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IBPS Specialist Officer XI Recruitment 2021 – Apply Online for 1828 Posts
- Integrity Education, Delhi
- 03, Nov 2021
The online examination (Preliminary and Main) for the next Common Recruitment Process (CRP) for selection of personnel in Specialist Officers’ cadre posts listed below in the Participating Banks is tentatively scheduled in December 2021/ January 2022.
PARTICIPATING BANKS
| Bank of Baroda | Canara Bank | Indian Overseas Bank | UCO Bank |
| Bank of India | Central Bank of India | Punjab National Bank | Union Bank of India |
| Bank of Maharashtra | Indian Bank | Punjab & Sind Bank |
The tentative schedule of events is as follows:
- Starting Date for Apply Online, Edit, Modification of Application & Fee Payment: 03-11-2021
- Last Date to Apply Online Edit, Modification of Application & Fee Payment: 23-11-2021
- Last date for printing your Application: 23-11-2021
- Date of Downloading Call Letter for Online Preliminary Exam: December 2021
- Date of Online Preliminary Exam: 26-12-2021
- Date of Declaration of Result of Preliminary Exam: January 2022
- Date of Downloading Call letter for Online Main Exam: January 2022
- Date of Online Main Exam: 30-01-2022
- Date of Declaration of Result of Online Main Exam: February 2022
- Date of Download call letters for interview: February 2022
- Date of Interview: February/March 2022
- Date of Provisional Allotment: April 2022
Application Fee
- For All Others : Rs.850/- (inclusive of GST)
- For SC/ST/PwBD: 175/- (inclusive of GST)
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Nationality / Citizenship:
- A candidate must be either -
- (i) a Citizen of India or
- (ii) a subject of Nepal or
- (iii) a subject of Bhutan or
- (iv) a Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India or
- (v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India, provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) & (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
Age (As on 01.11.2021):
- Minimum: 20 years,
- Maximum: 30 years,
- A candidate must have been born not earlier than 02.11.1991 and not later than 01.11.2001 (both dates inclusive)
Education Qualification and Vacancy Details:
Total no. of Vacancies - 1828
| Sl No | Post Name | Vacancies | Qualification |
| 1 | I.T. Officer (Scale-I) | 220 | Degree (Engg)/ PG (Relevant Discipline)/ DOEACC |
| 2 | Agricultural Field Officer (Scale I) | 884 | Degree (Relevant Discipline) |
| 3 | Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I) | 84 | PG (Hindi/ Sanskrit with English) |
| 4 | Law Officer (Scale I) | 44 | LLB |
| 5 | HR/ Personnel Officer (Scale I) | 61 | Any Degree, PG Degree/ Diploma ( Personnel Management / Industrial Relations/ HR / HRD/ Social Work / Labour Law) |
| 6 | Marketing Officer (Scale I) | 535 | Any Degree with MMS/ MBA/ PGDBA/ PGDBM/ PGPM/ PGDM (Marketing) |
Relaxation of Upper age limit
| Sr. No | Category | Age relaxation |
| 1 | Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe | 5 years |
| 2 | Other Backward Classes (Non- creamy layer) | 3 years |
| 3 | Persons With Benchmark Disability as defined under “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”. | 10 years |
| 4 | Ex-Servicemen, Commissioned Officers including 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, subject to ceiling as per Government guidelines | 5 years |
| 5 | Persons affected by 1984 riots | 5 years |
CRP – ONLINE EXAMINATIONS
The structure of the Examinations which will be conducted online are as follows:
- Preliminary Examination - For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari
| Sr. No. | Name of Tests | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Time allotted for each test (Separately timed) |
| 1 | English Language | 50 | 25 | English | 40 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | English and Hindi | 40 minutes |
| 3 | General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry | 50 | 50 | English and Hindi | 40 minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
For the Post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer
| Sr. No. | Name of Tests | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 50 | 25 | English | 40 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | 40 minutes |
| 3 | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | 40 minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
- Main Examination - For the Post of Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer
| Sr. No. | Name of Tests | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Time allotted for each test (Separately timed) |
| 1 | Professional Knowledge | 60 | 60 | English & Hindi | 45 minutes |
For the Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari
| Sr. No. | Name of Tests | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Time allotted for each test (Separately timed) |
| 1 | Professional Knowledge (Objective) | 45 | 60 | English & Hindi | 30 minutes |
| 2 | Professional Knowledge (Descriptive) | 2 | 60 | English & Hindi | 30 minutes |
IBPS reserves the right to modify the structure of the examination which will be intimated through its website. Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the call letters from the authorised IBPS website www.ibps.in
- Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations) 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.
- Scores
- The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using equi-percentile method
- Scores up to two decimal points shall be taken for the purpose of calculations.
- CUTOFF SCORE (Online Main Examination): Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in the test of Online Main examination and also secure sufficiently high scores to be considered to be shortlisted for interview. Depending on the number of vacancies available, cut-offs will be decided and candidates will be shortlisted for interview. Prior to the completion of the interview process, scores obtained in the online Main examination will not be shared with the candidates shortlisted for interview.
MARKS OBTAINED IN THE ONLINE MAIN EXAMINATION ONLY WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR SHORTLISTING FOR INTERVIEW AND ALSO FOR FINAL MERIT LISTING
INTERVIEW
Candidates who have been shortlisted in the Online Main Examination for CRP SPL-XI will subsequently be called for an Interview to be conducted by the Participating Banks and coordinated by the Nodal Banks in each State/ UT. Interviews will be conducted at select centres.
The total marks allotted for Interview are 100. The minimum qualifying marks in interview will not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWBD candidates). The weightage (ratio) of Online Main Examination and interview will be 80:20 respectively.
A candidate should qualify both in the Online Main Examination and interview and be sufficiently high in the merit to be shortlisted for subsequent provisional allotment process, details of which will be made available subsequently on authorised IBPS website.