SBI conducts the SBI Clerk Exam annually to recruit candidates for the post of Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) in its different branches of SBI across the country. SBI Clerk is one of the most sought-after bank exams today and a huge number of candidates appear for the same every year. This year, State Bank of India has announced the recruitment of banking aspirants for 5486 posts of Junior Associates (Clerks).
Both the SBI Clerk Prelims and Mains exams will be conducted in online mode. Go through the following content to know more about the SBI Clerk 2022 prelims and main exam.
There are 3 sections in the exam – Reasoning Ability, English Language and Numerical Ability. The time span of all the sections is 20 minutes each. The marks obtained in the preliminary exam are just the qualifying marks for the main exam, it does not offer any type of employment.
• Each correct answer consists of 1 mark.
• Each incorrect answer deducts 0.25 marks.
SBI Clerk Mains has a similar pattern to SBI Clerk Prelims but the difficulty level is usually higher for the second stage. There are four topics, namely- Finance and General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, General English and General Reasoning, and Computer Aptitude. The syllabus is primarily based on 10+2 level subjects. The SBI Clerk 2022 Mains Exam is scheduled for August 2022.
The following are a few crucial points regarding the SBI Clerk Mains exam which you must keep in mind in order to make the most of the preparation time as well as the exam duration.
• The exam duration is 2 hours and 40 minutes
• There are a total of 190 questions that have to be solved within the allotted time. There is section-wise time duration as well for the Mains.
• The total mark is 200. For each wrong answer, there will be a negative marking of 1/4th of the allotted marks.