SBI Clerk Notification 2021: Know SBI Clerk Eligibility Criteria, Vacancy & Salary Details

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The State Bank of India has released the SBI Clerk notification 2021 for a total of 5500 vacancies pan India. The application process has commenced from April 26, 2021, till May 20, 2021. The candidates who possess the relevant eligibility criteria have already applied for the same and are now awaiting the release of the SBI Clerk Admit Card. As per the latest updates, SBI was going to conduct the preliminary examination in June 2021 however it was postponed citing the covid pandemic. The candidates can also go through the SBI Clerk Selection Process, Junior Associates Salary structure etc in-depth to get an overall idea of their job profile and SBI Clerk in-hand salary upon successfully joining.

Highlights of SBI Clerk Exam Dates 2021

The SBI Clerk Exam will commence soon for all the candidates aspiring for the upcoming JA exam. However, it is very important that the candidates have a basic idea of the important highlights of the same. Thus, to assist the candidates with the same candidates we have listed the highlights of the SBI Clerk Exam:

Important Events of SBI Clerk	Major Dates
Official Notification Releases	26^th April 2021
Application Starts on	27^th April 2021
Application Ends on	20^th May 2021
SBI Clerk 2021 Admit Card for Preliminary Exam	To be Announced
SBI Clerk Preliminary Exam Dates	To be Announced
Preliminary Exam Result	To be Announced
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Admit Card	To be Announced
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Date	To be Announced
SBI Clerk Mains Exam Result	To be Announced
SBI Clerk Provisional Allotment	To be Announced

SBI Clerk Vacancy 2021

The bank has released the SBI Clerk Vacancies for all the states across all the categories. As per the official notification there are a total of 5000 vacancies. The candidates can check out the vacancies in detail and then apply for the same.

SBI Clerk 2021: Vacancies

State	Language	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	GEN	Total
Gujarat	Gujarati	63	135	243	90	371	902
Daman & Diu	Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andhra Pradesh	Telugu/ Urdu	0	0	0	0	0	0
Karnataka	Kannada	64	28	108	40	160	400
Madhya Pradesh	Hindi	11	15	11	07	34	78
Chhattisgarh	Hindi	14	38	7	12	49	120
West Bengal	Bengali/ Nepali	62	13	60	27	111	273
A&N Islands	Hindi/ English	0	1	4	1	9	15
Sikkim	Nepali/ English	0	2	2	1	7	12
Odisha	Odia	12	16	9	7	31	75
Jammu & Kashmir	Urdu/ Hindi	0	1	3	1	7	12
Ladakh	Ladakhi/ Urdu/ Dogri	0	0	2	0	6	8
Himachal Pradesh	Hindi	45	7	36	18	74	180
Chandigarh	Punjabi/ Hindi	2	0	4	1	8	15
Punjab	Punjabi/ Hindi	85	0	61	29	120	295
Tamil Nadu	Tamil	89	4	127	47	206	473
Pondicherry	Tamil	0	0	0	0	2	2
Delhi	Hindi	12	6	21	8	33	80
Uttarakhand	Hindi	12	2	9	7	40	70
Haryana	Hindi/ Punjabi	20	0	29	11	50	110
Telangana	Telgu/ Urdu	44	19	74	27	111	275
Rajasthan	Hindi	29	22	35	17	72	175
Kerala	Malyalam	9	0	26	9	53	97
Lakshadweep	Malyalam	0	1	0	0	2	3
Uttar Pradesh	Hindi/ Urdu	73	3	94	35	145	350
Maharashtra	Marathi	63	56	172	63	286	640
Goa	Konkani	0	1	1	1	7	10
Assam	Assamese /Bengali/ Bodo	10	17	40	14	68	149
Arunachal Pradesh	English	0	6	0	1	8	15
Manipur	Manipuri	0	6	2	1	9	18
Meghalaya	English/Garo/ Khasi	0	6	0	1	7	14
Mizoram	Mizo	0	9	1	2	8	20
Nagaland	English	0	1	0	1	5	10
Tripura	Bengali/ Kokboro k	3	5	0	1	10	19
Bihar	Hindi/ Urdu	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jharkhand	Hindi/ Santhali	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	722	423	1181	480	2109	4915

SBI Clerk 2021: Special Recruitment Drive

State	Language	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	GEN	Total
Kashmir Valley	Urdu/Ka shmiri/Dogri	3	4	10	4	19	40
Leh & Kargil Valley	Urdu/ Ladakhi/ Dogri	1	1	4	1	8	15
Dibang Valley,Tawang etc.	English	0	4	0	1	5	10
Tura	Garo	0	4	0	1	5	10
Mokokchung	Ao (Naga)	0	4	0	1	5	10
Total		726	440	1195	488	2151	5000

SBI Clerk 2021: Backlog Vacancies

Category	Final Vacancy
SC/ST/OBC	121
PwD	96
Xs	237
Total	454

SBI Clerk 2021 Eligibility Criteria

The candidates who are aspiring for the SBI Clerk 2021 are required to fulfil the basic SBI Clerk Eligibility Criteria to successfully apply for the same. The candidates who fail to fulfil basic eligibility criteria will be rejected by the bank and not be able to attempt the preliminary examination.

