SBI SO Exam Preparation

State Bank of India conducts a recruitment drive for the post of Specialist Officer. Each year, the SBI SO exam is taken to shortlist candidates for different posts. Candidates interested in applying must match the SBI SO Exam eligibility criteria. The minimum and maximum age limits to apply to any of the SBI SO posts vary from 21 years to 45 years; however, reserved category candidates get some relaxation. Also, only Indian citizens can give the exam.

SBI SO Eligibility Criteria: Nationality & Domicile

The candidates giving the SBI SO exam must be Indian citizens. OCI and NRIs are not eligible to give the exam. Under SBI SO eligibility criteria, state domicile does not exist as this is a national-level exam.

SBI SO Eligibility Criteria: Age Limit 30/04/2023

The table below highlights the minimum and maximum age limits for the different posts.

SBI SO Eligibility Criteria: Age Relaxation

Reserved category candidates (SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWD) have an advantage of age relaxation. Details related to age relaxation are mentioned in the tabular form.

SBI SO Eligibility Criteria: Educational Qualification

Candidates must be graduates to give the SBI SO exam. Preference will be given to the ones having the required qualification and work experience. SBI SO qualification in terms of education for each post is different.

The following table highlights the minimum educational eligibility for SBI Specialist Officer:

SBI SO Eligibility Criteria: Work Experience 2022

Candidates applying for the post of Specialist Officer posts must be qualified in all aspects. The experience requirement differs as per the SBI SO posts candidates are applying for. The experience plays an important role at the time of the interview. The SBI SO 2022 result will bebased on the interview.

The experience required related to various technical and non-technical posts is provided underneath:

SBI SO Eligibility Criteria: Number of Attempt

• As per guidelines shared by the SBI, candidates belonging to the general category can appear a maximum of 4 times in the SBI SO exam.
• The total number of attempts allowed to OBC candidates is 7.
• There is no restriction for the candidates belonging to SC/ST category

SBI SO 2023 Exam Pattern

There is a separate exam to recruit Specialist Officers as Assistant Managers, Engineers, Officers, Architects, Designers, Administrators, Tester, Manager, Analysts, Developers, and various other posts on a regular/ contractual basis. Candidates applying for a particular post must meet the minimum SBI SO eligibility criteria. The exam pattern for each of them is different.

SBI SO Exam Pattern

The written exam for SBI SO will be an objective-type, online test. Candidates must keep in mind the following about the SBI SO  exam pattern:

• The exam will have 270 marks.
• There will be 195 questions in the exam.
• The duration of the exam will be 160 minutes.

The detailed SBI SO exam pattern for the written exam is  as mentioned below

Interview

The selection process for all posts has an interview round. For the post of  System Officer (Test Engineer, Web Developer, and Performance/ Senior Automation Test Engineer), the weightage of the interview will be 30%, and 70% will be for the online written test.  The final merit list of the SBI SO will be prepared on the basis of the marks obtained by the candidate in all stages, including the interview.

SBI SO Syllabus

Given below is the detailed syllabus for the recruitment of candidates for various posts of the SBI SO exam:

SBI SO Syllabus for Professional Knowledge

Systems Officer/IT Officer

• Computer Networks and Basic Programing Languages (C, C++, Java)
• DataBase Management Systems (DBMS), Basic concepts of Software and Hardware, Data Structures
• Computer Organization, Computer Networks, Network Programming, Algorithms, Digital Electronics, Web Technologies
• Operating system & amp, System programming
• Compiler design
• Software engineering
• Information Systems and Software Engineering etc.

Finance Officers

• Direct and Indirect Taxes
• Cost Accounting Concepts
• Management Accounting Concepts
• Basic Accounting concepts and principles
• Accounting Standards
• Auditing standards
• Indian Capital Market, Mutual Funds, Foreign Exchanges, Auditing etc.

Law Officer

• Banking Regulated Laws
• Banking Security Laws
• Negotiable Instruments
• Ethics and Corporate Governance in Banking
• Financial Analysis
• Banking Operational Laws
• Banker-Customer Relations
• Electronic Banking, Loans and Advances
• Compliance and Legal Aspects, Security Types
• Regulatory Frameworks etc.

Chartered Accountant

• Accounting Standards, Accounting Guidance Note, Financial Report Standards
• Indian Accounting Standards, Corporate Financial Reporting
• Accounting and Reporting of Financial Instrument
• Share-based Payment, Liability Valuation, Share, Business valuation
• Inflation Accounting
• Indian Capital Market, Mutual Funds, Foreign Exchanges, Auditing etc.

Statistician

• Basic Statistical Methods and Inference
• Time-series forecasting, Sampling Concepts
• Uni-Variate Data, Bi-Variate Data  Variance Analysis
• Banking-Insurance
• Financial Market
• Foreign Exchanges, Forecasting Portfolio 
• Simple Regression, Multiple Regression
• Sampling Distribution, Estimations Theory etc.

SBI SO Salary and Perks

SBI SO is one of the most reputed and coveted posts in the banking sector. It is the most- sought post in the banking sector these days. The minimum pay- scale of SBI SO Grade 1 is Rs. 23,700 excluding DA, HRA, and other allowances. The SBI SO Salary differs for all grades and posts. Under the SBI SO Recruitment 2022, the selected candidates will be paid a salary of Rs. 42,020 to Rs. 51,490 along with other allowances such as DA, HRA, PF, CCA, LFC, Contributory Pension Fund, Medical Facility, and others. Below in the table is given a list of SBI SO posts and the salary or pay scale awarded to them.

SBI SO Perks and Allowances

As mentioned above, SBI SO is one of the most coveted jobs in the government sector. Hence, it is known to provide impressive and lucrative perks and allowances to all the employees that vary from post to post. Given below are some of the perks and allowances of some posts that come under SBI SO exam.

For MMGS Grade Scale III

The officials are eligible to avail DA, HRA, CCA, PF, Contributory Pension Fund, LFC, Medical Facility, etc.

Faculty, SBIL, Kolkata

In addition to CTC, other perks that are offered to the employees of this job include traveling expenses for traveling by taxi, air (economy class) in case of traveling on official duties, and Deputation allowance (DA) that is equivalent to the Assistant General Manager of the bank.

The faculty will be allowed to utilize up to a maximum of 90 days per annum in external teaching or consulting on a revenue-sharing model.

Chief Manager (Special Situation Team) and Deputy Manager (Stressed Assets Marketing)

The official designated with this post will be eligible for DA, CCA, PFM HRA, Contributory Pension Fund, LFC, Medical Facility, etc. as per the rules that come into force from time to time.

Deputy Manager (Stressed Assets Marketing)

There are no perks or other benefits other than CTC that is given to the deputy manager. Also, CTC consists of fixed pay and variable pay in the ratio of 80:20.

Executive (FI and MM) and Senior Executive (Social Banking and CSR)

The fixed pay component of 70% is given along with the variable component of 30%. An annual increment of a maximum of 10% subject is made to fulfill the bank’s conditions. Also, traveling allowance and other perks are applicable as per the bank’s rule.

Deputy Manager (IS Audit)

The official posted on this post will be eligible for DA, CCA, HRA, PF, Contributory Pension, LFC, Medical facility, etc. which are provided as per the rules that come into force from time to time.

SBI SO Vacancy 2022

A. DETAILS OF POSTS/VACANCIES/ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA/SUGGESTED PLACE OF POSTING/SELECTION PROCESS:

Previous Years' SBI SO Cutoff

SBI SO Category-wise Cut Off Marks for Previous Year

SBI SO Category-wise Final Cut Off for Previous Year 

All the best for your exam preparation!