All the Candidates who are preparing for SBI Clerk Exam must be familiar with the SBI Clerk 2018 Exam Pattern. The exam is conducted by State bank of India to recruit candidates for the clerical post, as well as many other such similar posts. These days many government job aspirants tend to incline towards the banking job. The reasons behind the inclination, are jobs in banks provide a reasonable salary, job security and perks.
And being a well established bank, SBI hold a special ground. Every year thousands and thousands of applicant appear in the SBI Clerk Exam. Under which candidates are recruited as depositors, cashiers and various other public dealings. They can be recruited in different branches located all over the country. As the competition is so high, it is very important to be well aware of SBI Clerk 2018 Exam Pattern. In this article, we would be discussing the exam pattern for SBI Clerk exam 2018.
SBI Clerk 2018 Exam Pattern
The SBI Clerk Exam is taken in 2 stages, one is prelims and other is mains exam. They both have a somewhat similar syllabus, but the time of the exam is different. Also, this year SBI Officials have set new parameters for the exam. This year onwards, the applicants will be allocated a fixed time to attempt a section in the exam. Which mean “if the applicant is allowed 20mins for English section, then he/she cannot change the section before completion of 20 mins”. By this SBI has restricted the advantage of attempting more question in a particular section.
Another change that has been introduced by SBI officials is that this year there will be no minimum cutoff to clear the prelims exam. They will be choosing the top merits in raion of (1:10) with seats and these applicants would be called for the SBI Clerk Main Exam. Let’s discuss more details about the exam pattern.
SBI Clerk Prelims Exam Pattern
The exam is an online objective type paper. It is to be completed in 1 hour. The marking scheme includes that each correct answer gets one marks and 0.25 is deducted for incorrect answers. The candidates have to qualify in each of the three sections in order to be selected for the mains exam. But as per the updated norms from SBI Officials, there is time condition.
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Section No of Questions Maximum Marks Time allowed Quantitative Ability 35 35 20 Mins Verbal Reasoning 35 35 20 Mins English 30 30 20 Mins
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Pattern
It is an online objective type exam with 190 questions belonging to different sections. The exam is of 200 marks and has negative marking. Correct answers get 1 marks and incorrect ones get 0.25 deducted. Candidates do not need to go through interviews for final selections. They have to provide documents for verification. The various sections and number of questions asked are specified below. The marking scheme for the SBI Clerk Exam as follows.
Section No of Questions Maximum Marks Time allowed Quantitative Ability 50 50 45 mins Verbal Reasoning and Computer Ability 50 60 45 mins English Ability 40 40 35 mins General Awareness 50 60 35 mins
SBI has introduced major changes from the year 2017 for the Interview Process. As per the latest SBI Clerk Recruitment, the interview process has been discontinued and the candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of their performance in the SBI Clerk Mains Examination. However, there are no clear instructions for the same. Also, there will be a local language test, if you have proficiency in some local language, you can give your exam in that language only.
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