Exam Syllabus
Information about various topics asked in the exam.
SBI SO Syllabus
There are various posts which SBI recruits through SBI SO examination and there are different question papers set for all the aspirants of different posts. Given below is the professional knowledge section of the question paper provided according to the posts under SBI SO.
- Chartered Accountant: Accounting Standards, Accounting Guidance Note, Financial Report Standards, Indian Accounting Standards, Corporate Financial Reporting, Accounting and Reporting of Financial Instrument, Share-based Payment, Liability Valuation, Share, Business valuation, Inflation Accounting, Indian Capital Market, Mutual Funds, Foreign Exchanges, Auditing etc.
- Statistician: Basic Statistical Methods and Inference, Uni-Variate Data, Bi-Variate Data, Time series forecasting, Sampling Concepts, Sampling Distribution, Estimations Theory, Simple Regression, Multiple Regression, Variance Analysis, Banking-Insurance, Financial Market, Foreign Exchanges, Forecasting Portfolio etc.
- Law Officer: Banking Regulated Laws, Banking Security Laws, Negotiable Instruments, Ethics and Corporate Governance in Banking, Financial Analysis, Banking Operational Laws, Banker-Customer Relations, Electronic Banking, Loans and Advances, Compliance and Legal Aspects, Security Types and Regulatory Frameworks etc.
- Systems Officer/IT Officer: Computer Networks and Basic Programing Languages (C, C++, Java), Data Base Management Systems (DBMS), Basic concepts of Software and Hardware, Data Structures, Computer Organization, Computer Networks, Network Programming, Algorithms, Digital Electronics, Web Technologies, Information Systems and Software Engineering etc.
Question paper 1 mainly consists of the topics from Reasoning Abilities, Quantitative Abilities and English Language. The topics covered in this section are as follows:
Reasoning Ability | Quantitative Aptitude | English |
Classification | Average | Synonyms |
Alphabet Test | Boats & Streams | Antonyms |
Eligibility Test | Clocks | Vocabulary |
Analogy | Decimal & Fractions | Cloze Test |
Logical Sequence of Words | HCF and LCM | Conclusion |
Puzzle Test | Line Graphs | Verb |
Alpha-Numeric Sequence Puzzle | Logarithms | Comprehension |
Inserting the Missing Character | Mensuration | Word Formation |
Logic | Mixtures & Alligations | Adverb |
Data Sufficiency | Compound Interest | Error Correction |
Theme Detection | Time, Speed & Distance | Theme Detection |
Coding-Decoding | Profit & Loss | Grammar |
Logical Venn-Diagrams | Permutation & Combination | Fill in the blanks |
Situation Reaction Test | Probability | Articles |
Statement-Arguments | Problems on Ages | Unseen Passages |
Series-Completion | Problems on Trains | Idioms & Phrases |
Clocks & Calendars | Roots | Tenses |
Direction Sense Test | Simplification | Passage Correction |
Statement-Conclusions | Time & Work | Idioms & Phrases |
Arithmetic Reasoning | Volume & Surface | Sentence Correction |
Mathematical Operations | Area | Passage Completion |
Number, Ranking & Time Sequence | Number System & Simplification | Sentence Completion |
Deriving Conclusion from Passages | Unitary Method | Subject-Verb Agreement |
Problem-based on Numbers | Sentence Rearrangement | |
Ratio & Proportion | ||
Partnership | ||
Simple Interest & Compound Interest |