Saturday, 19 October 2013

Bank Probationary Officers Exam – IBPS Exam Scheme

IBPS PO/MT Exam Pattern Details: 
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts Common Written Examination (CWE PO/MT) for recruitment to the posts of  Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee vacancies in Public Sector Banks.  The test now a days is  conducted online.
CWE consists of objective type questions. Total mark of the exam are 200 and duration is 2 hours.  However, there is a Negative Marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer.  In case a  question is left blank, there will be no negative marking for that question. The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using equipercentile method.
Common Written Examination Pattern:
Sr.
No.
Name of Tests (Objective)Maximum
Marks
Duration
1Reasoning50
Composite Time of 2 hours
2English Language40
3Quantitative Aptitude50
4General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry)40
5Computer Knowledge20
Total200

IBPS PO/MT Eligibility Details Eligibility Criteria:
Nationality/Citizenship: A Citizen of India.
Age limit: Candidates age limit is  prescribed between 20 years to 30 years [For certain categories relaxation of upper age limit is available]
Educational qualification:  Degree in any discipline from a recognized university or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government.  Computer knowledge is not mandatory.
Cutoff Score
Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in each test and also a minimum total score to be considered to be shortlisted for interview.  Depending on the number of vacancies available, cutoffs will be decided and candidates will be shortlisted for interview.

INTERVIEW
Candidates who have been shortlisted in the examination for CWE PO/MT-III are subsequently called for an Interview to be conducted by the Participating Organizations.  Interviews are conducted only at select centers. The centre, address of the venue, time & date of Interview are  informed to the shortlisted candidates in the call letter.   Candidates are required to download their interview call letters from authorized IBPS website www.ibps.in.   Any request regarding change in date, centre etc. of interview are not entertained.  However the conducting agencies reserve the right to change the date/ venue/ time/ centre etc. of interview or hold supplementary process for particular date / Session / venue / centre / set of candidates at its discretion, under unforeseen circumstances, if any.
The total marks allotted for Interview are 100. The minimum qualifying marks in interview will not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD candidates). The weight age (ratio) of CWE (exam) and Interview will be 80:20. The combined final scores of candidates shall be arrived at on the basis of scores obtained by the candidates in CWE PO/MT-III and Interview.
A candidate should qualify both in the CWE and interview to be shortlisted for subsequent allotment process, details of which are made available subsequently on IBPS website.
[Note : The above guidelines are given on the basis of past advertisements of IBPS, and can be changed for exams to be held in future.  Therefore, candidates are advised to always check the latest advertisement of IBPS before applying for the PO exams]

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