Banking, Finance & Insurance

A candidate belonging to reserved category, selected on the basis of norms as applicable to General Category, is treated at par with a General category candidate. Such own merit candidates belonging to reserved categories who are provisionally allotted under unreserved (General) category is not adjusted against a reserved post. However their original category as registered in the online registration will remain unchanged.

As the placement opportunities in Finance and HR are generally stronger compared with SIIB Pune, 100% placement is typically achieved at NMIMS, Bengaluru. The latest information available for 2024 shows that an average offer of INR 14.11 LPA resulted along with a the highest at 43.25 LPA while, the finance sector participation during the placement season saw leading recruiters such as Accenture and HSBC. Whereas SIIB Pune has a strong reputation, the placement statistics and recruiter diversity cannot be matched with NMIMS. Thus, for finance and HR, NMIMS Bengaluru is the better choice.

The category-wise SBI Clerk age limit is given below.

Merit list is drawn State wise, category wise. Candidates qualified in the test (main examination) is placed according to their aggregate marks in descending order in respective States and Categories.

Trained apprentices of SBI may be given weightage in the Main Examination by awarding 2.5% of the maximum marks (i.e. 5 marks out of 200 marks) as bonus marks. The bonus marks will be added to the aggregate score of the candidate to arrive at the final aggregate score. These bonus marks will be given only if an apprentice has completed the apprenticeship in SBI successfully  and conduct and performance is found to be satisfactory during the entire training period.

Candidates are required to score a minimum percentage marks on aggregate (For SC/ST/OBC/PwBD/XS/DXS candidates, 5% relaxation available thereon). Minimum qualifying marks on aggregate will be as decided by the bank. No minimum qualifying marks for individual subject are prescribed. Section wise marks will not be maintained.

Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by the Bank  (approximately 10 times the numbers of vacancies. subject to availability) will be shortlisted for the Main Exam from the list of all candidates arranged in descending order of aggregate marks scored.

After CFA, candidates can choose many jobs in the market like Junior Analyst, Chief Investment Officer, Investment Banker, etc. The avg salary they can earn can be upto INR 50 LPA.

Candidates can see some of the job options with high salary below -

Note: The salary is taken from Ambitionbox.com.

In India CFAs earn better than CAs as avg. salary for CAs is INR 7 to 15 LPA but for CFAs it is INR 9 to 40 LPA.

But it can vary based on the location, experience and also job.