Bank PO Recruitment in SBI

Recruitment of Probationary Officers in SBI

Applications are invited by SBI - State Bank of India, the country’s largest Bank from eligible Indian Citizens for appointment as Probationary Officers (POs) in State Bank of India. Candidates selected are liable to be posted anywhere in India.

Important Dates for Recruitment

Online registration of application: 30.01.2013 to 23.02.2013
payment of fees - online : 30.01.2013 to 23.02.2013
payment of fees - offline : 01.02.2013 to 28.02.2013
date of written examination : 28.04.2013

Details about vacancies

Vacancies for OH & VH category candidates are reserved horizontally. Vacancies including reserved vacancies are provisional and may vary according to the requirements of Bank.

Application fee and intimation charge: (non refundable)

1. SC / ST / PWD - Rs. 50/- (Intimation Charges only)

2. General and Others - Rs. 200/- (App. fee including intimation charges)

How to Apply

Candidates will be required to register themselves online first through Bank's website

www.statebankofindia.com or www.sbi.co.in. After which candidates are required to pay the requisite

application fee.

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Selection procedure:

(a) Phase-I: Written Examination (250 marks) consisting of Objective Tests and Descriptive Test.

(i) Objective Tests (200 marks) :The Objective Tests with 2 hour duration will consists of 4 Sections

with 50 marks each as follows:

(a) Test of English Language (Grammar, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc)

(b) Test of General Awareness, Marketing and Computers

(c) Test of Data Analysis and Interpretation

(d) Test of Reasoning (High Level)

The candidates are required to qualify in the Objective Tests by securing passing marks, in

each of the tests, to be decided by the Bank on the basis of the performance of all the competing

candidates taken together in each test to a minimum required level for each category.

(ii) Descriptive Test (50 marks) : The Descriptive Test with 1 hour duration will be of “Test of English

Language (comprehension, short precis, letter writing & essay)”.

The candidates are required to qualify in the Descriptive Test by securing passing marks, to be

decided by the Bank.

Descriptive Test paper of only those candidates will be evaluated who have scored qualifying

marks in the Objective Tests as stated above in (i).

(b) Phase-II : Group Discussion (20 marks) & Interview (30 marks)

The aggregate marks of candidates qualifying in both the Objective Tests and Descriptive Test will be

arranged in descending order in each category and the candidates in the order of merit, subject to 3 times

the number of vacancies in each category, will be called for Group Discussion and Interview. The qualifying

marks in Group Discussion & Interview will be as decided by the Bank.

(c) Final Selection :

The candidates will have to qualify both in Phase-I and Phase-II separately.

Marks secured by the candidates in the Written Test (out of 250 marks maximum) are converted to out of

75 and marks secured in Group Discussion & Interview (out of 50 marks maximum) are converted to out

of 25. The final merit list is arrived at after aggregating converted marks of Written Test and Group

Discussion & Interview out of 100 for each category. The selection will be made from the top merit ranked

candidates in each category.

Results of the candidates who have qualified for Phase II and thereafter, the list of candidates finally

selected will be available on the Bank’s website. Final select list will be published in Employment News/

Rozgar Samachar.