SBI Clerk 2024 Prelims Quant PYQ – 27 Feb 2025 Shift 1 (35 Questions with Solutions)

SBI Clerk 2024 Prelims Quant PYQ 27 Feb 2025 Shift 1: Numerical Ability Paper

For SBI Clerk aspirants in the final stage of prelims revision, this is the Quantitative Aptitude paper from SBI Clerk 2024 Prelims, held on 27 February 2025 in Shift 1.

Topic-wise questions in SBI Clerk 2024 Prelims Quant

What this tells you: course of action

• First priority: Data Interpretation and Simplification & Approximation, roughly 57% of the questions between them.
• Keep in rotation: Number Series, Percentage and Simple & Compound Interest, a steady 17% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
• Save for the end: 9 one-question topics (26% together). Skim them last rather than building long study blocks around them.
• Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 6 for the first group, 2 for the keep-in-rotation group and 2 for the leave-for-last group.

Key formulas for SBI Clerk prelims arithmetic

• Simple interest: \( SI=\dfrac{P\times r\times t}{100} \)
• Compound interest amount: \( A=P\left(1+\dfrac{r}{100}\right)^{n} \)
• Partnership profit ratio: \( P_{1}:P_{2}=C_{1}t_{1}:C_{2}t_{2} \)
• With downstream speed \( d \) and upstream speed \( u \), boat speed in still water: \( \dfrac{d+u}{2} \)