Important Topics for SBI Mains Exam

IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR SBI CLERK MAINS EXAM

Topic-wise details are as below:

(I) General/ Financial Awareness:

1. Important Days
2. Scheme launched by PSBs/Private Banks and Foreign Banks
3. Central/state government’s schemes
4. Awards and Rewards
5. National Park or Wildlife Sanctuary
6. PSBs, its CMD/MD/Chairman, tagline, headquarter

7. Recently visit by Indian PM and President aboard and agreements signed
8. Sports news (IPL, French open, Australian open F1 Race etc)
9. Obituaries
10.Banking Awareness
11. Appointments
12. Agreements
13. Defense News e.g. Recent Naval, Air and Army Exercises, New Weapons, Satellites.
14. Monetary Policy
15. Money and Capital Markets
16. RBI and its functions

(II) General English:

1. Reading Comprehension - Students who are weak in English must attempt this section.
2. Cloze Test - This portion also helps students who are not fluent in English.
It basically includes the blanks to be filled by following:
2.1 Verb
2.2 Tense
2.3 Modals
2.4 Gerund/ Infinitive
2.5 Participle
2.6 Conjunction
3. Sentence correction
4. Para Jumbles - If you are sure about only 1st and last or any other sentence then attempt that very question only and leave other questions of Para Jumbles.
5. Fill in the blanks (One Liner)

(III) Quantitative Aptitude:

1. Simplification
2. Percentage
3. Ratio
4. Average
5. Profit and Loss
6. Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency - If you are good in the above 1 to 5 topics, then you can do DI & DS very easily.
7. Simple Interest and Compound Interest
8. Time & Distance - Trains, Boats
9. Time & Work

(IV) Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude:

Reasoning Ability
1. Syllogism
2. Data Sufficiency
3. Blood Relation
4. Ranking and Direction Test
5. Coding-Decoding
6. Inequalities
7. Alpha-Numeric- symbol series
8. Seating Arrangement
9. Puzzles

Computer Aptitude
1. Computer Hardware and Software
2. Basics of computer network and transmission media
3. Knowledge of the Internet
4. M.S Office Suite and Shortcut keys
5. History of Computer and some famous personalities
6. Abbreviations
7. Computer Security Terms e.g. Bugs, Virus etc.
8. Names of latest operating systems e.g. Ubantu is based on Linux.