National Housing Bank(NHB) 2020

National Housing Bank is a Government owned institution with its headquarter in Delhi and Regional offices in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Kolkata. The NHB or National Housing Bank seeks to promote excellence in its operation through research and analysis. Recently NHB has come out with its recruitment of Assistant Manager ( Scale 1) for 16 vacancies. The detailed notification of NHB will be available on the official website from August 29, 2020 and will have all the details regarding age, education, exam pattern etc. Further details of NHB is given below:

The NHB offers a modern, compatible and professional work environment for qualified, energetic, sincere men and women. NHB believes in gender diversity and has invited applications from talented, committed and passionate candidates to fill up the Post of Assistant Managers in Junior Management Grade (Scale I). The online application for NHB starts from August 29, 2020 and ends on September 18, 2020. The NHB exam dates are not yet out.

Syllabus plays a very important role if you are preparing for any competitive exam. Since NHB is a subsidiary of RBI, so definitely the competition will not be a cake walk. You should be well aware of the NHB exam syllabus 2020 in order to avoid missing out any important details which might be helpful in cracking the NHB exam 2020. You should know ‘what’ to prepare before you know ‘how’ to prepare. NHB syllabus will help you in getting hold of the real exam pattern of HNB and you can start preparing accordingly.

NHB Assistant Manager Online Exam Syllabus

To make your work easier and faster we are providing you the complete syllabus for NHB Assistant Manager exam (Scale 1). Since the exam consists of only one stage online exam so it's important that you are well aware of the syllabus of all sections. The NHB exam will have four sections along with one descriptive paper. The detailed syllabus for NHB exam is given below:

Before you apply for the NHB Assistant Manager ( Scale 1) post it is very important that you are aware of the NHB exam pattern.NHB Assistant Manager exam is a two tier process i.e. online examination and interview. Details for each process of NHB Assistant Manager exam is given below.

NHB Assistant Manager Online Exam Pattern 2020

NHB Assistant Manager online exam consists of objective test followed by descriptive. The NHB Assistant Manager objective test consists of four sections namely- Reasoning and Computer Aptitude,General Awareness and Computer Knowledge , English Language and Quantitative Aptitude. The NHB Assistant Manager exam will be of 3 hours duration and each section will have separate timing. Further details of NHB Assistant Manager online exam is as follows:

This online test will be followed by a descriptive test of English Language. The time duration will be 30 mins for 2 questions of 25 marks. The NHB Assistant Manager descriptive test will have two parts- Letter Writing and Essay and you need to type on the computer. Descriptive Test is of qualifying nature and you need to secure a minimum score in it.

NHB Assistant Manager Interview 2020

You need to obtain a minimum score in each section of the NHB Assistant Manager objective exam and also a minimum total score to be shortlisted for an NHB Assistant Manager interview. Depending on the number of vacancies available, cut-offs will be decided. A category wise merit list will be prepared on the basis of the aggregate marks scored in the NHB Assistant Manager objective exam to be called for the interview. The final merit of NHB Assistant Manager will be on the basis of objective online exam and interview score.You need to download your interview e-Call Letters from the official website and should produce valid prescribed documents as mentioned in your NHB Assistant Manager interview call letter. In the absence of documents your candidature will be cancelled.

NHB has released the official notification for NHB Assistant Manager 2020 exam. The registration process for NHB Assistant Manager will commence from August 29, 2020 and ends on September 18, 2020. You should register yourself as soon as the online application starts so as to avoid any last-minute errors. The NHB Assistant Manager exam calendar contains the complete exam dates. Refer to the table below for complete details of NHB Assistant Manager exam date and further process.

The starting basic pay for NHB Assistant Manager is Rs. 23,700/- p.m applicable to Junior Management Grade Scale-I. Besides this you will be eligible for Dearness Allowance, Special Pay, Special DA, House Rent Allowance and City Compensatory Allowance. The current total emoluments is Rs. 44 for NHB Assistant Manager. Besides emoluments,other facilities like Bank's accommodation,reimbursement of expenses for medical/hospitalization, telephone/mobile charges, newspapers etc will be given.If you are appointed as a NHB Assistant Manager, you will be on probation for a period of 2 years. You can be posted in any department and can be transferred all over India. Further details for NHB Assistant Manager salary is given below:

NHB has released 16 vacancies for the post of Assistant Manager recently. It is a golden opportunity and you should be ready to face this big challenge. Though NHB Assistant Manager vacancies are low in number but you should keep your full on preparation to achieve that one seat which you deserve. Detailed information for NHB Assistant Manager vacancies is given in the table below:

* OBC candidates belonging to ‘Non-Creamy Layer’ are entitled toreservations under OBC category. OBC ‘Creamy Layer’ candidates should indicate their category as ‘GEN’.

