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Punjab & Sind Bank has recently issued recruitment notification for 500 Probationary Officers (PO) & 65 Specialist Officers. You can find more about this Punjab & Sind Bank PO notification from the previous blog post of mine titled: Punjab & Sind Bank PO Recruitment: Notification, Eligibility, Forms.
This blog post intends to provide you the study materials for Punjab & Sind Bank PO Exam with analysis of Exam pattern and by giving you the sources of sample papers and books for Punjab & Sind Bank PO exam preparation.
Punjab & Sind Bank PO Selection process:
Punjab & Sind Bank selection process consists of a written test (Objective + Descriptive) followed by Interview. To be selected in written test and called for the Punjab & Sind Bank PO Interview, you have to score minimum qualifying/cut-off mark of 40% (35% for SC/ST/OBC) in aggregate in the in written test.
Punjab & Sind Bank PO Written exam pattern:
Punjab & Sind Bank in its recruitment notification has not specified much about the Written exam pattern, other than that the exam is going to consist of following Objective & Descriptive papers:
Punjab & Sind Bank PO Objective Test sections:
Test of Reasoning.
Quantitative Aptitude.
General Awareness.
English Language.
Computer Knowledge.
Punjab & Sind Bank PO Descriptive Test section:
English Composition.
Punjab & Sind Bank in its recruitment notification, has not has not said anything about how many questions are going to be asked in each section and what would be the mark distribution. However, it says : you are going to be sent an ‘Acquaint yourself' booklet along with the call letter, which is supposed to contain more info about the PO Written exam.
But till that time, you can have a fair idea about the Punjab & Sind Bank PO Written exam pattern from a Bank of India (BOI) PO exam pattern, which had similar section of papers. The recent BOI PO written test consisted of a 300 mark (2 hours duration) Objective paper and a 100 mark (1 hour duration) Descriptive paper with following section-wise distribution of marks:
Above exam pattern is given to you just to have an idea. You would know more about the exam pattern in the ‘Acquaint yourself' booklet.
Punjab & Sind Bank PO Sample papers:
You must be searching for Punjab & Sind Bank PO sample papers. Following sources of sample papers should help you prepare for the papers test sections-by sections:
If I were you, my first place to check for sample questions on bank management trainee/PO exam would have been Competition Master in the section “BANK RECRUITMENT EXAMS”, which has been publishing solved question papers of previous years banking exams as shown in the screenshot at left.
You would need to register (which is free) to view these sample question papers of bank exams.
Sample Papers for Punjab & Sind Bank PO Exam Objective Test:
You have three sections in this test: General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning.
You can find the sample papers for these objective tests in the Competition Master website in the section “BANK RECRUITMENT EXAMS”, menu option “Bank PO solved papers”, as shown below:
You would find two sample papers for the test of General Awareness and one paper for each of Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning.
Sample papers for Punjab & Sind Bank PO exam: Computer knowledge test
UPSC Portal has a good collection of 100 sample questions for Computer General Knowledge For Bank Examination. You can view this sample paper here.
Way2Freshers has also a similar sample question paper on SBI Clerk computer knowledge. Click here to view the same.Placement Papers have some 50 questions on Computer General Knowledge.
You can find some sample questions on Bank PO descriptive tests again in the Competition Master in four menu option the section “BANK RECRUITMENT EXAMS”, as shown in the highlighted red box below:
Books for the Punjab & Sind Bank exam:I searched for books for Punjab & Sind Bank PO exam preparation and found with following results. They are available on most of the good bookstores. Also, these books can be bought on-line through Credit Card as well as through Cash-On-Delivery (i.e. you pay when you get the book). And they are offering good discounts of upto 20%.
Oswaal Chapter-Wise Solutions of BANK P.O. (10 Years Solved Papers)
Cover Price: Rs. 299 Price: Rs. 239/- You Save: Rs. 60 ( 20% )
Ramesh Bank P. O. Prev. Solved Papers by RPH Editorial Board
Cover Price: Rs. 150 Price: Rs. 120/- You Save: Rs. 30 ( 20% )
For further preparation:
Upkars State Bank Probationary Officers Examination by T. S. Jain
Cover Price: Rs. 390 Price: Rs. 351/- You Save: Rs. 39 (10% )
Galgotia State Bank Probationary Officers Guide by Ravi Chopra
Cover Price: Rs. 260 Price: Rs. 208/- You Save: Rs. 52 ( 20% )
Ramesh State Bank PO Exam Guide by RPH Editorial Board
Cover Price: Rs. 350 Price: Rs. 280/- You Save: Rs. 70 ( 20% ).
Punjab & Sind Bank Interview questions:
This blog has exhaustive resource on job Interview questions and you can find it here. Also in Punjab & Sind Bank Interview, apart from other areas, questions about Punjab & Sind Bank as an organisation are bound to be asked. So go through the about us page of the website.
Punjab & Sind Bank results website:
After you appear in each of these phases, you would naturally would like to see the result. Check them in the proper time in this Punjab & Sind Bank exam result website.
Hope with above Sample papers & books for the Punjab & Sind Bank exam, you would be able to appear in the exam confidently. I would look out for more Punjab & Sind Bank prep-materials on the net and would post the same as I find them. So visit me again!
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