SBI Clerk 2020

SBI is one of the largest financial companies in India and the biggest bank with many of its branches extended overseas. It offers excellent career opportunities to the eligible graduates in India to make a bright and secure career for themselves. SBI gives this chance through releasing recruitment notifications for Probationary Officers and Junior Associates. SBI Clerk Notification 2020 has just been released. Many aspirants was waiting eagerly for the Official notification of SBI Clerk 2020 as SBI Clerk works as a gateway to enter into one of the most prestigious and huge organizations. Before proceeding further let’s have a look at the highlights of the examination:

State Bank of India has just released the Notification of SBI Clerk 2020. SBI being one of the largest banks of India, attracts a major amount of job aspirants irrespective of the post. SBI has invited applications from the eligible candidates for the posts of Junior Associates (Customer Support & Sales) in clerical cadre. As the official notification of SBI Clerk 2020 is out, all the interested candidates can start applying for the post immediately in order to avoid last minute rush after going through complete details in the 'SBI Clerk Recruitment Notification 2020'. The candidates can apply only once and from only one state, only after ensuring their eligibility. All details related to the SBI Clerk 2020 notification has already been updated here, candidates are advised to go through the whole information provided to avoid any kind of confusion related to the exam.

SBI recruitment is one of the most important ones in the banking industry. All the candidates who are interested in working in Public Sector Banks wait for the SBI notification every year. SBI offers a golden opportunity to all the eligible candidates by releasing a good number of vacancies. This year too SBI has released total number of 8000 vacancies for SBI Clerk 2020 exam. To know about the details of the vacancies please look at the table below:

Special Recruitment Drive Vacancy 2020

The vacancies of Chandigarh and North Eastern zones for all the categories is provided in tabular form below:

SBI has announced 8000 vacancies for the post of Junior Associates(Customer support and sales) and all the interested candidates should start applying for the same. While you start the application process, you should know all the details regarding the SBI Junior Associates exam pattern. SBI Junior Associates Examination 2020 is going to be conducted in two main phases:

• Phase 1 - Preliminary Examination (online)
• Phase 2 - Main Examination (online)

The Main Examination will further be followed by a Language proficiency test which will be a test of specified opted local language.

SBI Clerk Phase 1 Exam Pattern (Prelims) 2020

SBI will conduct an online preliminary exam in the Phase 1 of SBI Junior Associate Exam. The Preliminary Exam consists of an objective test which have three sections i.e English Language, Numerical Ability and Reasoning Ability worth 100 marks. All the sections are allotted separate marks and separate sectional timings. A candidate cannot shift to another section until the timing of that particular section is exhausted. The total timing of the exam will be 1 hour.

• There will also be a negative marking of 1/4th or 0.25 marks.
• There are no minimum qualifying marks for each section or overall stated by SBI.

SBI Clerk Phase 2 Exam Pattern (Mains) 2020

All the candidates who manage to clear the SBI Junior Associate Preliminary Exam will appear in the Phase 2 - Main Examination. The results of the Preliminary Exam will be released soon after the exam and the admit cards for the Mains will also be released soon after that. There is not much gap between the Phase 1 and Phase 2 Exams, therefore you need to be in preparation mode since the start. The Main Examination will also be an online test consisting of four sections. i.e. General / Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude which are allotted different marks and different sectional timings. The total time duration is going to be of 2 Hours 40 Minutes.

• There will be a negative marking of 1/4th of the marks allotted to the question.
• There will not be any sectional cut-off in the exam.

SBI Clerk Language Proficiency Test

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

SBI Clerk 2020: Provisional Selection (Subject to qualifying specified opted local language).

Provisional selection will be done on the basis of the scores obtained by the candidates in the SBI Junior Associate Main Examination 2020. The final selection will be done once the eligibility of the candidates is verified and all the information provided by the candidates in the application form is certified to be true.

SBI Clerk Reserved List

Along with the final selections, SBI will release a waiting (Reserved) list of up to 50% of vacancies (State-category wise). This list will be valid for one year from the result declaration date. The appointment of the candidates in the wait list will be done on the basis of the other candidates who resign in the middle of their term or do not join at all.

SBI Clerk Exam Language 2020

In SBI Clerk 2020 exam all the questions in the objective tests is expected to be bilingual, i.e. they will be available both in Hindi and English except the test of English Language in both the phases. Candidates can attempt the question in any language preferred. A candidate can also switch any particular question in order to watch it in the language of his/her choice.

