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State Bank of India (SBI) 


SBI Probationary Officers (PO) Recruitment

SELECTION PROCEDURE :

Phase- I : Written Examination -- Combined Duration 3 Hrs. (Combined Objective & Descriptive Type Tests) -- [Max marks-250 (combined)]

The duration of objective type test will be 2 hours, Max. marks 200 and will consist of :

i) Test of English Language (Grammer, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc.)

ii) Test of General Awareness, Marketing & Computers

iii)Test of Data Analysis & Interpretation

iv) Test of Reasoning (High Level)

The duration of Descriptive type test will be 1 hour, Max. marks-50 and the test will be of "Test of English Language (Comprehension, short precis, letter writing & essay)" Descriptive test paper of only those candidates will be evaluated who are adequately high in percentile ranking in each of all the four objective tests and have scored overall aggregate 40% and above in case of General category and aggregate 35% and above in case SC/ST/OBC/PWD category. The qualifying marks for descriptive test will also be overall aggregate 40% for General category and overall aggregate 35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD. The merit list of written examination will be based on the aggregate of the marks obtained by the candidates in Objective and Descriptive tests.

Phase-II : Group Discussion & Interview :

Max Marks - 50. [GD - 20 Interview - 30]

The aggregate marks of objective test and descriptive test will be arranged in descending order and the candidates who have qualified in both the written examinations will be called for group discussion and interview depending upon the vacancies in each category, subject to maximum of 3 times of the vacancies.

Final Selection

The marks of group discussion and interview will be put together and the candidates who secure minimum 40% marks (minimum 35% in case of SC/ST/OBC/PWD) in group discussion and interview will be considered for final selection. The candidate will have to pass both in Phase I & II separately. Phase I & Phase II marks will be aggregated and arranged in descending order (category wise) for candidates who have qualified in both the phases separately and depending on the vacancies, selection will be made from the top merit ranked candidates in each category.

Results of the candidates who have qualified for Phase I and thereafter the list of candidates finally selected will be available on the Bank's website in addition to publication in Employment News/ Rozgar Samachar.

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About SBI

State Bank of India

The State Bank of India, was established in 2nd June 1806, at this time was called as Bank of Calcutta. Three years later, it was resigned as Bank of Bengal. This is first bank ever which was jointly established jointly by British government and Bengal Government.  Soon later, there were more banks called as Bank of Bombay and Bank of Madras.  When these three banks amalgamated they named it State Bank of India in 27 January 1921.

In the year 1951, when the Government of India launched Five Year plan with the aim of serving economy with the increase in the industrial sector in the rural area. Until the plan was established, the SBI along with Imperial Bank of India severed its service to urban sector.  In the year 1955, The All India Rural Credit Survey Committee, proposed to take over the Imperial bank and other former state owned banks. As a result of this SBI was established.

SBI is the most profit making public sector bank and has 480 branches across India along with sub-office and head office. The bank played major role in financing and developing the infrastructure in India along with offering banking services to its customers.

The corporate sector of this bank is being set up in Mumbai and has 14 local head offices. As the growth of the bank is raising the branches of this bank is also increasing with having more than 1000 branches spread across India currently.  SBI offers all the banking services to its customer with ATM and computerized banking service.  There are currently 8 subsidiary banks that are connected to SBI.

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