State Bank of India (SBI) has issued notification for 300 positions of Special Management Executives, details of which can be found from ...
State Bank of India (SBI) has issued notification for 300 positions of Special Management Executives, details of which can be found from my previous blog post titled: SBI Special Management Executives (SME) Exam 2014: Register Now! The focus of this blog post is on providing you the study materials for this SBI exam – the sample papers and books along with the pattern of SBI ME exam.
Selection process:
Selection process for SBI Special Management Executives consists of following two phases:
Phase-I: Written Exam (Both Objective as well as Descriptive - both online).
Phase-II: Group Discussion & Interview.
As per SBI notification, date of the Written Exam is on 19.09.2014, while date of Phase-II test would be informed subsequently to the candidates qualifying in the Phase-I test.
Let us go into details of these two phases.
Pattern:/Format of SBI Special Management Executives Exam:
This consists of two types of tests:
Objective Test:
It is of 200 total marks, to be answered in 2 Hrs.
Questions would be set from following four sections:
i) Banking Knowledge
ii) Data Interpretation & Analysis
iii) Reasoning
iv) General Awareness
ii) Data Interpretation & Analysis
iii) Reasoning
iv) General Awareness
Descriptive Test:
It is of 50 marks, to be answered in 75 minutes.
It would test your knowledge on English and consist of questions on Letter Writing & Essay.
Graphics above gives you the section-wise mark distribution of SBI Special Management Executives Exam papers.
Graphics above gives you the section-wise mark distribution of SBI Special Management Executives Exam papers.
SBI SME Exam 2014 cut-off marks:
Cut-off marks would be decided by SBI based on the relative performance of .all the candidates. You have to qualify in each of the four test sections of Objective paper. Only if you qualify, your Descriptive test paper would be evaluated.
On qualifying the written exam you would be called for the Phase-II (i.e. Group Discussion & Interview) which is of 50 marks (GD: 20, Interview:30).
On qualifying the written exam you would be called for the Phase-II (i.e. Group Discussion & Interview) which is of 50 marks (GD: 20, Interview:30).
SBI Special Management Executives Exam Sample Papers:
With the knowledge on the exam pattern of SBI Management Executives exam as above, you would find that the test sections are very similar to the Bank PO exams and hence you can use the study materials (i.e. sample papers and books) for the Bank PO exams as the study material for SBI ME exam. You must naturally be searching for some of those free online sample papers. Here are the model/sample papers I could find on the net from various sources:
Sample papers for Data interpretation and analysis:
Since SBI ME Exam pattern is very similar to SBI PO exam, you can use the sample papers given in my previous post titled: SBI PO Exam sample papers & Books to prepare for SBI ME exam.
Books for the SBI MEexam:
Since the exam pattern of the SBI ME exam is very similar to the bank PO exams, you can find following PO exam guide books useful. 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 up to 25%, apart from free shipping/postage in India. 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:
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SBI GD Topics and Interview questions:
This blog has excellent materials to help you prepare for the SBI PO Interview & Group Discussion with a list of Interview questions & GD topics.
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.
Similarly for GD, click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the essential qualities you need to have and how you can prepare for the same, along with a YouTube video of a mock-GD. Further this article tells you what are the different types of GD, along with example of GD topics.
Hope with above Exam Pattern, Sample papers & books for the SBI ME exam, you would be able to appear in the exam confidently. I would look out for more SBI prep-materials on the net and would post the same as I find them. So visit me again!
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