This article on Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016 Pattern, Syllabus, Papers & Books provides you the Prep materials for the written exam.
Syndicate Bank PO Exam 2016 is going to be held on 7th February, 2016. Are you one of those who would like to appear in this exam and hence searching for Prep materials for this exam? If yes, this blog post is going to help you, as it provides you the exam Pattern and Syllabus and then goes on to point you to the sources of Sample Papers and Prep Books for the same.
You might have known already but let me repeat that: through this exam, you are actually short-listed for PGDBF (Post Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance) course in either Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (MaGE) or Nitte Education International Pvt Ltd. Greater Noida (NEIPL). After you successfully complete this 1-year course, you are posted as a Probationary Officer in Syndicate Bank.
Selection process for this PO recruitment would consist of three stages: Online Test, Group discussion and Interview. You need to qualify in each of the four test sections of the Online Test as well as the in aggregate and in addition, rank sufficiently high in the merit list to be called for Syndicate Bank GD and Interview.
The cut off marks would depend on the relative performance of all the candidates in the 200 mark online test. Hence it is not possible to say for sure what would be the Syndicate Bank PGDBF Cut off Marks before the exam is held.
However, you should know that Syndicate Bank is going to call 4 times the vacancies in each category for GD and Interview. Category-wise vacancy is as below:
UR: 303; OBC: 162; SC: 90; ST: 45.
So you have to be within following merit positions to be called for GD/Interview:
UR: 1212; OBC: 648; SC: 360; ST: 180.
There are four test sections in the Syndicate Bank PO Exam 2016:
Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English Language & General Awareness.
There are 50 questions in each of the four sections and each question weighs 1 mark. Thus there are total 200 marks in the exam. You can find the test-section wise mark and question distribution in the table below:
There is negative marking for each wrong answer: minus 0.25 marks. So you should make your guess answers wisely!
I had searched on the net for the Bank PO papers so that you can use the same as Sample Papers for Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016. The relevant link to download the sample papers are given below:
Bank Exams Today
Bank Exam Portal
However, these online source of exam papers only gives you some idea about what sort of questions are asked in a Bank PO Exam. To study in depth, you should go for the prep books as given below.
The first step before you go onto buy books for any competitive exam is – find out which is your area of weakness. There are four test sections - Reasoning, QA, English & GK. In which section you are most weak at? Find this out by attempting the online sample papers of the PO exam given above. You would then know books for which section to buy for.
I have given the list of prep books Syndicate Bank test-section wise below, so that you can choose the books easily: Also, the prices of the books have been given so that you can have some idea.
Bank Po Reasoning Chapter-wise Solved Papers 1999 Till Date; Author/Publisher: Kiran
MRP: Rs. 394
Bank PO Quantitative Aptitude Chapter-wise Solved Papers 1999 till date
MRP: Rs. 155; Offer Price: Rs. 124; Discount: 20%
Bank PO English Language Chapter-wise Solved Papers 1999 till date
MRP: Rs. 345; Offer Price: Rs. 240; Discount: 30%
Objective General English; Author: S. P. Bakshi; Publisher: Arihant
MRP: Rs. 285; Offer Price: Rs. 184; Discount: 35%
Lucents General Knowledge; Publisher: Lucent
MRP: Rs. 215; Offer Price: Rs. 139; Discount: 35%
Comprehensive Guide to IBPS-CWE Bank PO/ MT; Publisher: Disha
MRP: Rs. 600; Offer Price: Rs. 400; Discount: 33%
These books are available in most of the good book stores. In case you do not find them , you can order them online from Flipkart as given in above links.
That is it. I would be on the look out for some more prep materials on Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016 and post the same here as and when I find them.
Best Wishes!
You might have known already but let me repeat that: through this exam, you are actually short-listed for PGDBF (Post Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance) course in either Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (MaGE) or Nitte Education International Pvt Ltd. Greater Noida (NEIPL). After you successfully complete this 1-year course, you are posted as a Probationary Officer in Syndicate Bank.
Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016 Pattern:
Selection process for this PO recruitment would consist of three stages: Online Test, Group discussion and Interview. You need to qualify in each of the four test sections of the Online Test as well as the in aggregate and in addition, rank sufficiently high in the merit list to be called for Syndicate Bank GD and Interview.
Syndicate Bank PGDBF Cut off Marks:
The cut off marks would depend on the relative performance of all the candidates in the 200 mark online test. Hence it is not possible to say for sure what would be the Syndicate Bank PGDBF Cut off Marks before the exam is held.
However, you should know that Syndicate Bank is going to call 4 times the vacancies in each category for GD and Interview. Category-wise vacancy is as below:
UR: 303; OBC: 162; SC: 90; ST: 45.
So you have to be within following merit positions to be called for GD/Interview:
UR: 1212; OBC: 648; SC: 360; ST: 180.
Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016 Syllabus:
There are four test sections in the Syndicate Bank PO Exam 2016:
Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English Language & General Awareness.
There are 50 questions in each of the four sections and each question weighs 1 mark. Thus there are total 200 marks in the exam. You can find the test-section wise mark and question distribution in the table below:
There is negative marking for each wrong answer: minus 0.25 marks. So you should make your guess answers wisely!
Sample Papers for Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016:
I had searched on the net for the Bank PO papers so that you can use the same as Sample Papers for Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016. The relevant link to download the sample papers are given below:
Bank Exams Today
Bank Exam Portal
However, these online source of exam papers only gives you some idea about what sort of questions are asked in a Bank PO Exam. To study in depth, you should go for the prep books as given below.
Prep Books for Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam:
The first step before you go onto buy books for any competitive exam is – find out which is your area of weakness. There are four test sections - Reasoning, QA, English & GK. In which section you are most weak at? Find this out by attempting the online sample papers of the PO exam given above. You would then know books for which section to buy for.I have given the list of prep books Syndicate Bank test-section wise below, so that you can choose the books easily: Also, the prices of the books have been given so that you can have some idea.
Bank Po Reasoning Chapter-wise Solved Papers 1999 Till Date; Author/Publisher: Kiran
MRP: Rs. 394
Bank PO Quantitative Aptitude Chapter-wise Solved Papers 1999 till date
MRP: Rs. 155; Offer Price: Rs. 124; Discount: 20%
Bank PO English Language Chapter-wise Solved Papers 1999 till date
MRP: Rs. 345; Offer Price: Rs. 240; Discount: 30%
MRP: Rs. 285; Offer Price: Rs. 184; Discount: 35%
Lucents General Knowledge; Publisher: Lucent
MRP: Rs. 215; Offer Price: Rs. 139; Discount: 35%
Comprehensive Guide to IBPS-CWE Bank PO/ MT; Publisher: Disha
MRP: Rs. 600; Offer Price: Rs. 400; Discount: 33%
These books are available in most of the good book stores. In case you do not find them , you can order them online from Flipkart as given in above links.
That is it. I would be on the look out for some more prep materials on Syndicate Bank PGDBF PO Exam 2016 and post the same here as and when I find them.
Best Wishes!
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