SBI SO Exam 2024 - Latest Updates, Application Form, Dates, Syllabus, Admit Card, Result

Candidates applying for SBI SO must meet the eligibility criteria as prescribed by the State Bank of India. It is essential for the candidates to check the SBI SO eligibility criteria that is based on educational qualification, age, and work experience before applying online.         

SBI SO Eligibility Criteria

Age Criteria:

All the candidates who are applying for the post of SBI SO must be between 25 to 35 years of as required for the post they have applied for. However, age relaxation is given to the reserved categories. 

Age Relaxation                                                                                                                                         

SBI SO Application Form

SBI will close its SBI SO application form 2024 on June 27, 2024. The last day of fee payment for the SBI SO exam is also June 27, 2024. All the eligible candidates can fill the SBI SO application form which was released in online mode on June 7, 2024. Candidates must have a valid email ID and phone number to proceed with the application process but before filling the application form of SBI SO, candidates must keep the following documents with themselves to upload while filling up the application form 

• Work experience certificates (PDF)
• Proof of Date of Birth
• Any-one ID proof (PDF) such as Aadhaar Card, Pan Card, Passport, Voter ID Card.
• Marksheets of class 10th, 12th, Graduation, Post-Graduation or any other educational certificate (PDF)
• Resume (Doc) 
• Scanned photograph (latest) and signature 

Steps to fill the application form of SBI SO

• Registration
• Uploading of photograph and signature 
• Filling all the required details such as name, age, and uploading of all the documents 
• Payment of online application fees
• Sending all the required self-attested documents via post along with application form to State Bank of India

How to fill SBI SO Application Form? 

Step 1: Online registration: Candidates have to do their registration by entering their name, mobile number, and email ID. A provisional registration number and password will be created by the system. Note down the registration number for further use. 

Step 2: Uploading of photograph and signature: After completing the registration process, candidates will have to upload their latest photograph and signature. Without uploading photograph and signature, the application form will remain incomplete. 

Step 3: Filling and uploading all the required details: Candidates have to fill in all the information such as name, age, category carefully in the application form of SBI SO. In case, they are not able to complete the application form at one go, they can save it and later complete it. All the details entered can be edited for three times only.  Also, candidates need to upload all the documents to the separate links provided for this purpose.

Important instructions for uploading documents 

• The file size should not exceed 500 kb 
• Upload the documents in pdf format except for the resume. The resume must be in DOC format
• The size of the page must be A4
• Before final submission, ensure that all the documents are accessible because, after submission, documents can be removed or deleted.

Step 4: Payment of fee: Candidates have to pay the application fee in online mode by using Debit/Credit Card, or Internet Banking. 

After completing the application process, candidates are also required to send the following documents along with the application form through the post with details about the name of the post for which the candidates have applied to State Bank of India:

• ID proof such as Voter ID card, Aadhaar Card, Passport or Pan Card
• Work experience certificates 
• Marksheets of all the required educational certificates
• Resume
• E-receipt of fee payment

SBI SO Question Paper

The question paper of SBI SO play a vital role during the preparation of the candidates. Solving previous year question paper will help the candidates to make the strategy to qualify the exam. Hence it is advisable to check questions paper of SBI SO is must.

The admit card/interview call letter of SBI SO will be made available on the official website. Along with the admit card candidates are required to take one valid ID proof - Aadhaar Card, Pan Card, Passport or Voter ID Card. The SBI SO admit card will have details such as date and time of interview. Admit card of SBI SO will not be sent via post, candidates have to download their admit card if it is sent to the registered email id or they can download it from the official website. 

Candidates can download the admit card by following these steps:

• Go to the official website
• Click on the admit card link
• Admit card pdf will appear on your screen
• Save it and also take a printout of the admit card

SBI SO Result

State Bank of India will declare the result of SBI SO likely in online mode. Candidates can check their result on the official website by entering their registration number and password/date of birth and the result will be displayed. They can save a copy of the result sheet or download the result for future reference. 

Steps to check the SBI SO result

• Go to the official website and click on the result link
• Enter your registration number and date of birth/password
• Click on the submit button
• The result will appear on your screen
• Save the result and also take a printout 

SBI SO Cut off

SBI SO cut off are the minimum marks secured by the candidates to qualify the exam. SBI SO cut off will be released by the authority after the announcement of result. Authority issues the cut off of SBI SO exam for all the stages seperately.

SBI SO Selection Procedure 

The selection procedure of SBI SO varies for different posts. For some of SBI SO posts, the selection procedure includes shortlisting of candidates based on their educational and work experience and then personal interview while for other it includes online written exam followed by personal interview. For some Senior Managerial posts, SBI shortlists candidates based on the educational qualification, age, and work experience. However, SBI SO selection procedure will be decided as per the post applied by the exam conducting body that is State Bank of India. After the personal interview, a merit list will be made on the basis of the score that candidates have obtained in the interview.