SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus 2025
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.