Junior Associate (Customer Support & Sales)
The SBI Junior Associate Preliminary Examination contains 100 questions for 100 marks in 60 minutes, with three separately timed 20-minute sections.
SBI officially publishes the section names, question counts, marks and timing, but not an exhaustive chapter-by-chapter syllabus in this advertisement. The granular bullets below are a TakeMockTest preparation map, not an SBI-prescribed subtopic list.
English Language
30 questions · 30 marks · 20 minutes- • Reading comprehension and contextual vocabulary
- • Cloze tests and fillers
- • Error detection and sentence correction
- • Para jumbles and sentence arrangement
- • Word usage, phrase replacement and grammar in context
Numerical Ability
35 questions · 35 marks · 20 minutes- • Simplification and approximation
- • Number series and numerical relationships
- • Data interpretation
- • Percentage, ratio, average and partnership
- • Profit and loss, interest and mixture
- • Time and work, pipes, speed and distance
Reasoning Ability
35 questions · 35 marks · 20 minutes- • Seating arrangement and logic puzzles
- • Syllogism and inequalities
- • Coding-decoding and alphanumeric patterns
- • Blood relations and direction sense
- • Ranking, ordering and comparison
- • Logical conditions and data sufficiency
Negative marking
For wrong answers in the objective tests, one-fourth of the mark assigned to the question is deducted.
Official source
Official pattern source: State Bank of India, Junior Associate (Customer Support & Sales) recruitment advertisement CRPD/CR/2025-26/06. The detailed topic bullets on this page are a TakeMockTest preparation map. View the official SBI Junior Associate 2025 advertisement.
Frequently asked questions
What is the SBI Clerk syllabus?
It runs to 3 sections: English Language, Numerical Ability and Reasoning Ability. 17 named topics are listed beneath them. Those bullets are a preparation map built here from the question families this exam keeps returning to, not a subtopic list the exam body publishes: the section names, counts, marks and timing are official, the topics under them are not.
How many questions are there in the SBI Clerk paper, and how long is it?
The Prelims stage is 100 questions for 100 marks in 60 minutes. Wrong answers are penalised 0.25 per question. Knowing that alongside the syllabus is what turns a topic list into a plan: it tells you how many marks each section is actually worth and how many minutes you can afford per question.
How do I practise the whole SBI Clerk syllabus?
Sit a full mock first, before working through the topic list. A syllabus tells you what can be asked; it does not tell you which parts of it are costing you marks, and most candidates find that is not where they expected. There are 18 free tests for SBI Clerk here, and the sectional ones let you rebuild a single section once the full paper has shown you which one to rebuild.
Is this SBI Clerk syllabus current?
It is taken from the official SBI Junior Associate 2025 advertisement, cited and linked at the foot of this page, rather than from another preparation site, so you can check it against the source yourself. Syllabuses do change between cycles, usually through a corrigendum to the notification rather than a fresh document, so confirm against the current notice before planning a whole revision cycle around any topic list, including this one.