SBI Clerk Eligibility 2021: Age Limit

According to the official notification of the SBI Clerk, the candidates who wish to apply for the exam have to be Graduate in any subject or stream. In addition to this, the aspirants should also have the operations of the basic computer knowledge.

SBI Clerk Eligibility 2021: Educational Qualification

The candidates need to possess the following educational qualification to be successfully able to apply for the SBI Junior Associates Exam:

Category of the Candidates	Age Relaxation in the SBI Clerk Exam
PWD Candidates	10 years
SC/ ST Candidates	5 years
OBC Candidates	3 years
Candidates who were affected by a riot of 1984	5 years.
Employees of Bhopal carbide Factory removed from services for cost-cutting. Only Applicable for the state of Madhya Pradesh.	5 years.
Women candidates who are judicially separated or widowed and did not remarry.	9 years

SBI Clerk Application Process

The candidates should always visit the official website of SBIand move to the career section to apply for the SBI Clerk 2021. The important steps that are important while filling the application form are mentioned below:

The candidates must visit the official website of SBI
Next, the candidates are required to find the Career link on the official homepage of the SBI
Then, the candidates will be redirected to the career page, wherein the candidates have to check out the SBI Clerk Application link.
Post this, the candidates should fill in all the details i.e. Name, Mobile Number and Email id. Upon successful registration, a provisional registration number and password will be generated for the candidate.
Thereafter, the candidate will be required to log in with the Registration Number and Password and he will be redirected to the online application form.
The candidate has to enter all the important details i.e. Candidate’s name, Parent’s name, Caste category, Date of birth, educational qualification etc.
On the next page, the candidates will be required to upload their documents i.e. candidate’s photograph, candidate’s signature etc.
In the end, the candidates have to make the online payment using any of the online mode i.e. i.e. debit card/credit card etc.

Document Uploading Format

Images	Size	Resolution	Background	Format
Photograph	10kb to 20 kb	200×230 pixels	White	JPEG
Signature	10kb to 50 kb	140×60 pixels	White	JPEG
Thumb Impression	20kb to 50 kb	240×240 pixels	White	JPEG
Hand Written Declaration	50kb to 100kb	800×400 pixels	White	JPEG

SBI Clerk Application Form Fee

The application fee applicable for all the different categories i.e. General, OBC, SC/ST category etc from the space below:

Category	Application Fee
General/OBC	Rs 750
SC/ST/PWDb	Nil
Mode of Payment	UPI/BHIM/Card (Debit & Credit), IMPS, Cash Card,

SBI Clerk Exam Centres

State	Exam Cities
Andhra Pradesh	Adilabad, Adoni, Anantapur, Chittoor, Cuddapah, Eluru, Guntur, Hindupur, Hyderabad, Kakinada, Kurnool, Warangal
Assam	Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Kokrajhar, North Lakhimpur, Nowgong, Silchar, Tezpur, Tinsukia, Bongaigaon
Bihar	Arrah, Begusarai, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Purnea, Saharsa, Samastipur, Motihari
Jharkhand	Bokaro steel City, Daltonganj, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Deoghar, Sahibganj
Gujarat	Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surat, Vapi
Haryana	Ambala Cantt, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hissar, Karnal, Rohtak, Yamunanagar
Himachal Pradesh	Hamirpur, Palampur, Mandi, Simla
Jammu & Kashmir	Anantnag, Baramulla, Doda, Jammu, Kathua, Leh, Poonch, Rajouri, Srinagar
Karnataka	Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Davangere, Hubli, Madikeri, Mangalore, Mysore, Shimoga
Kerala	Calicut, Kannur, Ernakulam, Kottayam, Palakkad, Kollam, Thiruvalla, Thiruvananthapuram
Madhya Pradesh	Balaghat, Bhopal, Chhatarpur, Guna, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Ratlam, Rewa, Satna, Shahdol, Ujjain
Chhattisgarh	Ambikapur, Bhilai, Bilaspur, Jagdalpur, Raigarh, Raipur
Maharashtra	Ahmednagar, Amravati, Aurangabad, Dhule, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Latur, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Solapur, Satara
Manipur	Imphal
Meghalaya	Shillong, Tura
Mizoram	Aizawl
Nagaland	Kohima, Mokokchung, Tuensang
Orissa	Berhampur Ganjam, Bhawanipatna, Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Sambalpur
Punjab	Abohar, Amritsar City, Bhatinda, Ferozepur, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Patiala, Sangrur
Rajasthan	Ajmer, Alwar, Banswara, Bhilwara, Bikaner, Ganganagar, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Sawai Madhopur, Udaipur
Sikkim	Gangtok
UAE	Dubai
West Bengal	Asansol, Barrackpore, Burdwan, Kolkata, Coochbehar, Malda, Serampore, Siliguri
Uttar Pradesh	Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Etah, Etawah, Faizabad, Ghaziabad, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Jaunpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Muzaffarnagar, Shahjahanpur, Varanasi

