Punjab National Bank Important Notice Out

Punjab National Bank has released the Notice for the recruitment of the following post -
1. Probationary Officer
2. Clerk


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Some General Awareness Questions asked in SBI PO Exam 28 June 2014

1.Anti-Terrorism Day

2.CPI -inflation

3.IT protection act 2000

4. After its ten and half years service in orbit, on 1st April 2014 ISRO decommissioned which Communication Satellite?

4.thomas cup winner

5.Malavath Purna-Mount Everest

6.Pulitzer Prize 2014-Vijay Seshadri

7.Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013-Gulzar

8.nuclear summit location

9.Rupay card, which private bank has developed?

10-PJ Nayak: to review Governance of Boards of Banks in India

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Bank Probationary Officer career : Bank PO jobs : Bank PO Exams

Bank Probationary Officer is still a very lucrative and decent career. Now we are presenting to all our readers a brief about Probationary Officer’s entrance exam, selection procedure and job profile.

Entrance Tests: Now-a-days Probationary Officers are selecting through a Common Bank Examination conducted by IBPS. State Bank of India has own separate selection procedure and take exam separately.

After Selection: After selection in PO, candidate will be on probation period of two years in which candidate exposed to different aspects of banking such as general banking,

credit management, forex, rural banking etc. Candidate will be get frequent transfers & training during probation period. Once the probation period completed the Officer is confirmed as an Assistant Manager.

Career Progression: A Probationary Officer is having a very excellent & fast track as far as their career is concerned. After each 3-4 years there are promotion tests and promotions channel for POs are quite fast. Apart from faster promotions there are various other attractions also, such as foreign postings, options for study leave, sponsored management programs etc. A Probationary Officer can reach to the level of Chairman of the bank as all the heads of all Public Sector Banks have started their career a Probationary Officer itself.

Jobs & Responsibilities: Since Probationary Officer is a management position hence the Officers are expected to have high level of commitment & sincere towards their roles & responsibilities. Most of the time the job involves leadership positions hence it is very important to have good communication & leadership skill to be a successful Manager.

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Job Profile of Bank PO

A Bank Probationary Officer can become Chairman of a bank, you will be shocked to know that all the heads of PSBs have started career as a Probationary Officer only. Probationary Officer (PO) can be asked to do any work during the him/her Probation period. Probation period is of two years in which the officer exposed to different types of banking related task. There are frequently transfers during probation period.

Once the probation period successfully completed the officer is confirmed as an Assistant Manager and gets his/her permanent posting in bank. Some banks are now-a-days placing officers as Deputy Managers also.

Probationary Officers Salary Details:

Firstly the candidates who are selected for the position of Probationary Officer will be on probation period for two years.

The officers would be in the Junior Management Grade Scale I. The pay scale/salary will be Rs. 14500 - Rs. 25700; these officers will also be eligible for D.A., H.R.A. & C.C.A. as per rules in force from time to time.

In SBI there is a provision of four additional increments at the time of joining itself, moreover perks are much higher in SBI as compare to other public sector banks.

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Daily GK Quiz : 27 June 2014

The Modi-led Government has appointed whom as the new Attorney General of India, the top law officer of the country, in May 2014?

  A) Mukul Rohatgi

  B) Goolam Vahanvati

  C) Mohan Parasaran

  D) None of These

   

Who has been appointed as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2014?

  A) Syamal Kumar Sarkar

  B) Anil Goswami

  C) Nripendra Misra

  D) Ajit Doval

   

State Bank of India Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya and ICICI Bank Managing Director Chanda Kochhar are among the five women from India who are featured in Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in the world published in May 2014. Bhattacharya is ranked _______ on the power list, while Kochhar is ranked at 43rd.

  A) 36th

  B) 31st

  C) 40th

  D) 23rd

   

Infosys Ltd President __________-, widely considered to be the next CEO to succeed S D Shibulal when he retires in January 2015, has resigned from the Company in May 2014.

  A) U B Pravin Rao

  B) Ashok Vemuri

  C) Basab Pradhan

  D) B.G. Srinivas

   

Who took oath as the new Minister of State of Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) as a part of Modi Government in May 2014?

  A) Shripad Yesso Naik

  B) Santosh Kumar Gangwar

  C) Inderjit Singh Rao

  D) Dharmendra Pradhan

   

Who has been elected as the Captain of the Indian Cricket team for the One Day series (ODI) in Bangladesh which will be held from 15th June (announced in May 2014).

