How to Become A Bank Employee? How to prepare for Probationary Officer Posts?
As banking recruitment
is on it’s peak, preparation of Bank Pos got significance. Recently SBI
declared recruitment notification for Probationary Officers posts.
Selected candidates probationary period is 2 years and they can draw
salary up to Rs.27,800/- initially. There is a limit for candidates who
appear for SBI exam. General candidates 4 times and OBC candidates 7
times can appear. However there is no limit for SC and ST candidates.
Selection process:
Selection
process is gone through under two phases. First phase is written test
and the second is group discussion and interview. The exam going to be
held on 24th july will be of 2 hours for 200 marks in objective type and
1 hour descriptive exam for 50 marks.
There
are 4 parts in objective type exam. 1. English language, 2. General
awareness and marketing, 3. Data analysis and interpretation, 4.
Reasoning(high level).
English language:
This is very important part in SBI PO exam. General English is in both
objective and descriptive test. Descriptive test marks are also
considered in selection process, so you should pay special attention to
it. Like other bank’s PO exams SBI too gives importance to grammar,
vocabulary and comprehension in English. Preparing for basics in grammar
is quite important. Follow the old question paper models and practice
thoroughly. Most candidates take 10 to 15 minutes to finish all the
questions in comprehension. Practice to finish them within 5 minutes.
Through constant practice you can get grip over it. Try to improve the
reading speed. By reading English newspapers you can improve your
English as well as current affairs. Remember marks you score in English
language are considered for merit ranking in SBI exam.
General Awareness and marketing: Marketing
issues are interlinked with the knowledge you gain while updating
yourself for general awareness. You need not to prepare separately both
of them. Reading newspapers like Business Line, Economic Times or The
Hindu daily will suffice. Try to cover banking, marketing and computers
related news from the last 6 to 8 months. Study deeply different types
of marketing, consumer behavior and product life cycle etc. you can
score much marks in this part, so give importance to it.
Data Analysis and Interpretation: this
is the part you have to concentrate more and invest more time when
compared to others. These are high end issues in quantitative aptitude
preparation. Basically once you get grip over arithmetic preparation you
can easily analyze the given data. Further more you should be quite
creative while presenting the analyzed data. Candidates who already
written bank PO exams are not new to this. While in other PO papers out
or 50 marks 20 to 25 marks are from interpretation. But in SBI 45 marks
are from interpretation and 5 marks are from permutations, combinations
and probability. Candidates should learn various types of graphs means
bar diagram, line graph, π charts and table. Get clear understanding
over arithmetic mostly percentages, profit and loss etc. It is better to
learn speed mathematics. You have to practice more time using your
whole energy.
Reasoning:
this is all about the logical and analytical reasoning. Testing
candidates analytical talent and decisiveness is the main purpose of
this part. You need to practice with not only basic level reasoning but
standard books of reasoning.
Every
day covering all these four areas your practice should continue. Finish
all the areas in just 15 to 20 days before the exam and after then
practice in exam style. Allocate the two hours time to these four parts
depending on their no. of questions and importance. Practice to finish
general awareness in 15 minutes and general English in 20 minutes. Take
half minute for each Math question. Exam will become easy.
Regarding
descriptive paper there a difference between SBI and other bank’s PO
papers. While other bank’s papers are based on social and economic
issues, SBI’s PO descriptive part is related to English language. Essay
writing, letter writing, comprehension related questions will be there.
