Information about IBPS clerk Exam
IBPS clerk exam is conducted every year for the clerical cadre recruitment for multiple Public Sector Banks all over the country.
IBPS conducts the Common Written Examination (CWE) every year to recruit officers and clerks thus the CRP (Common Recruitment Process), as it is called, involves Online Examinations and interview. Online Classes
a. IBPS Clerical Preliminary Examination
Eligibility for IBPS clerks exam
Age: Minimum 20 years Maximum 28 years
Education:
A Degree (Graduation) in any discipline like BA,BSc, BCom,, BE etc. from a University recognized by the Govt. of India or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government.
Language:
Candidates should know how to read / write and speak the Official Language of the State/UT, for which a candidate wishes to apply
Examination
a. IBPS Clerical Preliminary Examination
It will be in both English and Hindi language.
| Name of the Test | No. of Qs. | Max. Marks | Duration |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS.
b. IBPS Clerks Mains Exam
| Name of the Test | No. of Qs. | Max. Marks | Duration |
| General/ Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 minutes |
| General English | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 minutes |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 minutes |
| Total | 190 | 200 | 160 minutes |
Negative Marking (both –Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations)
There will be negative marking of -0.25 for every wrong answer
c. IBPS Clerk Interview
There is no interview for IBPS Clerk – Marks obtained in the Main examination only are considered for shortlisting for final merit list.
IBPS Clerks Syllabus
IBPS Clerk Mains Syllabus
| Reasoning | General/Economy
/Banking Awareness |
English Language | Data Analysis | Computer Aptitude |
| Puzzle | Overview of Indian Financial System Current Affairs, Recent Banking Updates | Sentence Improvement | Statistics (Averages, Mean, Median etc.)
Representational Statistics (Graphs and Charts) |
Internet |
| Blood Relations | Current Affairs | Error Detection | Inequality (Quantity based) |
Memory |
| Seating Arrangement | General Knowledge (Static) | Vocabulary | Probability | Keyboard Shortcuts |
| Input-Output | Financial Committees | Phrase Replacement | Percentage | Computer Abbreviation |
| Syllogism | Financial Markets | Word Association | Population-based Bar Graph | Microsoft Office |
| Data Sufficiency | Currency and Capital, Awards and Honors | Reading Comprehension | Data interpretation Tabular Graph
Line Graph Pie Chart Bar Graph Radar Graph Caselet |
Computer Hardware |
| Coding-Decoding | Credit and monetary policies (Recent), | Word Usage | Computer Software | |
| Inequalities | Indian Economy | Fill in the blanks | Operating System | |
| Logical Reasoning | Financial Sector Regulators | Spelling Errors | Networking | |
| Order and Ranking | RBI and its Functions | Word Replacement | Computer Fundamentals/Terminologies | |
| Direction sense | National and International Matters | Column Based Fillers | Number System | |
| National Income and expenditure | Sentence Connectors | Logic Gates | ||
| Monetary Policy | Cloze Test | Security Tools, virus | ||
| World Financial Institutions | Para Jumbles | |||
| Sentence Rearrangement | ||||
| Sentence Completion | ||||
| Spelling |
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