SBI Clerk 2026 – Notification, Vacancy, Eligibility, Exam Pattern, Syllabus & Salary

The SBI Clerk 2026 notification (Advt No. CRPD/CR/2026-27/17) was released by the State Bank of India on 11 August 2026 at sbi.bank.in for the recruitment of Junior Associate (Customer Support and Sales) posts in the clerical cadre.

Online applications ran from 11 to 31 August 2026 and are now closed; the bank received roughly 13.01 lakh applications. The selection process consists of a preliminary exam, a main exam and a local language proficiency test, with no interview round.

Candidates can download the official notification and all stage-wise updates from the careers section of sbi.bank.in. Trained apprentices of SBI may receive a bonus in the mains as detailed in the selection section below.

The SBI Clerk 2026 vacancy totals 9,766 posts — 7,680 regular vacancies and 2,086 backlog vacancies — across the bank’s circles in India.

Regular Vacancies (State-wise)

Backlog Vacancies (State-wise)

No vacancies were reported for Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh (UT), Delhi (NCT), Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep and Puducherry for this recruitment.

The SBI Clerk 2026 eligibility criteria cover age and educational qualification, both reckoned at the cut-off operated by the bank under the official notification.

Educational Qualification

A candidate must be a graduate in any discipline from a recognised university. Candidates should keep their degree / provisional certificate and mark sheets ready, as documents are verified at the final stage.

Age Limit

Applicants must be between 20 and 28 years of age. Category-wise relaxation for reserved and other notified categories applies as per the official notification at sbi.bank.in.

Local Language Requirement

Candidates are also required to demonstrate proficiency in the local language of the state they apply for; this is tested through the Local Language Proficiency Test (LPT) which is a part of selection.

The SBI Clerk 2026 exam pattern runs in two online computer-based stages — prelims and mains — followed by the local language proficiency test. As per the official notification, no minimum qualifying marks for individual subjects are prescribed, so there is no sectional cut-off for either paper this year.

Preliminary Examination

Main Examination

Negative marking applies for wrong answers in both papers as per the official pattern.

The SBI Clerk 2026 syllabus covers the four skills tested in the two CBTs — English, numerical ability, reasoning and awareness. The prelims is a speed contest; the mains goes deeper and adds general/financial awareness.

In the 2025 prelims, paper difficulty was rated easy to moderate. Section snapshots: English (RC 8, error detection 5, word usage 3, sentence rearrangement 5, word swapping 4, cloze 5); Reasoning (puzzles 15 spread across row/circular/floor-flat, syllogism 3, inequality 3, blood relations 4, order & ranking 4, alphanumeric 4); Numerical Ability (bar-graph DI 5, caselet DI 6, wrong number series 6, simplification 10, arithmetic 8).

The SBI Clerk 2026 selection process has three stages, and there is no interview for the clerical cadre.

Apprentice bonus: trained apprentices of SBI may be awarded 2.5% of the maximum marks (5 marks out of 200) as bonus marks in the mains.

There is no provision for inter-circle / inter-state transfer of junior associates recruited under this drive.

The SBI Clerk 2026 recruits Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) — the customer-facing clerical staff of the bank’s branches. They handle client interactions, cash and counter operations, and sales support at the retail level.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Handling customer queries and counter transactions
• Processing deposits, withdrawals and account-related services
• Supporting sales of retail banking and liability products
• Maintaining branch records and daily balancing
• Escalating operational issues as per bank policy

Junior Associates are liable to be posted anywhere within the circle they are recruited for, and inter-circle transfer is not permitted for the cadre.

The SBI Clerk 2026 salary and pay-scale details were not reproduced in the source article. Selected Junior Associates draw the clerical-cadre pay and allowances notified by SBI, with the exact basic pay and scale available in the official notification at sbi.bank.in. ⚠️ Missing: pay scale / CTC figures.

The SBI Clerk prelims admit card is scheduled to be released on 18 September 2026 at sbi.bank.in. The mains admit card will follow in November 2026.

Call letters are downloadable using the registration number and password/date of birth; no hard copy is sent by post. A valid photo identity and the admit card must be carried to the centre.

SBI does not publish an official SBI Clerk answer key before the results. The prelims scorecard and cut-off are released on sbi.bank.in after the exam, and candidates may compare the previous-format papers for an estimate of their performance.

The SBI Clerk 2026 results are not yet declared. The prelims result will follow the September/October exam, the mains result (with the apprentice bonus applied) will be published after the 26 November 2026 mains, and the final outcome is declared after the local language proficiency test.

The SBI Clerk 2026 cut off is To be announced for both the prelims and the mains. The cut-offs are published on sbi.bank.in along with the respective results; no numeric values have been reproduced in this article.

SBI allots exam centres for the SBI Clerk 2026 prelims and mains from the preferences given in the online form; the exact centre is printed on the admit card. Circle-wise language combinations for the Local Language Proficiency Test are given below.

Candidates may opt for pre-examination training (scheduled 14–18 September 2026 for SC/ST and other backward categories) by choosing the option in the application form; the training call letter is downloaded online.