IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims Important Topics: The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) will be conducting the IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims exam on 18th and 19th December 2021. Earlier, the IBPS had successfully conducted the IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims on 12th December 2021. The IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims Admit Cards were released on 26th November 2021 on the official website of IBPS. The IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims includes three sections Numerical Ability, English Language, and Reasoning Ability. The medium of exam for questions of Reasoning Ability and Numerical Ability in the IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims will be according to the State applied for. In this article, we have shared the IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims section-wise important topics, weightage, and exam pattern. The IBPS Clerk 2021 exam will be held in two phases - Online Preliminary and Online Mains. The IBPS Clerk 2021 Mains exams will be held in January 2022/February 2022 (Tentative) for the recruitment of 7,858 vacancies of clerks in Public Sector Banks. Candidates who have applied for the IBPS Clerk Recruitment 2021 need to appear for the IBPS Clerk Prelims and Mains Exams to get shortlisted for the Provisional Allotment.
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IBPS Clerk 2021: Important Dates
| Event |
Date |
| Release of IBPS Clerk Notification |
October 6, 2021 |
| Start of Online Application Process |
October 7, 2021 |
| Last Date to Apply Online & Pay Fees |
October 27, 2021 |
| Prelims Admit Card Release Date |
November 26, 2021 |
| IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Date |
December 12, 2021 December 18, 2021 December 19, 2021 |
| Prelims Result |
December 2021/January 2022 (Tentative) |
| Mains Admit Card Release and Download Date |
December 2021/January 2022 (Tentative) |
| Mains Exam Date |
January 2022/February 2022 (Tentative) |
| IBPS Clerk Provisional Allotment |
April 2022 (Tentative) |
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IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims Important Topics (Section-wise)
| English Language | Weightage (Tentative) |
| Reading Comprehension | 10 -15 questions |
| Cloze Test | 5 - 10 questions |
| Error Detection | 3 - 5 questions |
| Spell Correction/Phrase Replacement | 3 - 5 questions |
| Fill in the Blanks | 3 -5 questions |
| Vocabulary | 3 - 5 questions |
| Reasoning Ability | Weightage (Tentative) |
| Puzzles/ Seating Arrangement (Linear, Circular, Square, comparison-based, scheduling-based puzzles, etc) | 10 -15 questions |
| Blood Relations | 3 - 5 questions |
| Direction Sense | 3 - 5 questions |
| Alphanumeric/Number Series | 3 - 5 questions |
| Coding-Decoding | 3 - 5 questions |
| Inequalities | 3 - 5 questions |
| Syllogism | 3 - 5 questions |
| Numerical Ability | Weightage (Tentative) |
| Arithmetic Questions (Time & Work, Probability, Mensuration, Time, Speed & Distance, Boats & Streams, Mixture & Alligations, Pipes & Cisterns, Simple & Compound Interest, Profit & Loss, Age-based problems, Averages, Ratio & Proportion) | 10 -12 questions |
| Simplification/Approximation | 10 - 15 questions |
| Data Interpretation (Tabular, Bar Graph, Pie Graph, Line Graph, Caselet) | 5 - 10 questions |
| Data Sufficiency | 3 -5 questions |
| Number Series | 3 - 5 questions |
| Quadratic Equation | 3 -5 questions |
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IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims Exam Pattern
| Subject |
Total Questions |
Marks |
Duration |
Medium of Exam |
| English Language |
30 |
30 |
20 minutes |
English |
| Numerical Ability |
35 |
35 |
20 minutes |
As per State applied for |
| Reasoning Ability |
35 |
35 |
20 minutes |
As per State applied for |
| Total |
100 Questions |
100 Marks |
1 Hour |
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NOTE
(i) The IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims Exam will be conducted in an online mode across exam centers as notified by IBPS.
(ii) Candidates will be asked Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) from three sections: English Language, Reasoning Ability, and Numerical Ability.
(iii) Each section has a sectional timing of 20 minutes. The medium of exam for questions of Reasoning Ability and Numerical Ability will be according to the State applied for.
(iv) Candidates need to obtain minimum cut-off marks in each three sections of the IBPS Clerk 2021 Prelims exams to qualify for Mains.
(v) For each wrong answer, there will be a negative marking of 1/4th or 0.25 marks. However, in case a question is left blank or not answered, there will be no negative marking for it.
