SBI PO EXAM 2019

SBI PO EXAM 2019

TOTAL POSTS: 2000

Eligible candidates, who aspire to join State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer, are required to register on-line for the Recruitment Process. The recruitment process will be held in three phases i.e. Preliminary Examination, Main Examination and Group Exercise & Interview. Candidates who are shortlisted after Preliminary Examination will have to appear for Main Examination. Candidates who are shortlisted after the Main Examination will be subsequently called for Group Exercises & Interview.

Prospective candidates can apply after carefully reading the advertisement regarding the process of examinations/ interview, eligibility criteria, online registration processes, payment of prescribed application fee/ intimation charges, pattern of examinations, issuance of call letters etc. and ensure that they fulfil the stipulated criteria and follow the prescribed processes.

Vacancies : 2000+ Vacancies

The tentative schedule of events is as follows:

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Age: 21 to 30 Years as on 01/04/2019 (Relaxation: OBC: 3yrs, SC/ST: 5 yrs, PH: 10yrs, Ex. Serv.: 5 Yrs.)
2. Qualification: Should hold a degree of Graduation on or before 31–08-2019.

HOW TO APPLY: Candidates can apply online only from 02-04-2019 to 22-04-2019 and no other mode of application will be accepted.

Fee:  Rs 750 (For SC/ST/PWD:Rs 125 only). Mode of fee payment will be only online payment.

The number of attempts in SBI PO Exam are Limited:

Candidates who have already appeared for the maximum number of chances permissible are not eligible to apply.

Recruitment Process:

The selection for Probationary Officers will be done through a three tiered process:

Phase-I: Preliminary Examination:

Preliminary Examination consisting of Objective Test for 100 marks will be conducted online. The test will have of 3 Sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:

Selection criteria for Main Examination: Category wise merit list will be drawn on the basis of the aggregate marks scored in the Preliminary Exam. There will be no sectional cut-off. Candidates numbering 10 times the numbers of vacancies (approx.) in each category will be short listed for Main Examination from the top of above merit list.

Phase-II: Main Examination:

Main Examination will consist of Objective Tests for 200 marks and Descriptive Test for 50 marks. Both the Objective and Descriptive Tests will be online. Candidates will have to answer the Descriptive Test by typing on the computer. The Descriptive Test will be administered immediately after completion of the Objective Test.

(i) 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

(ii) 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).

Selection criteria for Group Exercise and Interview: Category wise merit list will be drawn on the basis of the aggregate marks scored in the Main Examination. There will be no sectional cut-off. Candidates numbering up to 3 times (approx.) of the category wise vacancies will be shortlisted for the Group Exercise & Interview from the top of the category wise merit list subject to a candidate scoring the minimum aggregate qualifying score.

Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Preliminary and Main Exam):

There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, 1/4th of marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. if no answer is marked by candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

Phase-III: Group Exercises (20 marks) & Interview (30 marks)

Candidates qualifying for GE & Interview under ‘OBC’ category would be required to submit OBC certificate containing the ‘Non Creamy layer’ clause. Candidates who have registered themselves as OBC but do not submit OBC ‘Non Creamy layer’ certificate and request to be interviewed under General category will not be entertained.

Final Selection

The marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination (Phase-I) will not be added for preparing the final merit list for selection. Only the marks obtained in Main Examination (Phase-II), both in the Objective Test and the Descriptive Test, will be added to the marks obtained in GE & Interview (Phase-III) for preparing the final merit list. The candidates will have to qualify both in Phase-II and Phase-III separately.

Marks secured by the candidates in the Main Examination (out of 250 marks) are converted to out of 75 marks and Group Exercises & Interview scores of candidate (out of 50 marks) are converted to out of 25 marks. The final merit list is arrived at after aggregating (out of 100) converted marks of Main Examination and Group Exercises & Interview. Selection will be made from the top merit ranked candidates in each category.

Results of the candidates who qualify for Main Examination and Group Exercise & Interview as well as the final select list will be made available on the Bank’s website.

HOW TO APPROACH THE EXAM

As per the latest notification of SBI PO 2019, there have been many changes in the pattern of both SBI PO Preliminary and Mains Examination.

As there is nothing mentioned in the advertisement about the sectional cut-off so, selection will be purely on the basis of aggregate marks obtained in the examination. So, as far as the competition is concerned, we need some strategy on how to approach the exam to get better marks:-

1. Quantitative Aptitude: As there will be sectional timing we have only 20 minutes to score in this section therefore, we should focus on those topics, which are easy to solve and take less time, so, that we can score better marks. So, in this section, we should focus more on number series, approximation/Simplification, quadratic equation, Data Interpretation as these topics takes less time with good accuracy. By solving above mentioned topics, one can nearly cover 25 marks out of 35 marks in time span of 15 to 17 minutes.

For the rest of time try to attempt questions from your strong topic Eg. Ratio, Percentage, Time & work, Ages as these topics can be easily solved. By following this strategy, one can attempt nearly 25-30 questions easily in just 20 minutes. For mains, try to focus more on Basics and Data interpretation question of arithmetic part, as these questions covered more than 50% of the section and after that try to focus more on data sufficiency and quadratic equations.

35. Logical Reasoning: For prelims exam, focus on inequalities, sitting arrangement, input output (as expected) and Puzzles, as only puzzle and seating arrangement part covers around 20-25 marks out of 35. In mains, we can expect 0 to 5 questions from computer aptitude (high level) and 40 to 45 questions from reasoning especially puzzles, sitting arrangement, input output etc. So prepare for the prelim only till June and then there will be sufficient time to prepare for the computer aptitude section after the prelims.
36. General Economy & Banking Awareness: This topic is part of mains examination but this section is the biggest game changer of mains result, if a person score well in this section there will be the more chances that he/she will get selected. So Keep in touch with daily current affairs specifically the financial updates. After the prelim exam prepare for last 4 to 5 months current affairs and banking awareness. There will be 40 questions for 40 marks, this section is considered to be the differential section. A student can score 30 to 35 marks in the stipulated time with the organized study plan.
37. English Language: If we observe the recent trends, this section has seen a steep rise in the difficulty level of the exam. In prelim we expect to have 10 questions from Comprehension, 5questions from cloze test, 5 from grammatical errors or sentence improvement, 5 from sentence connectors. So keep solving more and more comprehensions and read the Hindu Editorials to improve the command over English language. In mains also the difficulty level is very high and we need to prepare accordingly. Out of 35 questions in mains exam we can expect 2 comprehensions of 15-20 marks (including vocabulary questions). 5 para jumbles, 5 cloze test and 5 errors. So again here the focus is on comprehension. But practise as much as possible and do more and more reading for better performance in this section.
38. Descriptive Test: Keep yourself updated with the latest pattern of essay and letter writing. Also as we have to type the essay and letter get yourself used to normal settings of the document. Need not to go for typing course. Its test basic understanding and writing skills not of typing skills. But still need to have an average typing speed to attempt this section in 30 minutes. Sometime we take this section casually but it’s very essential section and the scoring difference is quite high.

Personality Test: The GD & Interview will take place after 10^th July so after mains exam there will be sufficient time to prepare for the GD & Personal Interview.

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