IBPS Specialist Officer (SO) Prelims Exam 2019: Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) will be conducting the IBPS SO Prelims 2019 on 28-29 December 2019 in four shifts. The IBPS aims to fill over 1100 vacancies of Specialist Officers in the banks through IBPS SO Recruitment 2019-20. Lakhs of candidates would give the IBPS SO Prelims exam to fetch a bank job. With this high competition and less number of vacancies, it is advisable that candidates should go through the given IBPS SO last-minute tips and strategies. These last-minute preparation tips will help candidates score high in the exam.
The last days and hours are very crucial for the candidates. Invest this time productively so that you can score high in the online preliminary examination. The IBPS SO Prelims question paper will be set differently for different posts such as IT officer, Agriculture Field Officer, Law Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, Marketing Officer and Rajbahsha Adhikari. A total of 150 multiple choice questions will be asked in all these posts. The total marks allotted to these 150 questions are 125. Candidates will get sectional timing of 40 minutes to attempt each section.
IBPS SO Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari exam will contain questions from English Language, Reasoning and General/Banking Awareness. On the other hand, IBPS SO Prelims exam for Agriculture Field Officer, IT Officer, Marketing Officer and HR/Personnel Officer will ask questions from English Language, Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude. Go through the given last-minute tips for the IBPS SO Prelims Exam 2019 and revise for the exam accordingly:
IBPS SO Prelims Last-minute tips
Know IBPS SO Exam Pattern
Exam Pattern for Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari
| Sections |
No. of MCQs |
Marks |
Duration |
| English Language |
50 |
25 |
40 minutes |
| Reasoning |
50 |
50 |
40 minutes |
| General/ Banking Awareness |
50 |
50 |
40 minutes |
| Total |
150 |
125 |
2 Hours |
Exam Pattern for IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer
| Section |
No. of MCQs |
Marks |
Duration |
| English Language |
50 |
25 |
40 minutes |
| Reasoning |
50 |
50 |
40 minutes |
| Quantitative Aptitude |
50 |
50 |
40 minutes |
| Total |
150 |
125 |
2 Hours |
Revise IBPS SO Important Topics
| English Language |
Reasoning |
Quantitative Aptitude |
| Reading Comprehension Cloze Test Double Fillers Sentence rearrangement Sentence Improvement Spotting Errors Phrase Replacement |
Puzzles Coding-decoding Series Blood Relation Syllogism Inequality Input-Output Order Ranking Direction and Sense
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Data Interpretation Number system Approximation HCF and LCM Age Problems Quadratic Equations Profit, Loss and Discount Percentage Ratio and proportion Average Mixture and Allegations Time and work Pipe and Cistern Speed, Distance and time Simple and compound interest Permutation and Combination Mensuration |
Important topics of General Awareness - Current Affairs, Important Days, Important Places, Books & authors, Awards, Prime Ministers Schemes, Banking Awareness topics, Countries, capitals and currencies, Headquarters of Organizations, Banking in India, Banking terms & headquarters, Economic terminologies
Practice IBPS SO Previous Years’ Papers
IBPS SO Previous year papers are perfect to enhance your preparations for the prelims and mains examinations. The IBPS SO Prelims Question Paper is different for IT officer, Agriculture Field Officer, Law Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, Marketing Officer and Rajbahsha Adhikari posts. Practice IBPS SO previous year question papers of the past years 2018, 2017, and 2016 and brush up your preparation level now.
Carry IBPS SO Admit Card & Important Documents
Do not forget to carry your IBPS SO Admit Card 2019 to the exam centre on 28 December 2019. Candidates will not be allowed to appear for the IBPS SO Prelims 2019 exam if they forget to carry their call letters. The things that should carry to the exam centre are Admit Card, Photo ID Proof and photocopy of ID Proof. Pen and paper for rough work will be available at the exam centre.