  A) Virat Kohli

  B) Shikhar Dhawan

  C) Suresh Raina

  D) Gautam Gambhir

   

Which Global tech company announced that it would buy Beats for about USD 3 billion in may 2014?

  A) Apple

  B) Facebook

  C) Google

  D) Microsoft

   

US economic growth stood at ________ in the first quarter of the current year 2014 (announced in May 2014).

  A) 2.6%

  B) 0.2%

  C) 1.5%

  D) -1%

   

Prime Minister Narendra Modi quit his ___________ Lok Sabha seat in May 2014. As per rule, a member who has been elected from two Lok Sabha constituencies, has to vacate one of the seats within 14 days of the declaration of result.

  A) Varanasi

  B) Vadodara

  C) Ahmedabad

  D) Lucknow

   

India’s indigenously developed ________ rockets were successfully test-fired thrice  from a multi-barrel rocket launcher at an armament base in Chandipur in May 2014. The rockets with a range of 40 km and capable of acting as a force-multiplier, were developed to supplement artillery guns.

  A) Brahmos

  B) Akaash

  C) Pinaka

  D) Agni

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General Knowledge Questions asked in SBI PO Exam - 27:June:2014

Dear Aspirants, 

Here we are posting some of the questions of GK sections which was asked in today's SBI PO 2014 Exam.

1. What is Stale Cheque:  A cheque that’s date is past 3 months is considered stale and will often not be honored for cash or deposit at a bank.

2. Who is new Army Chief of India: Lt. Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag


3. What is Bancassurance: the selling of life assurance and other insurance products and services by banking institutions.

4. Cities where 10rs plastic notes will be introduced for field trial: Jaipur, Shimla, Bhubaneshwar, Mysore and Cochin.

5. Flying test bed aircraft developed by HAL and handed over to DRDO -  NABHRATHNA

6. Second Indian firm to be featured in Forbes Global 2000 list: SBI (State Bank of India)

7. Finance Ministry directed all PSBs to maintain what %of CASA: 40%

8. Author of Book: The Himalayan face off: Shishir Gupta

9. At which rate reserve bank give loans to commercial bank: Repo rate

10. Foreign currency exchanged rate is called: Forex rate or Foreign Exchange rate

11. Who won national women football championship: Manipur

12. APJ Abdul Kalam was awarded with Knighthood Award. Knighthood Award was given in which field: awarded on merit, for exceptional achievement or service.

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Computer Knowledge Quiz for Bank Exam

1. Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning file names?

(A) Files may share the same name or the same extension but not both

(B) Every file in the same folder must have a unique name

(C) File extension is another name for file type

(D) The file extension comes before the dot (.) followed by the file name

(E) None of these

Ans : (D)

2. Verification of a login name and password is known as:

(A) configuration

(B) accessibility

(C) authentication

(D) logging in

(E) None of these

Ans : (C)

3. Which of the following would most likely NOT be a symptom of a virus?

(A) Existing program files and icons disappear.

(B) The CD-ROM stops functioning.

(C) The Web browser opens to an unusual home page.

(D) Odd messages or images are displayed on the screen.

(E) None of these

Ans : (B)

4. A(n) ____________ system is a small, wireless handheld computer that scans an item’s tag and pulls up the current price (and any special offers) as you shop.

A. PSS

B. POS

C. inventory

D. data mining

Ans : A

5. The ability to recover and read deleted or damaged files from a criminal’s computer is an example of a law enforcement specialty called:

A. robotics.

B. simulation.

C. computer forensics.

D. animation.

Ans : C

6. Which of the following is NOT one of the four major data processing functions of a computer?

A. gathering data

B. processing data into information

C. analyzing the data or information

D. storing the data or information

Ans : C

7. ____________ tags, when placed on an animal, can be used to record and track in a database all of the animal’s movements.

A. POS

B. RFID

C. PPS

D. GPS

Ans : B

8. Surgeons can perform delicate operations by manipulating devices through computers instead of manually. This technology is known as:

A. robotics.

B. computer forensics.

C. simulation.

D. forecasting.

Ans : A

9. Technology no longer protected by copyright, available to everyone, is considered to be:

A. proprietary.

B. open.

C. experimental.

D. in the public domain.

Ans : A

10. ____________ is the study of molecules and structures whose size ranges from 1 to 100 nanometers.

A. Nanoscience

B. Microelectrodes

C. Computer forensics

D. Artificial intelligence

Ans : A

11. ____________ is the science that attempts to produce machines that display the same type of intelligence that humans do.

