Applications are invited 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.
VACANCIES:
SC ST OBC GEN TOTAL
225 112 405 758 1500
1. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA : (AS ON 01.01.2013):- (A) Essential Academic Qualifications::-Graduation in any discipline from a recognised University or any equivalent qualification recognised as
such by the Central Government.
(B) Age Limit: As on 01.01.2013:- Not below 21 years and not above 30 years as on 01.01.2013 i.e candidates must have been born not
earlier than 02.01.1983 and not later than 01.01.1992 (both days inclusive)
IMPORTANT DATES:-
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
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 (Grammer, 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 précis, letter writing &
essay)”. The candidates are required to qualify in the Descriptive Test by
securing passing marks, to be decided by the Bank.
NOTE:- 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.
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