SBI Clerk Exam Preparation

SBI Clerk 2023 Eligibility

SBI Clerk eligibility details are expect to be same in 2023 and no changes will be visible under the SBI Clerk notification 2023. The candidates can go through the following content to know more about the SBI Clerk eligibility criteria 2023:

SBI Clerk: Educational Qualification (31/12/2023)

SBI Clerk is conducted for candidates with minimum graduation, pan India. You can only apply for it if you have secured the required marks in your graduation level. The following are the detailed qualification requirements that you must fulfill in order to be eligible to appear in this exam:

• The candidate must be a graduate with 3 or 4 year degree in any discipline.
• Must have secured at least 50% in class 10 and degree courses from a recognized university.
• Candidates in the final year of their degree can take the exam but they must produce proof of passing the exams with at least 50% marks at the time of joining and should pass it before december 31, 2023.
• Additionally, candidates must be well versed in official and local languages.
• For the candidates possessing an integrated dual degree (IDD), they must have a qualifying date on the degree before december 31, 2023.
• Must be well versed in the English language (reading and writing).

SBI Clerk: Age Limit (01/04/2023)

Candidates aspiring to qualify for the SBI clerk 2023 exam must be of 20 years of age or above as of April 1, 2023, and must not exceed 28 years of age, i.e. the aspirants should have been born not later than 01.04.2003 and not before 02.041995 (both days inclusive). Amongst various provisions made for a reserved class, age relaxation is one of the factors. Candidates belonging to the reserved category have age relaxation based on the category they belong to.

SBI Clerk: Age Relaxation

Before the SBI Clerk registration process, check the age relaxation in the following table for certain candidates:

Candidates seeking the benefits of age relaxation must show relevant certificates at the time of joining, after the final SBI Clerk selection process. No changes in this category will be permitted after the successful SBI Clerk registration process. The candidates will also not be allowed to contact through email/ phone in this regard.

SBI Clerk: Nationality

• Citizenship of India
• The subject of Nepal and Bhutan
• Tibetan refugees who has come to India before January 1, 1962, with the intention of permanently settling in the country
• Persons of Indian origin who have migrated from countries like Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.

Note: Candidates other than permanent citizens of India must get an eligibility certificate approved by the Government of India in their favor.

SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2023

SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2023: The candidates who will be going to apply for SBI Clerk 2023 must begin their preparation with the detailed exam pattern. As the notification, is not released till now, the preparation must go on. SBI Clerk Exam Pattern is going to help candidates to prepare well for the upcoming SBI Clerk Examination. To ace the upcoming SBI Clerk Exam, it is necessary to remain acquainted with the new SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2023. This article explains the SBI Clerk Exam Pattern for Prelims, Mains, and Language Proficiency elaborately. Read further to know details of the type of questions, number of questions, and other important details of the exam.

SBI Clerk Exam 2023- Highlights

SBI conducts the SBI Clerk Exam every year to recruit eligible and qualified candidates for Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) posts in its various branches across the country. Check the highlights of the SBI Clerk Exam 2023 from the table given below.

SBI Clerk Selection Process 2023

SBI Clerk 2023 is going to be conducted by the State Bank of India to select eligible candidates for Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales). The notification for the same will be released shortly by SBI. With the release of the Official Notification, the vacancy details, eligibility, and online application dates will also be released. The recruitment process to select Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) through SBI Clerk 2023 is done in three phases:

• Online Preliminary Exam,
• Online Mains Exam and
• Language Proficiency

A candidate must qualify for both the preliminary exam and mains exam to proceed to the Language Proficiency round. The candidates selected after the Language Proficiency round are given the appointment letter.

SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2023 Prelims

SBI Clerk Prelims Exam is a Screening exam. It is to weed out not serious candidates from the competition. There is sectional timing for each section i.e., English, Reasoning, and Mathematics. Candidates need to clear the sectional cutoff as well as the overall cutoff to qualify for the SBI Clerk Prelims. Candidates can check the SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2023 for the Prelims exam in the table below.

SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2023 Mains

SBI Clerk Mains Exam is a Scoring as well as Merit deciding exam. There is sectional timing for each section i.e., General/ Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude. The final merit list of candidates will be made on the basis of marks obtained by the candidates in the SBI Clerk Mains exam. Candidates can check the SBI Clerk Mains Exam Pattern in the table below.

Note:

1. Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations). There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty to arrive at a corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.
2. The questions in objective tests, except for the test of General English, will be bilingual i.e., English & Hindi

Those who qualify for the SBI Clerk Mains Exam will be called for Language Proficiency Test. The State Wise Language Proficiency Language is given below.

SBI Clerk Exam Pattern Language Proficiency

Those who qualify for selection and produce a 10th or 12th standard mark sheet/ certificate evidencing having studied the specified opted local language will not be subjected to any Language test. In the case of others (qualified for selection), specified opted local language tests will be conducted after provisional selection but before joining. Candidates not found proficient in specified opted local language would be disqualified.

SBI Clerk Exam Pattern Important Points

Candidates can check important points of the SBI Clerk Exam Pattern of Prelims & Mains

• There will be no Interview.
• Candidates will have to pass each of the objective tests of the online examinations.
• Both the Prelims and Mains exams will be conducted online.
• A candidate has to qualify in Preliminary Examination for appearing in Main Examination.
• The Mains exam will be conducted for the final selection.
• The question paper will be bilingual in nature i.e. available in Hindi as well as English language.
• The Cutoff of the SBI Clerk of prelims and mains exam will be decided by SBI.

SBI Clerk Syllabus includes all the topics that a candidate needs to cover for the SBI Clerk Exam 2023. The SBI Clerk exam consists of two main stages, such as Preliminary and Main Examination. The State Bank of India will release the syllabus both for the Prelims and Mains exam on the official website of SBI.

As per the SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus, candidates have to prepare 3 sections including English, Numerical Ability, and Reasoning. In the SBI Clerk Mains Exam, the candidates have to answer the questions of four sections, Quantitative Aptitude, General English, Computer Aptitude/ Financial Awareness, Reasoning Ability.

SBI Clerk Syllabus 2023 for Preliminary Examination

The syllabus of the SBI Clerk is similar to all other banking exams, which candidates must know in advance to get good SBI Clerk Results. The aspirants have to answer the questions of the three below-mentioned sections in the SBI Clerk Prelims exam. Go through the following content to know more about the SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus:

• English language
• Numerical Ability, and
• Reasoning Ability.

The Preliminary Exam is of 100 marks consisting of 100 questions, each carrying 1 mark. The duration of the exam is 1 hour.

SBI Clerk Syllabus 2023 for Mains Examination

SBI Clerk Syllabus for Mains Exam is divided into 4 sections

• General/ Financial Awareness
• General English
• Quantitative Aptitude, and
• Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude.

As per the SBI Clerk Mains Exam Pattern; there will be a total of 190 questions carrying 200 marks. The time duration is 2 hours 40 minutes. Candidates can check for the SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus 2023 in the following table.

SBI Clerk 2023: Section-wise Expected Number of Questions

In SBI Clerk Prelims and Mains Exam, questions are fairly distributed covering all topics among all sections. Candidates can refer to the below table for a rough idea about the section-wise expected number of questions from each topic.

Quantitative Aptitude

Reasoning Ability

English Language

SBI Clerk In-hand Salary

The In-Hand Salary of SBI Clerk will include the approximate amount a candidate gets after the deductions. The starting salary of SBI Clerk is between the range of Rs 26000 to 29000/-. A factor that influences this amount is the location of posting, which is different in urban and rural locality.

SBI Clerk Salary 2023

The SBI Clerk Salary Structure is as follows:

The payscale of SBI Clerk has been revised by SBI this year and the new pay scale of SBI Clerk is Rs.17900-1000/3-20900-1230/3-24590-1490/4-30550-1730/7-42600-3270/1-45930-1990/1-47920. Earlier, the payscale was 11765-655/3-13730-815/3-16175-980/4-20095-1145/7-28110- 2120/1- 30230-1310/1-31450.

