IBPS PO Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2020: Institute of Banking Personnel Selection has released exam dates for IBPS Probationary Officer. Eventually IBPS conducts online preliminary exam on 3rd, 4th and 10th Oct 2020. IBPS PO Mains Exam 2020 is scheduled to take place on 28th Nov 2020. Candidates can also check the Complete IBPS Exam Calender 2020-21. We collected the IBPS PO Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2020 and posted here for easy reference of aspirants. So candidates can refer our page to download latest IBPS Syllabus.
IBPS PO Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2020:
Selection Procedure:
IBPS PO selection involves three steps as follows.
- Online Preliminary Exam
- Online Main Exam
- Personal Interview
IBPS PO Exam Pattern 2020:
a. Online Preliminary Examination
| Sl.No. | Name of Tests | No of Qns | Max Marks | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| 2 | Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 3 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
b. Online Main Examination
| Sl.No. | Name of Tests | No of Qns | Max Marks | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 45 | 60 | 60 minutes |
| 2 | General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| 3 | English Language | 35 | 40 | 40 minutes |
| 4 | Data Analysis & Interpretation | 35 | 60 | 45 minutes |
| Total | 155 | 200 | 180 minutes | |
| 5 | English Language (Letter Writing & Essay) | 2 | 25 | 30 minutes |
Note:
- The test will be of bilingual, i.e. English and Hindi.
- All questions will be of objective type with five options.
- For each wrong answer there will be 0.25 marks detected from total marks.
- But unanswered questions will not carry any negative marks.
- There will be sectional as well as overall cut off.
c. Personal Interview
Total Marks: 100.
The minimum qualifying marks in interview will not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWBD candidates)
The weightage (ratio) of Online Main Examination and interview will be 80:20 respectively.
IBPS PO Syllabus 2020:
English Language
- Reading Comprehension
- Error Detection
- Single/ Double Fillers
- Close Test
- Word/ Phrase Replacement
- Column Based/ Sentence Rearrangement
- Sentence Connectors
- Para Jumbles
- Miscellaneous
Reasoning Ability
- Inequality
- Syllogism
- Coding Decoding
- Blood Relation
- Direction Sense
- Alphabet Test
- Logical Reasoning
- Puzzle
- Seating Arrangement
- Machine I/O
- Data Sufficiency
- Miscellaneous
Quantitative/ Numerical Aptitude
- Approximation/ Simplification
- Number Series
- Quadratic Equations/ Inequality (Data 1, Data 2)
- Data Interpretation
- Data Sufficiency
- Miscellaneous- Arithmetic Word Problems (Average, Mixture and Allegation, CP and SP, Profit and Loss, Partnership etc.)
General Awareness
- Current Affairs of past 4-5 months
- Banking Awareness (Past 4-5 months)
- Static Awareness
Descriptive English
- Essay (Choose any 1 of 3)
- Letter Writing (Formal/ Informal)
Important Links:
| Admit Card | IBPS Admit Card 2020 |
| Recruitment | IBPS PO Recruitment 2020 |
| Official Website | www.ibps.in |
