Punjab State Cooperative Bank Clerk 2021: Syllabus & Exam Pattern Decoded

Punjab State Cooperative Bank Clerk Exam 2021: It was not so long ago when PSCB made the headlines after announcing the new vacancies available for multiple banking jobs. The official notification was released on April 28, 2021. Even the registrations are not live anymore. The last date (extended) for filling out the application was June 4, 2021. A total of 856 vacancies are being provided via this exam. However, there is not too much information out there about these exams but we have tried our best to cover all the relevant details PSCB aspirants should be aware of.  

The exam dates are still awaited for PSCB but one can’t really afford to delay the preparations anymore. Here are all the details about the syllabus and exam pattern which you should be aware of by now: 

PSCB Clerk-cum Data Entry Operator Exam Pattern

S.No	Subjects	Marks
1.	Punjabi	15
2.	Computer Application	15
3.	Reasoning ability	15
4.	Quantitative Aptitude	15
5.	General Awareness and Banking Awareness	25
6.	English	15

The total for the exam would be 100 marks. The duration would be two hours to finish the PSCB Clerk exam.  

PSCB will surely be a preferable job choice for many of the Punjabi aspirants as it only requires you to clear one round of examination. With other banking exams, you generally have to surpass two to three rounds of examination. For example, for SBI Clerk you are expected to crack both prelims and mains. In PSCB, if you crack the paper once you are done. You can expect your offer or joining letter soon enough by the responsible authority.  

Exam Pattern Analysis

The exam is very well designed by giving fair weightage of marks for every subject. The subjects chosen are very relevant to the job profile of a clerical candidate. Every subject is allotted 15 marks each except for the general awareness and banking awareness section. The GA section is valued at 25 marks. The pattern with PSCB is such that it looks like a combined mini version of prelims and mains of other banking exams such as SBI and IBPS. It’s really a mix of the subjects served on a single platter. 

Punjab State Cooperative Bank Clerk Syllabus 2021

Subject	Syllabus (For All Posts)
Reasoning Ability	a) Verbal Number Series, Alphabet Series, Test of Direction Sense, Coding-Decoding, Number Ranking, Arithmetical Reasoning,  Problem on Age Calculation, Blood Relations, Analogy, Decision Making, etc. b) Non-Verbal Non-Verbal Series, Mirror Images, Cubes and Dice, Grouping Identical Figures, Embedded Figures, etc.
Computer Application	Basic computer operations, classification of computers,  input devices, output devices, Computer hardware and software, the memory of computer storage, processing of data, number system and computer languages, operating systems, networking, internet and email,  maintenance, and security.
Quantitative Aptitude	Number System, HCF,  LCM, Simplification,  Decimal Fractions,  Ratio and Proportions, Unitary Method, Percentage, Time and Distance,  Time and Work, Profit and Loss, Average, Simple and Compound Interest, Mensuration (2D and 3D)  Algebra, Data Interpretation.
General Awareness	Current Affairs (National and International), Major Financial/Economic News, Budget and Five-Year Plans, Who’s Who, Sports, Economy, and Geography with special reference to Punjab, Awards and Honours, Science – Inventions and Discoveries, Abbreviations, History and culture with special reference to Punjab, International, and National Organisations.  The questions regarding the banking and Cooperative Societies Act will be general in nature. (For the Post of Manager)
English Language	Error correction, Tenses, Sentence rearrangement, Fill in the blanks with modals, Articles, and prepositions, etc., Comprehension, Vocabulary, Synonyms, Antonyms
Punjabi Syllabus

Syllabus Analysis

Nearly every PSCB job announced has the same syllabus except for the job of Senior Manager. The syllabus for clerk examination is way too vast. However, this will have some disadvantages because of the limited number of questions asked.  

• Other banking exams have three sections and that gives aspirant the luxury to be focused on those 3 subjects but here you will have cope-up with 5-6 subjects all at once.
• Prioritization becomes difficult in the PSCB exam because you can’t really guess which type of questions would come. When you have 15 marks allotted for 7-8 topics in each subject; the average number of questions per topic can be 1-2. This means that you will have to prepare for every topic and can’t afford to skip any of them.

But on the other hand, one major benefit is that you can have a clear mindset and approach for such an exam. No more analysis of which topics should I consider leaving, which ones are high scoring, etc.  Everything from start to finish is important for cracking the PSCB exam.

And also you have to prepare once and not repeatedly like aspirants do for other banking exams such as RBI, SBI, or IBPS.  

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