SBI Clerk 2026 Prelims Quant PYQ – 26 Sep 2026 Shift 1 (35 Questions with Solutions)

SBI Clerk 2026 Prelims Quant PYQ: 26 September Shift 1 Numerical Ability

This set contains the Numerical Ability questions from SBI Clerk 2026 Prelims, 26 September 2026, Shift 1.

Topic-wise questions in SBI Clerk 2026 Prelims Quant

What this tells you: course of action

• First priority: Simplification & Approximation and Data Interpretation, roughly 68% of the questions between them.
• Keep in rotation: Profit, Loss & Discount, a steady 6% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
• Leave for last: 9 topics appear only once, about 26% in total. Revise them from short notes after the topics above are solid.
• Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 6 for the first group, 1 for the keep-in-rotation group and 3 for the leave-for-last group.

Key formulas for SBI Clerk Prelims arithmetic

• Price after two discounts: \( M\left(1-\dfrac{d_{1}}{100}\right)\left(1-\dfrac{d_{2}}{100}\right) \)
• Compound amount: \( A=P\left(1+\dfrac{r}{100}\right)^{n} \)
• Stream speed: \( s=\dfrac{d-u}{2} \) (downstream \( d \), upstream \( u \))
• Train passing a pole: \( t=\dfrac{L}{v} \)