SBI PO Syllabus 2015 with Exam pattern - SBI PO 2015 New Revised Pattern and

Detailed syllabus: State Bank of India conducts written examination for Probationary
Officer posts. Recently SBI had released the notification for Probationary officer 2015 exam.
From 2015, SBI had changed the pattern of PO exam. Now there will be 3 phases instead of
2. Phase 1 will be for screening of non-serious candidates to remove the competition. Phase 2
will be main exam consisting of written as well as descriptive paper. The biggest change in
SBI PO 2015 exam is that the descriptive test will be online means candidates have to type
the answers in the computer. Those candidates who qualifies phase 2 are further tested with
Group discussion and Interview. Here we are providing SBI PO exam syllabus 2015 based
on new pattern.

SBI PO Syllabus 2015 with Exam pattern

SBI PO 2015 Exam Pattern (new):
Phase-I : Preliminary Examination: Preliminary Examination consisting of Objective Tests
for 100 marks will be conducted online. This test would be of 1 hour duration consisting of 3
Sections as follows:
Sr. No.

Name of test

No. of
Questions

Marks

Duration

1English Language

30

30

2Quantitative Aptitude

35

351 hour

3Reasoning Ability
Total

35
100

35
100

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Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing passing marks to be decided
by the Bank. Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by the Bank
(approximately 20 times the numbers of vacancies subject to availability) will be short listed
for the Main Examination.
SBI PO Syllabus 2015
Phase II: Main Examination: Main Examination will consist of Objective Tests for 200
marks and Descriptive Test for 50 marks. Both the Objective and Descriptive Tests will be
online. Candidates will have to answer Descriptive test by typing on the computer.
Immediately after completion of Objective Test, Descriptive Test will be administered.
(i) Objective Test: The Objective Test of 2 hour duration consists of 4 Sections with 50 marks
each (Total 200 marks) as follows:
a) Test of English Language (Grammar, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc.)
b) Test of General Awareness, Marketing &Computers
c) Test of Data Analysis & Interpretation
d) Test of Reasoning (High Level)
The detailed SBI PO syllabus of each section can be checked from below.
The candidates are required to qualify in each of the Tests by securing passing marks, to be
decided by the Bank.

(ii) Descriptive Test: The Descriptive Test of 1 hour duration with 50 marks will be a Test of
English Language (Letter Writing & Essay).
The candidates are required to qualify in the Descriptive Test by securing passing marks, to
be decided by the Bank.
Descriptive Test paper of only those candidates will be evaluated who have scored qualifying
marks
in the Objective Tests and are placed adequately high as per total marks in objective test.
Phase III: Group Discussion (20 marks) & Interview (30 marks)
The aggregate marks of candidates qualifying in both the Objective Tests and Descriptive
Test will be arranged in descending order in each category. Adequate number of candidates in
each category, as decided by the Bank will be called for Group Discussion and Interview. The
qualifying marks in Group Discussion &Interview will be as decided by the Bank.
Final Selection:
The marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination (Phase-I) will not be added for the
selection and only the marks obtained in Main Examination (Phase-II) will be added to the
marks obtained in GD & Interview (Phase-III) for preparation of the final merit list.
The candidates will have to qualify both in Phase-II and Phase-III separately. Marks secured
by the candidates in the Written Test (out of 250 marks) are converted to out of 75 and marks
secured in Group Discussion & Interview (out of 50 marks) are converted to out of 25. The
final merit list is arrived at after aggregating converted marks of Written Test and Group
Discussion &Interview out of 100 for each category. The selection will be made from the top
merit ranked candidates in each category.
This is the syllabus of SBI PO 2015 exam officially provided by SBI. Those candidates who
want to qualify this test should prepare as per the syllabus given above.
SBI PO Syllabus 2015 section-wise
Here is the syllabus / pattern of questions asked in SBI PO.
Note: The numbers in brackets are number of questions asked in the exam 2014. and
difficulty level - Suggestions.

1. English Language:
This section will have problems on
1. Reading Comprehension (10+10) - Moderate to difficult - It takes lot of time to find
answers from these.
2. Jumbled Sentences (5) - Moderate - Practice is the key to these types of questions.
3. Close Passages (10) - Moderate
4. Errors Correction (15) - Easy to Moderate - You need to know all the english grammar
rules to get better marks from these questions.

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asked
2. SBI PO Syllabus of Reasoning Section:
The reasoning section is of high level and have problems on
1. Input output (machine coding and decoding) (5) - Difficult
2. Sentence coding (5) - easy to moderate
3. Logical Reasoning (15) - Moderate
4. Syllogism (5) - Moderate
5. Puzzle / Seating Arrangement (10) - Difficult - Time consuming questions
6. Data Sufficiency (5) - Moderate level
7. Directions etc. (5) - easy
3. General Awareness + Marketing Awareness + Computer
Problems on following topics are asked. This section have ques. which are of easy, moderate
level. Only better preparation of this section's topics can make a candidate to score more.
1. Current Affairs (15) - easy to moderate
2. Banking Awareness (15) - easy
3. Computer Awareness (10) - easy
4. Marketing (10) - easy to mod.
4. DATA ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION:
Ques. on
1. Line graphs (5) - easy
2. Bar chart (15) - easy to moderate
3. Pie chart (10) - moderate - difficult
4. Tables (15) - mod.-diff.
5. Probability (5) - Easy-moderate
are asked.
Descriptive Test
From 2015, it will be totally online. Candidates have to type their answers on computer.
Descriptive paper is divided in 5 parts. You need to write descriptive essays on topics like
given below. The test carry 50 marks and of 1 hour duration to test candidates English
language skills.
Letter (10)-Questions on saving account, net banking, education loan etc.
Paragraph (8)-Rural Banking, Impact of autonomy
Precise Writing (10)-Chief Vigilance Officer
Reading Comprehension (10)- ATM and its uses
Essay Writing (12)-Technology, Right to education act, Financial Inclusion
Descriptive test is of qualifying nature. Candidates have to secure passing marks. It is tested
of those candidates who qualifies in objective test.

SBI PO Syllabus 2015 - Phase 3: Group discussion and Interview

Group discussion will carry 20 marks and interview will be of 30 marks. The candidates who
qualifies in both tests will be called for group discussion and interview.

SBI PO Final Selection will be based on marks scored in the written test, group discussion
and interview.
Note: The above given SBI PO syllabus 2015 may also be applicable for upcoming SBI
Associate PO exam 2015-16 with slight changes.