PNB Specialist Officer: Selection will be based on Online Written Test followed by Personal Interview or Personal Interview only, depending upon the applications response received against each post, as per discretion of the Bank. Click here to Join whatsapp/ telegram study group →
Study Material
PNB Specialist Officer (SO) Exam Pattern
| Parts | Name of the Test | Ques | Marks | Duration |
| PART I | Reasoning | 25 | 25 | 120 Minutes |
| English Language | 25 | 25 | ||
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | ||
| PART II | Professional Knowledge | 100 | 100 |
- For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score.
- Candidates have to qualify all the Tests of Part-I. The part-II i.e. professional knowledge test will be evaluated only for those candidates who qualify in each paper in the Part-I. Minimum qualifying marks in each individual Test will be decided by the Bank based on the collective response of the candidates.
Personal Interview:
Candidates who obtain minimum qualifying marks as decided by the Bank in Part-I, will be considered for shortlisting for Interview on the basis of merit prepared as per marks obtained by them in Part-II i.e. Professional Knowledge Test, provided they fulfil the other eligibility criteria with regard to Educational Qualification and Post Qualification work experience for the respective post.
Personal Interview will be of 50 marks. Minimum qualifying marks in interview shall be 45% i.e. 22.50 for SC/ST candidates & 50% i.e. 25 for other candidates.
PNB Specialist Officer (SO) Reasoning Syllabus
- Analogy
- Series Completion
- Verification of truth of the Statement
- Situation Reaction Test
- Puzzle Test
- Blood Relations
- Coding-Decoding
- Assertion and Reasoning
- Arithmetical Reasoning
- Operations of Mathematics
- Venn Diagrams
- Direction Sense Test
- Classification
- Data Sufficiency
- Alpha-Numeric Sequence Puzzle
- Word Sequence
- Paper Cutting
- Cubes and Dice
- Water Images
- Mirror Images
- Figure Matrix
- Completion Incomplete Pattern
- Spotting embedded figures
- Classification
- Rules Detection
- Missing Characters
- Sequential Output training
- Directions
- Test on Alphabets
- Eligibility Test
- Dot Situation
- Identical figure groupings
- Forming figures and analysis
- Construction of Squares and Triangles
- Series
- Analytical Reasoning
- Paper Folding
PNB Specialist Officer (SO) English Syllabus
- Spellings/ Detecting Mis-spelt words
- Antonyms and their correct usage
- Common Error
- Improvement of Sentences
- Synonyms/ Homonyms
- Antonyms
- Vocabulary
- Idioms & Phrases
- One word substitution
- Active/ Passive Voice of Verbs
- Comprehension Passage
- Conversions
- Sentence Rearrangement
- Grammar
- Shuffling of Sentences in a passage
- Spot the Error
- Cloze Passage
- Fill in the Blanks
- Shuffling of Sentence parts
PNB Specialist Officer (SO) Maths
- Time and Work Partnership
- Compound Interest
- Volumes
- Odd Man Out
- Quadratic Equations
- Probability
- Profit and Loss
- Simplification and Approximation
- Problems on Trains
- Areas
- Races and Games
- Numbers and Ages
- Mixtures and Allegations
- Mensuration
- Permutations and Combinations
- Problems with L.C.M and H.C.F
- Pipes and Cisterns
- Percentages
- Ratio and Proportion
- Boats and Streams
- Simple Interest
- Time and Distance
- Averages
- Indices and Surds
- Simple Equations
- Problems on Numbers
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