SBI Clerk 2018 Cut-Off (Expected)

Candidates preparing for bank clerk recruitment exams often come up with questions related to “SBI Clerk Cut-off or SBI Junior Associate Cut-off”. SBI Clerk Prelims result 2018 has been declared & one can check official state-wise SBI Clerk Prelims Cut-off 2018 now (from the official SBI website i.e., sbi.co.in/careers). Whereas, final SBI Clerk Cut-off 2018 will be declared after the announcement of the final SBI Clerk result 2018. But, here we can give you a little idea about the final expected cut-off of SBI Clerk recruitment exam 2018.

Cut-off of any competitive exam depends on the difficulty level of questions besides the number of vacancies (region-wise) and the number of candidates appeared for the exam. This year, SBI Clerk Mains exam was of average level and each candidate attempted 110+ questions (with accuracy).

Vacancies are less and the number of candidates increased this year. If we will keep all these factors in mind then we can expect 30% to 40% increase in SBI Clerk Mains 2018 Cut-off.

Expected SBI Clerk Cut-off 2018:

Example:

Suppose, SBI Clerk 2016 Cut-off for General Category of any region is 50 marks. Then, expected SBI Clerk 2018 Cut-off is between 65 marks (or 50 + 15 marks) to 70 marks (50 + 20 marks). In this way, you can easily calculate state-wise expected SBI Clerk Prelims 2018 cut-off.
For your convenience, we have also provided the cut-off of the previous SBI Clerk exam.

Last SBI Clerk Recruitment exam was conducted by State Bank of India in the year 2016.

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Why SBI Clerk Cut-off 2018 is expected to be high (some more reasons)?

This year, the higher cut-off is expected due to two main reasons:

1: Less number of candidates will be shortlisted (as compared to the last exam): This is the reason why SBI ClerkPrelims  Cut-off was higher this year

To understand this point, let's have a look at a specific part of previous notification and latest notification of SBI Clerk Recruitment 2018.

Previous Notification:

Latest Notification:

In the year 2016, the candidates who qualified for the Mains were approximately 20 times the number of total vacancies. But, In SBI Clerk Recruitment exam 2018, this number will be 10 times the number of total vacancies. This is the main reason for high SBI Clerk Cut-off 2018.

2. Fewer vacancies:

This year, there are 8000+ vacancies, whereas, in 2016 the number of vacancies was much higher (10,000+) and this is the other reason why SBI Clerk cut-off 2018 (Prelims & Mains) will be higher.

So, candidates who are going to appear for recruitment exam of SBI Clerk 2018 will face more competition at each phase of the complete recruitment process.
Previous years’ cut-off of SBI Prelims gives you a better idea about this year’s cutoff. The expected cutoff of SBI Clerk 2018 will be high.

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SBI Clerk Cut-off (of Previous Exams): Prelims and Mains

SBI Prelims Cut-off 2017 (or SBI Clerk Junior Associate Prelims 2017): Prelims and Mains

In the year 2017, SBI Clerk recruitment exam was not conducted. Due to this reason, SBI Clerk Prelims Cut-Off 2017 is not available at Jagranjosh.com or any other websites. But, we can use official SBI Clerk 2016 Cut-Off (Prelims and Mains) for reference.

SBI Clerk 2016 Prelims Cut-Off (or SBI Clerk Junior Associate Prelims 2016): Sectional Cutoff

Overall State-wise SBI Clerk Cut-Off 2016 (Prelims and Mains)

With this data and its analysis, you will have an understanding of expected SBI Clerk Cut-off 2018. Candidates who are going to appear for SBI Clerk Recruitment exams 2018 can plan their preparation strategy accordingly.

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