Selection Procedure for Oriental Bank of Commerce Recruitment

Selection Procedure for Oriental Bank of Commerce Recruitment

The selection will be on the basis of written test and interview. All eligible candidates will be called for a written examination, which will be both Objective and Descriptive in nature.

Written Test

a) Objective Tests (Duration - 95 Minutes)

b) Descriptive Test

It will consist of 4 questions out of which the candidates are required to attempt 3 questions only.

The test will be of 60 marks (i.e. 20 marks for each question). Time duration for the test will be 45 minutes.

However, the test will be only qualifying and the marks obtained therein shall not be reckoned for preparing the merit list.

The candidates shall have the option to answer the descriptive test either in English or Hindi or the Official Language of the State.

Further, the descriptive paper will be evaluated to the extent of around 5 times the number of vacancies based on the merit ranking of the objective test.

The detailed information regarding the Written Examination will be given in the booklet which will be sent to the candidates along with the call letter for the Written Examination.

The candidates have to pass in each of the objective and descriptive test separately and there will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective Tests.

Depending on the numbers of vacancies, only those candidates who rank sufficiently high in the Objective Test will be called for interview.

Mere eligibility / pass in the written test shall not vest any right on a candidate for being called for Interview.

Final selection will be on the basis of ranking accorded after adding the marks obtained in the Objective Tests and Interview.

Wherever written examination is held, the blind candidates and candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy can use own scribe at their cost during the written examination.

In all such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

1. The candidate will have to arrange his own scribe at his own cost
2. The academic qualification of the scribe should be one grade lower than the stipulated eligibility criteria
3. The scribe can be from any academic stream
4. The scribe should possess 60% or less marks in his own academic stream.
5. Both the candidate as well as the scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking, confirming that the scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe as mentioned above. Further, in case it later transpires that he did not fulfill any of the laid down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts, the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the written test.
6. Such candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for extra time of 20 minutes for every hour of the examination.

Selection Procedure for Oriental Bank of Commerce Recruitment