IBPS SO 2021 Job Profile, Salary, Vacancies: The IBPS SO 2021 Prelims will be held on 26th December 2021. The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) will be conducting the IBPS SO 2021 in two phases – Online Preliminary and Online Main exams. The IBPS SO 2021 Mains will be on 30th January 2022 to fill up 1,828 vacancies in Specialist Officers’ (SO) cadre posts (Scale-I) across 11 participating Public Sector Banks during the CRP SPL-XI Recruitment Drive. Only shortlisted candidates in the Mains exam will be called for the Interview phase. The IBPS SO 2021 Prelims Admit Card will be available for download till 26th December 2021. In this article, we share the IBPS SO 2021 Prelims Section-wise Important Topics and Weightage for English, Reasoning, Quantitative, and General Awareness.
IBPS SO 2021: Important Dates
| IBPS SO 2021 Recruitment Process |
Important Dates |
| Online Application Registration Date |
3rd November 2021 to 23rd November 2021 |
| Last Date for Online application |
23rd November 2021 |
| IBPS SO Prelims Admit Card Download |
10th December 2021 to 26th December 2021 |
| IBPS SO Prelims Exam Date |
26th December 2021 |
| IBPS SO Mains Exam Date |
30th January 2022 |
| IBPS SO Interview Date |
February 2022/ March 2022 (Tentative) |
IBPS SO 2021 Prelims Important Topics (Section-wise)
English Langauge
| Topics | Weightage (Tentative) |
| Reading Comprehension | 10 -15 questions |
| Cloze Test | 5 - 10 questions |
| Error Detection | 5 - 10 questions |
| Sentence Correction/Phrase Replacement | 5 - 10 questions |
| Para Jumbles | 3 -5 questions |
Reasoning Ability
| Topics | Weightage (Tentative) |
| Puzzles/ Seating Arrangement (Linear, Circular, Square, comparison-based, scheduling-based puzzles, etc) | 10 -15 questions |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 - 10 questions |
| Verbal Reasoning | 5 - 8 questions |
| Blood Relations | 3 - 5 questions |
| Distance & Direction Sense | 3 - 5 questions |
| Data Sufficiency | 3 - 5 questions |
| Inequalities | 3 - 5 questions |
| Syllogism | 3 - 5 questions |
Quantitative Aptitude
| Topics | Weightage (Tentative) |
| Data Interpretation (Tabular, Bar Graph, Pie Graph, Line Graph, Caselet) | 10 -15 questions |
| Arithmetic Questions (Percentage, Profit & Loss, Alligation, Time and Work, Time and Distance, Partnership. Ages, Ration & Proportion, Average, Number System, HCF-LCM, Permutation & Combination, Mensuration, and Probability, etc) | 10 - 12 questions |
| Simplification & Approximation | 3 - 5 questions |
| Data Sufficiency | 3 -5 questions |
| Number Series | 3 - 5 questions |
| Quadratic Equation | 3 -5 questions |
General Awareness
| Topics | Weightage (Tentative) |
| Banking & Financial Awareness | 15 - 20 questions |
| Current Affairs | 7 - 10 questions |
| General Knowledge (GK) | 5 - 10 questions |
| Economy | 3 -5 questions |
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IBPS SO 2021 Prelims Exam Pattern
The IBPS SO 2021 Prelims exam will be conducted in online mode (post-wise). The IBPS SO 2021 Prelims includes English Language, Reasoning Ability, General Awareness (special reference to banking industry), and Quantitative Aptitude. Each section will be allotted 40 minutes. There will be a total of 150 Objective Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). The medium of exam for Reasoning Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, and General Awareness (with Special Reference to Banking Industry) will be English & Hindi. The paper for the English Language will be conducted in English only.
NOTE: For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari, the sections in the IBPS SO 2021 Prelims will be English Language, Reasoning Ability, and General Awareness (special reference to banking industry). For the post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, Marketing Officer, and HR/Personnel Officer, the sections in the IBPS SO 2021 Prelims will be English Language, Reasoning Ability, and Quantitative Aptitude.
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For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari
| Section | No. of Questions |
Maximum Marks |
Medium of Exam | Duration |
| English Language | 50 | 25 | English | 40 Minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | 40 Minutes |
| General Awareness (with Special Reference to Banking Industry) |
50 | 50 | English & Hindi | 40 Minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
For the post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, and Marketing Officer
| Section | No. of Questions |
Maximum Marks |
Medium of Exam | Duration |
| English Language | 50 | 25 | English | 40 Minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | 40 Minutes |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | 40 Minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
IBPS SO 2021 Marking Scheme
NOTE: There is a sectional cut-off for each section. Candidates have to qualify each section in the IBPS SO 2021 Prelims by securing minimum cut-off marks that will be decided by IBPS. An adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main exams.
There will be a penalty for each wrong answer. 1/4th or 0.25 of the marks assigned to a question will be deducted to arrive at a final score. If a question is left blank, no marks will be deducted.
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