Pattern of the State Bank of India CBO Exam
Pattern of the State Bank of India CBO Exam
Exam Pattern for SBI CBO: Exam Pattern Specifics for State Bank of India Circle Based Officers.
The three phases of the SBI CBO exam pattern are Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III.
The online test, screening, and interview phases make up the selection process.
A) Online Exam: The online exam will include a 50-mark descriptive test and 120-mark objective tests. Immediately following the completion of the Objective Test, candidates will take the Descriptive Test, for which they must type their answers on a computer.
(i) Objective Test: This test has four sections totaling 120 marks, and it lasts for two hours. Every section will have a different time.
| S.No. | Name of test | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration |
| 1. | English Language | 30 | 30 | 30 minutes |
| 2. | Banking Knowledge | 40 | 40 | 40 minutes |
| 3. | General Awareness/ Economy | 30 | 30 | 30 minutes |
| 4. | Computer Aptitude | 20 | 20 | 30 minutes |
| Total | 120 | 120 | 2 hour |
(ii) Descriptive Test: This test lasts for thirty minutes. There will be two questions totaling 50 marks in the English Language Test (Letter Writing & Essay).
Sectional qualifying marks won’t exist. There is a minimum qualifying score required overall, and the bank will determine what that score is.
Penalties for Incorrect Answers: In objective tests, incorrect answers marked will not incur penalties.
Sectional marks won’t be kept for the online test.
(b) Screening: Candidates who pass the online exam will present their online applications and supporting documentation to the screening committee.
The Bank-appointed Screening Committee will determine if the applicants meet the necessary experience requirements for eligibility. The Committee will compare the candidates’ submitted job profiles—which have been verified by their current or former employers—with the State Bank of India’s Scale-I Generalist Officer job profile. The candidate’s application will be summarily rejected if their job profile significantly differs from the job profile of a Scale-I Generalist Officer at State Bank of India.
The State Bank of India’s Scale-I Generalist Officer job profile and the candidates’ job profiles may be matched by the bank, which will determine the parameters to be used. All candidates would be bound by the Bank’s decision, which would be final in this regard. The Bank will not consider any correspondence or representation in this regard.
The Screening Committee will determine the necessary experience criteria for candidates, and based on their aggregate score in the online test, a merit list will be compiled, ranking the candidates both by category and by circle. Subject to the availability of qualified candidates, candidates up to three times (approximately) the number of Circle wise and Category wise vacancies will be contacted for interviews from the top of the merit list drawn on Circle wise and Category wise vacancies. The act of passing an online exam does not guarantee an interview invitation.
(c) The interview will be worth fifty marks. In order to be selected in the end, candidates must receive the required minimum qualifying marks during the interview process. The Bank will determine the minimum required scores.
Applicants who meet the requirements for an interview under the “OBC” category must present an OBC certificate with the “Non-Creamy layer” clause. The requests for interviews under the General category made by candidates who have registered as OBC but have not submitted their OBC “Non-Creamy layer” certificate will not be considered.
Final Selection: Each candidate must pass both the online exam and the interview in order to move forward. The final merit list will be prepared by adding the marks from the Objective and Descriptive tests taken online to the marks from the interview. The final merit list will be created using a 75:25 weighting system to normalize the marks obtained in the online exam and the interview.
Candidates’ scores in the online test (out of 170 total) are converted to a score of 75, and their interview results (out of 50 total) are converted to a score of 25. Once the converted marks from the online test and interview are added together (out of 100), the final merit list (both circle- and category-wise) is determined. The top candidates on the merit list, which is created based on circle and category, will be chosen.
