SBI Clerk Exam Pattern 2015

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If you are preparing for SBI Clerk Exam must know about SBI exam pattern for clerical posts. As it should provide a clear view and structure of the exam. You must know about negative marking, duration, subjects and more details. It will help you to organise your timing during exam. As you all know time is very important factor while sitting in any competitive exam. So you should aware of your timing attempt of each questions, each topic, each subject and complete exam. We are giving detail exam pattern of SBI Clerk Exam. If you have any query then ask via comment form given below this article.

The entrance examination for SBI clerks is conducted for recruitment and selection of candidates for clerical posts. The SBI is one of the prestigious and the largest public sector bank in India and huge number of candidates appears for the examination. The exam pattern is roughly divided into two sets. First phase is a written test occurring in selected cities over the country. This is followed by interview of the candidates selected from the written examination. Final selection is based on performance of candidates during the test as well as overall presentation during the interview.

Phase 1: Online test consisting of objective type questions: The online examination will be of total 200 marks and the duration of the test will be two hours and 15 minutes or 135 minutes. The objective-type questions are divided into four sections according to marks and questions and are as follows:

	Sections	Total Marks	Total Questions
1.	English	40	40
2.	Quantitative Aptitude	40	40
3.	General Awareness	40	40
4.	Reasoning	40	40
5.	Computer Skills/ Marketing Aptitude	40 (each topic of this section will carry 20 question)	40

Note: Negative marks will be given for every wrong answer during the written test. For every wrong marking, 0.25 marks will be reduced from the total marks. This means that for every four wrong marking, candidates will lose 1 mark. Also, candidates need to pass in every section to be eligible for the interview. Candidates are required to score a minimum of 40 percent in every section and also on aggregate, to successfully pass the written examination For ST.SC/XS/PWD candidates; a relaxation of 5 percent is given on the general cut-off marks.

Phase 2: Personal Interview : Candidates who found success in the online test and fulfil all eligibility criteria will be invited for the interview round.