In banking there are two sectors namely Public and private banks. There are over 20 Public & 15 Private banks in India but you would see more bank recruitments by public bank. The reason is

* Public sector banks follow certain rules laid by government & hence recruitments conducted by these banks are advertised in newspapers to reach everyone. Also the number of vacancies is allocated among various categories (Gen/ OBC/ SC/ ST)

* Private banks are not govt-owned, so they do not have any category reservations. Mostly these banks pick up candidates directly through campus recruitments, referrals, walk-ins or through consultants. If the vacancies are more they may announce publicly.

You can enter in to the banking either as a clerk or as a Manager depending up on your qualification. As you know after 2001 the different bank themselves took over the responsibility for recruiting and there by exam pattern has changed. There are four main sections in the examination namely

REASONING

NUMERICAL ABILITY (OR) QUANTITATIVE APPTITUDE

GENERAL ENGLISH

GENERAL AWARNESS

These are the general things that all bank follows but certain banks add new things in order to be unique and these section is common for both clerical and PO level but the level of difficulty and certain section might differ between these two. Let us go in detail about the exam

PROBATIONARY OFFICER (PO)

There are Two stages of examination

I.written test

II.Interview

Written test : The written test will consists of two parts namely

I)Objective type

II)Descriptive type Objective type:

The objective type are further divided in to five sections namely

Allotted time in general is 135 minutes. whereas number of questions, weight age of marks and the time might differ between banks. Hence it is advised to have a look at the hall ticket before going in to the exam hall.

Note:* indicates that it might differ between banks some banks will ask computer alone where as some other will ask for marketing in certain other cases they will ask u both.

***There will be negative marks for each wrong answers***

Descriptive test:

This is one compulsory section for all Po exams. Here they will judge the writing skills of the candidates. They will give you around four or five topics on socio economic things. You need to choose questions and answer precisely. In most of the cases this test is for qualifying

ELIGIBLITY CRITERIA:

Graduate in any discipline with minimum 55% marks in aggregate from a University recognised by Government of India.

CLERICAL EXAMINATION

There are Two stages of examination

i)Written Test

ii)Interview

Written Test :

The written test will consists of objective type questions under four or five section (depending up on the bank)

Allotted time in general is 95 minutes. Where as number of questions, weight age of marks and the time might differ between banks. Hence it is advised to have a look at the hall ticket before going in to the exam hall.

These are the common things apart from this some banks might add the general awareness, computer knowledge and marketing knowledge again it is depend on the bank.

Usually there wont be descriptive test for clerical recruitment but there are some expection.

***There will be negative marks for each wrong answers***

ELIGIBLITY CRITERIA:

Minimum 12th Standard (10+2) pass or equivalent qualification marks or A degree from a recognized university with a minimum 40% marks minimum These are the common two openings in bank apart from this is one more opening called SPECIALIST OFFICER and the exam pattern will be almost same but there will be additional section according to the designation.