SBI Specialist Officer (SO) Exam Analysis 2016-17 (Slot - 1)

By Shristi|Updated : January 20th, 2017

SBI Specialist Officer (SO) Exam 2016 was scheduled today. SBI SO will be conducted in two slots. The first slot of the exam was scheduled from 9:30 AM - 11:45 AM. We are now going to provide you the detailed analysis of this slot. Here is the analysis of today's SBI Specialist Officer (SO) 2016 first slot.

Exam Pattern of SBI SO Exam

Objective

Sr. No.PostsSr. No.No. of QuestionsMarksTime
1Systems, Developers, Test Lead, Tester & Satistician

i. Test of Reasoning

ii. Quantitative Aptitude

iii. English Language

50

35

35

50

35

35

90 min.

iv. Professional Knowledge (PK)

5010045 min.

Note: For every wrong answers there is a penalty of 1/4 mark.

The overall level of the Exam was Moderate.

Let's now delve into the detailed analysis of each individual section.

Reasoning Ability
Number of Question - 50
Overall Level - Easy to Moderate

  • Syllogism - 5 Questions (Easy)
  • Sitting Arrangement/ Puzzles - 3 sets (15 questions)
    (a) Floor Based Puzzle - 8 floors, different colours - 5Qs.
    (b) Parallel Sitting Arrangement  - 5 Qs
    (c) Circular Puzzle - 5Qs 
  • Coding Decoding -  5 Questions
  • Blood Relation - 3 Questions
  • Direction - 3-4 Questions
  • Inequality - 5 Questions (Direct)
  • Rest Miscellaneous 

English Language
Number of Questions - 35
Overall Level - Moderate to Difficult

  • Reading Comprehension - 1 sets (10 Questions) - Lengthy
    (a) RC was based on Economy (Brexit & Ireland Issues) - 8 Qs
  • Synonym / Antonym Questions - 2 Questions
  • Sentence Correction - 5 Questions 
  • Cloze Test - 5 Questions
  • Para Jumbles - 5 Questions
  • Error Spotting - 10 Questions

Quantitative Aptitude
Number of Questions - 35
Overall Level - Moderate 

  • Data Interpretation - 2 sets (10 Questions)
    (a) Tabular DI - 5Qs
    (b) Line Graph - 5Qs
  • Number Series - 5 Questions 
  • Data Sufficiency - 5 Questions
  • Quadratic Equation - 5Qs.
  • Approximation - 5Qs.
  • Miscellaneous - 5 Questions (Age, Mixture and Alligation, SI etc.)

Professional Knowledge
Number of Questions - 50
Overall Level - Moderate
Time Alloted - 45 minutes

Questions asked are -

  • CGI
  • Cold, Warm & Hot Site
  • Data shadowing
  • Data mining
  • PAAS
  • SAAP
  • IAAS
  • RFID Chip,
  • full form of OLAP,
  • about ARP,
  • Hierarchical database,
  • 'Streaming' definition
  • Trojan horse, worms 
  • Data consistency, isolation
  • Cryptography 
  • Electronic data interchange (EDI)  
  • Time division multiplexing
  • Hierarchical database
  • RISC architecture 2 questions 
  • Wifi hotspot
  • Arp protocol
  • Concurreny control in database
  • Virtualization in operating system

All the best for your exams..

Team GradeUp..!!

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