SBI Associate Clerk 2014 Exam: Pattern & Syllabus

State Bank of India Associate Clerk Selection Process is based on On-line Objective type Test and Personal Interview.

Exam Pattern:

1. Online Exam:  Marks – 200          Time Duration: 2 Hrs 15 min.

The test will be online objective type, consisting of:

Topics	Total Questions	Total Marks
1. General Awareness	40	40
2. General English	40	40
3. Quantitative Aptitude	40	40
4. Reasoning Ability	40	40
5. Marketing Aptitude + Computer Knowledge	40 (20 questions from each section)	40
Total	200 Qs	200 Marks

Note: There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests. 1/4th mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. Candidates will have to pass in each section.

2. Interview: The candidates who qualified in online test will be called for interview.

SYLLABUS - 

1. General Awareness: In this section questions will be asked from:

Banking Awareness

Current Affairs from all areas such as: National, International, Sports, Business, Awards etc. 

Note: 70% questions will asked from Current Affairs.

2. General English: In this section questions will be asked from:

• Reading Comprehension,
• Common Errors,
• Error Spotting,
• Fill in the Blanks,
• Cloze Test,
• Sentence Rearrangement etc.

3. Reasoning: In this section questions will be asked from:

• Coding & Decoding,
• Blood Relation
• Alphabet Series
• Syllogism
• Seating Arrangement + Tabulation
• Alphanumeric Series
• Data Sufficiency
• Inequality

4. Quantitative Aptitude: In this section questions will be asked from:

• Simplification
• Number System
• Number Series
• Percentage
• Profit Loss
• Average
• Ratio & Proportion
• Time & Work
• Time & Distance
• Simple & Compound Interest

Note: One Data Interpretation (D.I.) will also come in clerk exam.

5. Marketing Aptitude + Computer Knowledge: Basic questions will be asked form both the section.

Marketing Section: You should have the basic knowledge of Marketing.

Fundamental & Basic concept of Marketing.

Computer Section: You should have the basic knowledge of Computer.

What are computer, how it works and its history. Try to learn each and every detail which helps the computer to perform. Also focus on MS Word, Excel and Power Point chapters.

Note: Above information is based on SBI Clerk 2012 exam pattern & syllabus. The only difference is that this time SBI will conduct Online Exam for first time.