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SBI Clerk 2017 Previous Year Question Paper

SBI Clerk 2017 question paper was never officially released. Practise our labelled 2017 mock: 26 questions with answers, built on the reported pattern.

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The SBI Clerk 2017 question paper was not officially published, so this page does not host it. Instead it has a clearly labelled mock paper with original questions modelled on the reported 2017 pattern, plus a timed attempt plan and an error-log routine. The SBI Clerk exam covers English, Numeracy, Reasoning and Computer/GA.

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No exam held this year

No SBI Clerk exam was held in 2017. Practise the SBI Clerk 2017 mock paper: original questions in the pattern used around 2017, clearly labelled as a mock.

Why this year matters

2017 will not mirror every new question type, but it still trains selection, stamina, and the chapters that keep coming back. Sectional timing and cut-offs matter as much as raw accuracy. Track attempts per section, not just the total.

Count attempts and accuracy by section. A high raw score with a failed sectional cut-off is still a fail in the real exam.

Paper analysis

Snapshot of SBI Clerk 2017

Archive Clerk.

2017 may feel differently paced than the newest cycle. Borrow stamina and theme lessons; do not copy obsolete section orders or marking quirks.

What this paper stresses

  • Puzzle / DI sets that should have been abandoned earlier.
  • English error-spotting under speed pressure.
  • Mains vs Prelims difficulty mismatch (especially SBI / RBI).
  • Sectional cut-off failures despite a decent overall.

What to extract before you move on

  • Sectional attempt targets that still clear cut-offs in mocks.
  • English miss taxonomy (grammar vs vocab vs RC).
  • Prelims vs Mains repair queues kept as separate lists.
  • Puzzle / DI patterns that beat you when you overstay.

How 2017 sits next to other years

Use 2017 only after SBI Clerk 2024, SBI Clerk 2023, SBI Clerk 2022 are logged. Archive years are for frequency maps, not for predicting tomorrow’s cut-off.

Analyst note: No SBI Clerk exam was held in 2017. The mock below is a practice set in that period’s pattern.

SBI Clerk 2017 mock paper (modelled on the 2016–18 Junior Associates Prelims)

Practice mock: no exam was held in 2017.These 26 questions are original, written by previousyearquestions.app in the pattern used around2017. Use it to practise the pattern. The questions are not from any real exam.

SBI ran no Junior Associates recruitment exam in 2017: its archived career notices go from the 2016 Junior Associates results to the next clerical advertisement in January 2018, and SBI never publishes clerk question papers in any case. This original mini-paper is a practice set for the gap year, modelled on the Prelims pattern of that period as reported by candidates in 2016 and 2018.

What candidates reported about 2017

  • No SBI Junior Associates notification or exam was held in 2017; the next recruitment was notified in January 2018 with prelims in June–July 2018.
  • The prelims pattern of the period: 100 questions in 60 minutes (English 30, Numerical 35, Reasoning 35), +1/−0.25 marking.
  • In 2016 the prelims used a single composite timer; from 2018 each section got its own 20-minute timer.
  • Candidates in both years reported seating/floor puzzles as the largest reasoning block, with coded inequalities, blood relations and ranking.
  • Numerical Ability mixed simplification, number series (including wrong-number series), a DI set and arithmetic; English had RC, cloze, para jumbles and error spotting.

Suggested time: 16 minutes. Practise this 26-question mock in 16 minutes on a single timer, as in the 2016 prelims (60 minutes for 100 questions). Five options per question; +1 for a correct answer, −0.25 for a wrong answer.

English Language

Passage

When the borewell in their apartment complex began to run dry every summer, the residents of a city housing society faced a choice. They could buy water from tankers at rising prices, or they could try to catch the rain that fell on their own rooftops.

After much debate, they chose the second option. Pipes were laid to carry rainwater from the terraces to a filter and then into a pit that allowed the water to soak into the ground near the borewell. The work cost each family roughly what it had been spending on tanker water in a single summer.

The results took two monsoons to appear. By the third year, the borewell no longer failed in April, and tanker purchases had almost stopped. The society's secretary admits that the biggest challenge was not engineering but persuading every family to contribute. 'Water under the ground belongs to everyone,' he says, 'so the work had to be shared by everyone too.'

  1. What problem did the residents of the housing society face?

    1. Their rooftops leaked during the monsoon
    2. Their borewell ran dry every summer
    3. Tanker water was banned in the city
    4. Their filter stopped working
    5. The society had no secretary
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: B (Their borewell ran dry every summer)

    The passage opens with the borewell beginning 'to run dry every summer'.

  2. How much did the rainwater harvesting work cost each family?

    1. Nothing, as the city paid for it
    2. About what it spent on tanker water in one summer
    3. Twice its annual water bill
    4. The cost of a new borewell
    5. The passage does not say
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: B (About what it spent on tanker water in one summer)

    'The work cost each family roughly what it had been spending on tanker water in a single summer.'

