Updated: Sep 30, 2023
| TITLE | TENTATIVE DATES |
| Registration | September 2020 |
| Last date for registration | October 2020 |
| Call letters for Preliminary Exam | November 2020 |
| Preliminary exam | 12, 13 and 19 December 2020 |
| Result of Preliminary exam | December 2020/ January 2021 |
| Call letters for Main exam | January 2021 |
| Main exam | January 24, 2021 |
| Provisional allotment | April 2021 |
Any graduate holding a degree in any discipline from any recognized university/college/institution approved by the Government of India is allowed to take the IBPS clerk exam.
Other requirements
Nationality
PRELIMS:
| SECTION | TOTAL NO. OF QUESTIONS | TOTAL MARKS | TIME DURATION (in minutes) |
| English | 30 | 30 | 20 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 | 20 |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 25 | 20 |
| Total: | 100 | 100 | 60 |
MAINS:
| SECTION | TOTAL NO. OF QUESTIONS | TOTAL MARKS | TIME DURATION (in minutes) |
| General/Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 |
| General English | 40 | 40 | 35 |
| Reasoning and Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 |
| TOTAL: | 190 | 200 | 160 |
| ENGLISH | Reading Comprehension, cloze test, para jumbles, multiple-meaning, error spotting, fill in the blanks, paragraph completion and miscellaneous. |
| QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE | Simplification, profit and loss, mixtures and alligations, simple interest, compound interest, surds and indices, work and time, time and distance, mensuration, data interpretation, ratio and proportion, percentage, number system, sequence and series, permutation and combination, and probability. |
| REASONING ABILITY | Logical reasoning, alphanumeric series, ranking test, direction test, alphabet test, data sufficiency, coded inequalities, seating arrangement, puzzles, tabulation, syllogism, blood relations, input-output, and coding-decoding. |
| GENERAL/FINANCIAL AWARENESS | Current affairs, Indian financial system, history of the Indian banking system, national financial institutions, economic terminologies, general knowledge, and government schemes |
| COMPUTER APTITUDE | Computer fundamentals and technologies, networking, operating system, computer software, internet, memory, keyboard shortcuts, computer abbreviation, computer hardware, database basics, basics of hacking security, tools, viruses and Microsoft office. |