There is a provision of negative marking in the exam. For every wrong answer marked 1/4th of marks allotted to that question will be deducted. In SBI Clerk Prelims exam, each question consists of 1 mark, so for very wrong question marked 1/4th or 0.25 marks will be deducted. For SBI Clerk Mains exam marks allotted to each section varies, so if a candidate wrongly marked any particular question 1/4th marks allotted to that question will be deducted. For details on the marking scheme please look at the table below:

SBI has released its official notification for the much awaited SBI Junior Associate posts. This is a clerical level job and yet is awaited by most of the candidates, being a way to enter the largest organization. All candidates willing to apply should be well aware of the important dates related to the examination. The examination dates are mentioned in the official notification released by SBI for Junior Subordinate posts. All the important dates such as Opening date of online application form, date of preliminary examination, date of mains examination etc are mentioned here. The Online registration process has been started from January 03, 2020 and will be open till January 26, 2020. The dates of Prelims exam are not declared yet but the tentative months for the same have been announced and are expected to be held in the month of February/March 2020. The mains examination for the same is expected to be in on April 19, 2020. For complete details about the examination dates please look at the table below:

SBI is one of the largest banking organizations and therefore it is aspired by many candidates who are seeking a stable job for themselves, especially in the banking sector. SBI has thus mentions a specific eligibility criteria for Junior Associates post. A candidate needs to follow this criteria if he/she wishes to apply for the exam failing which his/her candidature will be cancelled further. Following are the certain eligibility criteria that needs to be fulfilled in order to apply for the exam.

SBI Clerk Educational Criteria

To Apply for the post of SBI Junior Associate, a candidate needs to be a graduate in any discipline from a recognised university or any equivalent qualification recognised as such by the Central Government. For further details on educational qualification for SBI Clerk 2020 this please look at the table below:

SBI Clerk Age Criteria( As on 01.01.2020)

SBI has specified a certain age limit with respect to the Junior Associate post. It mentions that a candidate who wishes to appear in the exam, should not be below 20 years and not above 28 years which means a candidate must not born before January 02, 1992 and not after than January 01, 2000. For further details on this please look below:

SBI Clerk Age Relaxation

All the candidates need to follow the above mentioned age criteria, except a few of the categories are provided a relaxation in age. All the candidates belonging to these categories will be eligible for relaxation in age. The details of age relaxation are mentioned in the table below:

The official notification of SBI Clerk 2020 has been released and the application process of the same will remain open till January 26, 2020. To avoid missing the last date, all the candidates should start applying for the exam. The application process consists of few simple steps which can be easily followed to submit your application successfully.

• In the first step, a candidate needs to visit the official website of SBI www.sbi.co.in
• In the second step the candidate is required to enter some basic details after which the/she will be registered and a provisional registration number and password is generated by the system which will be useful for further process.
• In the third step, a candidate needs to upload his/her photograph and signature for which guidelines will be provided.
• In the fourth step, candidate will be redirected to the application form where you will have to fill up all the personal information related to education, experience and others.
• After the completion of the application form, candidates are now required to preview the application from and see if the information filled by him/her are correct.
• After doing the preview candidates are now required to submit the application form. Please note that after the submission no change in the application form will be “Entertained”.
• After the whole process gets completed, candidate will be required to submit the application fee which will be done through online mode.
• Guidelines of uploading Photograph/ Signature:
• The size of the photograph must be in between 20kb to 50kb.
• The size of the signature needs to be in between 10kb to 20kb.

SBI Clerk Application Fee

As soon as you complete filling up all the details in the SBI Junior Associate (clerk) 2020 application form, the last step towards the completion of the application process is payment of application fee which will also be done in online mode. You will be given various online payment options from which you will have to choose one to pay the requisite fee. Candidates belonging to General/OBC/EWS have to pay a total amount of Rupees 750 whereas the candidates belonging to SC/ST/XS/PWD are exempted to pay the fees. Once paid, the fees will not be refunded. Without submitting the application fee, the application will be considered incomplete.

The fee details according to the various categories are as follows:

Knowing the syllabus of any exam is the first and the most important thing to do before initiating preparation for any exam. SBI job notification is one of the most important ones in the banking sector. SBI gives this golden chance to all the job aspirants who are eager to make a stable career for themselves. SBI Clerk (Junior Associate) 2020 Prelims exam is going to have a total of 100 questions divided into three sections. The Mains Exam is going to have 190 questions from four sections. You will be able to appear for Mains only if you fare well in the Prelims. Therefore, you should get hold of the SBI Clerk syllabus 2020 and start preparing right away. You should have the complete details for SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus as well as SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus. Both the stages hold utmost importance and therefore you should start preparing for both well in advance.

