State Bank of India (SBI) Clerks' Grade Recruitment

Calling
State Bank of India (SBI) Clerks’ Grade Aspirants
as also other Bank Clerks’ Grade and PO Exam Aspirants

State Bank of India will be holding the exam for recruitment in its Clerks’ Grade on July 6, 2008. The written test will comprise of (i) General Awareness (ii) General English (iii) Quantitative Aptitude (iv) Reasoning Ability (v) Marketing Aptitude/Computer Knowledge

THE COMPETITION MASTER provides you with solved papers (Reasoning, Objective English, Quantitative Aptitude and General Awareness) of various exams, including Bank exams that you will find very useful for practice while preparing for the SBI and other Bank exams. Going through current affairs and current GK sections of CM, of minimum last six months, is highly recommended for scoring well in the General Awareness section of the exam.

Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude questions are best mastered by practice. In different exams only the level of difficulty varies; the type questions asked remains similar. So, go through all solved papers published in CM in last 12 issues (except for papers of Management entrance and NDA/CDS) and practice solving them as part of your preparations for the SBI or other Bank Clerk Grade or PO exams.

We expect the level of SBI Clerks’ Grade exam this time to be a little higher than exams held earlier. It is advisable to practice solving Bank P.O. level papers also to be better prepared for the exam.

Reading a GK book (like Ever-Latest General Knowledge by O.P. Khanna) is also recommended.

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Corporation Bank PO Recruitment, 2008

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Corporation Bank is inviting ONLINE application for 150 Probationary Officers posts.

Selection will be on the basis of written test to be held on July 20, 2008 (Tentative)
Written exam will consist of questions on Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, Objective English and General Awareness on Socio-Economic Developments. There will also be a Descriptive Test consisting of 5 questions on socio-economic developments and communication skills. The Descriptive Test will be of qualifying nature only.

Closing Date for ONLINE registration is: May 31, 2008
Last date for receipt of “print-out of the computer generated online application”: July 7, 2008.
Last date for receipt of “print-out of the computer generated online application” from far-flung areas: July 14, 2008.

For detailed notification and to apply ONLINE visit www.corpbank.com

State Bank of India (SBI) Clerical Cadre Recruitment Exam, 2008

Read The Competition Master every month to prepare for SBI Clerical Cadre Recruitment Exam

Central Recruitment & Promotion Department, State Bank of India, Corporate Centre, Mumbai invites on-line applications from Indian citizens for appointment in the Clerical Cadre posts in State Bank of India.

Candidates are requested to apply online between before May 31, 2008 through Bank’s website www.statebankofindia.com and www.sbi.co.in.

For applying on-line, the candidates should go to a CBS branch of SBI, pay the amount of fees and get cash Receipt with unique deposit journal number. This number should be correctly entered while registering an application on-line. No other means / mode of application / print-out will be accepted.

Date of Written Examination: July 6, 2008

Educational Qualification [as on July 1, 2008]
a. Minimum 12th standard (10+2) pass or equivalent qualification there of with a minimum of 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PWD/XS). OR A degree from a recognised university (graduation level) with a minimum of 40% marks (35% for SC/ST/PWD/XS).Candidates appearing for the 12th/Graduation examinations during 2008 will be allowed to appear provisionally for the written examination subject to their submitting the original mark-sheet as a proof of passing the qualifying examination at the time of interview, if called for the same.

b. Should be able to write and speak English fluently.

c. Knowledge of other Indian language will be an added qualification.

Age:
a) Minimum Age : 18 years ; Maximum Age : 28 years (as on 01.07.2008.) Candidates born between 30.06.1980 & 01.07.1990 both days inclusive are only eligible to apply.
b) The upper age limit will be relaxed as under :
i) For SC/ST, Orthopaedically handicapped, Ex-servicemen/Disabled Ex-servicemen/OBC etc. as per guidelines laid down by Government of India.
ii) For persons who have ordinarily been domiciled in Kashmir Division of J & K State during 01.01.80 to 31.12.89, by 5 years.
iii) For widows, divorced women & women judicially separated from their husbands & who are not remarried, by 9 years, subject to maximum age limit of 35 years for General and 40 years for SC/ST Candidates.

Application Fees and/or Postal Charges
SC / ST / PWD / XS: Rs. 50/- (Postal Charges only)
All Others: Rs. 250/- (App. fees plus postage charges)

Selection Procedure:
All eligible candidates should apply online before the last date for registering of applications.
a) Final selection will be made on the basis of performance in the written test and interview taken together. Merely satisfying the eligibility norms does not entitle a candidate to be called for written test or interview. The questions in objective tests, except for the test of General English, will be printed bilingual i.e., in English & Hindi.

b) The written test will be of Objective type consisting of (i) General Awareness (ii) General English (iii) Quantitative Aptitude (iv) Reasoning Ability (v) Marketing Aptitude / Computer Knowledge

There will be negative marks for the wrong answers in the Objective tests. Candidates will have to pass in each of the objective tests.

Short Essay: War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrum and smaller adrenal glands

When the First World War was being fought the slogan that was raised by the Allies and which caught the imagination of youngmen promised that it was a war to end all wars. The war ended in 1918 and within a few years of the conclusion of Peace Treaty there was talk of war and feverish preparations for it. The armament race began all over Europe and the Allies led the van in the manufacture of arms and ammunition. No wonder another global war came in 1939 and wrought havoc, but without making human beings any wiser. We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realise that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. Man is pugnacious by instinct. He must be born a new and born different. The average human intelligence is pretty little and that little is kept down by his passions and emotions. A few unscrupulous but clever firebrands influence his adrenal glands thereby rousing his baser instincts. Unless, therefore, human beings become, like Shaw’s Ancients, passionless Intelligences, there is no hope for humanity. Wars will go on causing destruction and devastation, opening a vein that bleeds humanity to death.

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