IBPS SO 2018 Overview

ExamType	Format	Language
National Level	Online/CBT, Offline/PBT	English

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, Specialist Officer (IBPS SO) is a national level examination for recruitment of Specialist Officers (SO) in various public sector banks in India. It is conducted by IBPS every year. Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is the autonomous body that conducts IBPS SO exam every year. The body conducts this exam every year at the behest of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Public Sector Banks. The major objective of the exam is to hire deserving and talented human resource via personal assessment. Candidates applying for IBPS SO 2018 exam need to take Preliminary and Main common written exams (CWE) followed by the personal interview. Candidates who clear both the preliminary and main exam will only qualify for the final round that is Interview by a selection panel.

IBPS SO is conducted online in two different examination pattern – examination pattern I for Law Officer Scale I/ RajbhashaAdhikariScale I and examination pattern II for IT Officer Scale I/Agricultural Field Officer Scale I/ HR or Personnel Officer Scale I/ Marketing Officer Scale I. 

IBPS SO Participating Banks

Various public sector banks looking for officers intimate their requirements to IBPS and participate in the complete recruitment process. Participating banks in IBPS SO 2018 include:

Allahabad Bank	Indian Bank
Andhra Bank	Oriental Bank of Commerce
Bank of India	Punjab & Sind Bank
Bank of Maharashtra	Punjab National Bank
Bank of Baroda	Syndicate Bank
Central Bank of India	Union Bank of India
Corporation Bank	UCO Bank
Canara Bank	United Bank of India
Dena Bank	Vijaya Bank
Indian Overseas Bank

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IBPS SO 2018 Eligibility Criteria

IBPS has set criteria for every post it conducts exam for. Be it PO, Clerk or SO, candidates need to meet some conditions like age, qualification, and experience to apply for the exam. Aspirants planning to apply for IBPS SO 2018 must check eligibility criteria and proceed further only when they meet every requirement.

Nationality:

·         A citizen of India

·         A subject of Nepal, Bhutan or a Tibetan Refugee, who came to India before January 1, 1962 with the objective to settle here

·         Migrants of East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam

Age Limit:

Candidates who want to apply for IBPS SO 2018 should be between 21 to 30 years of age. Candidates before November 2, 1987 and after November 1, 1997 do not qualify for the exam.

Educational Qualifications:

Posts (Scale I)	Eligibility Criteria
IT Officer	Engineering graduate or a Post-Graduate in Computer Science/ Computer Applications/ Information Technology/ Electronics/ Electronics & Telecommunication/ Electronics & Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation from any university, institution or board recognised by Govt. of India. Graduate candidates who have passed DOEACC ‘B’ level can also apply.
Agricultural Field Officer	Graduate in Agriculture/ Horticulture/ Animal Husbandry/ Veterinary Science/ Dairy Science/ Agri. Engineering/ Fishery Science/ Pisciculture/ Agri Marketing & Cooperation/ Cooperation & Banking/ Agro-Forestry
RajbhashaAdhikari	Post-Graduate degree in Hindi with English as one of the subjects at graduation level OR Post-Graduate degree in Sanskrit with English and Hindi as subjects at graduation level.
Law Officer	BA LLB degree Listed advocate with the Bar Council.
HR/ Personnel Officer	Graduate with a full-time Post-Graduate degree or full-time Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management/ Industrial Relations/ Human Resource/ Human Resource Development/ Social Work/ Labour Law
Marketing Officer	Graduate with a full-time MMS (Marketing)/ MBA (Marketing)/ PGDBA/ PGDBM with specialisation in Marketing

 

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IBPS SO 2018 Application Details

IBPS SO 2018 application forms will be released online in October 2020. Aspirants willing to join public sector banks at the post of Specialist Officer will be able to fill the online application forms after official notification of the same. As there is no option of submitting the application form in offline mode, candidates should go through the form filling process guidelines carefully.

Candidates interested in applying for the post of Specialist Officer in participating public sector banks should register themselves online for the Common Recruitment Process (CRP) conducted by IBPS on its official website. Applicants must fill in the application form by entering the required information and uploading scanned photograph and signature. 

The application procedure will be completed with the payment of application fee. All candidates are advised to fill-in the application form before the last date.

IBPS SO 2018 Tentative Schedule

Though official IBPS SO 2018 schedule hasn’t been released yet, tentative dates have been given. Candidates planning to apply for IBPS SO 2018 exam can check important dates in the table below:

Events	Exam Dates
Online Registration Start Date	October, 2020
IBPS SO Online Registration Last date	November, 2020
Prelims Hall Ticket	First week of December 2020
Preliminary Exam Date	December 30 and 31 2020
Prelims Result Declaration	January 2018
Mains Exam Admit Card	January 2018
Mains Exam Date	January 28, 2018
Mains Result Declaration	February 2018
Call letters for IBPS SO Interview	Last week of February 2018
Interview Dates	March 2018
IBPS SO Declaration of Final Result/ Provisional Allotment	April 2018

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Application fees detail

Category	Application Fee (INR)
SC/ ST/ PWD	100
Other categories	600

 

Exam Pattern

IBPS SO Exam Pattern

IBPS SO 2018 Counselling/Interview

Based on the CWE score, candidates will be shortlisted and called for an interview by the participating organisation in coordination with nodal banks and IBPS. The candidates will have to download the call letter from the official website of IBPS that will contain information regarding the centre, venue, date and time of interview.

The shortlisted candidates should carry the following original documents and their self-attested copies at the time of the interview. Without these documents, the candidates will not be allowed to appear for the interview.