A. Nanoscience

B. Nanotechnology

C. Simulation

D. Artificial intelligence (AI)

Ans : D

12. ____________ is data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion.

A. A process

B. Software

C. Storage

D. Information

Ans : D

13. The name for the way that computers manipulate data into information is called:

A. programming.

B. processing.

C. storing.

D. organizing.

Ans : B

14. Computers gather data, which means that they allow users to ____________ data.

A. present

B. input

C. output

D. store

Ans : B

15. After a picture has been taken with a digital camera and processed appropriately, the actual print of the picture is considered:

A. data.

B. output.

C. input.

D. the process.

Ans : B

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Daily GK Update - 26 June 2014

Australia announces new search area for MH370

• A new search area for the missing Malaysian plane has been announced by the Australian
  
  government after further analysis of satellite data.
• The search area for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will shift further south in the Indian Ocean to a 60,000-square-km arc after analysis of satellite data, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss announced on Thursday.
• “The new priority area is still focused on the seventh arc where the aircraft last communicated with satellites,” Mr. Truss, who holds the Transport portfolio, said. “We are now shifting our attention to an area further south along the arc based on these calculations.” The Boeing 777 with 239 passengers and crew disappeared on March 8, 2014 shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
• Mapping of the 6-km-deep ocean floor will take another three months and a search of the sea floor is expected to begin in August and take up to 12 months.
• Investigators believe MH370 was on autopilot’

Sunder Pichai the second most important person at Google

• Here's all about Sundar Pichai, the second most important person at Google
  
• Sundar Pichai, who was promoted to head Google's Android division last year, seems to have quickly risen to prominence as the organisation's tallest leader after CEO Larry Page. 
• A new Bloomberg Businessweek profile dubs him "the most powerful man in mobile" and even recounts that Pichai was essential to diffusing tensions between Samsung and Google early this year over the former's decision to relegate Android to the background in new devices. 
• Pichai, who has an educational background in business administration, has worked for Google since 2004. He started as a product manager for Google Toolbar, an extension that Internet Explorer users could install for making quick Google searches. 

World Cup 2014 : Messi shines again as Argentina beat Nigeria 3-2 to top group

• After waiting for over 90 minutes to score against Iran, Lionel Messi took three to get one on
  
  Wednesday. And it took Nigeria only a minute to cancel that out through Ahmed Musa. It was the first time ever in a World Cup that both teams had scored inside the first five minutes.
• Just to show it wasn't a fluke, the teams did it again in the first five minutes of the second half. Musa scored again breaking through the inner defence after a give-go with Emmanuel Emenike. Marcos Rojo then got his first international goal with the most fortuitous of knee touches. Argentina won 3-2 but both teams qualified to the pre-quarter finals.

Flipkart launches its own brand of tablet devices 

• Online retailer Flipkart launched its own brand of tablet devices today. As reported first by ET on June 16th, the tablet is being unveiled under the company's in-house electronics and accessories brand—Digiflip. 
• Called Digiflip Pro XT712, the tablet will be the first of many models that Flipkart will launch, the company announced today. The XT712 is priced at Rs 9,999 and is available in black and white variants. The seven-inch tablet's features include 1280 x 800 pixel high-definiti .. 

BCCI hails Srinivasan’s appointment as ICC chairman

• The BCCI on Thursday congratulated its president-in-exile N. Srinivasan for becoming the first Chairman of the ICC, saying there could not have been a better person for the position. The ICC, in its Annual Conference held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground unanimously approved the revamp of its corporate governance structure by amending the Memorandum and Articles of Association.
• “The BCCI wishes to congratulate Mr. N. Srinivasan on being unanimously elected as the first Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the period 2014-2016 of two years, post its historic restructuring,” BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said in a release.

Tata-led Neotel signs broadband deal in South Africa

• Tata-led South African telecom operator Neotel has secured a ground breaking deal with the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and the Western Cape provincial government to provide broadband services across the province over the next three years.
• The project is a first-of-its-kind in South Africa and has strict guidelines to deliver sites and service levels in a true public-private partnership, by leveraging the skills, resources and expertise of each party for the provision of broadband services across the Province, the company said.
• “The Western Cape government is focused on realizing its vision for the province and Neotel is extremely pleased to play the role of a partner to make the vision a reality,” the managing director and CEO of Neotel, Sunil Joshi, said.