SBI Clerk Prelims Syllabus 2020

SBI (Clerk) Junior Associate 2020 Prelims exam is going to have a total of 100 questions divided into three sections: English Language, Numerical Ability and Reasoning Ability. All the sections hold equal importance, therefore it becomes mandatory to study the complete syllabus properly and prepare yourself well.

SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus 2020

SBI (Clerk) Junior Associate 2020 Main Examination consists of five subjects out of which questions are asked in the objective type format. You will be given answer choices out of which you will have to choose one. Therefore, if you practice and study well, you will be able to spot the correct answer instantly. For that you need to be aware of the complete syllabus. The total subjects/sections of the exam are mainly, General English, Reasoning Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, General/Financial awareness and Computer Aptitude. Candidates must give attention to each and every section/subject because each subject Contributes in getting good scores in the exam.

SBI also arranges the facility of pre-exam training at few of its centres for some of the categories of candidates. SBI has released a list of centres where the candidates can choose to take the pre-exam training related to SBI Junior Associate Exam at their own cost. Please note that no hard copy of the admit card for pre exam training will be provided. Candidates have to download the admit card from the website itself. Following table specifies the various centres where the pre exam training for the year 2020 is going to be held:

SBI is considered one of the best recruiters in the banking industry, as it provides a decent amount of salary along with other benefits to its employees and rewards their work to the best of their capability. Receiving a good salary is an important motivating factor for the employees and it encourages them to work harder and better. SBI is the largest bank and therefore there is no doubt that it pays its employees well along with many other benefits. According to the basic pay, the SBI Clerk in-hand salary is going to be Rs 13075/- (Rs 11765.00 with two advance increments admissible to graduates). The complete breakup of the SBI Clerk salary is expected to be as follows:

SBI will release the admit card after the application process of the same gets over. In the admit card the examination centre will be mentioned with specific address. The choice of examination centre will be asked to the candidates at the time of filling out the application form. It is advised to the candidates to fill the examination centre very carefully because no change in the examination centre will be entertained after submission of the application form. The choice for both prelims and mains exam will be asked to candidates. The details of the examination centre is provided in the table below:

A candidate will be required to download his/her call letter from the authorised website by entering his/ her details i.e. Registration Number and Password/Date of Birth. No hard copy of the call letter/ Information Handout etc. will be sent by post/ courier. A candidate needs to bring the print of admit card along with a copy of valid identity proof. The admit cards will be released a few days before the examination. The Admit card for both phases will be released separately by SBI.

SBI Junior Associate is one of the important examinations for most of the job aspirants as it gives a chance to enter the largest bank of the country. It has endless opportunities once you get in, therefore, you need to work as hard as you can and try to grab any piece of information you receive in any form. Read the blog provided below to clarify all your doubts related to the SBI Junior Associate (Clerk) 2020 Exam.

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To be able to qualify the examination each candidate needs to make sure that he/she is well aware of all the details and information related to the SBI Clerk (Junior Associate) 2020 Exam. Previous Year Cut-off is one such important information which helps in understanding the pattern of the questions asked in the exam as well as gives an idea about the level of the examination. SBI Clerk cut-off for the year 2019 is as follows:

SBI CLERK PRE CUT OFF 2019

In order to crack the SBI Clerk exam, candidates need to be aware of every aspect of the examination. Previous year cut off plays a very important role in understanding the level of the examination. It gives a clear idea about how much effort is needed in order to clear the exam. Also, it gives an idea about the safe number of attempts. To assist candidates with this, we have provided previous year cut off of SBI Clerk Prelims 2019 exam. Please refer to the table below:

SBI CLERK MAINS CUT OFF 2019

The Mains examination of SBI Clerk 2019 exam was held after the prelims exam. Please note that there is no sectional cut off in the SBI Clerk Mains exam. The cut off of the exam mainly depends on the number of vacancies. The more number of vacancies, the less is the cut off. Details of SBI Clerk Mains exam for the year 2019(State Wise and Category wise) is provided in the table below:

SBI gives a golden opportunity to all the candidates through its recruitment notifications. All the candidates should try their best to get selected for the job. To prepare well, you need good study material and effective books to learn and practice well. Some good books with their authors, recommended for SBI Junior Associate (Clerk) preparation are mentioned below:

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SBI Clerk Exam Analysis

In order to ace the examination he/she must not leave any stone unturned, for that a candidate should look at every perspective of the exam. so, before starting the preparation it is very important to look at the exam analysis videos. Exam analysis videos are helpful in understanding the pattern of questions asked from different topics. Please see below for detailed Exam analysis video of SBI Clerk exam:

SBI Clerk 2020 Useful Videos

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