SBI PO NOTIFICATION DETAILS & EXAM PATTERN

SBI PO NOTIFICATION DETAILS & EXAM PATTERN

Hello my friends and bank job aspirants!!!Hope everything is going well.

On 5^th April, 2014 State Bank of India has released a notification for recruitment of 1837 probationary officers. For all the details regarding important dates, application fee details, logon to http://www.sbi.co.in/user.html and click on download advertisement. The major change this year is that unlike the previous SBI PO examinations which were conducted offline, this year the objective paper would be conducted ONLINE.

Now before going into the details of the exam, the syllabus and tips for preparation, I want to tell you about the competition. Last year when SBI had released the notification of 1537 probationary officers, it had received 17lakh applications. Even IBPS exams don’t have this amount of competition. But I am not telling this to bring down your spirits. What’s the challenge when you get something easily!

Coming to the exam pattern, SBI PO exam has two parts:

Ø  Objective

Ø  Descriptive

In objective just like IBPS PO, SBI PO has 200 questions which need to be solved in 2hours.But the difference between IBPS PO and SBI PO is that IBPS has 5 sections.

Sr. No.	Name of Tests (Objective)	Number of questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning	40	50	Composite Time of 2 hours
2	English Language	40	40
3	Quantitative Aptitude	40	50
4	General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry)	40	40
5	Computer Knowledge	40	20
	Total	200	200

This was the pattern of IBPS PO III

Coming to SBI PO, it has only 4 sections.

Sr. No.	Name of Tests (Objective)	Number of questions	Maximum Marks
1	Reasoning	50	50
2	English Language	50	50
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50
4	General Awareness, MarketingAptitude, Computer Knowledge	50	50
	Total	200	200

This is the normal pattern followed by SBI in every PO exam.

Now let’s break down each section and see what the scoring sections are.