SBI PO Exam 2014 Pre-examination Training Call Letter has been released. State Bank of India, one of the largest banks of the nation, will conduct a competitive examination, for recruitment to 1,897 posts of Probationary Officers (POs) in June, 2014.
- Call Letter for Written Exam will start from May 31, 2014. In a telephonic conversation with the India Today Group, the officials concerned informed that the exam is likely to be held on June 14. Call letters will not be sent by post/ courier.
- The pre-examination training is conducted for Minority Community candidates in consonance with the guidelines issued by Government of India.
- Candidates belonging to the above categories have to avail themselves of such training at their own cost. Centers in which the training is conducted are Agartala, Agra, Ahmedabad, Aizwal, Akola, Allahabad, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bareilly, Bhubaneshwar, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Dibrugarh, Ernakulam, Gangtok, Gorakhpur, Gulbarga, Guwahati, Hubli, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Meerut, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna. Port Blair. Purnea, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Silchar, Siliguri, Shillong, Srinagar, Tirupati Vadodara, Varanasi, Vishakhapatnam, Vijayawada.
- Out of the 1,897 posts, 758 are for general category candidates, 405 are reserved for OBC candidates, 235 seats for SC category candidates, 439 seats for ST category candidates and 29 and 31 seats for VH category and OH category candidates respectively.
- The candidates will be selected on the basis of their performances in the two phases of exam. Phase I will consist of an objective as well as a descriptive test whereas phase II will be a group discussion and an interview.
- Candidates can download Pre-Examination training call letter from the Official Website of Bank, www.statebankofindia.com or www.sbi.co.in by entering valid Registration Number and Password/Date of Birth.
- The marks secured in first phase will be converted and calculated out of 75, whereas marks secured in second phase will be converted and calculated out of 25. Thereby, out of the total of 100 marks, a merit list will be published.
- The candidates from general category applying for SBI PO exam have the liberty to attempt it for four times, the candidates who belong to the OBC category can apply for seven times and those belonging to SC / ST category have no restriction on number of attempts.