Age Limit for State Bank of India Recruitment in 2010 :

Relaxation in the Upper Age Limit to Reserve category candidates for both the SBI post :

Upper age is relaxable by

1. 3 years in the case of OBC candidates.
2. 5 years in the case of :
1. SC / ST candidates.
2. Ex-servicemen (including Emergency Commissioned Officers / Short Service Commissioned Officers) provided applicants have rendered at least five years continuous Military Service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or on account of physical disability or have been released on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service or on invalidment.
3. Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in Kashmir Division of the State of Jammu and Kashmir between 1st January, 1980 and 31st December, 1989.
3. 10 years for VH / OH (Gen), 13 years for VH / OH (OBC) and 15 years for VH / OH (SC / ST) candidates.

Note : Cumulative Age Relaxation will not be available either under the above items or in combination with aby other items.

Notes for Orthopaedically Handicapped (OH) / Visually Handicapped (VH) candidates :

a) Only those OH candidates who have locomotor disability or cerebral palsy with locomotor impairment of minimum of 40% and only those who fall in the following categories are eligible to apply :

• BL - Both legs affected but not arms.
• OA - One arm affected (R or L) - a. Impaired reach, b. weakness of grip, c. ataxia.
• OL - One leg affected (R or L)
• MW - Muscular weakness and limited physical endurance.

b) Only those Visually handicapped persons who suffer from any one of the following conditions are eligible to apply :

1. Total absence of sight.
2. Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses.
3. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degrees or worse.

c) Candidates having low vision as defined in Chapter I, Para 2 (u) of The Persons with Disabilities (Equal opportunities, protections of rights and full participation) Act 1995.

d) At the time of written examination, only blind / low vision candidates and those candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy can use own scribe / writer at his / her own cost. In all such cases where a scribe / writer is used, the following rules will apply :

1. The candidate will have to arrange his / her own scribe / writer at his / her own cost.
2. Scribe / writer must be one grade junior in academic qualification to the candidate.
3. Scribe / writer should be one possessing 60% or less marks.
4. Scribe / writer should be from an academic discipline other than that of the candidate.
5. Both the candidate as well as the scribe / writer 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 / she did not fulfil 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. Only those candidates who use a scribe / writer shall be eligible for extra time of 20 minutes and / or part there of for every hour of the examination.
7. Candidate using scribe shall have to use scribe for both objective Type Test and Descriptive Type Test. Not using scribe for both the tests will be a disqualification.

e) Hearing Impaired candidates are not eligible for this post.

Category :

Instructions for writing Category Name and Category Code no. while applying online SBI Jobs 2010 :

Various category names and their code numbers are given below :

SBI Bank Recruitment 2010 Age Limit