SIDBI Recruitment 2016 Assistant Manager (AM) Syllabus
 
  
 
 
  Small Industries Development bank of Indian (SIDBI) has issued a notification for the post of Assistant Manager in grade A. The selection process for the post would be by way of an online examination followed by Personal Interview. Candidates who qualify based on the minimum cut-off marks decided by the Bank, would be called for interview. The pattern of written examination will be as under: The last date for online registration is 11th January 2016.
SIDBI Recruitment 2016 Assistant Manager (AM) Exam Pattern
| 
Sr. No | 
Name of the Test | 
Type of test | 
No. of Questions | 
Maximum Marks | 
Time | 
| 
1 | 
Computer Knowledge | 
Objective | 
20 | 
20 | 
Composite Time of 120 minutes | 
| 
2 | 
English Language | 
Objective | 
40 | 
40 | |
| 
3 | 
General Awareness (With special
  reference to Banking Industry) | 
Objective | 
40 | 
40 | |
| 
4 | 
Reasoning Aptitude | 
Objective | 
50 | 
50 | |
| 
5 | 
Quantitative Aptitude | 
Objective | 
50 | 
50 | |
| 
TOTAL | 
200 | 
200 | |||
| 
Online descriptive test : Candidates
  will be required to answer by typing on computer | |||||
| 
6 | 
English language and drafting ability
  test comprising of one Essay Writing (35 Marks ) and one Business Letter
  Writing (15 Marks) | 
Descriptive | 
2 | 
    50 | 
45 minutes | 
Syllabus for SIDBI Recruitment 2016 Assistant Manager (AM) :
All tests, except test of English Language and Descriptive Paper will be provided
in English and Hindi. Test of English Language and Descriptive Paper will be only
in English. All the objective questions will have multiple choices. Out of the five
answers to a question only one will be the correct answer. 
The Candidate will
have to select the most appropriate answer and ‘mouse click’ that alternative
which you feel is appropriate/ correct. The alternative/ option that the candidate
has clicked on will be treated as his/her answer to that question. There will be
penalty for wrong answers marked by the candidates. For every wrong answer
marked by a candidate, 1/4 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted
as penalty. 
The Scores of Online Examination will be obtained by adopting the
following procedure: 
(i) Number of questions answered correctly by a candidate in each objective test
is considered for arriving at the Corrected Score after applying penalty for wrong
answers. 
(ii) The Corrected Scores so obtained by a candidate are made equivalent to take
care of the minor difference in difficulty level, if any, in each of the objective tests
held in different sessions to arrive at the Equated Scores*
(*Scores obtained by candidates on any test are equated to the base form by
considering the distribution of scores of all the forms.)
(iii) Test wise scores and scores on total is reported with decimal points up to two
digits.
Note: Cutoffs may be applied in two stages:
 (i) On scores in individual tests 
 (ii) On Total Score
The total marks of the examination will be 250 which include 50 marks of the
English Descriptive Section. Candidates will be shortlisted for Interview on the
basis of marks scored in objective and descriptive section taken together against
full marks of 250. 
Descriptive Test will only be evaluated for those candidates who
qualify in the Objective type of tests (on total and individual sections of objective
tests) and are placed adequately high as per total marks in the objective test.
Descriptive test to the extent of fixed number of times the number of vacancies will
be evaluated. 
The various qualifying cut off marks in each of the objective tests,
total objective test and the descriptive paper will be decided by the Bank.
Questions of Online descriptive test will be displayed on the screen of your
computer. 
Answers are to be typed using the keyboard. Before start of typing
answers to questions in Descriptive Paper please check all key functions of the
keyboard.
SIDBI reserves the right to modify the structure of the examination which will be
intimated through its website. 
Other detailed information regarding the
examination will be given in an Information Handout, which will be made available
for the candidates to download along with the call letters from the SIDBI’s website
www.sidbi.in.
5.2.1 Pre Recruitment Training (PRT)
As per GoI guidelines, Pre-recruitment training (PRT) would be conducted for
SC/ST/OBC candidates for 8 days’ duration. 
For More Detailed Notification :