This means that the starting basic salary for a candidate will be Rs 17900/- with a year-on-year increment of Rs 1000/- with the Basic pay while the Maximum Basic Salary of an SBI Clerk- Rs 47920/-.

SBI Clerk Salary- Allowances

The total salary takes into account the allowances, which are in a way beneficial for the employee(Clerk). These allowances include:

1. Dearness Allowance (The Dearness Allowance increases of quarterly basic and is dependent on the Inflation rate of the Country if the inflation increase the DA goes up and vice versa)
2. House Rent Allowance
3. Transport Allowance
4. Special Allowance
5. City Allowance
6. Medical Allowance
7. Newspaper Allowance
8. Furniture Allowance 

These allowances also have varied amounts depending upon the location of posting.

SBI Clerk Salary- Perks

Like a normal bank job, the SBI Clerk Salary includes the perks such as stability, financial security, medical insurance, provident fund. Moreover, the fact that the employee gets to work with the central bank(government) is itself a good opportunity.

Another important benefit includes a provident fund, Pension, Medical Leave and Leave fare. Besides, the promotions provided also add credit to the profile.

SBI Clerk Job Profile 2023

• SBI Clerk works included assisting in the creation of interoffice memos and emails.
• The SBI Clerk Job Profile 2023 includes reconciling the department's budget and producing reports.
• Perform general office tasks such as faxing, filing, copying, and scanning.
• Maintaining the filing system in the office and retrieving material from files as needed will be the role of SBI Clerk employees. 
• Complete the necessary paperwork to pay vendor invoices.

SBI Clerk Promotion

An SBI Clerk is eligible to get promotion through two modes:

1. In-cadre Promotion
2. Promotion to Officer cadre

In-cadre promotion:

This type of promotion is based on home postings, that is a time-bound promotion:

1. A special allowance of Rs 1800 is provided along with the total salary. After 10 years of service, the assistant becomes a Senior Assistant. (This Allowance is not considered for calculation of basic pay).

2. An assistant will become the Special Assistant after twenty years of service. This post carries a special allowance of Rs 2500/- (This is considered for calculation of basic pay).

3. An assistant will become Senior Special Assistant after thirty years of service. This post carries a special allowance of Rs 3500/- (This is considered for calculation of basic pay).

Promotion to Officer Cadre:-

i) An assistant becomes Trainee Officer after completing three years of his/ her service.

This requires qualification of the JAIIB and CAIIB Examinations from the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF) apart from clearing the internal written examination and personal interview.

These officers are then put on probation for a period of two years. After the probation period and based on their personal interview, they are either absorbed in the Middle Management Grade (Scale – II) or sent back to Clerical Cadre.

An assistant can become Scale – I Officer also in the Junior Management Grade when he/ she has completed six years of service in fast track channel or twelve years of service in normal track channel. For faster promotions, JAIIB and CAIIB qualification is also important and should also clear the written test along with the personal interview.

SBI Clerk 2023 Vacancy- Regular Vacancies

SBI Clerk 2023 Vacancy: Backlog

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SBI Clerk Prelims Cut Off 2024

SBI has released the result of SBI Clerk Preliminary Exam 2024 on its official website on 15th February. Category wise cut-off is given in the table below

SBI Clerk Prelims Cut-Off 2022-23

SBI Clerk Mains Cut-Off 2022-23 Out

The official SBI Clerk Mains Cut-Off 2023 has been released for all states along with the SBI Clerk Mains Score Card 2023 13th of March 2023

SBI Clerk Final Result Examination 2022-23

SBI Clerk Prelims Cut-Off 2021

SBI Clerk Prelims Cut Off - State-Wise

SBI Clerk Mains Cut Off 2021- State-wise 

All the best for your exam preparation!