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The State Bank of India conducts exams for the SBI recruitment process with the goal of hiring qualified individuals for various posts. The SBI Recruitment exams are held annually in the online medium. The recruitment exams held by the SBI include SBI PO, SBI SO and SBI Clerk for recruiting Probationary Officers, Specialist Officers and Clerks respectively.
Candidates appearing for any of the SBI recruitment exams must ensure that they meet the eligibility criteria prescribed by the exam authorities. Candidates looking to join SBI Careers must hold a graduation degree along with being within the prescribed age limit. For more information regarding the SBI Clerk exam, candidates can go though the material below.
The recruitment process of SBI Career, the candidates are recruited as the following:
Specialist Officer
Probationary Officers
Clerk
The State Bank of India (SBI) conducts the recruitment of Specialist Officer (SO) to recruit candidates to its specialist cadre Deputy Manager (Systems) MMGS-II, Manager (Systems) MMGS-III, General Manager (Scale VII) as Analytics Translators, Sector Credit Specialists, Portfolio Management Specialists and Sector Risk Specialists, Managers, Security Experts etc. The exam is conducted in two stages - written and interview. Candidates being shortlisted in the mains exam of the SBI SO will be able to appear for the interview stage.
SBI will announce the recruitment test for recruiting candidates to their Probationary Officer cadre. The test is conducted online in three stages - prelims, mains, and interview round. The prelims exam of SBI PO is conducted for a total of 100 questions of 1 mark each while the mains exam is held for a total of 200 marks. Candidates passing the prelims and mains exam will be called for the interview stage. In the SBI PO exam, there is a negative marking wherein 1/4th of the total marks will be deducted for every wrong response given by the candidates.
SBI conducts the clerk exam or SBI Junior Associates exam for recruitment of candidates in the clerical cadre. The test is held in two stages - prelims and mains wherein the prelims exam is of 100 marks while the mains exam is conducted for 200 marks. SBI Clerk qualified candidates will get a starting basic pay of Rs. 13075.00 along with other allowances.
The table below contains the expected dates of the SBI Careers exams:
SBI Career Important Dates
SBI career exams | Prelims exam dates | Mains exam dates |
To be notified | To be notified | |
To be notified | To be notified | |
To be notified | To be notified |
The exam authorities have determined the eligibility criteria for the candidates applying for the exam. The candidates need to ensure they meet the eligibility criteria before applying for the available posts of the SBI Career exam. The table below contains the age and educational criteria a candidate must have to apply for the SBI posts.
SBI Careers | Age limit | Education qualification |
20 to 28 years of age | Graduation | |
21 to 30 years of age | Graduation | |
23 to 40 years (depending on the post) | Graduation |
The exam authorities release the SBI application form for SO, Clerk, and PO in online mode. Candidates meeting the eligibility criteria as per the post must fill out the desired application form within the allotted time frame. Along with filling out the application form, candidates must also pay the requisite application fee as per their category. Candidates can get details related to the application form by clicking on the links available below in the table.
SBI Career Application Form
Before appearing for the exam, candidates must go through the exam pattern to know the sections from where the questions will be asked in the exam. Apart from this, candidates will also be able to know the number of questions, marking scheme, mode of exam and the duration of the exam. The SBI Clerk exam is conducted for two stages - prelims and mains while the SBI PO exam is held for three stages - prelims, mains and interview. SBI PO exam is held in two stages - a written exam and an interview. The table below contains the exam pattern for the SBI Career for all three recruitment exams.
SBI Careers Exam Pattern
The admit card is released by SBI for the respective post in online mode on the official website of sbi.co.in. The admit card will be out a few days before the commencement of the exam. Candidates will be able to download the admit card till the date of the respective exam of the candidates.
To download the admit card, candidates must use their registration/roll number and date of birth/password. The admit card will contain details related to the candidates and the exam - name, registration number, roll number, exam name, date of birth, date and time of exam, and exam centre details. For more information about the SBI career admit card, candidates can refer to the pages linked below.
SBI Admit Card
The authorities will announce the results of the SBI recruitment exams online on the official website. The SBI recruitment results will be released in this manner for every stage of each exam. To download the SBI career result, candidates will have to use their registration/roll number, date of birth and password. The result will contain the name of the candidates, registration number, roll number, marks secured in each section, total marks, the minimum qualifying cutoff and the qualifying status of the candidates. The table below contains the links containing details about the result for each recruitment test.
SBI Result
The examination authorities determine the cut off of the SBI career exams for shortlisting the candidates to the next stage of the selection process. The SBI cutoff is determined for each category depending upon the total vacancies, number of appeared candidates, and difficulty level of the exam. To know more about the cut off marks and get the previous year cut off details, candidates must click on the link available in the table below.
SBI Cutoff
Candidates who clear the SBI Careers as a Clerk or PO are paid salaries in certain pay scales. Along with the payment of the salaries, candidates are also paid various allowances.
As per the SBI Clerk pay scale, candidates are paid in the scale of Rs.17900-1000/3-20900-1230/3-24590-1490/4-30550-1730/7-42600-3270/1-45930-1990/1-47920. SBI PO qualified candidates are paid a base pay of Rs. 41,960/- with increments along the scale of Rs. 36000-1490/7- 46430-1740/2-49910-1990/7-63840. Along with this, candidates are paid allowance - Dearness Allowance (DA), House Rent Allowance (HRA), Transport Allowance and Special Allowance. To know about the SBI Career salary, go through the pages linked below.
SBI Career Salary
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The authorities have not yet announced any date related to the SBI Clerk prelims result announcement. It will be intimated on the official website as and when the release date is out.
No, since SBI conducts the test in online mode, it does not release any official answer key. However, there are many leading coaching institutes who release the memory based answer key after the conclusion of the exam.
Yes, you can appear for both the tests of SBI PO and Clerk.
No, to attempt any SBI Recruitment exam, candidates must have completed graduation.
Candidates can have a degree in any discipline to be able to attempt the SBI PO.
Others:05 September,2024 - 31 January,2025
Application Date:01 December,2024 - 30 December,2024
Application Date:09 December,2024 - 30 December,2024
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