1. Printout of Call letter
2. Printout of online Application form
3. Age proof - Birth Certificate/ Class 10th certificate
4. Photo Identity Proof
5. Marksheets and Educational certificates
6. Caste Certificate for SC/ST/OBC category
7. Disability Certificate
8. Discharge Certificate/ Pension Payment Order and documentary proof of the last rank held
9. No Objection Certificate for Government officials by their last employer
10.  Domicile Certificate
11. Non-Indian citizens to produce Eligibility Certificate issued by Govt. of India

Candidates who have cleared the interview will be provisionally allotted to one of the participating organisations based on their merit and preference. 

IBPS SO Cut-off Top Management Colleges

Based on the CWE score, candidates will be shortlisted and called for an interview by the participating organisation in coordination with nodal banks and IBPS. The candidates will have to download the call letter from the official website of IBPS that will contain information regarding the centre, venue, date and time of interview.

The shortlisted candidates should carry the following original documents and their self-attested copies at the time of the interview. Without these documents, the candidates will not be allowed to appear for the interview.

1. Printout of Call letter
2. Printout of online Application form
3. Age proof - Birth Certificate/ Class 10th certificate
4. Photo Identity Proof
5. Marksheets and Educational certificates
6. Caste Certificate for SC/ST/OBC category
7. Disability Certificate
8. Discharge Certificate/ Pension Payment Order and documentary proof of the last rank held
9. No Objection Certificate for Government officials by their last employer
10.  Domicile Certificate
11. Non-Indian citizens to produce Eligibility Certificate issued by Govt. of India

Candidates who have cleared the interview will be provisionally allotted to one of the participating organisations based on their merit and preference. 

IBPS SO 2018 Exam Syllabus

IBPS SO 2018 syllabus will evaluate candidates on various sections including English, reasoning, general awareness, computer and quantitative aptitude. To ensure that you perform well in the exam, you should pay equal attention to every section and the topics covered under them. As IBPS SO is a subject based exam, candidates are expected to have an exhaustive knowledge of their subjects which is possible only when they are aware of the syllabus.

Apart from the normal topics from Reasoning, English, General Awareness and Quantitative Aptitude, candidates also need to have some professional knowledge.

IT Officer Scale I: Those who want to apply for IBPS Specialist Officer Exam need to prepare some topics from technical. The topics include:

·         Web technologies

·         Programming languages

·         DBMS, RDBMS, Normalization, SQL Server

·         Data communication and networking

·         Operating system: Process, thread, types of OS, dead lock, page replacement etc.

·         Data structures

·         Software development life cycle

Law Officer Scale I: Professional knowledge of the candidates applying for this post covers the topics:

·         Law and acts with direct and indirect implication of the banking sector

·         RBI constitution

·         RBI acts

·         Partnership, companies, firm

·         Limitation act

·         Consumer protection act

·         RTI Act

·         Offences & Penalties, SARFAESI

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IBPS SO 2018 Exam Centers

Both IBPS SO prelim and main exam will be conducted at various examination centres decided across the country. Candidates will get the list of exam centres with the official IBPS SO 2018 notification. After checking the location and codes of the examination centres, candidates can indicate their preference of the center while filling IBPS SO 2018 application form. However, the final decision to allot an examination centre to the candidates will be of IBPS. If the centre opted by candidates gets filled or gets cancelled due to unavailability, the different centre will be allotted to them. Candidates can appear for the exam in the examination centre allotted to them. If they go to any other centre, they will not be given entry in the examination hall.  

State Code	State/UT/NCR	Centre
11	Andaman & Nicobar	Port Flair
12	Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad Tirupati Vijaywada Vishakhapatnam
13	Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar
14	Assam	Guwahati
15	Bihar	Bhagalpur Darbhanga Muzzafarpur Patna Purnea
16	Chandigarh	Chandigarh
17	Chhattisgarh	Bhilai Bilaspur Raipur
18	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	Surat Jamnagar
19	Daman & Diu
20	Delhi	Bahadurgarh Delhi Faridabad Ghaziabad Greater Noida Gurgaon
21	Goa	Panaji
22	Gujarat	Ahmedabad Gandhinagar Vadodara
23	Haryana	Ambala Panchkula
24	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla
25	Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu Srinagar
26	Jharkhand	Bokaro Dhanbad Jamshedpur Ranchi
27	Karnataka	Bengaluru Dharwad Hubli Mangalore
28	Kerala	Kochi Kozhikode Thiruvananthpuram
29	Lakshwadeep	Kavarrati
30	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal Gwalior Indore Jabalpur
31	Maharashtra	Aurangabad Greater Mumbai/Thane/Navi Mumbai Nagpur Nanded Pune
32	Manipur	Imphal
33	Meghalaya	Shillong
34	Mizoram	Aizwal
35	Nagaland	Kohima
36	Odisha	Berhampur (Ganjam) Bhubaneshwar Sambalpur
37	Puducherry	Puducherry
38	Punjab	Amritsar Ludhiana Mohali Patiala
39	Rajasthan	Ajmer Bikaner Jaipur Jodhpur Udaipur
40	Sikkim	Gangtok
41	Tamil Nadu	Chennai Coimbatore Madurai Thiruchirapalli Tirunelvelli
42	Telangana	Hyderabad
43	Tripura	Agartala
44	Uttar Pradesh	Agra Allahabad Gorakhpur Kanpur Lucknow Meerut Varanasi
45	Uttarakhand	Dehradun Roorkee
46	West Bengal	Bardhaman Berhampur Durgapur Greater Kolkata Siliguri

 

IBPS SO 2018 Contact Details

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection

IBPS House,
90 feet, D.P. Road,
Off. Western Express Highway,
P.B. No. 8587, Kandivali (E),
Mumbai – 400101 (India)

E-mail – ibpsp@ibps.in

Toll-free helpline – 1800 222 366
1800 103 4566 (9:30am to 6pm)

Fax – 91-22-2854 2076