14 Oct

Paper/Exam Pattern of IBPS PO

IBPS conducts the recruitment exam for the selection of Probationary Officers(PO) in all public sector banks every year.

The exam is of 200 marks and consists of 200 questions. The paper is conducted online and divided into five sections viz.:

1 Reasoning 50 Marks
2 English Language 40 Marks
3 Quantitative Aptitude 50 Marks
4 General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry) 40 Marks
5 Computer Knowledge 20 Marks

Usually the questions are from the following topics(Just to give you an idea):

MATHS:-
(1) Profit Loss, Time, Mixture, Trains, etc.- 15
(2) Series- 5
(3) Data Interpretation- 20
(4) Quadratic Equations- 5
(5) Data Sufficiency- 5
ENGLISH:-
(1) Reading Comprehension- 20
(2) Phrases -5
(3) Para Jumble -5
(4) Cloze Test -10
REASONING:-
(1) Syllogisms- 5
(2) Seating Arrangement -15
(3) Data Sufficiency- 5
(4) Coding-Decoding- 5
(5) Assumptions- 5
(6) Logical Reasoning – 15
COMPUTER:-
(1) Windows
(2) Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
(3) Networking
(4) Basic Hardware and Software
(5) DBMS
General Awareness :-
(1) General Awareness – 5-8
(2) Banking Awareness – 10
(3) Current Affairs – 15
(4) History – 3
(5) Miscellaneous- 2-6

All the best.

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