This blog post is written in sequel to my previous blog article:
SBI Recruitment 2012 (Clerk) Notification, Eligibility & Forms. The focus of the blog post is on how to prepare for the SBI clerical exam: It at first tells you what is the selection process/exam pattern of the exam and than goes on to give you the sources where you can find the online sample papers/mock test for SBI clerical exam.
Selection process of SBI Clerical exam:
SBI clerical exam selection process consists of two stages:
1.0 Written test.
2.0 Interview.
Final merit list is decided on the basis of marks scored in above two stages taken together.
Pattern of SBI Clerical written exam:
Written test will consists of Objective type questions in following five papers:
1.0 General Awareness.
2.0 General English.
3.0 Quantitative Aptitude.
4.0 Reasoning Ability.
5.0 Marketing Aptitude / Computer Knowledge.
There is negative marking for the wrong answers in these Objective tests.
You need to pass in each of the objective tests individually as well as score at least 40% marks (35% marks for SC/ST/PWD/XS) overall, with all the tests taken together. More detailed information about the written examination is available in the ‘Acquaint Yourself’ booklet, which will be sent to you by SBI alongwith the call letter for the written test.
How many candidates would be selected in this SBI Clerical exam?
There are a total of 6113 vacancies available in the SBI Clerical exam and three times this number will be called for interview subject to the candidates in each specific category scoring the minimum marks as given above. Thus you can expect very approximately 18 thousand candidates to be selected in the written test of SBI Clerical exam.
How can you be within these 10-12 thousand people? Read on..
Online sample/model/mock-test papers for SBI Clerical exam:
Your first study material for the SBI Clerical exam should be the online papers available in various websites. Since you may be having limited time, I searched in the net to find these free online papers for the SBI Clerical exam. The findings are as follows:
I found that Competition Master is an excellent resource which has good collection of online papers for Bank Clerical exams:
Click here to find an SBI Clerical Exam English
Click here to find an SBI Clerical Exam Quantitative section Paper-1.
Click here to find an SBI Clerical Exam Quantitative section Paper-2.
Click here to find an SBI Clerical Exam Test of Reasoning Paper-1.
Click here to find an SBI Clerical Exam Test of Reasoning Paper-2.
Apart from Competition Master, I also found these websites offering sample papers for Bank Clerical exams:
Allexam: It gives 25 SBI Bank Clerk GK model questions with answers.
Upscportal: It gives you 20 Allahabad Bank model questions.
Upscportal: General Awareness sample Question Paper 2008: 40 Q
Recommended Books or SBI Clerical exam:
While the above on-line Bank Clerical exam papers should be treated as eye-openers, you need to lay more emphasis on the preparatory books for the Bank Clerical exams. I found following list of books available on the net. The list below gives you the name of guide books for clerical exam of other banks too, apart from SBI clerical exam. You can buy any of the books, as the clerical exam pattern is similar in all of the Public sector banks.
These books are available in most of the bookstores, but you can also order them online by clicking the links below, from Flipkart.com which offers huge discounts from 10% to 20%, apart from free shipping/postage in India if the order exceeds Rs. 100/=. You can choose to pay through Credit Card/Debit Card/Internet Banking. You can also choose to pay through “Cash-on-Delivery” i.e. you pay in cash only when the same is delivered at your doorstep:
List Price: Rs. 315 Offer Price:Rs. 293 Discount: Rs. 22 (7%)
Price: Rs. 225
Competition Master stated in its July 2008 issue that with every passing time, Bank Clerical exams have become tougher and therefore to have an edge over other candidates, may be you need to make your preparations based on the Bank PO exams. Some exhaustive blog posts were made on this blog on SBI PO exam and many wrote back to me, thanking and saying that the quality and amount of information in these posts were excellent and it helped them qualify for SBI PO exam. The links for these SBI PO exam preparation materials are as follows:
With above, I am confident that you would be able to qualify in the SBI Clerical written exam. But how should you prepare for the Interview of the SBI Clerical written exam?
Prep material for Interview of SBI Clerical exam:
Lets see what SBI Clerical exam notification says (in page-1: Section-3:Emoluments) about the requirements from you:
“The new recruits must have flair for marketing and will be required to make customer calls and provide banking services, advisory services and cross sell products etc. inside and outside Bank premises. The duties involve extensive outdoor traveling. Depending upon requirement, there will be flexible working hours and working in shifts.”
For Interview,
click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the requirements an interviewer looks for in you. It also gives you an interesting YouTube video telling you how you can also analyze an interviewer and hence be prepared for it. And than it gives you a list of 99 interview questions, which are most repeated in every other interview! These questions helps you prepare yourself.
At last, you may be asking me when and where would the results of SBI Clerical exam declared.
Hope this blog post answers your all questions on the SBI Clerical exam. I would post more info on this Bank Clerical Exam. So just keep visiting. Also, you are requested to put your questions as comments below, so that another among you can answer it, if not I.
Best wishes for the SBI Clerical exam!
