Updated: Jun 6, 2023
TITLE | TENTATIVE DATES |
Registration | November 7, 2020 |
Last date for registration | November 26, 2020 |
Preliminary exam date | December 26 and 27, 2020 |
Main exam date | January 30, 2021 |
Interview round | February 2021 |
Provisional allotment | April 2021 |
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:
20 years - 30 years
PRELIMS:
SECTION | TOTAL MARKS | TIME DURATION (in minutes) |
English | 25 | 40 |
Reasoning Ability | 50 | 40 |
General awareness with special reference to the banking industry (for law and rajbhasha) | 50 | 40 |
Quantitative aptitude (for I.T. officer, agriculture, HR/Personnel and Marketing | 50 | 40 |
Total: | 175 | 160 |
MAIN:
SECTION | TOTAL MARKS | TIME DURATION (in minutes) |
Professional Knowledge - objective for Law, I.T, HR, Marketing, Agriculture | 60 | 45 |
Professional Knowledge (Objective for Rajbhasha) | 30 | 30 |
Professional Knowledge (Descriptive for Rajbhasha) | 30 | 30 |
Total: | 120 | 105 |
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. |