ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

AGE LIMIT:

For Officer Scale- III (Senior Manager)– Above 21 years – Below 40 years
For Officer Scale- II (Manager)– Above 21 years – Below 32 years
For Officer Scale- I (Assistant Manager)– Above 18 years – Below 30 years
For Office Assistant (Multipurpose) – Between 18 years and 28 years

THE MAXIMUM AGE LIMIT SPECIFIED ABOVE IS APPLICABLE TO GENERAL CATEGORY CANDIDATES ONLY. FOR OTHER CATEGORIES THE FOLLOWING RELAXATIONS WOULD APPLY:

SR. NO.	CATEGORY	AGE RELAXATION
1	Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe	5 years
2	Other Backward Classes	3 years
3	Persons With Benchmark Disability as defined under “The Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016"	10 years
4	Ex-Servicemen/ Disabled Ex-Servicemen	(for the post of Office Assistant (Multipurpose)) actual period of service rendered in the defence forces + 3 years (8 years for Disabled Ex-Servicemen belonging to SC/ST) subject to a maximum age limit of 50 years
4B	In the case of Ex- servicemen commissioned officers, including ECOs/ SSCOs, who have rendered at least 5 years military service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within the next one year from the last date for receipt of application) other than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or on account of physical disability attributable to military service or on invalidment, subject to ceiling as per Government guidelines	(for the post of Officers) 5 years
5	Widows, Divorced women and women legally separated from their husbands who have not remarried.	(only for the post of Office Assistant (Multipurpose) 9 years
6	Persons ordinarily domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period 1-1-80 to 31-12-89	5 Years
7	Persons affected by 1984 riots	5 Years

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

SR. NO.	POST	EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION	EXPERIENCE
1	Office Assistant (Multipurpose)	Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized University or its equivalent. (a) Proficiency in local language as prescribed by the participating RRB/s* (b) Desirable: Working knowledge of Computer.	-
2	Officer Scale-I (Assistant Manager)	i) Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized University or its equivalentPreference will be given to the candidates having degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Engineering, Pisciculture, Agricultural Marketing and Cooperation, Information Technology, Management, Law, Economics or Accountancy; ii) Proficiency in local language as prescribed by the participating RRB/s* iii) Desirable: working knowledge of Computer.	-
3	Officer Scale-II General Banking Officer (Manager)	Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized University or its equivalent with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate. Preference will be given to the candidates having degree in Banking, Finance, Marketing, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Engineering, Pisciculture, Agricultural Marketing and Cooperation, Information Technology, Management, Law, Economics and Accountancy.	Two years as an officer in a Bank or Financial Institution.
4	Officer Scale-II Specialist Officers (Manager)	Information Technology Officer Bachelor’s degree from a recognised University in Electronics / Communication / Computer Science / Information Technology or its equivalent with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate. Desirable: Certificate in ASP, PHP, C++, Java, VB, VC, OCP etc.	One year (in the relevant field)
5	Officer Scale-III (Senior Manager)	Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized University or its equivalent with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate. Preference will be given to the candidates having Degree/ Diploma in Banking, Finance, Marketing, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Engineering, Pisciculture, Agricultural Marketing and Co-operation, Information Technology, Management, Law, Economics and Accountancy.	Minimum 5 years experience as an Officer in a Bank or Financial Institutions

EXAM PATTERN

IBPS RRB Officer Grade Preliminary Examination

SR. NO.	SECTION	QUESTION	MARKS	DURATION
1	Reasoning	40	40	45 Minutes
2	Numerical Ability	40	40
	Total	80	80	-

IBPS RRB 2018 Mains Examination (Officer Scale-I)

S. NO	SECTION	NO. OF QUESTION	MARKS
1	Reasoning	40	50
2	General Awareness Paper	40	40
3	Numerical Ability Awareness Paper	40	40
4A	English Language Syllabus Paper	40	40
4B	Hindi Language Syllabus Paper	40	40
5	Computer Knowledge Syllabus Paper	40	40
	Total	200	200

IBPS RRB 2018 Mains Exam (Officer Scale-II)

S. NO	SECTION	QUESTION	MARKS	DURATION
1	Reasoning	40	50	2 Hour
2	Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation Paper	40	50
3	Financial Awareness Paper	40	40
4A	English Language Paper	40	40
4B	Hindi Language Paper	40	40
5	Computer Knowledge Paper	40	20
	Total	200	200

BPS RRB 2018 Mains Exam Officer Scale-II (Specialist Cadre)

S. NO	SECTION	QUESTION	MARKS	DURATION
1	Reasoning	40	50	2 Hour
2	Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation Paper	40	50
3	Financial Awareness Paper	40	40
4A	English Language Paper	40	40
4B	Hindi Language Paper	40	40
5	Computer Knowledge Paper	40	20
6	Professional Knowledge Paper	40	40
	Total	200	200

All the exams will be held through online mode and will be of objective type. All sections (except English Language section & Hindi Language section) will be bilingual (i.e. will be asked in both English & Hindi).There will be both sectional as well as overall cut offs in IBPS RRB Officer Grade. 0.25 marks will be deducted for every answer attempted wrong by a candidate in IBPS RRB Exam.

