IBPS Specialist Officers Exam Pattern Details: Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)

conducts Online Common Written Examination (CWE) for the recruitment of Specialist Officers in various
cadres like IT, Agriculture, Legal, Marketing, HR and Rashtrabhasha Adhikari etc in various Public Sector
Banks. The Common Written Examination (CWE) for Specialist officers and Common interview will be
conducted, once a year by Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. The following are the Exam Pattern
Details

Exam Pattern: The structure of the Written Examination will be conducted in Online Mode as follows

1. All the Tests will be in Objective Type & is printed in Bilingual Format, except for English Paper.

2. The Specialist Officers Common Written Examination consists of 200 Objective Type Questions, each
question carries one mark totally 200 marks and the time duration is 120 minutes.

3. Structure of Examination for Law Officer- Scale I & Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale I:

S. No. Name of the Tests

1 Reasoning
2 English Language
3 General Awareness with special r
4 Professional Knowledge
Total

4. Structure of Examination for I.T Officer (Scale I), Agriculture Field Officer (Scale I), HR/Personnel
Officer (Scale I) & Marketing Officer (Scale I):

S. No. Name of the Tests

1 Reasoning
2 English Language
3 Quantitative Aptitude
4 Professional Knowledge
Total

5. Negative Marking: There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each
question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks
assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score. If a question is left
blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

6. Cutoff Score: Each candidate will have to secure a minimum score in each test and also on total to be
considered to be called 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.

7. Scores: The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be
normalized using equipercentile method.
Age limit (As on 01-11-2014):
A candidate must have been born not earlier than 02-11-1984 and not later than 01-11-1994 (both dates
inclusive).

S. No Post Name Age Limit

Minimum Maximum
1 I.T. Officer (Scale I) 20 Years 30 Years
2 Agricultural Field Officer (Scale I) 20 Years 30 Years
3 Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I) 20 Years 30 Years
4 Law Officer (Scale-I) 20 Years 30 Years
5 HR/Personnel Officer (Scale I) 20 Years 30 Years
6 Marketing Officer (Scale I) 20 Years 30 Years

Relaxation of Upper Age Limit:

S.No Category Age Relaxation

1 Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe 5 Years
2 Other Backward Classes 3 Years
3 Persons With Disability 10 Years
4 Ex-Servicemen, Commissioned Officers including 5 Years
Emergency Commissioned Officers (ECOs)/ Short
Service Commissioned Officers (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 one
year from the last date of receipt of application)
otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on
account of misconduct or inefficiency or physical
disability attributable to military service or invalidment.
5 Persons ordinarily domiciled in the Kashmir Division of 5 Years
the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period 1-1-80
to 31-12-89
6 Persons affected by 1984 riots 5 Years

Educational Qualification:

Si.No Post Name Educational Qualification

1 I.T. Officer a) 4 year Engineering Degree in Computer
(Scale-I) Science/ Computer Applications/ Information
Technology/ Electronics/ Electronics &
Telecommunications/ Electronics &
Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation
OR
b) Post Graduate Engineering Degree in
Electronics/ Electronics & Tele
Communication/ Electronics &
Communication/ Electronics &
Instrumentation/ Computer Science/
Information Technology/ Computer
Applications
 OR
Graduate having passed DOEACC B level
4 year Degree (graduation) in Agriculture/
Horticulture/Animal Husbandry/ Veterinary
Agricultural
Science/ Dairy Science/ Agri. Engineering/
2 Field Officer
Fishery Science/ Pisciculture/ Agri Marketing
(Scale I)
& Cooperation/ Co-operation & Banking/
Agro-Forestry.
Post Graduate Degree in Hindi with English as
a subject at the degree (graduation) level
Rajbhasha
OR
3 Adhikari
Post graduate degree in Sanskrit with English
(Scale I)
and Hindi as subjects at the degree (graduation)
level.
Law Officer A Bachelor Degree in Law (LLB) and enrolled
4
(Scale I) as an advocate with Bar Council.
Graduate and Full time Post Graduate degree
HR/Personnel
or Full time Post Graduate diploma
5 Officer
in Personnel Management/ Industrial
(Scale I)
Relations/ HR/ Social Work/ Labour Law.
Graduate and Full time MBA
Marketing
(Marketing)/ Full time 2 years
6 Officer
PGDBA/ PGDBM with specialization in
(Scale I)
Marketing.

For posts other than IT Officer Scale I candidates should have Certificate/ Diploma/ Degree in
computer operations/ Language/ should have studied Computer / Information Technology as one of the
subjects in the High School/College/Institute.