IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2023
IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2023: The IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2023 is set as per the conventions set by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern is going to help candidates to prepare well for the upcoming IBPS Clerk Examination & strategize their preparation. There are separate mark allocations to different sections of the exam.
The candidates need to finish the paper within the time given to them. IBPS Clerk 2023Â is conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection to select eligible candidates for the post of Clerk every year. To ace the upcoming IBPS Clerk Exam, it is necessary to have knowledge of the latest IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern. The IBPS Clerk recruitment process for selections as IBPS Clerk 2023 is done in two phases:
- Online Preliminary Exam,
- Online Mains Exam.
A candidate must qualify for both the preliminary exam and mains exam to get your name on the merit list. The candidates selected after the mains are given the appointment letter. Read all the details regarding IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2023.
IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern: Important Points
Candidates can check important points of the IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern. The IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern has two separate sections, namely Prelims and mains. The mark and time allocation to both the phases are different. Let us have a look at the patterns separately.
- The IBPS Clerk 2023Â exam pattern for selecting candidates for Clerk is given below.
- The Mains Examination will have just one more section, i.e. of Current Affairs and Computer Knowledge.
- Only three sections will be asked in the Preliminary Exam of the IBPS Clerk 2023 Exam.
- The score of the Preliminary Exam will not be taken into consideration for the final selection. A score of the Mains Exam will be taken into consideration for the final allotment.
- There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests.
Let’s have a look at the detailed Exam Pattern for multiple posts offered through IBPS Clerk 2023 Exam
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IBPS Clerk 2023 Prelims Exam Pattern
It is to be noted that the candidates have to qualify in each of the three sections of the IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam by securing minimum cut-off marks decided by IBPS in all the sections individually. An adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination. The IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Pattern 2023 in tabular form is given below:
| IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Pattern | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sections | No. of Questions | Total Marks | Time Duration |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes/ 1 hour |
IBPS Clerk 2023 Mains Exam Pattern
Candidates who qualify the IBPS Clerk Prelims by clearing the sectional, as well as overall cut off, are called for the IBPS Mains exam, which is both qualifying as well as the scoring exam of the IBPS Clerk recruitment. Candidates can check the IBPS Clerk 2023 Mains Exam Pattern in the table below:
| IBPS Clerk 2023 Mains Exam Pattern | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 200 | 160 minutes |
Note – Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations). There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Type Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty to arrive at the corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.
IBPS Clerk 2023 Final Selection
Candidates need to qualify both tiers i.e., Prelims and Mains of the IBPS Clerk to get into the Final Merit List of the IBPS Clerk. However, the Prelims is only Qualifying in nature i.e., prelims marks will not be considered in the final merit of the candidates. Whereas the Mains exam is both qualifying as well as scoring in nature i.e., the Final Selection of the candidate depends on the score of the candidate in the Mains exam. The final list will be prepared after scaling the marks of the candidates out of 100. Candidates can check the IBPS Clerk Syllabus 2023 by clicking on the button given below.
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