Candidates who are preparing for IBPS CWE Probationary Officers Exam 2016 should check the new exam pattern. All the IBPS PO Aspirants should check the latest exam pattern for upcoming IBPS PO Exam 2016. Indian Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is undertaking recruitment process from interested and eligible candidates to probationary officer posts in the various member banks across the nation. Approximately 2 million candidates take part in the PO examination every year, organized by IBPS through examination centres across the nation.
The probationary officers, selected from the recruitment drive are posted to the branches of the banks where there is vacancy. The IBPS conducts two tier written examination and personal interview round, to finally select the candidates in the probationary officer posts. Though, the Preliminary examination doesn’t get counted in the final selection merit list, it is necessary to score the cut off marks in the prelims exams to move forward to the mains written test. The merit list is prepared by combining the marks attained in the mains written test and personal interview round conducted by the concerned authority.
Prelims Written Test: The very first examination in the recruitment procedure is the prelims written test. The prelims test would be of 100 marks and carry three papers namely, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning Ability. The candidates would get a total time of 1 hour to solve the 100 multiple choice questions. The difficulty level of the questions would be easy to moderate and would be majorly from the secondary and school level basics. Though the marks of the prelims examination would not get added to the final merit list, the candidates would have to score the cut off marks in each of the papers along with the overall examination.
Mains Written Test: The Mains written test consists of five sections namely, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, General Awareness with special reference to banking industry and Computer Knowledge. The total marks of the examination would be 200, for which the candidates would get a total time of 2 hours. The questions would be multiple choices and carry negative marks on wrong evaluation. The candidates need to pass each of the paper along with scoring the cut off marks in the overall examination, to move forward to the next round of selection.
