IBPS Clerk Exam Syllabus

December 13, 2012 Bank Examination

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) will conduct Common Written Examination or CWE for Clerical Cadre in December 2012. The system of Common Written Examination has been approved by each of the 19 participating Public Sector Banks and the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) with the consent of Government of India.

The Syllabus for the Clerical Cadre exam is as mentioned below:

Sr. No.	Name of Tests (Objective)	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning	40	40	2 Hours
2	English Language	40	40
3	Numerical Ability	40	40
4	General Awareness (with special reference to banking industry)	40	40
5	Computer Knowledge	40	40
	Total	200	200

The above tests except the Test of English Language will be printed bilingually, ie English and Hindi.

Penalty for Wrong Answers: 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.