State Bank of India will be conducting Written Examination 2013on 28 April

2013. The Written Examination (250 marks) consisting of Objective Tests and Descriptive Test. Objective Tests (200 marks): The Objective Tests with 2 hour duration will consists of 4 Sections with 50 marks each as follows: Test of English Language (Grammer, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc) Test of General Awareness, Marketing and Computers Test of Data Analysis and Interpretation Test of Reasoning (High Level)

Descriptive Test (50 marks): The Descriptive Test with 1 hour duration will be of Test of English Language (comprehension, short prcis, 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.

State Bank of India conducted Online Examination for recruitment to the post of 1500 Probationary Officers. The examination was conducted on 28 April 2013 in two shifts. The questions paper comprised of 200 objective type questions from 4 sections including
Reasoning Data

Aptitude

Interpretation & Analysis Language Awareness, Marketing & Computer Knowledge

English General

The fully solved question paper will help the students to prepare for upcoming banking po exams.

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) will conduct Common Written Examination or CWE for Clerical Cadre in December 2012. The system of Common Written Examination has been approved by each of the 19 participating Public Sector Banks and the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) with the consent of Government of India. The Syllabus for the Clerical Cadre exam is as mentioned below:

Sr. No. Name of Tests (Objective) 1 2 3 4 Reasoning English Language Numerical Ability General Awareness (with special reference to banking industry) 5 Computer Knowledge Total

No. of Questions 40 40 40 40

Maximum Marks 40 40 40 40

Duration

2 Hours

40 200

40 200

The above tests except the Test of English Language will be printed bilingually, ie English and Hindi.

Penalty for Wrong Answers: For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score.

BANK CLERICAL EXAM SYLLABUS

1. Test of Reasoning: This test would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal type. The test may include questions on analogies, similarities, differences, space visualisation, problem solving, analysis, judgement, decision-making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning, verbal and figure classification, arithmetical number series, etc. The test will also include questions designed to test the candidate's abilities to deal with abstract ideas and symbols and their relationships, arithmetical computation and other analytical functions. 2. Test of English Language: This is a test to see how well you know English. English language ability would be tested through questions on grammar, vocaoulary, sentence completion, synonyms, antonyms, comprehension of a passage, etc. 3. Test of Numerical Ability: Questions will be designed to test the ability of arithmetical computation of whole numbers, decimals 'and fractions and relationship between numbers. The questions would be based on arithmetical concepts and relationship between numbers and not on complicated arithmetical computations. 4. Test of Clerical Aptitude: The questions in Clerical Aptitude will be set to test the candidate's perceptual accuracy and aptitude. This is the ability to notice similarities and difference between the pairs of names and numbers. Questions in Clerical Aptitude will also assess in addition to perceptual accuracy and aptitude, ability to handle office routine work like filing, abbreviating, indexing, etc. 5. Descriptive Paper: It intends to measure your higher order cognitive abilities as

comprehending the situations, etc., and also your language ability. It is a question paper-cum-answer sheet in Hindi and English and the Regional Language and you have to restrict your answers to the space provided on the answer-sheet. Use of supplements is not allowed. You have the option to answer 3 out of 4 questions either in Hindi or in English or in the Regional Language. N.B.: (i) All the questions should be attempted in the same language. (ii) For candidates appearing for the post of Agriculture Clerk, an objective test of Agricultural Knowledge (50 questions, 30 minutes) will also be there. In this test problems relating to agricultural matters will be asked.

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3. SBI clerk Syllabus in General Awareness applicants are afraid of this section for SBI clerk exam 2013 pattern because this section requires a lot of compress and those with excellent compress power and have the Knowledge of Current Affairs, General Knowledge will find this section good scoring for sbi clerk exam bank clerk exam syllabus. 4. Quantitative Aptitude section is the mathematical problems and Numerical Aptitude of the applicants for SBI exam Syllabus for clerk .The Questions in this section topics are Decimals,Average,Profit and loss,Time and distance,Time and work,Ratio and proportion,Percentage etc topics are prepare. 5. Reasoning Ability section in the topics is Sequence and Series, Coding-Decoding, Blood Relation etctopics are prepare.Reasoning best of the book is RS Agarwal. 6. General English in this section as you basic English skills and in this section includes of Comprehension, Fill in the Blanks, Corrections of Grammar Mistakes, Synonyms and Antonyms etcbank clerk exam syllabus Applicants are must have the basic knowledge of grammar to pass this section for the SBI Clerk exam syllabus. 7. Computer knowledge and marketing aptitude in this basic computer skills and general marketing skills for applicants to prepare basic computer books etcSBI clerk Syllabus for the computer and marketing 8. SBI clerk Exam Syllabus Pattern 2013 details..

Sr.no
1 2 3 4 5

Subject
General awareness Quantitative Aptitude Reasoning Ability General English language Computer knowledge and marketing aptitude

Questions
40 40 40 40 40

Marks
40 40 40 40 40

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Reasoning Syllabus for IBPS Clerk Exam 2012: Verbal Reasoning: Analogy, Coding Decoding, Blood Relation, Sitting Arrangement, Circle solving Puzzle, Greater than less than solving, Series Completion, Syllogism, Decision Making, Letter number series, Statement Reasoning Non-verbal Reasoning: Series Completion, Analogy, and Classification No need to worry about non verbal. They are really easy if you practice well in practice session. Concentrate on the given question. You need to focus on completely on the question without thinking about your gf/bf. OK.. 2. Numerical Ability Syllabus for IBPS Clerk Exam 2012: Numbers, Simplification, Roots, Average, Surds & Indices, Percentage, Profit & Loss, Ratio & Proportion, Partnership, Chain Rule, Time & Work, Pipes & Cisterns, Time & Distance, Problems on Trains, Boats & Streams, Alligation, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Stocks & Shares, Clocks, Mensuration, Permutation & combination, Probability, Heights & Distances. All are simple and easy to solve questions. Dont say that you are not maths student. These are very basic maths questions where 10th class student can also solve. Arent you passed 10th Class? 3. General English Syllabus for IBPS Clerk 2012 Online Exam: Vocabulary: Synonyms, Antonyms, Sentence Completion Grammar: Active Passive Voice, Direct Indirect Speech Comprehension Passage, Passage Correction, Sentence Correction, Correct Spelling Identification. This is the section where many students getting failed. Most of them are scoring well in other sections and getting failed in General English. I recommend you to practice and learn from the previous Bank Clerk exam papers. Read the English news paper daily (everyone say this thing, because this is that much important). By doing this you can score well in English section and you can also answer the current affairs questions in general awareness section. 4. General Awareness with special reference to Banking Industry: Questions in this component will be aimed at testing the candidates general awareness of the environments around him and its application to society. - Knowledge of current affairs related to Sports, Economic Affairs, National Affairs, International Affairs, Bilateral Affairs, Science and Technology, Awards, Persons in News. - General Banking terms. This is the section where everyone can perform well. You can easily score high marks in less time. 5. Computer Knowledge Syllabus for IBPS Clerk Online Exam 2012:

General Knowledge on Computer usage and application. Basic Hardware and Software - Computer Applications MS Word, Excel and Power Point In this section also you can score high marks in less time, if you prepare well. This is very easy section for students who have computers background and it is also easy even if you are non-computers background because there are very basic questions related to computers. I recommend you to read all the previous exams questions. They are enough for clerk exam.
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