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IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern & Syllabus

Updated on 24 Jul 2021 by Dinesh Lohiya

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IBPS Clerk Notification

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Exam Pattern

Prelims Exam Pattern
Mains Exam Pattern

Syllabus

Prelims Syllabus
Mains Syllabus

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IBPS released the notification for the IBPS Clerk exam on 11th July 2021. The IBPS Clerk 2021 notification released on the official website @ibps.in. The exam for IBPS Clerk will be held in online mode only.
Every year the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection holds the IBPS clerical cadre in multiple Public Sector Banks. IBPS started the Common Written Examination (CWE) in the year 2011 to recruit officers and clerks in Public Sector Banks. It accepts online applications through its official website for registration of the examination. It is held at various locations throughout India. The mode of examination will be online.

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IBPS Clerk 2021: Check here detailed Exam Pattern & Syllabus

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) will release the IBPS Clerk 2021 notification. Last Year, The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has released the IBPS Clerk 2020 notification PDF on 1st September 2020. A total of 2257 vacancies has been released to select candidates for the clerical cadre in multiple public sector banks across the country. IBPS Clerk Recruitment Notification 2021 (CRP Clerks-X) will release on the IBPS official website: ibps.in to recruit eligible candidates for the post of IBPS Clerk.

IBPS Clerk 2021 Exam Pattern

IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern is determined by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. The clerical recruitment exam is conducted in two phases – Preliminary exam and Mains exam. The exams are conducted in online mode and have multiple-choice questions.

IBPS Clerk 2021- Preliminary Examination

IBPS Clerk 2021 Preliminary exam will have a total of 100 multiple choice questions of 100 marks with a time duration of 1 hour. Sectional distribution of number of question, marks and sectional timing are described below:

Preliminary exam will have a total of 100 multiple choice questions of 100 marks with a time duration of 1 hour. Sectional distribution of number of question, marks and sectional timing are described below:

Sections	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Sectional Duration
English Language	30	30	20 minutes
Numerical Ability	35	35	20 minutes
Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 minutes
Total	100 Questions	100 Marks	60 minutes

IBPS Clerk 2021- Mains Examination

IBPS Clerk 2021 Main exam will contain 190 Multiple choice questions of 200 marks with time constraint of 160 minutes. The exam will have 4 sections with different weightage and duration as mentioned below:

Sections	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Sectional Duration
General / Financial Awareness	50	50	35 minutes
General English	40	40	35 minutes
Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude	50	60	45 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	45 minutes
Total	190 Questions	200 Marks	160 minutes

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Detailed IBPS Clerk Syllabus for Prelims 2021