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IBPS PO III Expected CUT OFF Section Wise

BELOW IS THE DETAILED TABULAR PRESENTATION OF EXPECTED SECTION WISE IBPS PO (MT) 2013 CUT OFF:

Test name	Maximum marks	Expected Cutoff marks
Reasoning	50	35 to 40
English language	40	23 to 27
Quantitative Aptitude	50	32 to 37
General Awareness	40	22 to 25
Computer Knowledge	20	12 to 17
Total	200	124 to 146 marks

BELOW MENTIONED IS THE TABULAR PRESENTATION OF EXPECTED FINAL CUTOFF OF IBPS PO (MT) 2013:

Category	Maximum Marks	Minimum Marks
Unreserved	81.96	62.12
Other Backward Classes (OBC)	77.32	58.32
Orthopaedically Challenged (OC)	75.16	55.88
Scheduled Caste (SC)	71.88	55.84
Visually Impaired (VI)	69.76	42.84
Hearing Impaired (HI)	66.36	45.80
Scheduled Tribe (ST)	71.92	47.36

It is pretty much visible from the above table that the highest cutoff of IBPS PO 2013 will be for general category and the minimum cutoff is expected for schedule tribes (ST).

ANALYSIS OF IBPS PO CUTOFF DEPENDING ON THE IBPS PO 2012 EXAM IS AS FOLLOWS:

• 22,415 vacancies were available in IBPS PO 2012 Exam.
• Total of 7.5 lac candidates appeared in IBPS PO 2012 Exams.
• Total of 61,339 candidates cleared the written test of IBPS PO 2012.
• The cutoffs were considered either on section wise cutoff or total weighted cutoffs.

ANALYSIS OF IBPS PO 2011 EXAM:

• No. of vacancies available were 19,648
• No. of candidates applied were 10.4 Lac approximately
• Total no. of candidates who cleared the written test of IBPS PO 2011 was 1,11,993. 

NOTE: The IBPS PO (MT) 2013 Cutoff above mentioned are only expected and the original cutoff will be disclosed by IBPS and there are every chance of variation therefore, take these cutoffs only for reference and wait till the final cutoffs are declared.

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IBPS PO 2013 General Awareness Questions

1. Current bank Rate ?
2. Person who invented mouse died ?
3. Chairman of federal reserve ?
4. Who is not a MP(options-Amitab bachan,dharmendra,etc) ?
5. About SARFAESI act ?
6. Loan limit for housing to a person in metropolitan city ?
7. Micro industry(service) set up cost limit ?
8. Who keeps all credit information of persons(CIBIL)
9. Which award Zubin mehta got recently ?
10. SLR full form ?
11. MICR full form ?
12. which among below a microprocessor manufacturing company(options-intel,microsoft etc) ?
13. Term associated with cricket ?
14. Where is national institute of sports ?
15. Two question from union budget ?
16. Which film got national award in "best entertaining movie" category ?
17. About "aam admi bima yogana"  ?
18. Author of book"The lowland"?
19. Transfer & withdrawl limit i BSBDA account. ?
20. What is the main thing focoused in raghuram rajans recent RBI monitary policy ?
21. Target fiscal defecit of govt in FY 2013-14 ?
22. Who among following are major applicant in new banking license(option-tatason,mahindra etc)
23. Which of the following not considered as proof of identity while opening account in bank(options-passport,electicity bill,adhar card,pan card,driving license) ?
24. Name of tablet made by microsoft(i think "surface") ?

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IBPS Clerk III : Final Result Out

Dear Aspirants, IBPS has declare  the final result of IBPS Clerk III.

Click here to view your final result for IBPS Clerk III

Click here to see the notification of IBPS Clerk III Final Result

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IBPS CLERK III Result OUT

Dear Aspirant, 

IBPS has finally declare Result of written exam of IBPS CLERK III. Please follow below link to view your Result / Score.


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IBPS Clerk III : Final Result Out

Dear Aspirant, IBPS has updated the final result of IBPS Clerk III.

• Click here to view your final result for IBPS Clerk III
• Click here to see the notification of IBPS Clerk III Final Result

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Daily GK Quiz 23 June 2014

Dear Aspirant,  Daily GK Quiz is here

Who has been elected as the new Managing Director of ONGC Videsh Ltd, India’s flagship overseas oil and gas assets acquisition firm, in May 2014?

A) R.V. Verma

B) M N Vidyashankar

C) C S Verma

D) Narendra Kumar Verma

Which Sportsperson was ranked at No 1 in the list of most marketable athletes by the UK magazine, ‘SportsPro’ in May 2014? The list was based on value for money, age, home market, charisma, willingness to be marketed and crossover appeal.