BPS RRB Assistant
For Office Assistant

A composite time of 45 minutes is provided to candidates to complete two sections namely Reasoning and Numerical Ability. Candidates must clear the cut-off of each section. The cut-off for each section is decided by the team of IBPS depending on the level of difficulty of the paper

S. NO	SECTION	MEDIUM OF EXAM	QUESTION	MARKS	DURATION
1	Reasoning	English/Hindi Language	40	2 Hour	A composite time of 45 mins
2	Numerical Ability	English/Hindi Language	40	2 Hour
	Total	80	80

IBPS RRB MAINS EXAMINATION

The complete list of all the sections available for the mains Exam in different scales, i.e. Officer Scale I, II and III are discussed below.

For Office Assistant

S. NO	SECTION	TOTAL MARKS
1	Reasoning	40
2	Computer Knowledge	40
3	General Awareness	40
4	English Language	40
5	Hindi Language	40
6	Quantitative Aptitude	40
	Total	240

EXAM SYLLABUS

IBPS RRB Syllabus

The IBPS RRB syllabus differs a little bit for Office Assistant and for Officer Grade. The syllabus differs for both IBPS RRB Preliminary Exam and IBPS RRB 2018 Mains Exam.

IBPS RRB Assistant Exam

The IBPS RRB Assistant Exam Syllabus majorly falls into five sections:

Logical Reasoning
Quantitative Aptitude
Computer Knowledge
English Language and
Hindi Language.

The subcategories of these five sections are mentioned below:

REASONING	ENGLISH LANGUAGE	QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE	HINDI LANGUAGE	COMPUTER LANGUAGE
Odd man out	Spotting Errors	Number System	Vyakaran	Computer Fundamentals
Syllogism	Jumbled Words	Decimal Fraction	Fill in the Blanks	Software and Hardware Fundamentals
Blood Relation	Fill in the Blanks	Simple Interest	Mistakes	Networking
Series Test	Idioms and Phrases	Time and Work	Paragraphs	MS Office
Odd man out	Spotting Errors	Number System	Vyakaran	Computer Fundamentals
Ranking and Time	Comprehension	Averages	-	Database
Direction Sense Test	Commonly Misspelled Words	Partnership	-	History and Future of Computers
Figure Series	Jumbled up sentences	Case Studies	-	Software and Hardware Fundamentals
Statement and Conclusion	Cloze Tests	Permutation and Combination	-	Networking
Statement and Arguments	One word Substitution	HCF and LCM	-	MS Office
Figure Series Test	Vocabulary	Profit and Loss	-	Database
Analogy	-	Compound Interest	-	-
Coding-Decoding	-	Time and Distance	-	-
Alphabet Test	-	Simplification	-	-
Number	-	Percentages	-	-
Causes and Effects	-	Averages	-	-
Sitting Arrangements	-	Data interpretation	-	-
Statement and Assumption	-	Probability	-	-
Assertion and Reason	-	Number series	-	-
Word Formation	-	-	-	-

IBPS RRB Officer Grade

The syllabus of Officer Grade is almost similar to that of IBPS RRB 2018 Assistant. The only difference occurs in the professional knowledge paper. The Officer Grade has an additional section of General Awareness apart from Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English/Hindi Language, Computer Language, Computer Applications and Professional Knowledge.

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE	REASONING	ENGLISH LANGUAGE	HINDI LANGUAGE	GENERAL AWARENESS	COMPUTER LANGUAGE
Number System	Odd man out	Spotting Errors	Vyakaran	Current Affairs	Computer Fundamentals
Decimal Fraction	Syllogism	Jumbled Words	Fill in the Blanks	Countries/Currencies	Software and Hardware Fundamentals
Simple Interest	Blood Relation	Fill in the Blanks	Mistakes	Indian and International Economy	Networking
Time and Work	Series Test	Idioms and Phrases	-	Banking Terms	MS Office
Averages	Ranking and Time	Comprehension	-	RBI	Database
Partnership	Direction Sense Test	Commonly Misspelled Words	-	Books and Authors	History and Future of Computers
Ratio and Proportion	Decision Making	Phrase Substitution	-	Fiscal Monetary Policies	Computer Fundamentals
Case Studies	Figure Series	Jumbled up sentences	-	Repo and Reverse Repo Rate	Software and Hardware Fundamentals
Permutation and Combination	Statement and Conclusion	Cloze Tests	-	Social Function of Banks	Networking
HCF and LCM	Statement and Arguments	One word Substitution	-	UNO	MS Office
Profit and Loss	Figure Series Test	Sentence Improvement	-	Marketing	Database
Compound Interest	Analogy	-	-	Awards and Honors	-
Time and Distance	Coding-Decoding	-	-	Sports	-
Simplification	Alphabet Test	-	-	Finance	-
Percentages	Number	-	-	Agriculture	–
Averages	Causes and Effects	-	-	History of Banking	–
Data interpretation	Sitting Arrangements	–	–	–	–
Probability	Statement and Assumption	–	–	–	–
Number Series	Assertion and Reason	–	–	–	–
-	Word Formation	–	–	–	–
-	Statements and Action Courses	–	–	–	–

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