Friday, 25 July 2014

About IBPS Exam, Know Basic About IBPS Exam

About IBPS Exam:-

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is a pioneering step in personnel selection for Banking Sector. IBPS comprises of a team of specialists who have expertise in Psychology, Information Technology, Banking and Insurance Industry and Educational Measurement. Their collective efforts are providing human resource management solutions from past many years. Previously, recruitment procedure of candidates in banks were time taking. Introduction of Common Written Examination (CWE) conducted by IBPS removed this hindrance and made recruitment procedure more managed and less time consuming.

IBPS conducts CWEs for many posts which includes Clerks and Probationary Officers / Management Trainees. At present, 21 Public Sector Banks, 22 Co-operative Banks, 11 Private Banks, 8 Central Financial Institutions, 9 Insurance Companies, 23 Public / Private Sector Undertakings and 62 Regional Rural Banks are associated with IBPS.

The first Common Written Entrance (CWE) was conducted in September 2011 for the post of Probationary Officer / Management Trainee and in November 2011 CWE was held for the post of Clerk. Every year IBPS conducts one CWE for each of Probationary Officer, Specialist Officer and Clerk.

Changing pattern of banking recruitment process :

Online CWE in 2012- The first and foremost change in the banking recruitment process is that CWE conducted in November 2012 for Clerical post was online. This was a step towards effective use of technology for betterment of human resource acquisition. No more use of paper benefitted the environment and made CWE more organized.

Calculation of cutoffs at two stages- Previously, the sum total of the cutoffs of individual sections were equal to the overall cutoff. Now, even if the candidate qualifies the minimum cutoffs of individual section but, is unable to qualify the minimum overall cutoff then he / she is not considered qualified.

Common Interviews- To eliminate loopholes in the selection procedure IBPS started conducting Common Interviews for candidates who qualified the CWEs. Candidates who qualified the CWE PO II conducted in June 2012 were the first batch to face the Common Interview. The candidates who qualify both CWE and Common Interview are given a notification regarding sate wise and category wise vacancies for each bank participating in the recruitment drive. After that candidates select their order of preference for banks and then they are placed accordingly. However, the concept of Common Interview is not applicable in the case of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs). Candidates have to apply for each RRB when announced for the recruitment.

In order to validate the scores obtained by qualifying candidates IBPS issues score card and gives the opportunity of enhancing the score in upcoming CWEs.


IBPS provides a platform to the aspiring job seekers as well as to the banks that are looking for talented and dynamic employees. Aspiring candidates who see themselves as a part of the banking sector should utilize this opportunity and work hard to build a marvelous career.

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