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IBPS SO Exam 2022:
IBPS SO examination is held every year by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS). This exam is held for the selection of Specialist Officers (SO) for different Public Sector Banks. The IBPS holds the Common Written Examination (CWE). The institution hires officers and clerks through the CWE. The application form for the registration of the exam can be filled up through the official website.
The date for IBPS SO exam for the year 2022
is expected to be announced tentatively in October 2022.
What are the roles for which the IBPS SO Exam
is held?
The IBPS SO exam is held for the recruitment
process for the following posts:
·
Personnel Officer or HR
·
IT Officer
·
Agricultural Field Officer
·
Law Officer
·
Marketing Officer
·
Rajbhasha Adhikari and so on.
IBPS Exam Calendar 2022
The exam timetable for 2022 has already been
issued by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS). Candidates who
wish to register for the examination can do so by visiting the IBPS official website
at www.ibps.in and checking the exam calendar.
The online registration period for the IBPS
SO test 2022 is expected to begin in November 2022.
IBPS SO Vacancies
For the IBPS SO Exam 2022, the expected
number of vacant seats is yet to be released. On the basis of different
available posts, the number of vacancies can be summed up as follows:
|
Name
of Post |
No.
of Vacancies |
|
Agriculture
Field Officer (Scale-I) |
875 |
|
Marketing
Officer (Scale-I) |
195 |
|
IT
Officer (Scale-I) |
120 |
|
Law
Officer (Scale-I) |
60 |
|
HR/Personnel
Officer (Scale-I) |
35 |
|
Rajbhasha
Adhikari (Scale-I) |
30 |
IBPS SO 2022 Exam Dates
The exam dates and other important dates in
relation to the IBPS SO 2022 exam can be listed as follows:
|
Activity |
Tentative
Dates |
|
IBPS
SO Notification 2022 |
October
2022 |
|
IBPS
SO Online Registration Starts From |
November
2022 first week |
|
Last
Date to Apply Online for IBPS SO |
November
2022 last week |
|
Download
of call letters for Online examination – Preliminary |
December
2022 second week |
|
Commencement
of IBPS SO Preliminary Exam |
24
and 30 December 2022 |
|
Result
of IBPS SO Online exam – Preliminary |
January
2023 |
|
Download
of call letters for Online examination – Mains |
January
2023 2 |
|
Commencement
of IBPS SO Mains Exam |
29
January 2023 |
|
Conduct
of Interview |
February
2023 |
|
IBPS
SO 2021 Final Result |
February/March
2023 |
IBPS SO Exam Selection Procedure
The selection procedure for IBPS SO exam
comprises of 4 different stages. These stages are being listed below:
1.
Online Preliminary Exam: The
preliminary examination is held through an online medium. Candidates who qualify
for the prelims are allowed to go ahead and take the mains exam in the next
stage.
2.
Online Mains Examination: This
is the second stage of the exam. Candidates who qualify for the prelims are
allowed to appear for this section of the exam process. If a candidate
qualifies for the mains exam, he or she will go ahead in the next stage of the
exam, which is the interview round.
3.
Interview Round: The
interview round is held after the declaration of the results of the mains exam.
Candidates who qualify for the mains exam will have to go to this final round of the
examination. Candidates are selected after the declaration of the final results
following the interview round.
4.
Provisional Allotment: The
provisional allotment list of the selected candidates is released on the
official website of IBPS. The allotment is done on the basis of the preference
which has been opted by the candidates at the time of registration. The process
of informing the joining dates and other related procedures is communicated to
the candidates by the respective banks where they are selected.
Salary of an IBPS SO
The salary of an IBPS SO on the basis of the
latest revisions is pinned at Rs.21,990 as of 1 January 2016. A new joinee will
be eligible for a basic pay of Rs.21,990 and an in-hand salary of Rs.19,590.
IBPS SO Eligibility Criteria
The eligibility criteria for the IBPS SO exam can be summed up as follows:
1.
Educational Qualification on the basis of the
concerned posts:
|
Name
of Post |
Educational
Qualification |
|
I.T.
Officer (Scale I) |
1)Four
years of engineering/Technology degree in Computer Science/IT/Computer
Application/Electronics and Communication Engineering/Electronics and
Telecommunication/ Electronics and Instrumentation OR 2) Post Graduate Degree
in Computer Science/IT/Computer Application/Electronics and Communication
Engineering/Electronics and Telecommunication/ Electronics and
Instrumentation OR Graduates having passed DOEACC ‘B’ level exam |
|
Agricultural
Field Officer (Scale-I) |
4
years graduation degree in Agriculture/ Horticulture/ Animal Husbandry/
Veterinary Science/ Dairy Science/ Agricultural Engineering/ Fishery Science/
Pisciculture/ Agri Marketing and cooperation/ Co-Operation and Banking/ Agro-Forestry |
|
Rajbhasha
Adhikari (Scale I) |
Post
Graduate in Hindi with English as a subject at the graduation or degree level
OR Post-Graduate Degree in Sanskrit with English and Hindi as a subject at the graduation level |
|
Law
Officer (Scale I) |
A
bachelor’s degree in Law and enrolled as an advocate with Bar Council |
|
HR/Personnel
Officer (Scale I) |
Graduate
and Full Time Post Graduate Degree or Full-time Diploma in Personnel
Management/ Industrial Relation/ HR/ HRD/ Social Work/ Labour Law |
|
Marketing
Officer (Scale I) |
Graduate
and Full-Time MMS (Marketing)/ MBA (Marketing)/Full-time PGDBA/ PGDBM with
specialization in Marketing |
*Candidates
are required to have valid mark sheets supporting their educational
qualifications.
