SBI Specialist Officer Recruitment: Exam to be held tomorrow

State Bank of India has invited applications for recruitment at the post of Specialist Cadre Officers . The selection of the candidates will be done on the basis of an entrance test which is scheduled to take place online tomorrow i.e. April 19.

The recruitment will be provided at posts such as:

• Manager (Statistician)
• Deputy Manager (Statistician)
• Assistant Manager Statistician
• Chief Manager (Analyst)
• Assistant Manager (Library)
• Manager (Chartered Accountant)
• Deputy Manager (Chartered Accountant) Post I
• Deputy Manager (Chartered Accountant) Post II
• Assistant Manager (Chartered Accountant)
• Assistant Manager (Economist)
• Assistant General (Risk Management)
• Chief Manager (Market Risk)
• Manager (Market Risk)
• Manager (Risk Management)
• Deputy Manager (Risk Management)
• Assistant Manager (Systems)
• Deputy Manager (Civil Engineering)
• Assistant Manager (Civil Engineer)
• Deputy Manager (Electrical Engineer)
• Assistant Manager (Electrical Engineer)
• Deputy Manager (Official Language)
• Assistant Manager (Official Language)
• Assistant General Manager (Law)
• Chief Manager (Law)
• Deputy Manager (Law)
• Deputy Manager (Security)

After qualifying the entrance exam, the candidates will be called for interview. The candidates who will be short listed in the interview thereafter will be provided jobs.

The exam will take place at various centres of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bangalore,Bhopal, Raipur, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Jammu, Chennai, Madurai, Guwahati, Hyderabad,Vishakhapatnam, Kolkata, Lucknow, Varanasi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Dehradun, Jaipur,New Delhi, Patna, Ranchi, Ernakulam and Trivandrum.

The candidates should keep the following points in mind before attempting the online exam:

• The candidates will come across a login screen where the candidates are required to insert their User ID and password.

• After the candidates log in, a set of instructions will be displayed to them.

• The candidates should go through the instructions carefully, after which they are required to click the box at the bottom of the screen to indicate that they have read it.

• Clicking on the box will mean that the candidate is ready to begin and thereafter the test time will begin.

• A total of 170 questions will be displayed on the screen. Each question will have five options, out of which the candidates should select one.

• All the questions will be available in English and Hindi except for the questions on English language.

• To be able to view a particular question in some other language, the candidates should click on the 'view in' drop down box and select the desired language.

• The candidates can see only one question at a time.

• The candidates are required to click on one correct option and then click on 'Save' and 'Next' button to save it and proceed further.

• If a candidate is not sure of the answer and does not wish to attempt it, then he/ she should not click on any of the option. To deselect an answer, the candidates are required to click on the 'CLEAR RESPONSE' button provided against each question.

• In case, candidates wish to skip a question for the moment and return to it later on, the candidates are required to click on the 'MARK FOR REVIEW & NEXT' option. In such cases, the marked/ unmarked answer will not be considered at the time of evaluation.

• Each question number will be coloured, based on their status.

• White: Not visited: Question has not been viewed/ attempted
• Red: Not Answered: Question has been viewed but not answered
• Green: Answered: Question has been answered
• Violet: Marked: Question has been marked for review later

• The candidates will not be allowed to submit the answers before the time duration allotted for the test ends i.e. Two hours and fifteen minutes.

• Also, the candidates should know that the questions from Part I can not be solved in the time provided for Part II and vice versa.

• On clicking a particular question, it takes time for the question to appear on the screen, that time will not be deducted from the allotted time.

• Also, once the exam starts, the candidates should not click on any keyboard keys, this will lock the exam.