8653 is the number of SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 which have been announced in the Notification for SBI Clerk (Junior Associates) Recruitment 2019 released on 11th April 2019. In this blog, we are going to look at 5 things you might have missed about the SBI Clerk 2019 Vacancy given in the Notification. Information about SBI Clerk Exam pattern, SBI Clerk Exam Dates, SBI Clerk mock tests, etc have also been mentioned below.
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SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 – 5 Things to Know About It
The 5 things you should know about the SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 mentioned in the SBI Clerk 2019 Notification are as follows -:
1) SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 – Reservations for EWS category
Similar to the SBI PO, the SBI Junior Associates recruitment notification has also given separate vacancies for the EWS category. The vacancies reserved for EWS are 10% of the Total vacancies. The following gives the Category-wise details about the SBI Clerk 2019 Vacancy for each state and circle.
Circle/Centre | State | Language | Category wise | |||||
GEN | EWS | SC | ST | OBC | Total | |||
Ahmedabad | Gujarat | Gujarati | 164 | 41 | 28 | 67 | 110 | 410 |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | Gujarati | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | |
Daman & Diu | Gujarati | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
Amarawati | Andhra Pradesh | Telugu/ Urdu | 103 | 25 | 40 | 17 | 68 | 253 |
Bangalore | Karnataka | Kannada | 200 | 50 | 80 | 35 | 135 | 500 |
Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | Hindi | 168 | 42 | 63 | 84 | 63 | 420 |
Chhattisgarh | Hindi | 94 | 23 | 27 | 73 | 13 | 230 | |
Bengal | West Bengal | Bengali/ Nepali | 228 | 56 | 129 | 28 | 124 | 565 |
A&N Islands | Hindi/ English | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 27 | |
Sikkim | Nepali/ English | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
Bhubaneswar | Odisha | Odia | 140 | 35 | 56 | 77 | 42 | 350 |
Chandigarh | Jammu & Kashmir | Urdu/ Hindi | 19 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 40 |
Himachal Pradesh | Hindi | 55 | 13 | 33 | 5 | 26 | 132 | |
Chandigarh | Hindi/ Punjabi | 18 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 36 | |
Punjab | Punjabi/ Hindi | 137 | 33 | 97 | 0 | 70 | 337 | |
Chennai | Tamil Nadu | Tamil | 183 | 42 | 79 | 4 | 113 | 421 |
Pondicherry | Tamil | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
Delhi | Delhi | Hindi | 180 | 43 | 65 | 32 | 117 | 437 |
Uttarakhand | Hindi | 105 | 18 | 33 | 5 | 23 | 184 | |
Chandigarh/ Delhi | Haryana | Hindi/ Punjabi | 70 | 14 | 28 | 0 | 40 | 152 |
Hyderabad | Telangana | Telugu/ Urdu/ Hindi | 172 | 42 | 68 | 29 | 114 | 425 |
Jaipur | Rajasthan | Hindi | 240 | 60 | 102 | 78 | 120 | 600 |
Kerala | Kerala | Malayalam | 131 | 24 | 24 | 2 | 66 | 247 |
Lakshadweep | Malayalam | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
Lucknow/ Delhi | Uttar Pradesh | Hindi/ Urdu | 493 | 119 | 250 | 13 | 322 | 1197 |
Mumbai | Maharashtra | Marathi | 344 | 78 | 78 | 70 | 210 | 780 |
Goa | Konkani | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 20 | |
North Eastern | Assam | Assamese/ Bengali/ Bodo | 132 | 30 | 21 | 36 | 81 | 300 |
Arunachal Pradesh | English | 26 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 55 | |
Manipur | Manipuri | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | |
Meghalaya | English/ Garo / Khasi | 11 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 25 | |
Mizoram | Mizo | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | |
Nagaland | English | 18 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 40 | |
Tripura | Bengali/ Kokborok | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | |
Patna | Bihar | Hindi/ Urdu | 54 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 31 | 115 |
Jharkhand | Hindi/ Santhali | 95 | 23 | 28 | 61 | 28 | 235 | |
TOTAL | 3646 | 847 | 1357 | 793 | 1950 | 8593 |
2) SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 – Special Recruitment Drive for Kashmir
The SBI Clerk Notification has given separate Junior Assistant vacancies for Kashmir valley and Leh & Kargil Valley. A total of 60 vacancies are available for this region. Following table gives the category-wise details of the SBI Clerk vacancies for Kashmir.
Circle | State | Language* | Category wise | |||||
GEN | EWS | SC | ST | OBC | Total | |||
Chandigarh | Kashmir Valley | Urdu/ Kashmiri/ Dogri | 14 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 30 |
Leh & Kargil Valley | Urdu/ Ladakhi/ Dogri | 14 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 30 | |
Total | 28 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 60 |
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3) SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 – Horizontal vacancies for PWD & Ex-Servicemen categories
The SBI Junior Assosicates notification has mentioned that the vacancies reserved for PWD and EX servicemen would be horizontal in nature. Which means the the numbers mentioned for each of these categories are already included in SBI clerk vacancy 2019 allocated to parent categories. Following table gives the details of PWD and EX-servicemen vacancies for each State.