  3. According to the secretary, what was the biggest challenge?

    1. Finding engineers
    2. Laying the pipes
    3. Persuading every family to contribute
    4. Waiting for the monsoon
    5. Buying a filter
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (Persuading every family to contribute)

    He says the biggest challenge 'was not engineering but persuading every family to contribute'.

Cloze test

A budget is not meant to (1) ______ you from enjoying your money; it simply helps you (2) ______ where it goes.

  1. Choose the word that fits blank (1).

    1. stop
    2. help
    3. allow
    4. invite
    5. encourage
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A (stop)

    Only 'stop' fits the construction '___ you from enjoying'.

  2. Choose the word that fits blank (2).

    1. track
    2. hide
    3. waste
    4. forget
    5. lose
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A (track)

    A budget helps you 'track' (keep a record of) where your money goes.

Para jumble, error and filler

  1. Arrange the sentences in a logical order. P. Within a week, the wallet was back with its owner. Q. Ramu, an auto driver, found a wallet on the back seat. R. He took it to the nearest police station. S. The police traced the owner through a card inside it.

    1. QRSP
    2. QSRP
    3. RQSP
    4. QRPS
    5. SQRP
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A (QRSP)

    Q (finding the wallet) → R (taking it to the police) → S (police trace the owner) → P (wallet returned).

  2. Find the part with an error: I look forward / to meet you / at the conference / next week.

    1. (A) I look forward
    2. (B) to meet you
    3. (C) at the conference
    4. (D) next week.
    5. (E) No error
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: B ((B) to meet you)

    In 'look forward to', 'to' is a preposition and takes a gerund: 'to meeting you'.

  3. Choose the word that fits the blank: The new manager is known for his ______ and fairness.

    1. integrity
    2. integral
    3. integrate
    4. integer
    5. intrigue
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A (integrity)

    A noun meaning honesty is needed alongside 'fairness': 'integrity'.

Numerical Ability

Simplification

  1. 8.5 × 12 − 2.5 × 16 + 18 = ?

    1. 70
    2. 75
    3. 80
    4. 85
    5. 90
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (80)

    8.5 × 12 = 102; 2.5 × 16 = 40; 102 − 40 + 18 = 80.

  2. 7/9 of 3/5 of 1215 = ?

    1. 549
    2. 558
    3. 567
    4. 576
    5. 585
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (567)

    3/5 of 1215 = 729; 7/9 of 729 = 567.

  3. 2⁶ + 3⁴ − 5² = ?

    1. 110
    2. 115
    3. 120
    4. 125
    5. 130
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (120)

    64 + 81 − 25 = 120.

Number series

  1. 3, 6, 18, 72, 360, ?

    1. 1440
    2. 1800
    3. 2160
    4. 2520
    5. 2880
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (2160)

    Multipliers ×2, ×3, ×4, ×5, ×6: 360 × 6 = 2160.

  2. Find the wrong number: 10, 14, 23, 39, 64, 101, 149

    1. 14
    2. 23
    3. 39
    4. 64
    5. 101
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: E (101)

    Differences should be 2², 3², 4², 5², 6², 7² (4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49). After 64 the term should be 64 + 36 = 100, and 100 + 49 = 149. So 101 is wrong.

Data interpretation

A bookstore sold 1,800 books in a month. The table shows the percentage share of each category (as in a pie chart).

CategoryShare of books sold
Fiction35%
Science20%
History15%
Children's20%
Others10%

  1. How many more Science books than History books were sold?

    1. 60
    2. 75
    3. 90
    4. 105
    5. 120
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (90)

    (20% − 15%) of 1800 = 5% of 1800 = 90.

  2. What is the central angle of the Fiction sector in the pie chart?

    1. 108°
    2. 117°
    3. 126°
    4. 135°
    5. 144°
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (126°)

    35% of 360° = 126°.

  3. How many Fiction and Children's books together were sold?

    1. 900
    2. 945
    3. 990
    4. 1035
    5. 1080
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (990)

    (35% + 20%) of 1800 = 55% of 1800 = 990.

Arithmetic

  1. How many litres of water must be added to 40 litres of a 20% salt solution to make it a 16% salt solution?

    1. 5
    2. 8
    3. 10
    4. 12
    5. 15
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (10)

    Salt = 8 L. For 8 L to be 16% of the solution, total = 50 L, so add 10 L of water.

  2. A is twice as efficient as B. Together they finish a work in 12 days. In how many days can A alone finish it?

    1. 15
    2. 16
    3. 18
    4. 24
    5. 36
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (18)

    A does 2/3 of the joint daily work, i.e. (2/3) × (1/12) = 1/18 per day, so 18 days.

