Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. State Bank of India has just notified the new pattern of the much awaited upcoming notification of SBI PO 2016. Thanks Dheeraj for informing us.
According to SBI’s website, the new pattern:
Age Limit:
Not below 21 years and not above 30 years as on eligibility date as given in related advertisement.
Number of chances for General: 4
Phase I: Preliminary Exam:
Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing passing marks to be decided by the Bank. Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by the Bank (approximately 20 times the numbers of vacancies subject to availability) will be short listed for the Main Examination.
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Phase II: Mains Exam:
Main Examination will consist of Objective Tests for 200 marks and Descriptive Test for 25 marks. Both the Objective and Descriptive Tests will be online. Candidates will have to answer Descriptive test by typing on the computer. Immediately after completion of Objective Test, Descriptive Test will be administered.
Descriptive Test: The Descriptive Test of 30 minutes duration with 25 marks will be a Test of English Language (Letter Writing & Essay). The candidates are required to qualify in the Descriptive Test by securing passing marks, to be decided by the Bank.
Descriptive Test paper of only those candidates will be evaluated who have scored qualifying marks in the Objective Tests and are placed adequately high as per total marks in objective test.
Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Preliminary and Main examination) There will be 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 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at 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.
Phase III: GD and Interview:
The aggregate marks of candidates qualifying in both the Objective Tests and Descriptive Test will be arranged in descending order in each category. Adequate number of candidates in each category, as decided by the Bank will be called for Group Discussion and Interview. The qualifying marks in Group Discussion &Interview will be as decided by the Bank.
Final Selection:
The marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination
(Phase-I) will not be added for the selection and only the marks obtained in
Main Examination (Phase-II), both in Objective Test and Descriptive Test, will
be added to the marks obtained in GD & Interview (Phase-III) for
preparation of the final merit list.
(Phase-I) will not be added for the selection and only the marks obtained in
Main Examination (Phase-II), both in Objective Test and Descriptive Test, will
be added to the marks obtained in GD & Interview (Phase-III) for
preparation of the final merit list.
The candidates will have to qualify both in Phase-II and Phase-III
separately. Marks secured by the candidates in the Written Test (out of 225
marks) are converted to out of 75 and marks secured in Group Discussion &
Interview (out of 50 marks) are converted to out of 25. The final merit list is
arrived at after aggregating converted marks of Written Test and Group
Discussion &Interview out of 100 for each category. The selection will be
made from the top merit ranked candidates in each category.
separately. Marks secured by the candidates in the Written Test (out of 225
marks) are converted to out of 75 and marks secured in Group Discussion &
Interview (out of 50 marks) are converted to out of 25. The final merit list is
arrived at after aggregating converted marks of Written Test and Group
Discussion &Interview out of 100 for each category. The selection will be
made from the top merit ranked candidates in each category.
You can click here to check the new pattern from the official website.
The notification will come sooner than expected 🙂 All the best.
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