State Bank of India has released the SBI PO 2021 official notification today on the official website, sbi.co.in. The bank has released a total of 2056 vacancies and the application form filling will commence from October 05 to October 25, 2021.
The SBI PO 2021 preliminary exam is scheduled in November/December with the admit card being released in the first or second week of November 2021. The result of the preliminary exam will be released in December. The bank will conduct the SBI PO mains in December 2021 and an interview round will be conducted in the second or third week of February 2022. The final result of SBI PO 2021 will be announced in February or March 2022.
The candidates willing to apply for SBI PO 2021 must be a graduate in any discipline and must be within the age limit of 21 years to 30 years as of April 01, 2021. The candidates who belong to the reserved category can seek relaxation in the upper age as applicable.
The selection process for SBI PO 2021 comprises three stages i.e. preliminary exam, mains exam and interview round. The preliminary exam is a 60-minute exam held for 100 marks and has questions from the English language, quantitative aptitude, and reasoning ability. The mains exam is the second stage of the selection process and has two sections i.e. objective and descriptive. The objective part is a 200 marks paper that has questions from four subjects English language, data analysis and interpretation, general awareness, and reasoning ability.
While the descriptive section is a 50 marks paper held for 30 minutes and has 2 questions i.e. essay and letter writing. The last phase is the interview round and is a GD/PI round held for a total of 50 marks. The SBI PO final merit list is going to be prepared by considering the marks of mains and interview round. The mains marks will be converted into 75 marks while the interview round marks will be converted out of 25 marks.
The candidates who are successful in getting a final appointment as SBI PO will be eligible to receive emoluments on the pay scale of INR 41,000 with 4 advance increments and on the pay scale of INR 36000-1490/7-46430-1740/2-49910-1990/7-63840. Along with the basic pay, the candidates will also be eligible to receive a lot of allowances like DA, HRA, TA, CCA etc.
