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SBI Apprentice Syllabus 2026

The complete SBI Apprentice syllabus for 2026 — 4 sections and 43 topics in all, organised exactly as the State Bank of India Central Recruitment & Promotion Department (CRPD) prescribes. Use it as your revision checklist, then test yourself with a free SBI Apprentice mock below.

General / Financial Awareness14 topics

  • Banking basics — types of banks (PSB, private, foreign, RRB, SFB, Payments Bank, cooperative bank)
  • RBI structure, monetary policy basics (repo, reverse repo, CRR, SLR, MSF, SDF), MPC composition
  • Banking products and services — savings/current/fixed-deposit/RD accounts, demat, credit/debit cards
  • Banking instruments — cheque, demand draft, banker's cheque, pay order, cheque truncation (CTS-2010)
  • Negotiable Instruments Act 1881 — basics, Sec 138 cheque dishonour, crossing, endorsements
  • KYC, AML, PMLA basics — Customer Due Diligence, beneficial owner, suspicious transaction reports
  • Financial inclusion schemes — PMJDY, PMSBY, PMJJBY, APY, MUDRA, Stand-Up India, PM Vishwakarma
  • Payment systems — UPI, NEFT, RTGS, IMPS, BBPS, BHIM, AePS, NETC FASTag
  • CBDC e-rupee — wholesale and retail pilots (2022)
  • Indian regulators — RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PFRDA basics
  • Bank nationalisations 1969 / 1980, SBI Act 1955, RBI Act 1934
  • PSB consolidation 2019-20
  • Current affairs (last 4-6 months) — RBI MPC decisions, government schemes, awards, sports, books, defence, science
  • Static GK — capitals, currencies, dams, national parks, important dates

General English8 topics

  • Reading comprehension — banking, economy and general-interest passages (200-300 words)
  • Cloze test
  • Para jumble / sentence rearrangement
  • Error spotting and sentence correction
  • Fill in the blanks (single and double blank)
  • Sentence improvement
  • Vocabulary — synonym, antonym, one-word substitution, idioms and phrases
  • Word usage / word swap

Quantitative Aptitude11 topics

  • Number system, simplification, approximation
  • Percentages, profit-loss-discount, average
  • Ratio and proportion, mixture and alligation
  • Simple interest and compound interest
  • Time and work, pipes and cisterns, time-speed-distance
  • Ages
  • Permutation, combination and probability (basics)
  • Quadratic equations (basics)
  • Mensuration — area and volume basics
  • Data Interpretation — bar, line, pie, table (1-2 sets)
  • Number series (missing number)

Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude10 topics

  • Puzzles — floor-based (5-7 floors), day-based, hybrid floor+flat
  • Seating arrangement — linear, parallel rows, circular
  • Blood relations
  • Syllogisms (two and three statements)
  • Coded inequalities and direct inequalities
  • Direction and distance
  • Coding-decoding
  • Alphanumeric series
  • Statement and assumptions, statement and conclusions
  • Computer Aptitude — generations of computers, hardware/software, MS Office, internet basics, networking, programming language types, DBMS basics, security (firewall, antivirus, phishing), abbreviations and shortcuts

Know the syllabus — now see where you stand.

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