IBPS RRB Cut–off 2018 (Expected)

IBPS RRB cut-off 2018: Wondering what might be the official IBPS RRB cut-off 2018 for PO and Clerk? Official IBPS RRB cut-off 2018 (for Office Assistant & Officer Scale I, II & III posts) will be declared after the IBPS RRB 2018 result will be announced. However, in this article, we will give a basic idea about expected IBPS RRB cut-off 2018 after the analyzing previous year IBPS RRB cut-off.

Cut-off of any competitive exam or recruitment exam (like IBPS RRB, IBPS RRB PO, IBPS RRB Clerk, SBI PO etc) depends on three main factors:

1. The difficulty level of questions

2. Number of vacancies and region

3. Number of candidates appeared for the exam

Let’s understand how these factors will influence IBPS RRB Cut-off 2018 one by one.

The number of vacancies has decreased (as compared to last year).  Last year, there were about 15,000 vacancies [8000+ vacancies for Office Assistants (multipurpose) posts, 5000+ vacancies for Scale 1 Officers posts, and rest for other posts].

But, this year there are about 10,000 vacancies [5000+ vacancies for Office Assistant (Multipurpose), 3000+ vacancies for Officer Scale I, and rest for other posts].

So, a decrease in the number of seats is observed this year (on an average, more than 30%). Numbers of candidates are continuously increasing year after year and one can assume 5% to 10% increase in the number of applications, this year.

Considering all the above three factors:

(as compared to previous year IBPS RRB cut-off).

Let’s understand what will be expected IBPS RRB Cut-off 2018 with the help of an example:

Suppose, last year, sectional cut-off for IBPS RRB prelims for office assistant post was 10.75 marks for Quantitative Aptitude section and 12.75 for Reasoning Ability section.

Then, expected section-wise cut-off for IBPS RRB prelims 2018 office assistant post will be

Similarly, overall cut-off for IBPS RRB office assistant post (for UP state) may vary from 62.42 to 68.10 marks. In the same way, we can easily calculate expected cut-off for IBPS RRB PO 2018 cut-off (Just increase 10% to 20% marks in the last year’s cut-off).

For your convenience, we have also provided previous year’s IBPS RRB Cut-off.

IBPS RRB 2018: Complete Details

Previous year IBPS RRB cut-off:

Here, we have provided previous year cut-off for IBPS RRB Clerk 2017 (office assistant) and IBPS RRB PO 2017 (officer scale 1) is given below:

IBPS RRB Cut-off 2017: Office Assistant (Prelims)

IBPS RRB Prelims Cut off 2017 for Office Assistant posts

The sectional cut off for all states:

• Quantitative Aptitude - 10.75

• Reasoning - 12.75

Overall IBPS RRB 2017 Clerk (Prelims) State-wise cut off is given below

IBPS RRB Cut-off 2017: Office Assistant (Final)

Overall cut-off for IBPS RRB 2017 Clerk is given below

IBPS RRB 2017: Officer Scale I (Prelims)

IBPS RRB PO 2017 prelims cut-off is given below -

For general category:

Reasoning – 16.00 (out of 40)

Quantitative aptitude – 14.25 (out of 40)

IBPS RRB 2017: Officer Scale I (Main Exam + Interview)

Final cut-off for IBPS RRB PO 2017 (Main Exam and Interview): Out of 100 marks

IBPS RRB 2018 Syllabus and Exam Pattern: Prelims & Mains

With the help of data given above we can easily calculate section-wise and state-wise expected cut-off for IBPS RRB 2018 exam (Clerk and PO).