State Bank of India (SBI) Exams
SBI PO exams consists of three stages of exams a) prelims b) mains c) group discussion and interview about 19.75 candidates appeared in 2019 in SBI PO.
SBI Exams are conducted to hire candidates for various posts like:
- SBI Probationary Officer (PO)
- SBI Clerk (Junior Associates)
- SBI Specialist Cadre Officer (SCO/ SO)
SBI PO (Probationary Officer) Examination
Online Examinations
About work and pay scale
- In 2019, 19.75 lakh applications applied for 2000 posts (General posts 810)
- To recruit Probationary Officers, State Bank of India (SBI) conducts SBI PO exam all over India who work in various branches of SBI in India as well as abroad.
- POs are practically trained in various fields, like – Marketing, Accounting, Loans & Advances as well as Finance. They also handle customers, like issuing Cheque books, ATM cards, Demand Draft, etc. They supervise clerks and also look into loan processing.
- SBI PO is one of the most coveted jobs in banking sector which offers lucrative salary as well as excellent career progression.
- Presently, the starting basic pay is27,620/-(with 4 advance increments) in the scale of23700-980/7-30560-1145/2-32850-1310/7-42020 applicable to Junior Management Grade Scale-I. The total compensation per annum on CTC basis be a minimum of 8.20lacs and maximum of 13.08 lacs depending on place of posting and other factors.
SBI PO Eligibility
Age: 21-30 years inclusive
Education: Graduation or appearing for final exams of graduate degree course.
SBI PO Selection Process
- Prelims
- Mains
- Group Discussion / Interview
Frequency of exam: Once a year
a. SBI PO Preliminary Examination Online Classes
- Online, Objective Type, in Hindi/English
- Objective test Marks: 100
- Objective test Qs: 100
- Objective test Time: 60 Minutes
Preliminary Examination consisting of Objective Test for 100 marks will be conducted online. The test will be of 3 Sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:
| Name of the Test | No. of Qs. | Max. Marks | Duration |
| English Language | 30 | Total
Maximum Marks 100 |
20 minutes |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 20 minutes | |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 20 minutes | |
| Total | 100 | 1 hour |
No sectional cut-off
b. SBI PO Mains Exam
- Online, Objective Type and descriptive type, in Hindi/English
- Objective test Marks: 200
- Objective test Qs: 155
- Objective test Time: 180 Minutes
- Descriptive test Marks: 50
- Descriptive test time: 30 minutes
- Group Exercise: 20 marks
- Interview: 30 marks
A) SBI PO Mains Objective Test:
The objective test of 3 hours duration consists of 4 Sections for total 200 marks. The objective test will have separate timing for every section.
| Name of the test | No. of Qs. | Max. Marks | Duration |
| Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 45 | 60 | 60 minutes |
| Data Analysis & Interpretation | 35 | 60 | 45 minutes |
| General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| English Language | 35 | 40 | 40 minutes |
| Total | 155 | 200 | 3 hours |
There will be no sectional cut-off.
B) SBI PO Mains Descriptive Test:
The Descriptive Test of 30 minutes duration with two questions for 50 marks will be a Test of English Language (Letter Writing & Essay).
Negative Marking (both –Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations)
-0.25 (or -1/4) for every wrong answer
C) Group exercises and Interview
Group Exercises (20 marks) & Interview (30 marks)
Category wise merit list on the basis of the marks scored in the Main Examination selected for Group exercise & Interview.
Final Selection
Preliminary Marks – Not added
Mains Marks + GE Marks + Interview Marks = Final Merit list
Conversion:
Mains 250 75 marks
GE+ Interview 50 25 Marks (More weightage)
Final selection out of 100 Marks
Number of Chances
| Category | Max. Permissible Number of Chances |
| General/ EWS | 4 |
| General/ EWS (PWD) | 7 |
| OBC | 7 |
| OBC (PWD) | 7 |
| SC/ SC (PWD)/ ST/ ST (PWD) | No Restriction |
SBI PO Prelims Syllabus
| Reasoning | Quantitative Aptitude | English Language |
| Alphabetical Series
Numeric Series Figure Series Analogy Blood Relation Causes and Effects Coding-Decoding Decision Making Direction Sense Odd man out Ranking Sitting Arrangements Statement and Arguments Statement and Assumption Statement and Conclusion Syllogism Alphabet Test Classification Clocks & Calendars Logical Venn Diagrams Mathematical Operations Situation Reaction Test |
Age & Averages
Time& Distance-Boat & Stream Simple & Compound Interest Data Interpretation – Bar graph, Line, tabular, pie chart HCF and LCM Number System Percentage Permutation and Combination Pipe & Cistern Probability Profit and Loss Inequality -Quadratic Equation Ratio, Proportion, Partnership Mixtures& Allegations Simplification Time and Work Mensuration (2D&3D) Roots, Surds & Indices Logarithms Decimal and Fraction Heights & Distances |
Antonym & Synonym
Homonyms Cloze Test Fill in the Blanks Grammar based Idioms and Phrases Jumbled Words One-word Substitution Para Jumbles Paragraph completion Phrase Substitution Qs on Vocabulary Reading Comprehension Sentence Completion Spotting Errors Passage Correction Sentence Re-arrangement Shuffling of Sentence parts |
SBI PO Mains Syllabus
| Reasoning | General/Economy
/Banking Awareness |
English Language | Data Analysis | Computer Aptitude |
| Puzzle | Overview of Indian Financial System Current Affairs, Recent Banking Updates | Sentence Improvement | Statistics (Averages, Mean, Median etc.)
Representational Statistics (Graphs and Charts) |
Internet |
| Blood Relations | Current Affairs | Error Detection | Inequality (Quantity based) |
Memory |
| Seating Arrangement | General Knowledge (Static) | Vocabulary | Probability | Keyboard Shortcuts |
| Input-Output | Financial Committees | Phrase Replacement | Percentage | Computer Abbreviation |
| Syllogism | Financial Markets | Word Association | Population-based Bar Graph | Microsoft Office |
| Data Sufficiency | Currency and Capital, Awards and Honors | Reading Comprehension | Data interpretation Tabular Graph
Line Graph Pie Chart Bar Graph Radar Graph Caselet |
Computer Hardware |
| Coding-Decoding | Credit and monetary policies (Recent), | Word Usage | Computer Software | |
| Inequalities | Indian Economy | Fill in the blanks | Operating System | |
| Logical Reasoning | Financial Sector Regulators | Spelling Errors | Networking | |
| Order and Ranking | RBI and its Functions | Word Replacement | Computer Fundamentals/Terminologies | |
| Direction sense | National and International Matters | Column Based Fillers | Number System | |
| National Income and expenditure | Sentence Connectors | Logic Gates | ||
| Monetary Policy | Cloze Test | Security Tools, virus | ||
| World Financial Institutions | Para Jumbles | |||
| Sentence Rearrangement | ||||
| Sentence Completion | ||||
| Spelling |
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