Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts Common Written Examination (CWE PO/MT) for the recruitment of Probationary Officer vacancies in Public Sector Banks which will be conducted online.

All the tests except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi.

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 are 100 and duration is 1 hour & total marks on Main exam are 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 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:

Preliminary Examination

Name of Tests No. of Qs Maximum Marks Duration
English Language 30 30 1 Hour
Quantitative Aptitude 35 35
Reasoning Ability 35 35
Total 100 100

Main Examination

Name of Tests No. of Qs Maximum Marks Duration
Reasoning 50 50 2 Hours
English Language 40 40
Quantitative Aptitude 50 50
General Awareness 40 40
Computer Knowledge 20 20
Total 200 200