SBI Clerk Selection Process 2021

SBI Clerk Prelim Exam 2021:

The Preliminary Exam of the SBI Clerk is the first stage of the recruitment process. The examination is conducted online and has three papers. The questions asked in the exam are multiple choice based or objective. The candidates is required to mark correct answer out of all the options available for each question. The candidates can check out the details of the preliminary exam of SBI Clerk 2021 in the space below:

SBI Clerk Preliminary Examination is conducted online in the computer-based mode.
The SBI Clerk Exam will have three papers i.e. Numerical Ability, Reasoning Ability and English Language. The total questions asked from the three subjects will be equal to 100 while there will be 30 questions from English and 35 questions each from Numerical Ability and Reasoning Ability.
The bank has introduced sectional timing and therefore he will get 20 minutes to complete each section. The candidate cannot switch to another section until the sectional timing of one section is over.
As per the marking scheme, the candidates will get 1 mark for each correct answer while there will be a negative marking of 0.25 marks for wrong answer.

SBI Clerk Preliminary Exam Pattern:

Part	Sections	Maximum Marks	No of Questions	Sectional Timing	Exam language
1	Numerical Ability	35	35	20 mins	English
2	Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 mins	English / Hindi
3	English Language	30	30	20 mins	English / Hindi
	Total	100	100	60 mins

SBI Clerk Mains Exam 2021:

The SBI Clerk Mains will be held for the candidates who are able to secure the minimum cut off of the SBI Clerk Preliminary.
Similarly, to the Preliminary exam SBI Clerk Mains exam is also conducted online and has multiple choice-based questions.
Unlike prelims there will be four sections in the Mains exam of SBI Clerk i.e. English Language, Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude, General / Finance Awareness and Quantitative Aptitude.
The sectional timing for each section will be different for each section.
The candidates will get 1 mark for each correct answer apart from the Reasoning Ability section and there will be a wrong marking of 0.25 marks.

SBI Clerk Mains Exam Pattern:

Part	Sections	Maximum Marks	No of Questions	Sectional Timing	Exam language
1	English Language	40	40	35 mins	English
2	Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude	60	50	45 mins	English / Hindi
3	General / Finance Awareness	50	50	35 mins	English / Hindi
4	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	45 mins	English / Hindi
	Total	200	190	160 mins

SBI Clerk Syllabus

The candidates can take a cue from the important topics mentioned in the syllabus for the Preliminary exam and Mains exam.

SBI Clerk Preliminary Syllabus

Subject	Syllabus
English	Error Detection, Fill in the Blanks, Para jumbles, Reading Comprehension, Cloze test, Error Correction, Error Detection
Reasoning Ability	Series, Coding-Decoding, Data Sufficiency, Inequality, Number Series, Puzzles, Sitting Arrangement, Syllogism
Quantitative Aptitude	Approximation, Data Interpretation, Data Sufficiency, Number Series, Quadratic Equations, Quantity Based Questions, Simplification