Out of 16vacancies, 01vacancyisreserved for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD).Its details areas under –

NHB Assistant Manager exam 2020 will have a penalty for wrong answers marked in the objective online exam. For every wrong answer marked, one fourth of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty. If a question is left blank, no marks will be deducted. The corrected scores obtained by you in the NHB Assistant Manager online exam will be normalized using the equi-percentile method.

NHB Assistant Manager online exam 2020 will be bilingual in nature ie all sections will have questions in Hindi/ English. You can go for language in which you are comfortable. The descriptive test will be held in english only. There you need to attempt that section in English Language only.

To apply for NHB Assistant Manager exam 2020, you should be aware of the detailed NHB Assistant Manager eligibility criteria. You should be eligible with respect to the requirements mentioned in the NHB Assistant Manager exam notification 2020. You should meet NHB Assistant Manager eligibility criteria, educational qualification, age, nationality, no. of attempts permissible etc.

NHB Assistant Manager Educational Criteria

You need to possess a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with a minimum of 60% marks in case you belong to the general category and for reserved it is reduced to 55% or a Master Degree in any discipline with 55% aggregate in general and 50% if reserved category. You need to understand that 59.99% will be treated as less than 60%; 54.99% will be treated as less than 55% and so on. Further insights can be inferred from the table given below:

NHB Assistant Manager Age Criteria(As on August 01, 2020)

National Housing Bank is inviting applications from young and passionate aspirants who want to make a career in National Housing Bank as an Assistant Manager. In order to apply for the exam, you must be in between a minimum of 21 and a maximum of 28 years of age mentioned in the official notification. Please make sure that your age falls in between these two limits. For further details please look below:

NHB Assistant Manager Age Relaxation

Government has a provision of giving an age relaxation on upper age to certain community candidates like SC/ST/PWD. An upper age relaxation of 5 years is given to candidates belonging to the SC/ST community. Candidates that are from OBC (Non creamy Layer) are given an age relaxation of 3 years. Detailed information on this is provided in the table below:

To apply for the post of National Housing Bank Assistant Manager 2020, it is advised to first go through the eligibility criteria in order to avoid cancellation in future. The detailed procedure of filling the National Housing Bank (Assistant Manager) application form is given below:

• Step 1: Visit the official website of National Housing Bank i.e. www.nhb.org.in
• Step 2: The link to APPLY ONLINE will be there in the website. It will redirect you to a new page.
• Step 3:Click on the “NEW REGISTRATION” link in which you have to register yourself.
• Step 4: In the registration section, you will be asked to give your personal information such as Name, DOB, Mobile Number, and Valid Email ID.
• Step 5: A registration number and password will be generated by the system and a message and an email will be sent to your registered phone and email ID. (Keep this for future use).
• Step 6: Upload your Photograph and Signature.
• Step 7: You will be asked to fill your personal details like Father's name, mother's name, Aadhar card number and all other important details required by the company. After successfully submitting the information, click on “SAVE AND NEXT” Button. Please fill all the information very carefully.
• Step 8: Before clicking on FINAL SUBMIT, candidates are advised to preview the application form to see if any correction is needed.
• Step 9: Final step is to pay the application fees.

After successful submission of the application form, you will be redirected towards the payment gateway to pay the application fee. Without paying the application fee your candidature is not complete. Please note that, once paid, no refund of application fee will be entertained under any circumstances. To know about the application fee in detail please refer to the table below:

You will be given an option to opt for examination centres at the time of filling out the application form. Change in examination centre will not be entertained after the submission of application form. It should also be noted that the bank will give the preferred examination centre as far as possible, moreover, the bank holds the right to change the examination centre as per the availability of the seats amid the COVID-19 situation. Given below is the list of examination centers for NHB Assistant Manager exam.

NHB Assistant Manager admit cards will be released on the official website of National Housing Bank a few days prior to the online written examination. You will be able to download the admit card through your registration number and password. The Admit card will contain all the important information such as roll number (User ID) and Password along with examination Venue, examination shift (time) and examination date. Things you need to bring at the examination hall are:

• Hard copy of the NHB Assistant Manager admit card.
• Photocopy of any valid ID (with original copy).

In order to ace any exam, it is essential to be well versed with the difficulty level of the exam as well as previous year cutoff. To reserve a seat in the exam, you must leave no stone unturned in your National Housing Bank preparation. To assist you with the previous year cut off, we have provided the previous cut off of NHB Assistant Manager Exam. Please refer to the table below:

Section-wise Minimum Qualifying Marks and Minimum total score prescribed for evaluation of Descriptive Paper

Given below is the Section-wise Minimum Qualifying Marks obtained in the objective test and descriptive test:

 Descriptive Test Cut off marks

Cut-off for Interview (Phase II) and Marks scored by the last recommended candidate

* The final result against the vacancy under Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) category is put on hold pending certain clarifications from the concerned Ministry, Government of India/candidates. A decision in this regard will be notified in due course on the NHB website.

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