State Bank of India — Junior Associate (Customer Support & Sales) recruitment. Conducted by State Bank of India (SBI). Nisha knows this paper from the site's own pattern pages — and reads your scores, your mocks and what you haven't touched before saying a word.
Once a year — exact notification/exam months shift cycle to cycle; check sbi.co.in/web/careers for the current cycle's dates. Online CBT — Prelims + Mains, both fully objective (no descriptive test, no interview).
100 questions · 100 marks · 60 min with 20-min sectional locks (English 30, Numerical Ability 35, Reasoning 35). Clear each section's cut-off AND the overall cut-off — these marks are NOT added to the final merit.
190 objective questions, 200 marks, 160 minutes across 4 sectional-locked sections. This is the ONLY score that decides your rank — there is no interview stage. Only the overall aggregate cut-off applies here, not a per-section one.
Candidates allotted to a state whose local language they have not already studied or certified must clear a proficiency test after Mains — a pass/fail condition, not a marks-adding stage.
Qualifying only
Marking: −0.25 per wrong answer
Each of the three sections is a separate 20-minute sprint — no time borrowing between them.
Merit — 100% of the final rank, no interview follows
Marking: −0.25 per wrong answer
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude is the single heaviest section at 60 marks. Only an overall aggregate cut-off applies at Mains — there is no individual sectional qualifying mark, unlike Prelims.
Prelims is only a gate — its marks are NOT counted in the final merit. There is no interview for SBI Clerk: your entire rank comes from the 200-mark Mains exam alone, followed (for some candidates) by a qualifying Local Language Proficiency Test.
50 questions, 45 minutes — the single heaviest section. Puzzles & seating arrangement carry the largest individual share.
50 questions, 35 minutes — the largest question count on the paper, pure recall with zero calculation.
50 questions, 45 minutes. Same narrow 6-topic syllabus as IBPS Clerk — no ratio/partnership, mensuration or P&C at this level.
40 questions, 35 minutes, fully objective — no descriptive component at all.
The highest-weight chapters in each subject, linked to their notes. Weights are estimates from previous papers where the conducting body publishes none. Your guide weighs these against your own scores.
Sectional cut-offs, speed, and the mock-analysis habit that decides bank and SSC results. Pick one to start, or just talk — Nisha has read your profile either way.
Every fact on this page comes from the exam's blueprint on this site. How the guide uses it: how Guidance works.
Nisha has the pattern and will read your work. Talk it through, and leave with a plan you tick off.
