Baroda Manipal Banking School – Exam Pattern & Selections

With the introduction of IBPS common written exams, individual exams conducted by banks have become a thing of the past.Bank of Baroda & Manipal university while announcing the admissions for Baroda Manipal School of Banking (BMSB) 2012 batch have decided on an eligibility test next month & we take you through its structure.


As part of this tie-up, selected candidate will be enrolled for 1 year PG diploma (banking & finance) course & on successful completion of training they shall be inducted into Bank of Baroda as probationary officer (scale I).

For the current year 2012-13, BMSB is to takein 4 batches (once every 3 months), each consisting of 240 students. 

Selection process

The procedure to gain entry into baroda manipal school of banking goes through these 3 stages,

1. Online aptitude test
2. Group discussion
3. Personal Interview

BOB says,

the aim is to find people who are bright, have good communication skills (oral & written), are dedicated, can work effectively in teams, are passionate about their career goals and who display integrity and a positive attitude.

Now you know the qualities this bank is looking for in applicants interested in joining BMSB.

Baroda Manipal Test Pattern

Unlike regular banking exams involving OMR sheets, this is not a written examination but an online test that is scheduled from July 7 -11, 2012.It consists of the following papers

• Logical aptitude / reasoning
• Quantitative / numerical aptitude
• English language
• General Awareness

Candidates will have to attend around 160-200 questions within 2 hours.

Cutoff & Marks
A total of 200 marks is allotted for the online aptitude test.For each wrong answer, negative mark is awarded (could be 0.25)

Based on the performance in test, cutoffs will be fixed & aspirants shall be called for group discussion & interviews.

Last year, the cutoff scores ranged from 35 – 90 (from the data we collected).

Difficulty level:

BOB states the questions to be of advanced level.It could due to the limited no. of seats available per batch.

We contacted few candidates who sat for the last year`s test.

Though they were not able to recollect the question paper, most agreed that reasoning & quantitative aptitude sections played the tricky part.

Since the period to prepare for baroda manipal`s test is short we suggest registrants to devote extra time for those two papers during preparations.

If you have appeared for IBPS common exams, make use of those guides/books to practice.With just 2 weeks left for the test, concentrate on trying out as many problems possible.

Results:

The first batch of students are expected to join baroda manipal school of banking`s campus at bangalore in August or September this year.

So in all probability one can look forward to the test results by July end that shall give way for GD & interviews in August 2012.