Banking exam calculators

Bank recruitment splits in two. Probationary Officer posts at SBI and through IBPS are in the Junior Management Grade Scale I, where basic pay on joining is ₹56,480 and rises by fixed increments written into the scale itself. Clerical posts — Junior Associate at SBI, Customer Service Associate through IBPS — start at ₹26,730 on their own scale. Because a bank scale states every increment in advance, the salary calculators can show what a post pays in any year of service, not only on joining.

The age limits follow the cadre as well: 21–30 years for SBI PO and 20–28 years for SBI Clerk, each counted on the crucial date printed in that advertisement rather than on the day you apply. IBPS runs a common recruitment process, so a single notice covers many banks at once and the same limits apply across all of them.

All of these are two-stage exams, a Preliminary followed by a Main, and the Preliminary is only a filter: its marks do not count towards the final merit. A wrong answer costs one fourth of the marks for that question in most sections, but several Mains sections use a different fraction, which is why the marks calculators work section by section instead of applying one rate to the whole paper.