IBPS Clerk Syllabus for Numerical Ability

Topic	Weightage	Difficulty level	Questions Asked
Simplification	10 Qs	Easy to Solve, Less Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible.	BODMAS Rule, Approximation, Decimals, Fractions, Surds & Indices, Percentages etc.
Number Series	5 Qs	Scoring, Moderate in Difficulty, Moderately Time Consuming	Complete the Series, Find the Missing Term, Find the Wrong Term etc
Data Interpretation	5-10 Qs	Easy to Moderate in Difficulty, Moderately Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible	Line Graphs, Bar Graphs, Pie Charts, Tables, Miscellaneous Infographics, Missing Data Type Caselets.
Average	1-2 Qs	Easy to Solve, Less Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible.	Average Weight/Height/Age/Marks, Average Money Expenditure, Average Temperature, etc.
Interest	1-2 Qs	Scoring, Easy if Formulas & Proper Steps Followed, Moderately Time Consuming.	Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Mixed Interest, Installments.
Mensuration	1-2 Qs	Easy to Moderate in Difficulty, Moderately Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible.	Area/Volume of Square, Rectangle, Trapezium, Parallelogram, Rhombus, Circle, Semicircle, Triangle, Cone, Cylinder, Cube, Cuboid. Also, Moulding from one shape to another etc.
Percentage	0-1 Q	Easy to Solve, Less Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible.	Calculation-oriented basic percentage.
Ratio& Proportion	0-1 Q	Easy to Solve, Less Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible.	Simple Ratios, Compound Ratios, Componendo and Dividendo, Direct & Indirect Proportions.
Algebra	2-5 Qs	Scoring, Easy if Concepts Clear and Steps Followed, Could be Tricky, Time Consuming.	Linear Equation with 1 Variable, Linear Equation with 2 or more variable, Quadratic Equation, Polynomials.
Profit & Loss	1-3 Qs	Scoring, Easy if Proper Steps Followed, Moderately Time Consuming.	Successive Selling type questions, Partnerships, Discount & MP, Dishonest Dealings.
Time, Speed & Distance	1-3 Qs	Moderate in Difficulty, Moderately Time Consuming	Relative Speed, Average Speed, Problems on Train, Boat & Stream.
Time & Work	1-2 Qs	Moderate in Difficulty, Moderately Time Consuming	Work Efficiency, Work & Wages, Pipes & Cisterns etc.
Permutation & Combination / Probability	0-1 Q	Less Time Consuming, Scoring, Easy if all cases considered.	Basic Selection & Arrangement Problems, Very basic problems on Probability.
Mixture Problems	0-1 Qs	Tricky, Time Consuming, Less likely to appear on the paper.	Problems on making a mixture of two or more entities/mixture.
Number System	0-1 Q	Could be tricky, Moderately time-Consuming	Divisibility & Remainder, Multiples & Factors, Integers, LCM & HCF.

IBPS Clerk Syllabus for Reasoning Ability

Topic	Weightage	Difficulty Level	Questions Asked
Arrangement & Pattern	10-12 Qs	Easy to Moderate in difficulty, Less time consuming, High Accuracy possible.	Random Sequence of Alphabets (based on a group of 5 terms each of 3 alphabets OR series of alphabets), Number Arrangements (based on a group of 5 terms each of 3 digits or series of numbers), Mixed Series Dictionary or Alphabet based Arrangements etc.
Mathematically Inequalities	5 Qs	Scoring, Easy if Steps Followed properly, Moderately time consuming, High Accuracy possible.	Coded relations between letters to be decoded and solved.
Coding-Decoding	3-5 Qs	Moderate in Difficulty, Moderate to Highly Time Consuming, Moderate Accuracy possible.	Coding by Letter Shifting, Coding by Analogy, Coding in Fictitious Language, Coding Letters of a Word
Directions & Distances	1-3 Qs	Easy but could be tricky, Less time consuming, High Accuracy possible, Requires clean charting with proper technique and step-by-step solving.	Route & Network-based.
Blood Relations	1-3 Qs	Moderate in difficulty, Low to Moderately time consuming, Moderate to High Accuracy possible, Requires clean charting with proper technique and step-by-step solving.	General Blood Relation Problem, Family Tree Problems, Coded Blood Relations.
Order & Ranking	1-3 Qs	Easy to Moderate in difficulty, Less time consuming, High Accuracy possible.	Persons sitting in a row, you have to find the position of a person from left or right or number of persons between them etc. Arranging people by age, height, weight, rank etc.
Circular Seating Arrangement	0-5 Q	Moderate to Difficult, Moderate to Highly Time Consuming, Moderate to High Accuracy possible, Requires clean charting with proper technique and step-by-step solving.	Uni- & Bi-directional problems on circular, square, rectangular, hexagonal tables. Mostly Unidirectional problems.
Linear Seating Arrangement	0-5 Q	Moderate to Difficult, Could be tricky, Moderate to Highly Time Consuming, Moderate to High Accuracy possible, Requires clean charting with proper technique and step-by-step solving.	Single or Double rows facing each other/ away from each other/ in the same direction.
Syllogisms	2-5 Qs	Easy to Moderate in difficulty, Less time consuming, Moderate Accuracy possible, Very likely to appear.	Direct questions with 2-3 statements & 2-3 conclusions, possibility based questions, negative information-based questions.
Double Line-Up	0-5 Qs	Moderate to Difficult, Could be tricky, Moderate to Highly Time Consuming, Moderate Accuracy possible, Requires clean charting with proper technique and step-by-step solving.	Seating arrangement questions with people sitting in 2 rows facing each other.
Scheduling	0-5 Qs	Moderate to Difficult, Could be tricky, Moderate to Highly Time Consuming, Moderate Accuracy possible, Requires clean charting with proper technique and step-by-step solving.	Qs based on days of a week, Months
Classification	0-3 Qs	Easy to Moderate, Quick Solve, High Accuracy possible.	Letter based, Meaningful Words based, GK based, Number based.
Series	0-1 Q	Easy to Moderate, Less Time Consuming, Moderate to High Accuracy	Complete the Alphabet Series, Number Series and Mixed Series.

