IBPS Specialist Officer/SPL-XIII Exam Pattern: Complete Guide and Updates

 BPS Specialist Officer/SPL-XIII Exam Pattern: Complete Guide and Updates

IBPS Specialist Officer/SPL-XIII Exam Pattern Details: Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts a Common Recruitment Process (CRP) for the recruitment of Specialist Officers in various cadres like IT, Agriculture, Legal, Marketing, HR and Rashtrabhasha Adhikari etc in various Public Sector Banks. The Common Recruitment Process (CRP) for Specialist officers and Common interviews will be conducted, once a year by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. The following are the Exam Pattern Details…

Exam Pattern: The Examination will be conducted in Three Stages:

I. CWE Online Examination:-

A. Preliminary Examination
B. Main Examination
C. Interview

A. Preliminary Examination:

For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari

S. No	Name of Tests	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
1	English Language	50	25	English	40 minutes
2	Reasoning	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
3	General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
	Total	150	125	–	–

For the Post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer

Sr. No.	Name of Tests	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
1	English Language	50	25	English	40 minutes
2	Reasoning	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	English and Hindi	40 minutes
	Total	150	125	–	–

Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing minimum cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS. An adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination.

B. Main Examination:

For the Posts of Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer:

Name of the Test	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
Profession Knowledge	60	60	45 minutes

For the Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari:

Name of the Test	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
Professional Knowledge (Objective)	45	60	30 minutes
Professional Knowledge (Descriptive)	2		30 minutes

II. Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Preliminary and Main examinations): There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty to arrive at a corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

III. Cutoff Score: (Online Main Examination): Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in the test Online Main examination and also secure sufficiently high scores 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 interview.

IV. Scores: 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.

V. Marks obtained in the Online Main Examination only will be considered for Shortlisting for Interviews and also for final merit listing.

C. Interview: Candidates who have been shortlisted in the Online Main Examination for CRP SPL-VIII will subsequently be called for an Interview. The total marks allotted for the Interview are 100. The minimum qualifying marks in the interview will not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWD candidates). The weightage (ratio) of the Online Main Examination and interview will be 80:20 respectively. Candidate should qualify both in the Online Main Examination and interview and be sufficiently high in the merit to be shortlisted for subsequent provisional allotment process.

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