Bank of Baroda PO Recruitment

Updated On : 17 Feb, 2022

BANK OF BARODA PO OVERVIEW

WHAT IS BOB PO?

The candidates who are graduate can apply for the post of PO. It is a nine months on campus program and on successful completion of the course, the candidate would be awarded a Post Graduate Certificate in Banking & Finance and also will be offered an appointment as Probationary Officer in Junior Management Grade / Scale-I. 

Given below is the important information regarding the BOB PO examination.

Particulars

Details

Full-Form 

Bank of Baroda Probationary Officer Exam

Name of the Organization

Bank of Baroda (BOB)

Exam Level

National

Frequency

Annual

Mode of Application

Online

Application Fees

General and OBC - Rs 600

SC/ST/PH/Ex-servicemen- Rs 100

Phases

2 (written exam and interview)

Mode

Online

Time duration

2 hours 30 minutes

Exam Duration

Objective Type: 2 Hours and 30 minutes Descriptive Type: 30 minutes

Language

English and Hindi

IMPORTANT DATES

The BOB has not yet released the notification for the BOB PO vacancies. Candidates can check the expected dates of the exam from the  table below

EVENT

 Exam Date (Tentative)

Commencement of application 2022 

April 2022

Last Date for online application

May 2022

Admit Card 2022 Release Date

May 2022

Bank of Baroda PO 2022 Examination

May 2022

Results Announcement

To be announced

BANK OF BARODA PO APPLICATION

Followings are the steps to apply for BOB Application recruitment.

Step 1: Go to the official website, Click on Career’s Page.

Step 2: Register yourself with an active Email ID and contact number. After that, the candidate will have to set a password. 

Step 3: photograph and signature should be scanned; the size of both the photograph (4.5cmX3.5cm) and signature should adhere to the required specifications. 

Step 4: once submitted you cannot change it, so, it is requested to check the form carefully before submitting. 

Step 5: click on the “Final Submit’ button. 

Step 6: Candidates must save the credentials for future use.

Step 7: After that candidate will be required to pay the application fees.

Step 8: Keep the application receipt print out safe for future reference. 

APPLICATION FEES

Fees are non-refundable

SC / ST / Persons with Disability (PWD)

 Rs.100/-

GEN / OBC

 Rs.600/-

ADMIT CARD:

Admit cards will be released by BOB before two weeks of the examination.

BANK OF BARODA PO ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Applicants should finish their graduation from a recognised Indian university   with at least 55%  marks.

The minimum required marks for SC/ST should be 50%

 NATIONALITY

A candidate must be either:

(a) a citizen of India, or

(b) a subject of Nepal, or

(c) a subject of Bhutan, or

(d) a Tibetan refugee who is a resident of India since 1st January, 1962 

AGE LIMIT

Minimum age: 20 years

Maximum age: 28 years

The table given below provides the details of age relaxation.

Category

Age Relaxation

SC/ ST

5 years

OBC

3 years

Ex-servicemen

5 years

Persons domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir from01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989

5 years

Persons affected by 1984 riots

5 years

Persons with Disabilities (PWD)

Persons with Disabilities – ST SC

15 years

Persons with Disabilities – OBC

13 years

Persons with Disabilities – General

10 years

BANK OF BARODA PO EXAM PATTERN

Following is the exam pattern for BOB PO examination.

Subject

No. of Questions

Marks

Time

Reasoning & Computer Aptitude

50

75

2 Hours 30 minutes

General/Economy/Banking Awareness

40

40

Quantitative Aptitude

40

50

English Language

35

35

Total

165

200

English Language (Letter & Essay Writing)

2

50

30 minutes

BANK OF BARODA PO SYLLABUS

The following table gives the details regarding the BOB exam syllabus.

Quantitative Aptitude

Percentages, Ratio and proportion, Average, Mixture and Allegation, Time and Work, Speed, distance and time, Stocks and shares, Partnership, Blood relations, Volume and Surface Area, Height and Distances, Logarithms Permutation and combinations, Simple and compound interest, Equations, Probability, Trigonometry, Profit, loss, and discount, Mensuration, Miscellaneous.

English Language

Homonyms, Word formation, Antonyms, Synonyms, Spelling, Idioms and Phrases, Fill in the suitable words, Grammar, Spotting errors, Deriving conclusion, Sentence correction, Active/ passive voice, Phrases and idioms, Speech Reading, Comprehension Passage completion, Direct and indirect, Theme detection, Rearrangement of passage, Miscellaneous.

General Awareness

Monetary Policies, Banking & Financial Awareness, Economic Terms, Current Affairs, Static GK, Financial & Economic News, Government Schemes, Agreement & Deals, Banking terms, rates, processes, National Institution, Miscellaneous.

Reasoning

Seating Arrangement - Circular, Square, and Linear, Syllogism, Data Sufficiency, Puzzles, Coding-Decoding, Blood Relations, Inequality, Machine Input Output, Directions and Distance, Verbal Reasoning, Ordering and Ranking, Arrangement and Pattern, Scheduling, Distance and Direction, Ranking, Miscellaneous.

Computer knowledge

History of computers, Basics of hardware and software, Windows operating system Basics, Internet Terms and services, Basic functionalities of MS-Office (MS-word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint), Database basics of hacking, Networking and communication, Security tools and viruses, Miscellaneous.

