IBPS PO GUIDE

The examination will be two tier i.e. the online examination will be held in two phases, Online Preliminary and Online Main. Candidates who will qualify in Online Preliminary examination and shortlisted will have to appear for Online Main examination and shortlisted candidates in the Online Main examination will subsequently be called for a Common Interview to be conducted by the Participating Banks and co-ordinated by the Nodal Bank.

IBPS Eligibility Criteria & Age Limit

Age Limit - The candidate must not have exceeded the age of 30 years of age.[Minimum Age: 20 years]

Age Relaxation - The upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxed:

• SC/ST – Upto 35 Years of Age

• OBC – Upto 33 Years of Age

IBPS Educational Qualification

• A Degree (Graduation) in any discipline from a university recognised by the Govt. Of India or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government.

• The candidate must possess valid Mark-sheet / Degree Certificate that he/ she is a graduate on the day he / she registers and indicate the percentage of marks obtained in Graduation while registering online.

Structure of the Examination

a. Preliminary Exam

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.

b. Main Examination

Descriptive Paper of English Language (Letter writing & Essay) may be evaluated by an automated scoring mechanism for identifying features related to writing proficiency. This scoring mechanism is duly validated and evaluates proficiency of test takers in writing in English Language in an objective manner as the mechanism does not have any in-built biases for evaluating responses.

PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary

and Online Main Examination)

There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

IBPS PREVIOUS CUT-OFF SCORE (Online Main Examination)

Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in each test of Online Main examination and also a minimum total score 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.

MARKS OBTAINED IN THE ONLINE MAIN EXAMINATION ONLY WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR SHORTLISTING FOR INTERVIEW AND ALSO FOR FINAL MERIT LISTING

SCORES

• The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using equi-percentile method.

• Scores up to two decimal points shall be taken for the purpose of calculations

c. Interview

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/PWBD candidates). The weightage (ratio) of Online Main Exam and interview will be

80:20 respectively.

The combined final score of candidates shall be arrived at on the basis of scores obtained by the candidates in the Online Main Examination of CRP-PO/MT-XIII and Interview. Interview score of the candidates failing to secure

minimum qualifying marks or otherwise barred from the interview or furtherprocess shall not be disclosed.

A candidate should qualify both in the Online Main Exam and interview and besufficiently high in the merit to be shortlisted for subsequent provisional allotment process, details of which will be made available subsequently on authorised IBPS website.

Total Vacancies for the year 2023 Exam: 3049 Vacancies