SBI Clerk Mains Syllabus

Subject	Syllabus
English	Active and Passive Voice Antonyms Data Interpretation Direct and Indirect speech Error Correction (Phrase in Bold) Error Correction (Underlined Part) Fill in the blanks Homonyms Idioms and Phrases Joining Sentences Para Completion Passage Completion Prepositions Sentence Arrangement Sentence Improvement Spelling Test Spotting Errors Substitution Synonyms Theme Detection Topic rearrangement of passage Transformation Word Formation Sentence Arrangement Sentence Completion
Reasoning Ability	Analogies Analytical Reasoning Artificial Language Cause and Effect Data Interpretation Data Sufficiency Essential Part Letter and Symbol Series Logical Deduction Logical Reasoning Making Judgments Matching Definitions Non-Verbal Reasoning Number Series Logical Problems Puzzles Statement and Argument Statement and Conclusion Theme Detection Verbal Classification Verbal Reasoning
Quantitative Aptitude	Areas Averages Averages Bar & Graphs Boats and Streams Boats and Streams Compound Interest Compound Interest Computation of Whole Numbers Decimals and Fractions Discount Indices and Surds Interest Line charts, Tables Mensuration Mixture and allegation Stocks and shares Mixture and Allegations Mixtures and Allegations Numbers and Ages Numbers and Ages. Odd Man Out Odd Man Out Partnership Partnership Business Percentages Percentages Permutations and Combinations Pipes and Cisterns Probability L.C.M and H.C.F Problems on Numbers Problems on Trains Profit and Loss Quadratic Equations Races and Games Races and Games Ratio and Proportion Relationships between Numbers Simple Equations Simple Interest Simplification and Approximation Square Roots Time and Distance
General Awareness	Current Affairs related to Banking and Finance

SBI Clerk Important Books

We have compiled the best books for each subject as per the suggestion by the previous year students who have aced the examination.

Subject	Important Books
English	Word Power made easy by Normal Lewis English Grammar by Wren and Martin Objective English by R S Aggarwal
Reasoning Ability	Objective Mathematics by R S Aggarwal Quantum CAT by Sarvesh Verma
Quantitative Aptitude	Verbal and Non-verbal Reasoning by R S Aggarwal Non-Verbal Reasoning by Arihant Experts Previous year Papers of IBPS PO Reasoning Ability
General Awareness	The Hindu The Economic Times

SBI Clerk 2021 Salary Structure

As per the latest updates, the salary structure of the SBI Clerk has been revised and now the basic pay of 17900-1000/3-20900-1230/3-24590-1490/4-30550- 1730/7-42600-3270/1-45930-1990/1-47920. This implies that now the gross salary of an SBI Clerk will be around Rs 30,000 per month. Apart from the normal stipend that they will get an SBI Clerk is also offered the following allowances:

House Rent Allowances

Dearness Allowances
Transport Allowances
City Compensatory Allowances
Special Allowances
Furniture Allowances
News Paper Bill
Conveyance Allowances
Other Relevant Perks and Allowances

SBI Clerk Cut Off

The candidates who clear the SBI Clerk Cut Off 2021 marks are called for the next round of the examination. The SBI has removed the provision of sectional marks from the examination however the candidates will be required to score the overall cut off decided by the bank. Since the SBI Clerk exam is a state-based exam, therefore, the cut off for the preliminary as well as the Mains exam will be having different cut off for each state. The candidates can get an idea of the cut off of the SBI Clerk 2021 by checking the previous year cut off as mentioned below:

Factors to Determine Cut Off Marks:

Total Number of Applicants for the SBI Clerk Exam.
Vacancy Released by SBI for each stage.
Difficulty Level of the paper
Previous Year Cut Off Trend.
Marking Scheme of SBI

SBI Clerk Notification 2021 FAQs

When will SBI publish the Official Notification PDF?

SBI has published the SBI Clerk Official Notification PDF on 26th April 2021.

Is 60% marks in Graduation necessary to SBI Clerk Exam?

No, 60% marks in Graduation degree is not needed to be in SBI Clerk Exam.

What is the age limit in the SBI CLERK Exam?

The age limit for SBI Clerk Exam is 20-28 years of age.

What is the eligible educational qualification for appearing in the SBI Clerk Exam?

An aspirant has to hold a Graduation degree in any discipline for appearing in the SBI Clerk Exam.

How many stages are there in the SBI Clerk Exam?

Yes, there are three divisions in the SBI Clerk Exam- 1) Prelims Exam, 2) Main Exam, 3) Opted Local Language Test.

What is the process to pay the Application Fee?

The entrants have to pay the Application Fee through Credit Card or Debit Card or Net Banking.

What is the process of paying the SBI Clerk Application Fee?

Only the General category has to pay Rs.750/- for the Application Fee of SBI Clerk.

Is the Application Process of SBI Clerk held online?

Yes, the application process is held online for SBI Clerk Exam.

Author: Silki Joshi

Silki Joshi is a Content Writer with experience of 3+ years in the Edtech domain. She has mostly worked for competitive exams like Banking and SSC exams.

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