SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2026

SBI 2 stages

SBI Clerk exam pattern overview

Prelims (qualifying): 100 questions for 100 marks in 60 minutes: English Language (30), Numerical Ability (35) and Reasoning Ability (35), with 20 minutes for each section.

Mains: 190 questions for 200 marks in about 2 hours 40 minutes, covering General or Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, and Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude. Final selection is based on mains marks.

Local Language Test: candidates who did not study the local language in class 10 or 12 must pass a language test. One quarter of a mark is deducted for each wrong answer in the objective tests.

SBI Clerk selection process

  1. Prelims

  2. Mains