IBPS Specialist Officers Exam

Updated: Mar 12, 2024

IBPS SO exam is designed to test the candidate for the post of Specialist Officer (SO) with subfields such as Agriculture Field Officer, Marketing Officer (Scale I), HR/Personnel Officer, IT Officer Scale I, Law Officer and RajbhashaAdhikari Scale I. It is conducted in three phases:

Preliminary round
Main exam
Interview round

IMPORTANT DATES

IBPS will hold the IBPS SO Prelims 2024 test on November 9, 2024. The IBPS will make available the authentic IBPS SO notice 2024 online. Along with the official notification, the IBPS SO 2024 application form will be available at ibps.in. The IBPS SO 2024 registration will be done online. Graduates and postgraduate candidates aged 20 to 30 will be eligible to apply for the IBPS SO recruitment 2024.

TITLE	TENTATIVE DATES
Registration	To be announced
Last date for registration	To be announced
Preliminary exam date	November 9, 2024
Main exam date	December 14, 2024
Interview round	To be announced
Provisional allotment	To be announced

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Any graduate holding a degree in any discipline from any recognized university approved by the Government of India is allowed to take IBPS SO exam.

Nationality:

Should be a citizen of India
Subjects of Nepal or Bhutan
Tibetan Refugee who arrived prior to 1 January 1962
A person of Indian origin migrated from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Burma(Myanmar), Vietnam or East African countries of the United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zaire or Ethiopia to permanently settle in India.

AGE LIMIT

20 years - 30 years

EXAM PATTERN

PRELIMS:

For Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari

Sections	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
Reasoning	50	25	English	40 minutes
General Awareness (Banking Industry)	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
English Language	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
Total	150	125		120 minutes

For Agriculture Field Officer, I.T. Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer

Sections	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
Reasoning	50	25	English	40 minutes
English Language	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	English and Hindi	490 minutes
Total	150	125		120 minutes

MAINS:

For Law Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, I.T. Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer

Sections	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
Professional Knowledge	60	60	English and Hindi	45 minutes

For Rajbhasha Adhikari

Sections

Number of Questions

Maximum Marks

Medium of Exam

Duration

Professional Knowledge (Objective)

English and Hindi

30 minutes

Professional Knowledge (Descriptive)

English and Hindi

30 minutes

EXAM SYLLABUS

ENGLISH	Cloze test, reading comprehension, spotting errors, sentence improvement, sentence correction, para jumbles, fill in the blanks, paragraph/sentence completion.
REASONING ABILITY	Seating arrangements, puzzles, inequalities, syllogism, input-output, data sufficiency, blood relations, order and ranking, alphanumeric series, distance and direction, verbal reasoning, and non-verbal reasoning.
GENERAL AWARENESS	Current affairs, banking awareness, general knowledge, currencies, important places, books and authors, award, headquarters, prime ministers, important schemes, and important days.
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE	Number series, data interpretation, simplification/approximation. quadratic equation, data sufficiency, mensuration, average, profit and loss, ratio and proportion, work, time and energy, time and distance, relations, probability, simple interest, compound interest, and permutation and combination.

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

IT OFFICER (SCALE-I): Database management system, data communication and networking, operating system, software engineering, data structure, computer organization and architecture, microprocessor, and object-oriented programming.
AGRICULTURE FIELD OFFICER (SCALE-I): Basics of crop production, horticulture, seed science, agronomy and irrigation, agricultural economies and practices, soil resources, animal husbandry, ecology, and government schemes.
MARKETING OFFICER (SCALE-I): Basics of marketing management, brand management, advertising, PR, sales, retail, business ethics, market segmentation, market research and forecasting demand, product life cycle, corporate social responsibility, service marketing, and marketing strategies.
LAW OFFICER (SCALE-I): Banking regulations, compliance, and legal aspects, relevant law and orders related to negotiable instruments, securities, foreign exchange, prevention of money laundering, consumer protection act, SARFAES, banking ombudsman scheme, laws and actions with direct link to banking sector, bankers book evidence act, and DRT act.
HR/PERSONNEL OFFICER (SCALE-I): Human resource development, business policy, and strategic analysis, transnational analysis, training and development, recruitment and selection, reward and recognition, industrial relations, business policy and strategic analysis, grievance and conflict management, and performance management and appraisal.

Official Website

http://www.ibps.in/

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IMPORTANT DATES

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

AGE LIMIT

EXAM PATTERN

EXAM SYLLABUS

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Official Website

IBT INSTITUTE

Avensys Banking Classes

Spardha Yash Academy

Nirmiti Academy

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Flame Institute

MNC Academy

FUTURE SOLUTION

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