SBI Specialist Officer IT 2016-17 Exam Analysis

Today was SBI Specialist Cadre Officer's (IT Officer) Examination, and here we bring you the analysis for today's examination. Overall the examination was of moderate level as expected, and there were no big surprises seen which is a sight of relief for every candidate who appeared in this SBI SO IT Exam.

There were Four Sections namely, Test of Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English Language and Professional Knowledge. Quant and Reasoning sections had 35 questions in both the sections for 35 marks whereas reasoning had 50 questions for 50 marks. These 3 sections were the part-1 of examination, whereas the other part, part-2 was The Professional Knowledge Test which had 50 questions for 100 marks. Time allotted for the tree sections of part-1 cumulatively was 90 mins and 45 mins were for 50 questions of professional knowledge. Professional Knowledge section is the one on basis of which merit list will be formed and it was moderate in level and type of questions.

Reasoning, Quant and English are just qualifying in nature so aspirant are just required to clear their cut off. English Language was of Easy-Moderate level. Conventional questions were asked in this section of SBI SO Examination which included, Reading Comprehension, Fillers, Errors, Cloze Test (Economy Based). Good attempts for this section can range from 20-24 with good accuracy.

Quantitative Aptitude section was of Moderate level. Good attempts for quant can range from 21-26 with good accuracy. There were no surprises and it was a well-balanced paper. A candidate with good practice can easily score well. Questions were of 10Q-Data Interpretation (2 set- Line and Tabular Moderate Level), 5Q-Quadratic Equation (easy-moderate), 5Q-Series, 5Q-Approximation (Moderate) and 10Q- Arithmetic Problems (Moderate Level).

Test of Reasoning was also Moderate. Questions asked were of Blood Relation, Direction, Coding-Decoding, Syllogism, Inequality, Input-Output, Puzzles and Seating Arrangement (15Q- 3set) and Data Sufficiency. Good attempt for reasoning section will range from 30-35.

Professional Knowledge section of this examination was of Moderate level. Each question carried 2 marks as there were 50 questions for 100 marks and the topics from which questions were asked were, DBMS (questions related to DBMS and Data Mining were greater in number in comparison to other topics), Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Operating System, Data Structure, Computer Languages. Some questions were also direct and definition based. Good Attempts for this sections will be 28-33 with good accuracy.

Aspirants preparing for IBPS SO IT can also get a clue from this examination that there are chances for the same conventional paper but remember, always do expect the unexpected. As in IBPS SO IT exam too; Professional Knowledge is the merit section, aspirants should carefully pace up their preparations.

All the best for IBPS SO Examination !!