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The online examination (Preliminary and Main) for the next Common Recruitment Process for selection of personnel for Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee posts in the Participating Banks is tentatively scheduled in December 2021 / January 2022.
PARTICIPATING BANKS
Bank of Baroda | Canara Bank | Indian Overseas Bank | UCO Bank |
Bank of India | Central Bank of India | Punjab National Bank | Union Bank of India |
Bank of Maharashtra | Indian Bank | Punjab & Sind Bank |
The tentative schedule of events is as follows:
Application Fee
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Relaxation of Upper age limit
Sr. No. | Category | Age relaxation |
1 | Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe | 5 years |
2 | Other Backward Classes (Non-Creamy Layer) | 3 years |
3 | Persons With Benchmark Disabilities as defined under “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016” | 10 years |
4 | Ex-Servicemen, Commissioned Officers including Emergency Commissioned Officers (ECOs)/ Short Service Commissioned Officers (SSCOs) who have rendered at least 5 years military service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from the last date of receipt of application) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or physical disability attributable to military service or invalidment, subject to ceiling as per Government guidelines |
5 years |
5 | Persons affected by 1984 riots | 5 years |
CRP – ONLINE EXAMINATIONS
Sr. No. | Name of Tests | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Time allotted for each test (Separately timed) |
1 | English Language | 30 | 30 | English | 20 minutes |
2 | Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 | English and Hindi | 20 minutes |
3 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | English and Hindi | 20 minutes |
Total | 100 | 100 |
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.
Sr. No. | Name of Tests (NOT BY SEQUENCE) | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Time allotted for each test (Separately timed) |
1 | Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 45 | 60 | English & Hindi | 60 minutes |
2 | General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness | 40 | 60 | English & Hindi | 35 minutes |
3 | English Language | 35 | 40 | English | 40 minutes |
4 | Data Analysis & Interpretation | 35 | 40 | English & Hindi | 45 minutes |
Total | 155 | 200 | 3 Hours | ||
5 | English Language (Letter Writing & Essay) | 2 | 25 | English | 30 minutes |
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 test takers proficiency 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)
Scores
Cut-off Score (Online Main Examination)
MARKS OBTAINED IN THE ONLINE MAIN EXAMINATION ONLY WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR SHORTLISTING FOR INTERVIEW AND ALSO FOR FINAL MERIT LISTING
INTERVIEW
Candidates who have been shortlisted in the Online Main examination for CRP- PO/MT-XI will subsequently be called for an Interview to be conducted by the Participating Banks and coordinated by the Nodal Bank in each State/ UT with the help of IBPS. Interviews will be conducted at select centres. The centre, address of the venue, time & date of Interview will be informed to the shortlisted candidates in the call letter. Candidates are required to download their interview call letters from authorised IBPS website www.ibps.in. Please note that any request regarding change in date, centre etc. of interview will not be entertained. However the conducting agencies reserve the right to change the date/ venue/ time/ centre etc. of interview or hold supplementary process for particular date / session / venue / centre / set of candidates at its discretion, under unforeseen circumstances, if any. 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-XI and Interview. Interview score of the candidates failing to secure minimum qualifying marks or otherwise barred from the interview or further process shall not be disclosed. A candidate should qualify both in the Online Main Exam and interview and be sufficiently high in the merit to be shortlisted for subsequent provisional allotment process, details of which will be made available subsequently on authorised IBPS website.