State | PWD | Ex- servicemen | ||||
LD | VI | HI | d & e* | XS | DXS | |
Gujarat | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 41 | 18 |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daman & Diu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andhra Pradesh | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 11 |
Karnataka | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 50 | 22 |
Madhya Pradesh | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 18 |
Chhattisgarh | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 10 |
West Bengal | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 56 | 25 |
A&N Islands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Sikkim | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Odisha | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 15 |
Jammu & Kashmir | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Himachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 |
Chandigarh | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Punjab | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 15 |
Tamil Nadu | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 42 | 18 |
Pondicherry | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Delhi | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 43 | 19 |
Uttarakhand | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 |
Haryana | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 6 |
Telangana | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 42 | 19 |
Rajasthan | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 60 | 27 |
Kerala | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 11 |
Lakshadweep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uttar Pradesh | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 119 | 52 |
Maharashtra | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 78 | 35 |
Goa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Assam | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 13 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Manipur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Meghalaya | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mizoram | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Nagaland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Tripura | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Bihar | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 |
Jharkhand | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 10 |
Total | 93 | 88 | 84 | 84 | 847 | 369 |
*Persons with benchmark disabilities under clauses (d) and (e) of the rights of persons with Disabilities Act 2016.
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4) SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 – Backlog vacancies
First Let us understand What are SBI Clerk Backlog vacancies?
The Backlog Vacancies are the vacancies which were announced in the previous year’s recruitment notification, but were not filled at the end of the recruitment process. Hence these vacancies are mentioned separately in the current notification. This is a common practice for recruimnet of various banking posts in SBI and other banks.
A Total 251 Backlog vacancies for SBI Junior associates have been declared in the SBI 2019 Clerk Notification. It includes 79 vacancies for PWD categories and 103 vacancies for Ex-servicemen categories. Following are the details.
State | Backlog Vacancies | ||||||||||
SC/ ST/ OBC | PWD | Ex-servicemen | |||||||||
SC | ST | OBC | TOTAL | LD | VI | HI | TOTAL | XS | DXS | TOTAL | |
Gujarat | 0 | 127 | 0 | 127 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daman & Diu | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andhra Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Karnataka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Madhya Pradesh | 0 | 57 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chhattisgarh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Bengal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
A&N Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sikkim | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Odisha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 42 | 64 |
Jammu & Kashmir | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Himachal Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chandigarh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Punjab | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tamil Nadu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pondicherry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Delhi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uttarakhand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Haryana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Telangana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 27 | 39 |
Rajasthan | 22 | 7 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kerala | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lakshadweep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uttar Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Maharashtra | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Assam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Manipur | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Meghalaya | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mizoram | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nagaland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tripura | 4 | 14 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bihar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jharkhand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 26 | 219 | 6 | 251 | 5 | 0 | 74 | 79 | 34 | 69 | 103 |
5) SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 – Candidates can apply from 1 State only
SBI has released state-wise vacancies for SBI Clerk 2019. They have clearly mentioned (on the first page itself) that A candidate can apply for the SBI Clerk Vacancy 2019 from only 1 State. The candidates applying for vacancies of a particular State, should be proficient (reading, writing, speaking and understanding) in the specified opted local language of that State. The local language for each state has been mentioned in the above given tables.
SBI Clerk 2019 Exam Pattern
Phase-I: Preliminary Examination
Preliminary Examination (online) 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:
SL. | Name of test | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration |
1. | English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 Minutes |
2. | Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Minutes |
3. | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 Minutes |
Total | 100 | 100 | 1 Hour |
- Each test will have a separate timing as mentioned above.
- There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests. 1/4th of mark assigned for question will be deducted for each wrong answer.
- No minimum qualifying marks for individual subject as well as for aggregate (overall) are prescribed.
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Phase – II: Main Examination:
The structure of main examination (online objective type) would be as follows.:
SL. | Name of Test | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration |
1. | General/Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 minutes |
2. | General English | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
3. | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 minutes |
4. | Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 minutes |
Total | 190 | 200 | 2 Hours
40 Minutes |
- Each test will have a separate timing as mentioned above.
The questions in objective tests, except for the test of General English, will be bilingual i.e., English & Hindi. There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests. 1/4th of mark assigned for question will be deducted for each wrong answer.
Test of specified opted local language:
Those who qualify for selection and produce 10th or 12th standard mark sheet/ certificate evidencing having studied the specified opted local language will not be subjected to any Language test. In case of others (qualified for selection), specified opted local language test will be conducted after provisional selection but before joining. Candidates not found to be proficient in specified opted local language would be disqualified.
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SBI Clerk Exam Dates 2019
Online Registration Starts – 12.04.2019
Online Registration Ends – 03.05.2019
Preliminary Examination – June 2019
Main Examination – 10.08.2019
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