IBPS Clerk Syllabus for English

Topic	Weightage	Difficulty Level	Questions Asked
Reading Comprehension	5 Qs	Moderate to More Time Consuming, Moderate Accuracy Possible.	The passage will be focussed on topics like Banking & Economy, Business, Social Issues etc.
Grammar (Error Spotting, Phrase Replacement, Fill in the Blanks)	5 Qs	Easy to Moderate in Difficulty, Less to Moderately Time Consuming, Moderate Accuracy Possible.	Error Spotting, Phrase Replacement/ Sentence Correction, Fill in the Blanks.
Vocabulary (Cloze Test)	5-10 Qs	Easy to Moderate Difficulty, Quick Solve based on Contextual usage, Moderate to High Accuracy possible.	Error Spotting, Phrase Replacement, Cloze Test (single passage with 5-10 questions), Fill in the Blanks (Double Blanks).
Verbal Ability (Para Jumble)	0-5 Qs	Easy, Low to Moderately Time Consuming, High Accuracy possible.	Para Jumbles

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Detailed IBPS Clerk Syllabus for Mains 2021

Sections	IBPS Clerk Syllabus
General/ Financial Awareness	Current Affairs and Static Gk related to banking, economic and financial sector, Latest Reports and Data such as Budget, GDP, Repo rate, Interest rate, tax rate etc, Basics of Financial Institutions such as RBI, SEBI, IRDA, World Bank and IMF, their headquarters location, name of their head/ chief/ chairman etc, Financial and Banking Abbreviations, Acronyms, terminologies, Government Schemes and Policies
General English	Reading Comprehension, Cloze Test, Paraphrase, Sentence Improvement, Formation and Reconstruction, One-word substitution, Para Jumbles, Match-ups, Fill in the blanks, Vocabulary etc
Reasoning Ability	Analogy, Syllogism, Passage and Conclusions, Statement and Conclusion, Statement and Assumptions, Statement and Arguments, Decision Making, Assertion and Reasoning, Ranking and Sequence, Coding-Decoding, Blood Relations, Alphabet/ Numeric Series, Direction Sense, Figure Series, Input-output, Sitting Arrangement
Computer Aptitude	History of computers, Basics of computer’s hardware and software, Short Cut Keys, Windows operating system, Internet, Networking, Basics of MS-Office: MS-word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, Database, Hacking, Security Tools and Viruses
Quantitative Aptitude	Data Interpretation, Pie charts, Bar graphs, Line charts, Tables, Mixture and Allegations, Profit, Loss and Discount, Percentages, Partnership, Ratio and Proportion, Averages, Simple and Compound Interest, Equations, Time and Work, Speed, Distance and Time, Clocks, Volume and Surface Area, Permutation and combinations, Probability, Trigonometry and Mensuration

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IBPS Clerk 2021 Contact Information

Address

IBPS
IBPS House, 90 feet, DP Road
Near Thakur Polytechnic
Off. Western Express Highway, PB No. 8587
Kandivali (E), Mumbai 400101

Phone Number
1800 222 366, 1800 103 4566 (available from 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM on all working days)

Official Website: https://www.ibps.in/

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