Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is responsible for conducing Common Written Examination (CWE) or IBPS clerk exam. The exam is conducted every year for the recruitment of clerical cadre jobs in public sector banks. Many aspirants from all over India appear for the exam. The IBPS clerk exam pattern and syllabus is as follows:

Exam Pattern

• The online common written examination is categorized into 5 sections.
1. Reasoning – 40 marks
2. English Language – 40 marks
3. Numerical Ability – 40 marks
4. General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry) - 40 marks
5. Computer Knowledge – 40 marks
• The total marks for the exam is 200 marks.
• It is a 2 hour online exam.
• All questions are objective type, which will appear on the computer screen along with 5 options. Candidates need to select one answer out of 5 options.
• As per the IBPS, the English Language test will be available bilingually that induces English and Hindi.

Note: There will be negative marking or a penalty for wrong answers. For every wrong answer, one fourth or 0.25 of marks will be deducted. If a question is left blank, then there will be no penalty for that question.

See also CBSE Sample Papers for Class 12

Syllabus

1. Reasoning section will cover various topics, including blood relation, puzzle (seating type or circular arrangement), coding- decoding, data sufficiency, syllogism, series and inequality.
2. The English language section will include topics like paragraph rearrangement, comprehension, cloze test, spotting errors and fill in the blanks.
3. Numerical ability section encompasses percentage, simple and compound interest, speed, distance, simplification, approximation, profit and loss, ratio and proportion and the series, D.I, time work, and inequality topics.
4. A general awareness section will cover topics related to banking awareness, including news related with RBI, current banking reforms and banking terms. Besides, this section will also include topics of current affairs like capital and currency, awards and honors, recent appointments in India and the world, recent committees, abbreviations, important books and author, sports events, person in news, etc.
5. Computer section will cover important topics such as internet, types of memory, operating system, parts of a computer input and output devices, application software like MS office, word, excel and power point and abbreviations.