Reasoning Ability

Puzzle

Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G live on the seven floors of a building, one per floor. The lowest floor is 1 and the top floor is 7.

G lives on the middle floor. Two persons live between G and C. A lives immediately above G. Only one person lives between A and B. E lives on a floor above A. F lives immediately above C. D lives on a floor below G.

  1. Who lives on the top floor?

    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: B (B)

    Floors from top: 7: B, 6: E, 5: A, 4: G, 3: D, 2: F, 1: C. G is on floor 4, so C (two floors between) is on 1 or 7, and F is immediately above C, so C = 1 and F = 2. A is on 5. B is two floors from A: 3 or 7. D is below G, so D must take 3, making B = 7; E, above A, takes 6.

  2. Who lives immediately below G?

    1. A
    2. C
    3. D
    4. E
    5. F
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (D)

    Floors from top: 7: B, 6: E, 5: A, 4: G, 3: D, 2: F, 1: C. D is on 3, just below G on 4.

  3. How many persons live above E?

    1. None
    2. One
    3. Two
    4. Three
    5. Four
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: B (One)

    Floors from top: 7: B, 6: E, 5: A, 4: G, 3: D, 2: F, 1: C. Only B (floor 7) is above E (floor 6).

Coded inequality

In the following questions: P @ Q means P > Q; P # Q means P < Q; P $ Q means P = Q; P % Q means P ≥ Q; P & Q means P ≤ Q. Decide which conclusion(s) definitely follow.

  1. Statement: M @ N, N $ O, O % P Conclusions: I. M @ P II. N % P

    1. Only conclusion I follows
    2. Only conclusion II follows
    3. Either I or II follows
    4. Neither I nor II follows
    5. Both I and II follow
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: E (Both I and II follow)

    Decoded: M > N = O ≥ P. So M > P (I) and N ≥ P (II) both follow.

  2. Statement: R & S, S # T, U $ T Conclusions: I. R # U II. S $ U

    1. Only conclusion I follows
    2. Only conclusion II follows
    3. Either I or II follows
    4. Neither I nor II follows
    5. Both I and II follow
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A (Only conclusion I follows)

    Decoded: R ≤ S < T = U. So R < U (I follows), but S < U, so S = U (II) does not follow.

Miscellaneous

  1. D is the son of E. F is the mother of E. G is the husband of F. How is G related to D?

    1. Father
    2. Uncle
    3. Grandfather
    4. Brother
    5. Father-in-law
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: C (Grandfather)

    F is E's mother and G is F's husband, so G is E's father and D's grandfather.

  2. Q is heavier than R but lighter than S. T is heavier than S. P is the lightest of all. Who is the second heaviest?

    1. P
    2. Q
    3. R
    4. S
    5. T
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: D (S)

    Order from heaviest: T > S > Q > R > P. The second heaviest is S.

  3. In a certain code, LAMP is written as QNBM (the letters are reversed and each is then moved one step forward). How is DESK written in that code?

    1. LTFE
    2. LSFE
    3. ETFL
    4. LTED
    5. KSED
    Answer and explanation

    Answer: A (LTFE)

    Reverse DESK → KSED; move each letter one step forward → LTFE.

Reports this mock is modelled on

How to sit SBI Clerk 2017

  1. Work through the mock paper above under exam timing. It follows the reported pattern, but the questions are our own.
  2. Sit the paper under current brochure rules (timers, negatives, NAT/MSQ norms), even if 2017’s interface looked different.
  3. When the clock ends, stop. Review should take at least as long as the attempt.
  4. Fill the error log the same day: section, topic, and miss type (concept, silly, time, or misread).
  5. Next session, repair only logged items. Then pick another year from the decade list.

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FAQ

Where can I download the official SBI Clerk 2017 question paper?

No SBI Clerk exam was held in 2017, so there is no paper. This page has a clearly labelled practice mock instead.

What does the SBI Clerk 2017 paper analysis include?

A year snapshot, what the paper stresses, what to extract into your error log, and how 2017 compares with neighbouring years on this hub.

How should I practise the SBI Clerk 2017 previous year paper?

Open the official PDF, sit it timed under current brochure rules, fill an error log the same day, read the paper analysis, then move to another year in the decade list.

Is SBI Clerk 2017 still useful if I finished newer papers?

Yes, for theme and weightage mining after your newest papers are logged. Skip deleted syllabus pockets.

Are memory-based SBI Clerk 2017 papers reliable?

Treat memory-based sets as interim. Reconcile contested items with official keys or response sheets when the conducting body publishes them.

Where is the SBI Clerk syllabus and pattern for this paper?

See the SBI Clerk syllabus & pattern page on this hub, and always re-check the latest official brochure before exam day.