The State Bank of India (SBI) has released the exam date against the ADVERTISEMENT NO: CRPD/CBO/2023-24/18 for the posts of Circle Based Officers (CBO). The examinations will be conducted online at venues across many centres in India.
As per the notification, the tentative date has been announced as 21/1/2024. The link for downloading the call letters will be made available shortly.
The SBI had published a notification, ADVERTISEMENT NO: CRPD/CBO/2023-24/18 for the posts of Circle Based Officers (CBO) in the month of Nov, 2024 . The candidates who have registered for the vacant post of CBO, may check for their Call letter status to download on the official website of SBI, https://sbi.co.in/web/careers/current-openings.
SBI CBO Exam 2023 : Download of Call Letters
The candidates should download their call letter (for Online Exam & Interview) and an “Acquaint yourself booklet”, by entering their registration number and password/ date of birth from the Bank’s website.
As per the notification, no hard copy of the call letter will be sent by the post.
SBI CBO Exam 2023 : Submission of Proof of Documents
The Proof of documents will be required to be submitted by those candidates who are called for online exam / interview.
The candidates will be required to bring one photo identity proof such as Passport/ Aadhar/ PAN Card/ Driving License/ Voter’s Id Card/ Bank Passbook with duly attested Photograph/ Identity Card issued by School or College/ Gazetted Officer in the official letterhead in original as well as a self-attested Photocopy thereof.
The photocopy of Identity proof should be submitted along with call letter, failing which (or if identity of candidate is in doubt) the candidate will not be permitted to appear in test.
SBI CBO Exam 2023 : Selection Process
The selection process consists of Online Test, Screening and Interview.
(a) Online Test: Online test will consist of Objective Tests for 120 marks and Descriptive Test for 50 marks. The Descriptive Test will be administered immediately after conclusion of the Objective Test and candidates will have to type their Descriptive Test answers on the
computer.
(i) Objective Test: The duration of objective test is 2 hours and it consists of 4 Sections (English Language, Banking Knowledge, General Awareness/ Economy, Computer Aptitude) of total 120 marks. There will be separate timing for every section.
(ii) Descriptive Test: The duration of Descriptive Test is 30 minutes. It will be a Test of English Language (Letter Writing & Essay) with two questions for total 50 marks.
There will be no sectional qualifying marks. There is minimum qualifying marks on aggregate and the minimum qualifying marks will be as decided by the Bank.
Penalty for Wrong Answers: There will be no penalty for wrong answers marked in Objective Tests.
(b) Screening: Online application and documents of candidates, who qualified in online examination, will be placed before the Screening Committee. The Screening Committee constituted by the Bank will examine whether the candidates fulfil the required eligibility criteria of experience. The Committee will match the job profile submitted by the candidates (certified by their existing/ previous employer(s) with whom they are/were employed) with the job profile of Scale-I Generalist Officer of the State Bank of India.
(c) Interview: Interview will consist of 50 marks. Candidates will have to score minimum qualifying marks in interview to be considered for final selection. The minimum qualifying marks will be decided by the Bank.
Final Selection:
The candidates will have to qualify both in Online Test and Interview separately. The marks obtained in Online Test, both in the Objective Test and the Descriptive Test, will be added to the marks obtained in Interview for preparing the final merit list. Final merit list would be
prepared based on normalization of marks scored in Online Test and Interview with 75:25 weightage respectively.
Marks secured by the candidates in the Online Test (out of 170 marks) are converted to out of 75 marks and Interview scores of candidates (out of 50 marks) are converted to out of 25 marks. The final merit list (Circle wise and category wise) is arrived at after aggregating (out of 100) converted marks of Online Test and Interview. Selection will be made from the top ranked candidates in merit list prepared on Circle wise and Category wise.
