• The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) Probationary Officers (PO) is a recruitment process used to identify qualified individuals for the position of probationary officer in several public sector banks in India. Since 2011, The IBPS PO Exam is conducted every year by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection.
One of the following could describe the applicant:
Exam | General Category | OBC | SC/ST | |||
| Min. age | Max. age | Min. age | Max. age | Min. age | Max. age |
IBPS PO | 20 years | 30 years | 20 years | 33 years | 20 years | 35 years |
In August or September, the IBPS PO application form will be made available along with the notice. The IBPS PO application form must be completed online and submitted before the deadline. For General and OBC candidates the application cost was INR 850; for SC/ST/PWD candidates, it was INR 175.
IBPS PO Application fees are determined by the announcement from the previous year. Any bank transaction fees related to the online payment of application fees or notification fees will be the applicant’s responsibility.
Category | Charges | Fee Amount |
ST/SC/PwBD | Intimation charges only | Rs.175/- |
GEN/OBC/EWSs | Application fee including Intimation charges | Rs.850/- |
The applicants will be appointed based on performance in the below-mentioned three stages of IBPS PO Exam:
The candidates will have to score a section cut-off and overall selection as well. The Preliminary Exam is for qualifying for the Mains exam and in the interview round minimum cut-off marks are required for the Mains exam. The Interview round will be conducted by the participating organizations and coordinated by the Nodal Bank in each State/UT. This interview round holds 100 marks.
No change has been made in the IBPS PO exam pattern for the recruitment. The exam pattern comprises three stages, which are:
S. No | Section | No. of Questions | Maximum marks | Duration |
1 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
2 | Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
3 | English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 1 hour |
S No. | Section | No. of Qs. | Max. marks | Duration |
1 | Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 45 | 60 | 60 minutes |
2 | Data Interpretation and Analysis | 35 | 60 | 45 minutes |
3 | General/Economy/ Banking Awareness | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
4 | English Language | 35 | 40 | 40 minutes |
| Total | 155 | 200 | 3 hours |
Descriptive test: Letter and essay writing | 2 | 25 | 30 minutes |
The following table gives the breakup of the IBPS PO Prelims syllabus.
Reasoning | Quantitative Aptitude | English Language |
Logical Reasoning | Simplification | Reading Comprehension |
Alphanumeric Series | Percentage, Profit & Loss | Cloze Test |
Ranking/Direction/Alphabet Test | Mixtures & Alligations | Para jumbles |
Data Sufficiency | Simple Interest & Compound Interest | Multiple Meaning / Error Spotting |
Coded Inequalities | Time and Work | Fill in the blanks |
Seating Arrangement | Time, Speed & Distance | Miscellaneous |
Puzzle | Mensuration | Paragraph Completion |
Tabulation | Data Interpretation |
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Syllogism | Ratio, Age, Average & Partnership |
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Blood Relations | Number Series |
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Input-Output | Quadratic Equations |
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Coding-Decoding | Permutation, Combination & Probability |
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The IBPS PO Mains syllabus is quite similar to the Prelims syllabus except for few topics.
The main topics covered in the Bank PO mains are as follows:
Reasoning Ability | Data analysis and Interpretation | Computer Aptitude | General Awareness | English Language |
Syllogism, Inequality, Direction sense, Blood relation, Alpha-numeric series, Order and ranking, Scheduling, Tabulation, Input Output, Coding decoding, Data sufficiency, Critical reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Circle Seating arrangement, Square seating arrangement, Puzzle, Analytical and decision making, Course of action. | Sequence & Series
Tabular graph
Line graph
Pie chart
Bar graph
Radar graph,
Missing DI,
Caselet DI,
Data sufficiency,
Permutation, Combination & Probability,
Miscellaneous | Internet, MS Office, Memory, Computer hardware,
Keyboard shortcuts,
Computer Fundamentals,
Computer Abbreviations,
Computer terminologies,
Operating system,
Number system,
Networking Basic of logic gates.
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Current affairs,
Financial awareness,
Static GK &
Banking awareness. | Reading comprehension
Para jumbles
Cloze test
Fillers
Error spotting
Paragraph Completion
Sentence Connectors
Word association
Vocabulary
Verbal ability
Sentence improvement
Miscellaneous
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