SBI SPECIALIST OFFICER 2014 Exam Pattern & Syllabus

SBI SPECIALIST OFFICER 2014

Exam Pattern & Syllabus

State Bank of India has announced notification for the recruitment of Specialist Officers 2014 for SBI and its Associates. There are 393 posts in total (SBI 313 Posts, SBH 31 Posts, SBM 11 Posts, SBP 15 Posts and SBT 23 Posts). So here, we are giving the detailed analysis of the On-line Exam.

The on-line exam will held on 19 th April 2014.

Exam Pattern

Sr. No.	Name of Subject (Objective)	Maxim Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning	50	Composite Time of 2 hours
2	English Language	50
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50
4	Professional Knowledge	50
	Total	200

The first 3 sections are common for all the posts. Those are English Language, Reasoning and/or Quantitative Aptitude. The fourth section is Professional Knowledge (PK) section.

There is NO Current Affairs or General Awareness section in this exam. Except Professional Knowledge (PK) paper, other papers will be of qualifying in nature. 

Candidates have to score minimum qualifying marks in these papers. The minimum qualifying marks will be decided by the Bank. The question paper will be bilingual i.e. in Hindi & English. The candidates will have option to answer the questions in Hindi or English (except for test of English Language). 

SYLLABUS

Quantitative Aptitude:

Data Interpretation (almost 40% questions). For this section, focus more on Averages, Ratios and Proportions, Bar Charts, Tables, Pie Charts Simplification, etc.

Numerical Ability, ratios and proportions, averages, LCM and HCF, Ages, Time and Distance, Speed and Distance, Profit and Loss, Basic Mensuration.

Reasoning:

In last year SBI Specialist Officers' Exam (2012), they've mainly focused on Analytical Reasoning. So focus more on topics like Classification, Input and Output, Seating Arrangement, Ranking, Coding - Decoding, Time Sequence, Decision Making, Course of Action, Cause and Effect, Statements Conclusions and Statements Assumptions.

Last year, the SBI hadn't asked questions from Non-Verbal Reasoning. So this time also you can expect the same pattern.

English Language: For this section, focus more on Vocabulary, Antonyms, Synonyms, Sentence Arrangement, Fill in the Blanks, Locating and Correcting the errors, Reading Comprehension and cloze test.

Professional Knowledge:

1. Systems Officer / IT Officer: Computer Networks and Basic Programming Languages (C, C++, Java), Data Base Management Systems (DBMS), Basic concepts of Software and Hardware, Data Structures, Computer Organization, Computer Networks, Network Programming, Algorithms, Digital Electronics, Web Technologies, Information Systems and Software Engineering etc.

2. Chartered Accountant:  Accounting Standards, Accounting Guidance Note, Financial Report Standards, Indian Accounting Standards, Corporate Financial Reporting, Accounting and Reporting of Financial Instrument, Share-based Payment, Liability Valuation, Share, Business valuation, Inflation Accounting, Indian Capital Market, Mutual Funds, Foreign Exchanges, Auditing etc.

3. Law Officer: Banking Regulated Laws, Banking Security Laws, Negotiable Instruments, Ethics and Corporate Governance in Banking, Financial Analysis, Banking Operational Laws, Banker-Customer Relations, Electronic Banking, Loans and Advances, Compliance and Legal Aspects, Security Types and Regulatory Frameworks etc.

4. Statistician:  Basic Statistical Methods and Inference , Uni-Variate Data, Bi-Variate Data, Time series forecasting, Sampling Concepts, Sampling Distribution, Estimations Theory, Simple Regression, Multiple Regression, Variance Analysis, Banking-Insurance, Financial Market, Foreign Exchanges, Forecasting Portfolio etc.