IBPS PO/MT Exam Pattern Details: Institute
of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is conducting Common Written
Examination (CWE PO/MT) for the recruitment of Probationary Officer/
Management Trainee vacancies in Public Sector Banks which will be
conducted online. IBPS Common written examination pattern details are
given below…
Exam Pattern:
Examination will be conducted in two tier i.e. the online examination
will be held in two phases, preliminary and main which consists of
objective type questions. Total marks of the Preliminary exam is 100 and
duration is 1 hour & total marks on Main exam is 200 marks and
duration is 2 hours. There will be Negative Marking of 0.25 marks for
each wrong answer. If a question is left blank, there will be no
negative marking for that question. All the tests except the Test of
English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi.
The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different
sessions (if held) will be normalized using equi-percentile method.
Scores up to two decimal points shall be taken for the purpose of
calculations.
CWE Online-Examinations:
1. The structure of the Examinations which will be conducted online are as follows:
a. Preliminary Examination
| Sl No | Name of Tests | No. of Qs | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 30 | 30 | Composite Time of 1 Hour |
| 2 | Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 | |
| 3 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
b. Main Examination
| Sl No | Name of Tests | No. of Qs | Maximum 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 | 3 hours | |
| 5 | English Language (Letter Writing & Essay) |
2 | 25 | 30 minutes |
Cutoff Score:
Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in each test
and also a minimum total score to be considered to be shortlisted for
interview. Depending on the number of vacancies available, cutoffs will
be decided and candidates will be shortlisted for interview. Prior to
the completion of the interview process, scores obtained in the online
examination will not be shared with the candidates shortlisted for
interview.