Vijaya Bank Clerical exam pattern, papers Books

his blog post is written in sequel to my previous article: Vijaya Bank Probationary Clerk Job Notification, Eligibility & Forms which tells you how to apply for the exam.The focus of the blog post is on how to prepare for the Vijaya Bank clerical exam: It at first tells you what is the selection process/exam pattern of the exam and than goes on to give you the sources where you can find the online sample papers/mock test for Vijaya Bank clerical exam.

Selection process of Vijaya Bank Clerical exam:
Vijaya Bank clerical exam selection process consists of two stages:

1.0 Written test: Consists of an Objective (260 marks) & a Descriptive Test (100 marks) .

2.0 Interview - (75 marks).

The descriptive test is only qualifying in nature (i.e. marks you score in the descriptive test is not considered for merit list). Thus, total marks based on which the merit ranking would be decided is 335 marks (260+75 marks).

The complete selection process of Vijaya Bank, along with section-wise mark distribution is given in following table:

As you can see above, in each of the Vijaya Bank selection stages (Objective test, Descriptive Test & Interview), you have to score minimum 40% marks (35% marks for SC/ST) - i.e. you have to score - 104, 40 & 30 marks (91, 35 & 26 marks for SC/ST) in Objective test, Descriptive Test & Interview respectively. These are just minimum cut-off marks and scoring them does not makes you get the Vijaya Bank job. At the end, you have to be on top 500 positions!

For the Objective Test, the minimum marks you have to score in each section is 30% (25% for SC/ST) and in over all 40% (35% for SC/ST). How many questions in each section you have to get correct to get this Vijaya Ban cut-off mark? Following table gives you the idea:

You thus have to get atleast 15 questions (13 for SC/ST) out of 50 correct in each of the four Objective test sections - also in over all, you have to score the minimum cut-off marks as shown above.

Whether there would be negative marking for the wrong answers in these Objective tests has not been specified in the Vijaya Bank job notification, but it is better to be careful!

Online sample/model/mock-test papers for Vijaya Bank Clerical exam:

Your first study material for the Vijaya Bank Clerical exam should be the online papers available in various websites. Since you may be having limited time, I searched in the net to find these free online papers for the Bank Clerical exam. Although these papers are not exclusive to Vijaya Bank, I think you would find the materials useful.

I found that Competition Master is an excellent resource which has good collection of online papers for Bank Clerical exams.

Test of Reasoning Ability:
Following four solved test paper from Competition Master should definitely help you:
Andhra Bank Clerical Exam Test of Reasoning Solved Sample paper

SBI Clerical Exam Test of Reasoning Solved Sample paper-1

SBI Clerical Exam Test of Reasoning Solved Sample paper-2

United Bank of India Clerical Exam Test of Reasoning Solved Sample paper

You can as well go through my previous blog post titled:Test of Reasoning: Sample Question papers & Books, which gives you a complete picture of test of reasoning along with different types of test of reasoning with downloadable sample papers.

Numerical Aptitude:
Following six solved test paper from Competition Master should definitely help you:
Vijaya Bank Clerical Exam Quantitative Aptitude Solved Sample paper

SBI Clerical Exam Quantitative Aptitude Solved Sample paper-1

SBI Clerical Exam Quantitative Aptitude Solved Sample paper-2

Coop Bank Clerical Exam Quantitative Aptitude Solved Sample paper

UCO Bank Clerical Exam Quantitative Aptitude Solved Sample paper

Union Bank of India Clerical Exam Quantitative Aptitude Solved Sample paper

Test of English Language:

Following five solved test paper from Competition Master should definitely help you:
Vijaya Bank Clerical Exam Test of English Solved Sample paper

Bank of Maharashtra Clerical Exam Test of English Solved Sample paper

Dena Bank Clerical Exam Test of English Solved Sample paper

Oriental Bank of Commerce Clerical Exam Test of English Solved Sample paper

SBI Clerical Exam Test of English Solved Sample paper:

For test of Clerical Aptitude:

Clerical Aptitude tests your ability to notice similarities and differences between pairs of names and numbers. Questions asked also assesses ability to handle office routine work, like filing, abbreviating, indexing etc. Following links should help you prepare for it:

Psytech
Psychometric-success
Personality-and-aptitude-career-tests

Apart from Competition Master, I also found these websites offering sample papers for Bank Clerical exams:
Allinterview: It gives 130 model questions with answers.
Allexam: It gives 25 SBI Bank Clerk GK model questions with answers.
Upscportal: It gives you 20 Allahabad Bank model questions.
Upscportal: General Awareness sample Question Paper 2008: 40QCompetitionreview: Some 7 Vijaya bank model questions.
Edutalkindia: Numerical Ability/Maths samle Paper: 40 Q

Vijaya Bank Descriptive Question Topics:

Competition Master has a collection of very good sample topics for the descriptive test paper. You can find it in the section "Bank Recruitment exam" as shown highlighted at right.

Recommended Books or Vijaya Bank Clerical exam:
While the above on-line Bank Clerical exam papers should be treated as eye-openers, you need to lay more emphasis on the preparatory books for the Bank Clerical exams. I found following list of books available on the net. These books are available in most of the good book shops. You can also order them online by clicking the book name through credit card as well as by Cash-On-Delivery (i.e. you pay when you get the book) from books4u.in, which is giving a good discount of 20%.

Ramesh Bank Clerical Practice Work Book by RPH Editorial Board (Rs. 190)
Ramesh Bank Clerical Exam Solved Papers by RPH Editorial Board (Rs. 110)
Ramesh Bank Clerical Test Guide (Big) by Anjani A Gupta (Rs. 195)
Ramesh Bank Clerks Exam Guide (Small) by Saurabh Sharma, Karan Dev (Rs. 140)
Upkars Banks Recruitment Tests by Khanna & Verma (Rs. 130)
Upkars Bank Competitions by T. S. Jain (Rs. 205)
Upkars New Banks Recruitment Tests by Dr. M. B. Lal & Bhatnagar (Rs. 140)
Upkars Quicker Numerical Test for Bank Clerical Cadre by Dr. M. B. Lal & Jain (Rs. 145)
Competition master is a very good magazine for Bank exams and its November 2008 Issue is "Bank Special" issue which costs you only about Rs. 30/=.

Competition Master stated in its July 2008 issue that with every passing time, Bank Clerical exams have become tougher and therefore to have an edge over other candidates, may be you need to make your preparations based on the Bank PO exams. Some exhaustive blog posts were made on this blog on SBI PO exam and many wrote back to me, thanking and saying that the quality and amount of information in these posts were excellent and it helped them qualify for SBI PO exam. The links for these SBI PO exam preparation materials are as follows:
SBI Probationary Officer (PO) exam Solved Question papers, Sample Papers and Exam pattern
SBI PO Main: Exam pattern, Papers & Books

With above, I am confident that you would be able to qualify in the Vijaya Bank Clerical exam. But how should you prepare for the Interview of the Vijaya Bank exam?

Vijaya Bank Interview Questions:

For Interview, click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the requirements an interviewer looks for in you. It also gives you an interesting YouTube video telling you how you can also analyze an interviewer and hence be prepared for it. And than it gives you a list of 99 interview questions, which are most repeated in every other interview! These questions helps you prepare yourself.

Hope this blog post answers your all questions on the Vijaya Bank Clerical exam. I would post more info on this Bank Clerical Exam. So just keep visiting. Also, you are requested to put your questions as comments below, so that another among you can answer it, if not I.