Applications 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.FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies
Vacancies for OH & VH category candidates are reserved . Vacancies including reserved vacancies
are provisional and may vary according to the requirements of Bank.
1.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA : (AS ON 01.01.2013)FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies(A)
Essential Academic Qualifications:Graduation in any discipline from a recognised University or any equivalent qualification recognised as
such by the Central Government.
(B)
Age Limit:FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies As on 01.01.2013
Not below 21 years and not above 30 years as on 01.01.2013 i.e candidates must have been born not
earlier than 02.01.1983 and not later than 01.01.1992 (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/discharged 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 Orthopedically Handicapped (OH)/Visually Handicapped (VH) candidates:
OH/VH Candidates who suffer from not less than 40% of relevant disability should possess 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 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 XIIth standard pass.
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 thereof for every hour of the examination provided that the candidate uses scribe/ writer
for both the objective and descriptive test.
3. CATEGORY:FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 VacanciesInstructions for writing Category Name and Category Code no. while applying online.
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 their category as 'GEN' or 'GEN (OH)' or 'GEN
(VH)' (as applicable).
4. SELECTION PROCEDURE:FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies(a) Phase-I: Written Examination (250 marks) consisting of Objective Tests and Descriptive Test.
(i) Objective Tests (200 marks): The Objective Tests with 2 hour duration will consists of 4 Sections
with 50 marks each as follows:
(a) Test of English Language (Grammer, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc)
(b) Test of General Awareness, Marketing and Computers
(c) Test of Data Analysis and Interpretation
(d) Test of Reasoning (High Level)
The candidates are required to qualify in the Objective Tests by securing passing marks, in
each of the tests, to be decided by the Bank on the basis of the performance of all the competing
candidates taken together in each test to a minimum required level for each category.
(ii) Descriptive Test (50 marks): The Descriptive Test with 1 hour duration will be of “Test of English
Language (comprehension, short précis, letter writing & essay)”.
The candidates are required to qualify in the Descriptive Test by securing passing marks, to be
decided by the Bank.
Descriptive Test paper of only those candidates will be evaluated who have scored qualifying
marks in the Objective Tests as stated above in (i).
(b) Phase-II: Group Discussion (20 marks) & Interview (30 marks)The aggregate marks of candidates qualifying in both the Objective Tests and Descriptive Test will be
arranged in descending order in each category and the candidates in the order of merit, subject to 3 times
the number of vacancies in each category, will be called for Group Discussion and Interview. The qualifying
marks in Group Discussion & Interview will be as decided by the Bank.
(c) Final Selection:The candidates will have to qualify both in Phase-I and Phase-II separately.
Marks secured by the candidates in the Written Test (out of 250 marks maximum) are converted to out of
75 and marks secured in Group Discussion & Interview (out of 50 marks maximum) are converted to out
of 25. The final merit list is arrived at after aggregating converted marks of Written Test and Group
Discussion & Interview out of 100 for each category. The selection will be made from the top merit ranked
candidates in each category.
Results of the candidates who have qualified for Phase II and thereafter, the list of candidates finally
selected will be available on the Bank’s website. Final select list will be published in Employment News/
Rozgar Samachar.
FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies5. DATE OF WRITTEN EXAMINATION: 28.04.2013 (SUNDAY): The Written Examination will be held atfollowing centres.
EXAMINATION CENTRES:
NAME OF EXAMINATION CENTRE CODE NUMBER CIRCLE
Ahmedabad 11
Bhavnagar 12
Rajkot 13 AHMEDABAD
Surat 14
Vadodara 15
Bangalore 16
Gulbarga 17
Hubli 18 BANGALORE
Mangalore 19
Mysore 20
Bhopal 21
Gwalior 22
Indore 23 BHOPAL
Jabalpur 24
Raipur 25
Bhubaneswar 26
Berhampur (Ganjam) 27 BHUBANESWAR
Cuttack 28
Sambalpur 29
Ambala 30
Chandigarh 31
Jalandhar 32 CHANDIGARH
Jammu 33
Ludhiana 34
Patiala 35
Palampur 36
Shimla 37
Srinagar 38
Chennai 39
Coimbatore 40
Madurai 41 CHENNAI
Puducherry 42
Tiruchirapalli 43
Agartala 44
Aizwal 45
Dibrugarh 46
Guwahati 47 GUWAHATI
Imphal 48
Itanagar 49
Kohima 50
Shillong 51
Silchar 52
Hyderabad 53
Tirupati 54 HYDERABAD
Vijayawada 55
Vishakhapatnam 56
Asansol 57
Burdwan 58
Gangtok 59
Kolkata 60 KOLKATA
Port Blair 61
Siliguri 62
Allahabad 63
Bareilly 64
Gorakhpur 65 LUCKNOW
Kanpur 66
Lucknow 67
Varanasi 68
Agra 69
Ajmer 70
Dehradun 71
Jaipur 72 NEW DELHI
Jodhpur 73
Meerut 74
Haldwani 75
New Delhi 76
Udaipur 77
Aurangabad 78
Mumbai 79
Nagpur 80 MUMBAI
Panaji (Goa) 81
Pune 82
Bhagalpur 83
Muzaffarpur 84 PATNA
Patna 85
Ranchi 86
Kochi 87
Kottayam 88 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Kozhikode 89
Thiruvananthapuram 90
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Candidates should choose the name and code number of the Centre where he/she desires to take the
examination. NO CHANGE IN THE CHOICE OF EXAMINATION CENTRE WILL BE ENTERTAINED UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCE. BANK RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ADD OR DELETE ANY CENTRE OR ALTER EXAMINATION
DATE AT ITS DISCRETION.
6. EMOLUMENTS:FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 VacanciesPAY: The starting basic pay is Rs 16,900/- (with 4 increments) in the scale of Rs 14500-600/7-18700-700/
2-20100-800/7-25700 applicable to Junior Management Grade Scale I. The official will also be eligible for
D.A., H.R.A & C.C.A as per rules in force from time to time. At present monthly compensation at Mumbai
will be approximately Rs 69,000/- inclusive of lease rental. The salary scales are under revision with effect
from November 2012.
The officers are required to make 10% of their basic pay as contribution to Provident Fund and the Bank
also makes matching contribution to the Employees Provident Fund.
The new entrants will be governed by the Defined Contribution Pension Scheme/New Pension Scheme,
where each employee is required to contribute 10% of Basic Pay and D.A. towards pension scheme and
Bank also makes matching contribution.
PERQUISITES FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies(1) Leased accommodation ranging from Rs 8,000/- in ‘C’ category Centres to Rs 29,500/- in Mumbai Centre.
(2) Medical Aid for self (100%) and for family (75%).
(3) Home Travel Concession/ Leave Fare Concession.
(4) Concessional interest rates for Housing/Car/Personal Loans
Important Links -FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies
1. SBI Official website - www.sbi.co.in FOR www.sbi.co.in SBI PO Recruitment JAN 2013 - Online Application Form - 1544 Vacancies
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