You would all know by now that the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is going to conduct the 1st ever Common Written Exam (CWE) for 19 Public Sector Banks.(Read about Important Dates, Eligibility Criteria etc here). The banks that will be accepting the CWE score card are:

1. Allahabad Bank
2. Andhra Bank
3. Bank of Baroda
4. Bank of India
5. Bank of Maharashtra
6. Canara Bank
7. Central Bank of India
8. Corporation Bank
9. Dena Bank
10. Indian Bank
11. Indian Overseas Bank
12. Oriental Bank of Commerce
13. Punjab National Bank
14. Punjab & Sind Bank
15. Syndicate Bank
16. Union Bank of India
17. United Bank of India
18. UCO Bank
19. Vijaya Bank

Exam Pattern

S.No	Name of Test	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1.	Reasoning	50	50	Total 150 mins
2.	English Language	50	25
3.	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50
4.	General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry)	50	50
5.	Computer Knowledge	50	50
	Descriptive Paper on English Composition (Essay, Precis, Letter Writing)		25	60 mins
	Total	250	250	3 hrs 30 mins

Except for the test on “English Language” and the “Descriptive paper on English Composition”, the exam would be printed both in English and Hindi.

Your descriptive paper will be checked only if you secure minimum qualifying marks in each of the objective tests ( i.e. Reasoning, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness, Computer Knowledge)


More Details about the Exam:

Negative marking for Wrong Answers
There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Test. For eachquestion 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 correctedscore. If the total of the penalty for a test is in fraction, the marks obtained will berounded off to the nearest integer, i.e. if fraction exceeds by 0.50 or more, it will berounded off to next higher integer. If for any question a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as wrong even if one of the given answers happens to be rightand there will be the same penalty of 0.25 of the marks assigned to that questiondeducted as penalty. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is given by the candidate,there will be no penalty for that  question.

Standardised Scores


The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates will further be converted intostandardized scores following Linear Conversion Method.


Cutoff Score


Each candidate will have to secure a minimum standardized score in each of the tests toqualify in the written examination and to be considered for vacancies in the participatingbanks. The cut-off points will be decided based on the average (Average – ¼ StandardDeviation for General category candidates and Average – ¾ Standard Deviation forReserved Category candidates).


CWE Score Card


IBPS will print the Score Cards for each of the qualifying candidates and will send thesame by Registered/ Speed post to each candidate at the correspondence addressspecified in his/ her online application.


Validity of CWE Score Card


Score Cards issued by IBPS will be valid for one year from the date of issue of the ScoreCard.Candidates can appear in subsequent examination(s) to enhance their scores if they sodesire.


Training for the Exam


If you belong to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes/Minority Communities, then at some centres, pre-examination training is being imparted. All eligible candidates who wish to avail of Pre-Examination Training should have filled in the relevant column in the ON-LINE APPLICATION. All expenses regarding traveling, boarding, lodging etc. will have to be borne by the candidate for attending the pre-examination training programme at the designated Centers. IBPS, however, reserves the right to cancel any of the Pre- Examination Training Centres and/ or add some other Centres, depending upon the response, administrative feasibility etc.


Nishatha Abraham 

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