BANK OF BARODA PO SELECTION PROCESS

  • There will be some steps of the selection process:

  • Eligible candidates should appear in the entrance exam.

  • Candidates are shortlisted based on the merit of objective and the descriptive type.

  • Selected candidates will appear in the GD/ interview round.

  • After that candidates will be called for counselling and document verification

  • The selected candidates will receive their job letter through post.

BANK OF BARODA PO POST

The official notification of BOB PO 2022 has not been released yet, but we can estimate that there will be approximately 600 vacancies for this particular post. Once the official notification will be released candidates can check the category-wise vacancies.

BANK OF BARODA PO SALARY

The pay scale of Probationary officer of Bank of Baroda is given below:

Rs.23700 – 980/7 – 30560 – 1145/2 – 32850 -1310/7 – 42020 

BANK OF BARODA PO CUT OFF

The cut off of the BOB PO test relies upon different criteria. 

Bank of Baroda Previous year cut-off:

Category

SC

ST

OBC

UR (General)

HI

OC

VI

Reasoning (50)

11.25

11.25

11.25

16.5

11.25

11.25

11.25

English (50)

7.5

7.5

7.5

11.75

7.5

7.5

7.5

General Awareness (50)

5.25

5.25

5.25

8.75

5.25

5.25

5.25

Quantitative Aptitude (50)

8.5

8.5

8.5

12.25

8.5

8.5

8.5

Total (200)

82.75

69.75

94

95.25

43.25

82.25

79

Descriptive

15

15

15

17.5

15

15

15

Total (250)

108.25

92.25

119.75

123.75

62.5

107.25

108

GD (50)

17.5

17.5

17.5

20

17.5

17.5

17.5

Personal Interview (50)

17.5

17.5

17.5

20

17.5

17.5

17.5

BOB PO RESULT

The BOB PO 2022 will be declared on the official site of BOB after the BOB recruitment tests are over. The BOB PO Result for various stages will be issued independently after the examination. Applicants can download the BOB result 2022 from the official site of BOB.

BANK OF BARODA PO EXAM CENTERS

The state-wise name of exam centres for the Bank of Baroda PO is given below.

State

Details and location of the Exam Centre

Andhra Pradesh

Chirala, Chittoor, Ongole, Puttur, Rajahmundry, Srikakulam, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Anantapur, Guntur, Hyderabad, Kakinada, Kadapa, Kurnool, Nellore,

Arunachal Pradesh

Itanagar, Naharlagun

Assam

Dibrugarh, Silchar, Guwahati, Jorhat, Kokrajhar, Tezpur

Bihar

Arrah, Aurangabad, Bhagalpur, Bihar Sharif, Darbhanga, Purnea, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Patna Samastipur, Siwan

Chhattisgarh

Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raipur

Gujarat

Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Anand, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara

Haryana

Gurgaon, Hissar, Ambala, Bahadurgarh, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Palwal, Yamuna Nagar

Himachal Pradesh

Baddi, Bilaspur, Dharamshala, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, Shimla, Sirmaur, Solan, Una

Jammu & Kashmir

Baramulla, Kathua, Jammu, Srinagar, Samba

Jharkhand

Dhanbad, Hazaribagh, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Bokaro

Maharashtra

Aurangabad, Amaravati, Chandrapur, Dhule, Jalgaon, Thane/Mumbai/ Navi Mumbai, Kolhapur, Nagpur,  Latur, Nanded, Pune, Nasik, Sangli, Ratnagiri, Satara

Manipur

Imphal

Karnataka

Bangalore, Gulbarga, Hubli, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Davangere, Dharwad, Mandya, Mangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Udupi

Kerala

Kottayam, Kozhikode, Alappuzha, Kannur, Kochi, Kollam, Malappuram, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrichur

Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Sagar, Satna, Ujjain

Meghalaya

Ri-Bhoi, Shillong

Mizoram

Aizawl

Nagaland

Kohima

Odisha

Angul, Balasore, Bargarh, Baripada, Berhampur(Ganjam), Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Sambalpur

Puducherry

Puducherry

Punjab

Amritsar, Bhatinda, Jalandhar, Mohali, Pathankot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Sangrur 22 Rajasthan Ajmer, Ludhiana, Patiala, Phagwara, Alwar, Bhilwara, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Sikar, Udaipur

Punjab

Amritsar, Bhatinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali, Pathankot, Patiala, Phagwara, Sangrur 22 Rajasthan Ajmer, Alwar, Bhilwara, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Sikar, Udaipur

Tamil Nadu

Chennai, Krishnagiri, Madurai, Coimbatore, Dindigul, Kanchipuram, Nagercoil, Tiruchirapalli, Thiruvallur, Namakkal, Perambalur, Salem, Thanjavur, Thoothukodi, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Virudhunagar

Telangana

Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Warangal

Tripura

Agartala

Uttar Pradesh

Aligarh, Allahabad, Banda, Agra, Bareilly, Bulandhshaher, Kanpur, Faizabad, Gonda, Jhansi, Lucknow, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, Varanasi Gorakhpur,

Uttarakhand

Dehradun, Haldwani, Haridwar, Roorkee

West Bengal

Asansol, Bardhaman, Berhampur, Durgapur, Hooghly, Howrah, Kalyani, Greater Kolkata, Siliguri

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