SBI PO Previous Papers

A different way to use past papers

1. On meeting an unfamiliar set, spend thirty seconds understanding its structure before calculating. The time is recovered several times over. Rushing into an unread structure is how candidates lose whole sets.
2. Write your constraint representation down. For layered puzzles, the diagram is the solution. Practise the notation until it is automatic.
3. For English, answer inference questions before locating evidence. Then check. This trains the comprehension the paper actually tests.
4. Note every set you abandoned and why. Abandoning is a legitimate skill; abandoning the wrong sets is what costs marks.

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Signals that a set should be abandoned

• You have read the set twice and still cannot state what it is asking — the structure has not landed, and it usually will not land on the third reading either. Leave it and return only if minutes remain.
• The first calculation produces an ugly number — in a well-constructed set the early values are usually manageable. An unpleasant intermediate result often means you have misread the base or the units.
• You are two minutes in with no answered question — a hard per-set ceiling is what converts good judgement into marks. Without one, the decision to leave keeps being deferred.
• The puzzle has an extra variable you did not anticipate — three-variable puzzles are legitimate and slow. If the section has faster marks elsewhere, they should be taken first.