Banking | SIDBI Grade A
SIDBI Grade A sets 25 Reasoning Ability questions for 25 marks in the Phase I: Online Screening Examination, so it is worth planning your preparation around the topics below.
The puzzles and seating arrangements carry the most marks and take the most time, so the skill is choosing which set to attempt and which to leave. Clear the quick scoring topics — inequality, syllogism, coding-decoding, blood relations — first, then spend the remaining time on one or two puzzles you can actually finish.
How much Reasoning Ability is worth in each SIDBI Grade A stage, from the official pattern.
| Stage | Questions | Marks | Time | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase I: Online Screening Examination | 25 | 25 | — | 13% |
Every topic in the official syllabus. The linked ones open a set of solved questions you can practise straight away.
Written to the SIDBI Grade A pattern, with the answer key and the method behind it — a look at how the section is actually set before you drill the full topic sets.
Inequality · solved example
Statements: C ≥ D > A ≤ B Conclusions: I. A ≤ B II. D > B Which conclusion(s) definitely follow?
Solution
Reading the chain, conclusion I is true and conclusion II is not necessarily true. Hence: only i follows.
Scheduling puzzle · solved example
How many people attend the training between W and P?
Solution
The schedule is T, Q, W, S, R, P, V from January to July. W attends in March and P in June, so S and R fall between them, which is two people. Count the people between the two named months rather than the months themselves, since counting months would give three and that is the error this question is set to catch.
Inequality · solved example
Statements: B > F ≤ C ≤ D Conclusions: I. F ≤ B II. B > C Which conclusion(s) definitely follow?
Solution
Reading the chain, conclusion I is true and conclusion II is not necessarily true. Hence: only i follows.
Inequality · solved example
In the expression A > B ≥ C > D, which of the following is definitely true?
Solution
A > B, B ≥ C and C > D chain together to give A > D. The others reverse or overstate the given order.
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Untimed drills with the method shown after every question — the step between learning a topic and sitting it under a clock.
Analogy and classification
81 questions, instant feedback
Blood relations and direction sense
108 questions, instant feedback
Seating arrangement
93 questions, instant feedback
Coding, decoding and series
135 questions, instant feedback
Order and ranking
69 questions, instant feedback
Puzzles
99 questions, instant feedback
Syllogism and inequality
126 questions, instant feedback
Reasoning Ability shows up in every SIDBI Grade A mock test, in the same interface, with sectional locking and negative marking.
SIDBI Grade A: 30-question practice mock
30 questions | 30 min
SIDBI Grade A 2026 cycle (notification awaited) sets 25 Reasoning Ability questions for 25 marks in the Phase I: Online Screening Examination.
Yes. SIDBI Grade A deducts one fourth of a mark for each wrong answer, Reasoning Ability included, so unsure guesses cost you. One fourth of a mark is deducted for each wrong answer.
The SIDBI Grade A syllabus lists Puzzles and seating arrangement, Syllogism and inequality, Coding and decoding, blood relations and directions. Weight your revision towards the ones you are weakest on and confirm the emphasis against the paper analysis for recent cycles.
Every Reasoning Ability question on this site is free and written to the exam pattern. Use the topic drills for instant-feedback practice, the daily quiz to keep the section warm, and the SIDBI Grade A mock tests to sit it under a real clock with negative marking.