IBPS Exam Syllabus ,Exam Pattern, Pre & Main Examination Selection Process

The structure of the Examinations which will be conducted online are as follows:

Preliminary Examination

For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari

Sr.	Name of Tests	No. of	Maximum	Medium of Exam	Duration
No.		Questions	Marks
1	English Language	50	25	English	40 minutes
2	Reasoning	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
3	General Awareness with Special	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
	Reference to Banking Industry
	Total	150	125
For the Post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer
Sr.	Name of Tests	No. of	Maximum	Medium of Exam	Duration
No.		Questions	Marks
1	English Language	50	25	English	40 minutes
2	Reasoning	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
	Total	150	125

 

Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing minimum cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS. Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination

Main Examination

For the Post of Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer

Name of the Test	No. of	Maximum	Medium of	Duration
	Questions	Marks	Exam
Professional  Knowledge	60	60	English & Hindi	45 minutes

 

For the Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari

Name of the Test		No. of	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
		Questions
Professional	Knowledge (Objective)	45		English & Hindi	30 minutes
			60
Professional	Knowledge (Descriptive)	2		English & Hindi	30 minutes

 

IBPS reserves the right to modify the structure of the examination which will be intimated through its website. Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the call letters from the authorised IBPS website www.ibps.in

Please note that candidates will not be permitted to appear for the Online Preliminary as well as Online Main Examination without the following documents:

• Valid Call Letter for the respective date and session of Examination

• Photo-identity proof (as specified) in original bearing the same name as it appears on the call letter/ application form and
• Photocopy of photo-identity proof (as mentioned in (2) above)

Candidates reporting late i.e. after the reporting time specified on the call letter for Examination will not be permitted to take the examination.

Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations)  0.25

CUTOFF SCORE(Online Main Examination)

Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in the test of Online Main examination and also secure sufficiently high scores to be considered to be shortlisted for interview. Depending on the number of vacancies available, cut-offs will be decided and candidates will be shortlisted for interview. Prior to the completion of the interview process, scores obtained in the online Main examination will not be shared with the candidates shortlisted for interview.

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