MUMBAI, October 6 — The Central Recruitment and Promotion Department (CRPD) of the State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday published the formal pre-notification regulatory framework for its forthcoming Probationary Officers (PO 2026) recruitment campaign on `sbi.co.in/careers`, harmonizing standards with updated Department of Financial Services (DFS) workforce guidelines.
The structured framework sets the stage for inducting over 2,000 Probationary Officers into junior management grade scale-I (JMGS-I) billets across the public sector banking behemoth's national network. Academic eligibility mandates a graduation degree in any discipline from a recognized statutory university, extending provisional eligibility to final-year or final-semester undergraduate candidates subject to producing documentary proof of passing prior to the commencement of interview rounds.
The tripartite selection structure comprises: Phase-I Preliminary Screening (100 marks covering English, Quantitative Aptitude, and Reasoning); Phase-II Main Examination featuring 200 objective marks and a 50-mark English descriptive test; and Phase-III comprising a mandatory psychometric personality mapping, Group Exercises (20 marks), and an apex personal interview (30 marks) before a centralized board.
The institutional legacy of the State Bank of India, the State Bank of India Act of 1955, commercial banking regulation under the RBI Act, and capital adequacy norms represent core competencies across SBI PO, IBPS, and RBI Grade B recruitment modules. Candidates should remember that SBI traces its operational lineage back to the Bank of Calcutta founded in 1806, subsequently amalgamated into the Imperial Bank of India in 1921, before being formally nationalized into the State Bank of India on July 1, 1955.