Full Insight About SBI Clerk Exams in India

State Bank of India (SBI) is the country’s oldest bank and is the biggest bank in India, by both assets under control and number of customers. SBI has about 14000 branches along with 191 offices in foreign countries. SBI also has a very large number of employees, about 2,07,039.

SBI employees are well respected in society and they receive a good salary along with various perks like LTC, HRA etc.

SBI Clerk exam is conducted at a national level to recruit clerks for the bank. Clerks also have theoption of getting promoted to officer rank by taking internal exams and appearing in theinterview. SBI clerks can be allocated any office throughout the country, the candidate should be willing to mobilise

The notification for theexam is published on the official SBI website.

Eligibility criteria:

The candidate must be minimum 20 years of age and maximum 28 years, however, age relaxation is available for reserved categories and few other exceptions.

Also, the candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree from a recognised university.

The SBI clerk exam has two round of online MCQ based exams, the exam centre is mentioned in admit card, each candidate is provided one computer system, and thecandidate is free to choose which section to attempt first.

Preliminary Examination:

The First round is the preliminary round, it consists of 100 questions, and time given for them is 1 hour(60mins).

The section wise breakdown of preliminary exam is as follows:

1. No

Section

Questions

Marks

1

English Language

30

30

2

Numerical Ability

35

35

3

Reasoning Ability

35

35

Total

100

100

Mains Examination:

Candidates who qualify in the first round of examination give the second round i.e., mains examination. The mains exam is of two hours and has 200 questions in total.

The section wise breakdown of question paper is as follows:

S.No.

Section

Questions

Marks

1

General/Financial Awareness

50

50

2

General English

40

40

3

Quantitative Aptitude

50

50

4

Reasoning and Computer Aptitude

60

60

All section except English is available in both English and Hindi languages. Also, negative 1/4th marks are awarded for every wrong answer. Candidates need to score above specific cut-off marks to get called for the interview. 5% cutoff marks relaxation is available for reserved category candidates.

The final allotment of thejob is done through an aggregate merit list.

SBI exam has very tough competition, aspirants need to put their best in order to get selected. There are various coaching institutes in the country that offerguidance and classes for the bank exams.Also, there are various books and online forums available to prepare more. Self-study is very important for these job exams; aspirant must allocate a decent amount of time for self-preparation.Another option for getting ajob in government banks apart from SBI is by appearing in IBPS clerk exam, IBPS recruits staff for allbank except SBI.

Aspirants should take as many mock tests as possible, as it can boost confidence significantly. SBI Clerk  question papers can be found on various websites on the internet. Also, there are various books available to aid preparation.