75 Questions asked in SBI PO 2016 Interviews

Following is a compilation of list of questions asked in SBI PO 2016 interview. Though many of the question were asked based on application form, effort is being made to remove the repetitive ones and highlight only the important questions:

Basic Questions:

Why Banking
Why you want to work for State Bank of India
Why Public Sector why not private sector
Why you left previous company
How would you help the rural people
How would you help them (rural people) if posted in London
Your role model
If you are given posting as branch manager at a rural branch and given a target. What will be your approach to achieve that
Why haven’t you started a start-up with mechanical engineering knowledge (for a Mech Engg graduate)
Do u think you are fit for banking

Economics, Finance and Banking:

What is Money Laundering ? What are the steps taken by Government?
Benami Transaction
What are KYC guidelines?
What are Gilt Edge Securities
What is Yield To Maturity (YTM)
What is Inflation? How it impacts economy?
Functions of RBI
What are the problems faced by bank.
Deficit Financing
What factors contributed to increase in FDI inflow to India in recent past
What is Federal Reserve and what is its other name
What is Repo rate and reverse repo
What problems Public Sector Banks are facing at urban centres
Questions on CRR SLR
Who is the regulator of insurance banks and merchant companies.
What is Gst bill and how it is beneficial
What is fat tax
Describe Indian economy,
What are strong and weak banks,
How to increase business
What is CAD
What is monetary policy
What are Negotiable instruments
Something about National Food Security Mission.
Online Banking
Debit card vs credit card

National:

Which states in India have more growth than others and Why
Details and opinion related to Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher payment default
What is India’s national flower
India’s national song and writer
Name the Finance Secretary and Home secretary of India
Which is largest producer state of rice , coffee and spices
What are the two highest awards gallantry and country.
Who is Governor of puducherry
What is Long sightedness
What is surge pricing ,
Who got Bharat Ratna for their contribution in Scientific field along with Sachin Tendulkar
Which all states surround Tripura,
What are the main tribes of Tripura
Who is the Defence Minister of India and his deputy?
What is Scorpene? Where was it built?
Tell about some schemes by the Education (HRD) Ministry
who is the Education Minister?

International:

Opinion on Brexit
Opinion on Balochistan and related
Impact of Globalization
Where was ASEAN conference 2016 held
Which are the neighbouring countries of Laos and their capitals
Where is the largest temple in world
Capital currency of Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Thailand
Name Indian states which are neighbouring Bangladesh
Opinion on Donald Trump’s candidacy
What are commonwealth countries?
How many games were played in this year Rio Olympics? Which all games were added?

Technology:

Tell us about Cloud Computing
What is the need of data warehouse
Name some operating systems and then some questions were asked related to them
Difference between Electrical and electronics
What is microprocessor
Name some microprocessors
Difference between microprocessor and microcontroller

Socio-Political:

Religion and language are great unifiers of our country-express your views
Should there be a referendum held in J & K- comment
“In India, people expect the government to do everything”-comment
Consequences of division of AP and how it is getting the revenue (for a Candidate from Andhra Pradesh) – More questions on Bifurcation and Hobbies