2.
Nationality of the candidate:
Candidates
who want to appear for the IBPS SO exams will be required to meet the following
conditions:
·
A citizen of India.
·
A subject of Nepal or Bhutan.
·
Tibetan refugee who has moved to India before
1 January 1962 with the intention of permanently residing in India.
·
Person of Indian Origin (PIO) who has
migrated from Burma, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam or East African countries of
Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, or Malawi, with the intention
of permanently residing in India.
*The
migrated candidates will be required to provide the certificate of eligibility
issued by the Government of India (GOI) as proof of their migration.
3.
Age of the applicant:
The
age of the applicant should not be more than 30 years and should not be less
than 20 years as of 1 November 2020.
On
the basis of this, the candidate should have been born not before 2 November
1989 and not after 1 November 1999. There are certain age relaxations as well
which apply to different categories of candidates:
|
Category |
Age
Relaxation |
|
Scheduled
Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) |
5
years |
|
Other
Backward Classes (OBC Non-Creamy Layer) |
3
years |
|
Persons
with Disabilities (PWD) |
10
years |
|
Ex-Servicemen
(Army personnel) |
5
years |
|
Persons
with Domicile of Jammu &Kashmir during the period of 1-1-1980 to
31-12-1989 |
5
years |
|
Persons
affected by 1984 riots |
5
years |
IBPS SO Exam Pattern
The exam pattern for IBPS SO can be summed up
as follows:
1.
IBPS SO Preliminary Exam Pattern:
The
IBPS SO Prelims exam is a 2-hour long exam that is conducted online. It
comprises 3 sections with a total of 150 questions and a total of 125 marks.
0.25 mark is deducted for every wrong answer.
For
the Post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale-I officer
|
Section |
No.
of Questions |
Total
Marks |
Duration |
|
Reasoning |
50 |
50 |
40
min |
|
English
Language |
50 |
25 |
40
min |
|
General
Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry |
50 |
50 |
40
min |
|
Total |
150 |
125 |
120
min |
For
the Post of Agriculture Field Officer, Marketing Officer (Scale I), HR/Personnel
Officer, IT Officer Scale I
|
Section |
No.
of Questions |
Total
Marks |
Duration |
|
Reasoning |
50 |
50 |
40
min |
|
English
Language |
50 |
25 |
40
min |
|
Quantitative
Aptitude |
50 |
50 |
40
min |
|
Total |
150 |
125 |
120
min |
2. IBPS SO Mains Exam Pattern
The
exam pattern for the IBPS SO Mains exam can be summed up as follows:
For
the Post of Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel
Officer, and Marketing Officer
|
Name
of Test |
Number
of Questions |
Maximum
Marks |
Medium
of Exam |
Duration |
|
Professional
Knowledge |
60 |
60 |
English
& Hindi |
45
min |
For
the Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari
|
Name
of Test |
Number
of Questions |
Maximum
Marks |
Medium
of Exam |
Duration |
|
Professional
Knowledge (Objective) |
45 |
60 |
English
& Hindi |
30
min |
|
Professional
Knowledge (Descriptive) |
2 |
60 |
English
& Hindi |
30
min |
IBPS SO Exam Syllabus
The detailed syllabus of the IBPS SO
examination for the different posts can be listed as follows:
IBPS SO Exam Syllabus
The detailed syllabus of the IBPS SO
examination for the different posts can be listed as follows:
|
Marketing Officer
(Scale-I) |
Agricultural
Field Officer (Scale-I) |
Law
Officer (Scale-I) |
HR/Personnel
Officer (Scale-I) |
IT
Officer (Scale-I) |
|
Basics
of Marketing Management |
Basics
of Crop production |
Banking
Regulations |
Human
Resource Development |
Operating
System |
|
Brand
Management |
Horticulture |
Compliance
and Legal Aspects |
Business
policy and strategic analysis |
DBMS |
|
Advertising |
Seed
Science |
Relevant
Law and Orders related to negotiable instruments, securities, foreign
exchange |
Transnational
Analysis |
Data
communication and networking |
|
PR |
Agronomy
and Irrigation |
Prevention
of Money-laundering, Limitation Act |
Training
and Development |
Software
engineering |
|
Sales |
Agricultural
Economics |
Consumer
Protection Act |
Recruitment
and Selection |
Computer
Organization and Microprocessor |
|
Retail |
Agricultural
Practices |
Surfaces |
Rewards
and Recognition |
Data
Structure |
|
Business
Ethics |
Soil
resources |
Banking
Ombudsman Scheme |
Industrial
Relations |
Object-Oriented
Programming |
|
Market
Segmentation |
Animal
Husbandry |
Laws
and Actions with a direct link to Banking Sector |
Business
Policy and Strategic Analysis |
|
|
Market
research and forecasting demand |
Agroforestry |
Bankers
Book Evidence Act |
Grievance
and Conflict Management |
|
|
Product
Life Cycle |
Ecology |
DRT
Act |
Performance
Management and appraisal |
IBPS SO Exam Application Fee
The fee structure for the registration for
IBPS SO exam can be summed up as follows:
·
For candidates belonging to SC, ST, and PWD
categories – Rs.100 (i.e. intimation charges only)
·
For candidates belonging to the General categories and other categories – Rs.600 (application fee including intimation charges)
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