Wednesday, 11 May 2016

SBI PO 2016 | Know Exam Pattern and Number Of Attempts

SBI PO 2016 | Know Exam Pattern and Number Of Attempts



Are you preparing for SBI PO exam? If yes then you need to read the whole article carefully and thoroughly understand the PO Exam Pattern of SBI 2016 since SBI has made several changes in the exam pattern. SBI is an Indian Multinational, Public sector banking and financial service company, headquarter in Mumbai. Every year, it conducts diverse exams to fulfill their requirements. SBI has announced its notification for the post of Probationary Officer (PO) for 2200 vacancies. The candidates, who have registered for this exam, should start their preparation. 

Stages under the SBI PO Exam 2016:

The Recruitment for PO to diverse SBI Branches is considered as one central banking exams of the country. Every Year, a large number of banking aspirants apply for SBI PO Examination.
There are 3 stages under the SBI PO Exam Pattern 2016 are as follows:

Stage 1: Preliminary Examination
Stage 2: Main Examination
Stage 3: Group Discussion and Interview

Stage 1: SBI PO Preliminary Exam Pattern 2016

The Preliminary examination is an objective type examination for 100 marks where the candidates need to select one correct option out of given four options.
The test will be conducted online and total mark of the exam is 100.
For every correct answer provided, the candidates would be awarded 1 mark and for every wrong answer ¼ marks will be deducted. However, no mark will be deducted for any response.

Sr. NO
Name Of Test
No of Questions
Marks
Duration
1
English Language
30
30
Composite Time is
2
Quantitative Aptitude
35
35
Of 1 hour
3
Reasoning Ability
35
35


Total
100
100


Stage 2:

The candidates who score above the SBI PO Preliminary Cutoff Score 2016 in stage 1 will be allowed to take the SBI PO Main Exam 2016. This year, SBI has made some changes in the exam pattern of SBI PO Main Examination.
The Written Examination is of 250 marks consisting of Objective Tests and Descriptive Test.
Objective test is of 200 marks with 2 hours duration and consists of 4 Sections with 50 marks each as follows:

(a) Test of English Language (Grammer, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc)
 
(b) Test of General Awareness, Marketing and Computers

(c) Test of Data Analysis and Interpretation

(d) Test of Reasoning (High Level)

The objective test has separate timing for each section.

For every correct answer, the candidates would be awarded 1 mark and for every wrong response ¼ marks will get deducted. However, no marks will be deducted for any response.

Structure of Objective Test:
Serial No
Name of section
Number of Questions asked in the section
Total marks in the section
Time Duration
1
Reasoning and Computer Aptitude
45
60
60 minutes
2
Data Analysis and Interpretation
35
60
45 minutes
3
General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness
40
40
35 minutes
4
English Language
35
40
40 minutes
Total

155
200
3 hours

Descriptive Section Pattern (50 Marks):
Along with the objective type questions, the SBI PO Main Exam will have questions in the descriptive format as well. The main point of this test is to judge the writing skills of candidate. Following are the important points to ponder for the written examination:

The test will be of English Language (Letter Writing and Essay) and will be of 30 minutes duration comprising 50 marks.

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.

Changes observed in Descriptive Test:

The descriptive paper will carry 50 marks and the time duration will be 30 minutes. Earlier, the total time duration for descriptive paper was 60 minutes.

Phase 3: Group Discussion and Personal Interview

The candidate, who clears the cutoff score, will go for stage 2 rounds. It is a group discussion and personal Interview test where the candidates will have to face an Interview board. The GD round will carry 20 marks and Interview will carry 30 marks. The aggregate marks of candidates qualifying in both the Objective Tests and the Descriptive Test will be arranged in descending order in each category. The qualifying marks in Group Discussion and Interview will be decided by the Bank.

Number of Attempts in SBI PO 2016:

This year, the number of attempts in SBI PO examination has also been included in the notification. Candidates who have already appeared for the maximum number of chances permissible are not eligible to apply. The number of chances will be counted from the examination held on 18.04.2010. Appearing in Preliminary Examination will not be counted as a chance.

The table given below will make the candidates understand better:
Category
Number of chances
General
4
General (PWD)
7
OBC
7
OBC (PWD)
7
SC/SC (PWD)/ST/ST (PWD)
No restriction

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Tuesday, 10 May 2016

IIM Bangalore likely to conduct CAT 2016





IIM Bangalore likely to conduct CAT 2016



Common Admission Test (CAT) is one of the most awaited entrance exams of the nation. Every year lakhs of candidates enrolled in this exam. Last year, IIM-Ahmedabad conducted this exam and approx. 2.18 lakh management aspirants appeared for it. In this year, the baton to conduct CAT examination has been passed to IIM Bangalore by IIM Ahmedabad.

IN 2013 and 2014, IIM Indore conducted CAT for two consecutive years and IIM-A took over in 2015. In 2015, several significant changes were introduced in the exam pattern for CAT. It is expected that with IIM-B, there would be some new changes in the CAT 2016 exam pattern. This news has been confirmed by official sources of CAT organizing committee and it will be officially announced by the month of June.

Professor Tathagata Bandyopadhyay speaks:

Professor Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, a member of the CAT 2015 committee said, "The official CAT committee meeting will be held in end of May or early-June, where IIM Ahmedabad will give a handover to the respective institute which will conduct CAT 2016." If the reports are to be believed, this will be the first time that the online CAT exam will be conducted by IIM Bangalore.
The notification for CAT 2016 is likely to be released in July or August and the exam is expected to be scheduled in November 2016. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will continue to be the test-taking agency this year. In 2014, the TCS signed a five-year deal with the IIMs to conduct the test.  

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NEET-No Separate Medical Entrance Exams In State



NEET-No Separate Medical Entrance Exams In State


Undergraduate admission to medical courses can only be done through National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the Supreme Court said on Monday. In a major decision with regard to NEET, the Supreme Court on Monday said that the students who could not appear in NEET 1 would be allowed to appear in NEET 2, scheduled for July 24. 

Only NEET would enable candidates to get admission to MBBS or BDS studies. In accordance with the court order, CBSE’s AIPMT on May 1 was considered as the first phase of NEET wherein over six lakh students had appeared. 

On April 28, 2016, the Supreme Court put to rest all confusion by modifying its order by which it had allowed Centre and CBSE to conduct a single common entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses through National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET).

The top court had approved the schedule put before it by the Centre, CBSE and Medical Medical Council of India (MCI) for treating All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) fixed for May 1 as NEET-1. With this clarification the court had made it clear that all other admission tests, already held or scheduled for later for admission to diverse government colleges, deemed universities, minority and linguistic minority colleges, private medical colleges, stand scrapped. 

Later, the state governments, including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, sought a modification of this order to enable them conduct their separate exam for this year. But the five Judge bench on Monday said, "Only NEET would enable students' to get admission to MBBS or BDS studies" 

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