DATE OF WRITTEN EXAMINATION : 24.07.2011 (SUNDAY)
ON-LINE REGISTRATION WILL START FROM : 18.05.2011
LAST DATE FOR REGISTRATION OF ON-LINE APPLICATIONS : 09.06.2011Applications are invited from eligible Indian Citizens for appointment as Probationary
Officers (POs) in State Bank of India. Candidates selected are liable to be posted anywhere
in India.
VACANCIES :
POST VACANCIES VACANCIES (PWD)
SC ST OBC GEN TOTAL VH OH TOTAL
Probationary Officers 150 75 270 505 1000 15 15 30
Vacancies for OH & VH category candidates are reserved horizontally. Vacancies including reserved vacancies are provisional and may vary according to the requirements of Bank.
1. ELIGIBLITY CRITERIA : (AS ON 01/05/2011) (A) Essential Academic Qualifications :
Graduation in any discipline from a recognised College / University
(B) Age Limit : As on 01.05.2011
Not below 21 years and not above 30 years as on 01.05.2011 i.e candidates must have been born not earlier than 02.05.1981 and not later than 01.05.1990 (both days inclusive)
Relaxation in the Upper Age Limit to Reserved category candidates
Upper age is relaxable by
(i) 3 years in the case of OBC candidates.
(ii) 5 years in the case of : (a) SC/ST candidates. (b) Ex-servicemen (including Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers) who have rendered at least five years continuous Military Service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due
to be completed within one year) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge
on account of misconduct or inefficiency or /on account of physical disability or have been released on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service or on invalidment (c) Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in Kashmir Division of the State of Jammu and Kashmir between 1st January, 1980 and 31st December, 1989.
(iii) 10 years for VH/OH (Gen); 13 years for VH/OH (OBC) and 15 years for VH/OH (SC/ST) candidates.
NOTE : CUMULATIVE AGE RELAXATION WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE EITHER
UNDER THE ABOVE ITEMS OR IN COMBINATION WITH ANY OTHER ITEMS.
2. Notes for Orthopaedically Handicapped (OH)/Visually Handicapped (VH)
candidates :
OH/VH Candidates who suffer from not less than 40% of relevant disability should posses disability certificate issued by Medical Board duly constituted by Central or State Government. Issued on or before last date of online submission of application :
a) Only those OH candidates who have locomotor disability or cerebral palsy with locomotor impairment of minimum of 40% and only those who fall in the
following categories are eligible to apply: BL - Both legs affected but not arms
OA - One arm affected (R or L) - (a) Impaired reach;
(b) weakness of grip; (c) ataxia
OL - One leg affected (R or L)
MW - Muscular weakness and limited physical endurance
b) Only those Visually handicapped persons who suffer from any one of the following conditions are eligible to apply :
i) Total absence of sight.
ii) Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses.
iii) Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degrees or worse.
c) Candidates having low vision as defined in Chapter I, Para 2 (u) of The persons with Disabilities (Equal opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995.
d) At the time of written examination, only blind/low vision candidates and those candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy can use own scribe/ writer at his/her own cost. In all such cases where a scribe/writer is used, the following rules will apply :
i) The candidate will have to arrange his/her own scribe/writer at his/her cost.
ii) Scribe/writer must be essentially one grade lower in educational qualification than the minimum eligibility educational qualifications of the candidate (i.e. graduation
in this recruitment), thus the qualification of scribe/ writer should not be more than
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4. SELECTION PROCEDURE :
Phase- I : Written Examination -- Combined Duration 3 Hrs. (Combined Objective
& Descriptive Type Tests) -- [Max marks-250 (combined)]
The duration of objective type test will be 2 hours, Max. marks 200 and will consist of :
i) Test of English Language (Grammer, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc.)
ii) Test of General Awareness, Marketing & Computers iii) Test of Data Analysis & Interpretation
iv) Test of Reasoning (High Level)
The duration of Descriptive type test will be 1 hour, Max. marks-50 and the test will be of "Test of English Language (Comprehension, short precis, letter writing & essay)"
Descriptive test paper of only those candidates will be evaluated who are adequately high in percentile ranking in each of all the four objective tests and have scored overall aggregate 40% and above in case of General category and aggregate 35% and above
in case SC/ST/OBC/PWD category. The qualifying marks for descriptive test will also be overall aggregate 40% for General category and overall aggregate 35% for SC/ ST/OBC/PWD. The merit list of written examination will be based on the aggregate of the marks obtained by the candidates in Objective and Descriptive tests.