A) Christiano Ronaldo

B) Lewis Hamilton

C) Usain Bolt

D) Lionel Messi

 

Which Indian online retailer has acquired fashion e-retailer Myntra.com for approximately USD 300 million in May 2014?

A) Jabong.com

B) Amazon.in

C) Flipkart.com

D) Snapdeal.com

“World Hunger Day” is observed on __________.

A) 28-May

B) 18-May

C) 24-May

D) 22-May

Which Indian airlines company retained the top position in the domestic passenger aviation market in April after securing 31.6% market share (announced in May 2014)?

A) Spice Jet

B) Jet Airways

C) IndiGo

D) Air India

Which famous Football club in the below list was thrown out of the I-League along with three other teams for failing to fulfill the AIFF’s club licensing criteria in May 2014? The All India Football Federation’s Club Licensing Committee took the decision after its meeting in May.

A) East Bengal

B) Dempo Sporting

C) Churchill Brothers

D) Pune FC

Who took oath as the new Agriculture Minister as a part of Modi Government in May 2014?

A) Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati

B) Narendra Singh Tomar

C) Radha Mohan Singh

D) Ramvilas Paswan

Who took over as the new Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission in May 2014?

A) Rajiv Mathur

B) Sushma Singh

C) R.V. Verma

D) M N Vidyashankar

The Reserve Bank of India directed banks to make all new ATMs installed from __________ as “talking ATMs” with Braille keypads (announced in May 2014). Also banks should lay down a roadmap for converting all existing ATMs as talking ATMs with Braille keypads.

A) August 1, 2014

B) October 1, 2014

C) July 1, 2014

D) September 1, 2014

India’s first all women bank, Bharatiya Mahila Bank, has been included in the _________ schedule to the RBI Act. RBI issued a notification issued in Mumbai in May 2014 indicating the same.

A) Second

B) First

C) Third

D) Fourth

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Reasoning Question Paper of Bank Clerk

Question Paper of Bank Clerk: (Online Tests, bank paper, question papers, sbi ban exam papers, bank exams questions) we have been regularly providing you question papers based on previous Bank PO and Bank Clerk Exams. In this practice set important questions are given on reasoning of Bank Clerk. Go through this Reasoning question paper of Bank Clerk to improve your preparation.

1. If an amount of Rs. 198011 is distributed equally among 47 persons. How much amount would each person get?

            a) 4123

b) 4231

            c) 4213                                                          

d) 4132

            e) None of these

2. In an annual examination Pawan scores a total of 421 marks out 675. What is his approximate % in the annual examination?

            a) 56

b) 72

            c) 92

            d) 88

            e) 62

                       

3. Mr. Dileep deposits an amount of Rs.56500 to obtain a simple interest @12% p.a. for 3 years. What total amount will Mr. Dileep get at the end of 3 years?

            a) 75680

            b) 77540

            c) 76840

            d) 73420

            e) None of these

                       

4. A canteen requires 798 bananas for a week. Totally how many bananas will it require for the months of January, February and March 2008?         

            a) 10480

            b) 10277

            c)  10586

            d) 10374

            e) None of these

5. There are 1225 employees in an organization, out of which 40% got transferred to different places. How many such employees got transferred?

            a) 540

            b) 490

            c) 630

            d) 710

            e) None of these

6. The average of 5 consecutive odd number A, B, C, D and E is 45. What is the product of B and D?

            a) 2107

b) 2205

            c) 1935          

d) 2021

            e) None of these

            

7. The cost of 2 rings and 4 bangles is Rs.46854. What is the cost of 5 rings and 10 bangles?

            a) 115345

            b) 117135

            c) 116675

            d) Can not be determined

            e) None of these

  

  8. Find the average of the following set of scores.

          566, 455, 231, 678, 989, 342, 715

            a) 590

            b) 555

            c) 568

d) 513

            e) None of these

           

9. The total number of students in a school is 1224. If the no. of girls in the school is 600, then what is the respective ratio of the total number of boys to the total number of girls in the school?

            a) 26:25

            b) 21:17

            c) 18:13

            d) 5:4

            e) None of these

           

10. In an examination it is required to get 270 of the aggregate marks to pass. A student gets 216 marks and is declared failed by 8% marks. What are the maximum aggregate marks a student can get?

            a) 825

            b) 675

            c) 750

d) Can not be determined

            e) None of these

Answers:

1. (c), 2. (e),  3.  (c), 4.  (d), 5.  (b), 6.  (d), 7.  (b). 8.  (c). 9.  (a), 10. (b).

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