SBI Clerk Best Books 2025: Subject-Wise Best Books for Prelims & Mains

“A room without books is a body without a soul.” Like-wise SBI Clerk preparation without books is of no use. The section-wise SBI Clerk books are given below:

SBI Clerk Books for Quantitative Aptitude

The Quantitative Aptitude section carries a total of 30 questions in the prelims exam and 50 questions in the mains exam. The standard of questions is of high school and higher secondary levels. Given below are the books for the Quantitative Aptitude section:

1. Magical Book on Quicker Mathematics by M Tyra
2. Data Interpretation by Arun Sharma
3. Quantitative Aptitude by RS Aggarwal

SBI Clerk Books for Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude

This Reasoning Ability section carries a total of 35 questions in the prelims exam and 50 questions in the mains exam. Candidates can refer to the following books for the Reasoning section:

1. A New Approach to Reasoning Verbal and Non-Verbal by Arihant Publication
2. Modern Approach to Verbal Reasoning by RS Agarwal
3. Analytical Reasoning by MK Pandey
4. Lucents Computer by Rani Ahilya
5. Computer Awareness for General Competitive Exams by Arihant Publications

SBI Clerk Books for English 

The English section carries a total of 30 questions in the prelims exam and 40 questions in the mains exam. Candidates must clear their basic concepts of grammar and vocabulary to solve questions easily in this section. Candidates can refer to the following books:

1. English Grammar & Composition by Wren & Martin
2. Objective English by SP Bakshi
3. Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis

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SBI Clerk Books for General Awareness

This section appears in the mains exam and carries 50 questions. The total marks for the test are 50. Candidates will be given 35 minutes to answer the questions. Refer to the books for General Awareness below:

1. Objective Banking & Financial Awareness by Dhankar Publication
2. Banking Awareness (Objective with Subjective) by Sangram Keshari Rout

SBI Clerk syllabus outlines the topics that candidates need to prepare for the prelims and mains exams. SBI Clerk syllabus for the prelims and mains exams is given below.

SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus
Subjects	Topics
Reasoning	Logical Reasoning, Alphanumeric Series, Data Sufficiency, Seating Arrangement, Syllogism, Blood Relations, Input-Output, Coding-Decoding, etc
Numerical Ability	Simplification, Profit & Loss, SI & CI, Time & Distance, Work & Time, Data Interpretation, Ratio, Proportion, Percentage, Number System, etc
English Language	Reading Comprehension, Cloze Test, Fill in the blanks, etc

SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus
Subjects	Topics
Quantitative Aptitude	Simplification, Number Series, Data Sufficiency, Data Interpretation, Quadratic Equation, Time & Distance, Work, Profit & Loss, Simple and Compound Interest, Ratio & Proportion, Averages, Percentages, etc
English	Reading Comprehension, Synonyms, Antonyms, Para Jumbles, Cloze Test
General/Financial Awareness	Current Affairs, Static GK, Banking/Financial terms, etc
Reasoning Ability	Machine Input/Output, Syllogism, Blood Relation, Inequalities, Puzzles, Coding-Decoding, etc
Computer Awareness	Basics of Computer: Hardware, Software, Generation of Computers, DBMS, Networking, MS Office, Important Abbreviations, etc

The tips and tricks to prepare for the SBI Clerk exam: 

1. Candidates should go through the exam pattern and syllabus
2. Candidates must solve the previous years' question papers as a part of SBI Clerk preparation
3. Candidates must prepare a proper study plan and follow it diligently
4. Candidates must attempt mock test inorder to improve speed and accuracy
5. It is important to analyse the mock tests and focus on improving the weak areas

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