IBPS PO/MT Exam Pattern Details

 IBPS PO/MT Exam Pattern Details: Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is conducting a Common Written Examination (CRP PO/MT) for the recruitment of Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee vacancies in Public Sector Banks which will be conducted online. IBPS Common written examination pattern details are given below…

Exam Pattern: The examination will be conducted in two tiers i.e. the online examination will be held in two phases, preliminary and main which consist of objective-type questions. The total marks of the Preliminary exam are 100 and the duration is 1 hour & the total marks on the Main exam are 200 marks and the duration is 3 hours 30 minutes. There will be a Negative Marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer. If a question is left blank, there will be no negative marking for that question. All the tests except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi. The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using the equi-percentile method. Scores up to two decimal points shall be taken for the purpose of calculations.

CRP Online-Examinations:

1. The structure of the Examinations which will be conducted online are as follows:

a. Preliminary Examination

Sl No	Name of Tests	No. of Qs	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 & Hindi	20 minutes
3	Reasoning Ability	35	35	English & Hindi	20 minutes
	Total	100	100

b. Main Examination

Sl No	Name of Tests	No. of Qs	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
1	Reasoning & Computer Aptitude	45	60	English & Hindi	60 minutes
2	General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness	40	40	English & Hindi	35 minutes
3	English Language	35	40	English	40 minutes
4	Data Analysis & Interpretation	35	60	English & Hindi	45 minutes
	Total	155	200		3 hours
5	English Language (Letter Writing & Essay)	2	25	English	30 minutes

Cutoff Score: Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in each test of the Online Main examination and also a minimum total score to be considered to be shortlisted for an interview. Depending on the number of vacancies available, cut-offs will be decided and candidates will be shortlisted for interview. Before the completion of the interview process, scores obtained in the Online Main examination will not be shared with the candidates shortlisted for the interview. The decision of IBPS in shortlisting and calling several candidates for common interviews/ provisional allotment shall be final.

IBPS PO/MT Eligibility Details

IBPS PO/MT Selection Procedure