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State Bank of India, Probationary Officer

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About SBI PO

State Bank of India recruits Probationary Officers through advertisement CRPD/PO/2026-27/09 (18 June 2026). The 2026 notice listed 1,500 vacancies. Applicants must be Indian citizens, graduates in any discipline (the degree must be passed on or before 30 September 2026), and at least 21 and not above 30 on 1 April 2026, with the usual relaxations. The application fee is ₹750 for Unreserved, EWS and OBC candidates and nil for SC, ST and PwBD candidates. A corrigendum of 1 July 2026 removed the CIBIL clause; the rest of the advertisement was left unchanged.

Phase I, the preliminary examination, is an online objective test of 100 marks and one hour, in three sections with a separate timer for each: English Language (40 questions, 20 minutes), Quantitative Aptitude (30 questions, 20 minutes) and Reasoning Ability (30 questions, 20 minutes). The notice prints one combined maximum of 100 marks for these 100 questions. Every question has five options and one correct answer. For a wrong answer, one fourth of the marks assigned to that question is deducted; a question left blank costs nothing. There is no sectional cut-off. A category-wise merit list is drawn from the aggregate, and about ten times the vacancies in each category are shortlisted for the main examination. Questions other than English Language are set in English and Hindi.

Phase II, the main examination, is online. The objective part lasts 3 hours and has four separately timed sections, 170 questions and 200 marks: Reasoning and Computer Aptitude (40 questions, 60 marks, 50 minutes), Data Analysis and Interpretation (30 questions, 60 marks, 45 minutes), General Awareness / Economy / Banking Knowledge (60 questions, 60 marks, 45 minutes) and English Language (40 questions, 20 marks, 40 minutes). The same one-fourth penalty applies to wrong answers in the objective tests. A descriptive paper on communication skills follows at once: three questions, 30 marks, 30 minutes, typed on the computer (an email, a situation analysis, and either a report or a précis, each chosen from two options). Each objective section and the descriptive paper has a minimum qualifying score fixed by the Bank, and about three times the category-wise vacancies are called for Phase III.

Phase III is a psychometric test for personality profiling, a group exercise (20 marks) and an interview (30 marks). Preliminary marks are not added to the final merit list. Main-examination marks (230) and Phase III marks (50) are converted to 75 and 25 respectively, and the final list is made from that total of 100. Selected candidates join as Probationary Officers in Junior Management Grade Scale-I, on probation of about two years, and execute a bond of ₹2 lakh to serve the Bank for at least three years.

SBI PO Prelims exam pattern

1 hour (20 minutes extra for candidates eligible for compensatory time)

SBI PO Mains exam pattern

3 hours 30 minutes