Phase-II : Group Discussion & Interview :
Max Marks - 50. [GD - 20 Interview - 30]
The aggregate marks of objective test and descriptive test will be arranged in descending order and the candidates who have qualified in both the written examinations will be called for group discussion and interview depending upon the vacancies in each category, subject to maximum of 3 times of the vacancies.
Final Selection
The marks of group discussion and interview will be put together and the candidates who secure minimum 40% marks (minimum 35% in case of SC/ST/OBC/PWD) in group discussion and interview will be considered for final selection. The candidate will have
to pass both in Phase I & II separately. Phase I & Phase II marks will be aggregated and arranged in descending order (category wise) for candidates who have qualified
in both the phases separately and depending on the vacancies, selection will be made from the top merit ranked candidates in each category.
Results of the candidates who have qualified for Phase I and thereafter the list of candidates finally selected will be available on the Bank's website in addition to publication in Employment News/ Rozgar Samachar.
5. DATE OF WRITTEN EXAMINATION : 24/07/2011 (SUNDAY) : The Written Examination
will be held at following centres. EXAMINATION CENTRES :
NAME OF EXAMINATION CODE ADDRESS OF THE RECRUITMENT CELL
CENTRE NUMBER
Ahmedabad 11 Asstt. General Manager (HR) Bhavnagar 12 Recruitment Cell,
Rajkot 13 State Bank of India, Local Head Office, Surat 14 4th Floor, Bhadra,
Vadodara 15 AHMEDABAD-380 001.
Bangalore 16 Asstt. General Manager (HR) Gulbarga 17 Recruitment Cell,
Hubli 18 State Bank of India, Local Head Office, Mysore 19 4th Floor, 65, St. Marks Road,
BANGALORE - 560 001. Bhopal 20 Asstt. General Manager (HR)
Gwalior 21 Recruitment Cell,
Indore 22 State Bank of India, Local Head Office, Jabalpur 23 Hoshangabad Road,
Raipur 24 BHOPAL - 462 011. Bhubaneswar 25 Asstt. General Manager (HR)
Berhampur (Ganjam) 26 Recruitment Cell, State Bank of India,
Cuttack 27 Local Head Office, 111/1, 2nd Floor, Sambalpur 28 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Marg,
BHUBANESWAR - 751 001. Ambala 29 Asstt. General Manager (HR),
Chandigarh 30 Recruitment Cell,
Jalandhar 31 State Bank of India,
Jammu 32 Local Head Office, IIIrd Floor, Ludhiana 33 Sector 17-B,
Patiala 34 CHANDIGARH-160 017. Palampur 35
Nungambakkam, CHENNAI-600 006.
Agartala 42 Asstt. General Manager (HR)
Aizwal 43 Recruitment Cell,
Dibrugarh 44 State Bank of India, Local Head Office,
Guwahati 45 P. O. Sachivalaya, G. S. Road
Imphal 46 Dispur,
Itanagar 47 GUWAHATI - 781 006. Kohima 48
Shillong 49
Silchar 50
XII
standard pass.
Hyderabad 51 Asstt. General Manager (HR)
iii) Both the candidate as well as the scribe/writer will have to give a suitable
undertaking, confirming that the scribe/writer fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe/ writer as mentioned above. Further, in case it later transpires that he/she did not fulfil any of the laid-down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts, the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective
of the result of the written examination.
iv) Only those candidates who use a scribe/writer shall be eligible for extra time of
20 minutes and/or part there of for every hour of the examination provided that the candidate uses scribe/ writer for both the objective and descriptive test.
3. CATEGORY :
Instructions for writing Category Name and Category Code no. while applying
online.
Various category names and their code numbers are given below.
Candidates belonging to OBC category but coming in the 'CREAMY LAYER', are not entitled to OBC reservation and age relaxation. They should indicate
