The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) would conduct the Specialist Officer (SO) exam to recruit specialist officers for various roles. The exam is conducted to fill the posts of IT officers, Rajabhasha Adhikari, Field, Law, Marketing Officers in various public sector banks. The official notification has been released and the IBPS SO Dates has been announced. According to the official IBPS SO notification, the prelims exam is scheduled to take place in the month of December 2018. The Mains exam would be held in January 2019. Here would be talking about the information given on the official IBPS SO notification. To apply for IBPS SO, you can click on the following button
Overview of IBPS SO Notification for 2018
Let us take a quick look at the notification for IBPS Specialist Officer Recruitment. We would delve into more details later on.
| Name of the Exam | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam 2018 – 19 |
| Name of the Conducting authority | Institute of Banking Personnel Selection |
| Minimum Eligibility | Minimum Undergraduate (Completed) |
| Type | All India Type |
| Mode | Application – Online
Examination – Online |
| Exam Pattern | Preliminary – Objective
Main – Objective and Descriptive |
| Post Offered |
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| Pay Scale | Rs. 23700 – Rs. 51490 |
| Number of Vacancies | Approximately 1300 |
IBPS SO Recruitment 2018 – Important Dates
Let us now take a look at the important dates like the last for IBPS SO application date, the exam date for prelims and mains and things like that.
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| On-line registration including Edit/Modification of Application | November 2018 |
| Payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges (Online) | November 2018 |
| Download of Admit card for Online examination – Prelims | December 2018 |
| Dates for Preliminary Exam | December 2018 |
| Result of Online exam – Prelims | January 2018 |
| Download of Admit Card for Online exam – Main | January 2019 |
| Commencement of Mains Exam | January 2019 |
| Declaration of Result of Online Main Examination | February 2019 |
| Download of call letters for interview | February 2019 |
| Conduct of interview | March 2019 |
To know more about the exam date for IBPS SO exam, you can click on the following button
Application Form for IBPS Specialist Officer Recruitment
If you are looking to get the job of an IBPS SO IT officer, or any other specialist officer roles, the first step is filling in the application form. Don’t take it lightly. A lot of candidates actually do a lot of mistakes, when they are filling up the online form for IBPS SO Recruitment. So, it is better to stay focus when you are filling out the online application. You need to follow these simple steps to fill up the online application form
- Log in to the official website www.ibps.in
- Find apply online link on the official website or you can find IBPS Specialist Officer CRP SPL-VII Exam 2018-19 Apply Online link below.
- Pay the IBPS Exam Application fee via net banking or debit card, credit card or bank challan.
- Upload the scanned signed and photograph.
- Fill all the correct required details carefully and submit the IBPS SO Online Application form.
The application fee is different for each category, the details are given below:
| Category | Application Fee |
| General | Rs. 600 |
| Reserved | Rs. 100 |
Eligibility Criteria for IBPS SO Exam 2018
Candidates interested in applying for IBPS SO 2018 – 19 must check the conditions of eligibility mentioned in the IBPS SO notification article as below.
1. Nationality
A candidate must be either one of the following:
• A resident of India
• A subject of Nepal
• Tibetan refugees who came to India before 1st January 1962 and have planned to settle in India permanently
• A subject of Indian Origin migrated from Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Uganda, Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania, Namibia, Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Vietnam
2. Education and Age Requirements
The educational requirements according to the IBPS SO notification is as follows:
| Serial Number | Name of the Post | Essential Qualification | Age |
| 1. | I.T. Officer (Scale I) | 1)Four years engineering/Technology degree in Computer Science/IT/Computer Application/Electronics and Communication Engineering/Electronics and Telecommunication/ Electronics and Instrumentation OR 2) Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science/IT/Computer Application/Electronics and Communication Engineering/Electronics and Telecommunication/ Electronics and Instrumentation OR Graduates having passed DOEACC ‘B’ level exam |
Min – 20 years Max – 30 years |
| 2. | Agricultural Field Officer (Scale-I) | 4 years graduation degree in agriculture/ Horticulture/ Animal Husbandry/ Veterinary Science/ Dairy Science/ Agricultural Engineering/ Fishery Science/ Pisciculture/ Agri Marketing and cooperation/ Co-Operation and Banking/ Agro-Forestry | Min – 20 years Max – 30 years |
| 3. | Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I) | Post Graduate in Hindi with English as a subject at the graduation or degree level OR Post-Graduate Degree in Sanskrit with English and Hindi as a subject at graduation level | Min – 20 years Max – 30 years |
| 4. | Law Office (Scale I) | A bachelor’s degree in Law and enrolled as an advocate for Bar Council | Min – 20 years Max – 30 years |
| 5. | HR/Personnel Officer (Scale I) | Graduate and Full Time Post Graduate Degree or Full-time Diploma in Personnel Management/ Industrial Relation/ HR/ HRD/ Social Work/ Labour Law | Min – 20 years Max – 30 years |
| 6. | Marketing Officer (Scale I) | Graduate and Full-Time MMS (Marketing)/ MBA (Marketing)/Full time PGDBA/ PGDBM with specialization in Marketing | Min – 20 years Max – 30 years |
3. Age Relaxation
The IBPS SO recruitment also details the age relaxation for certain candidates. The details are given below:
| Serial Number | Category | Age Relaxation |
| 1. | Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) | 5 years |
| 2. | Other Backward Class (OBC) | 3 years |
| 3. | Person with Disability (PWD) | 10 years |
| 4. | Ex-Servicemen/Commissioned Officers including ECOS (Emergency Commissioned Officers)/ SSCOs (Short Service Commissioned Officers) who have rendered at least 5 years military service and have been released on completion of Assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within 1 year from last date of receipt of application) otherwise than by the way of dismissal/discharge on the account of misconduct/inefficiency/physical disability attributable to military service | 5 years |
| 5. | Person ordinarily domiciled in the Jammu and Kashmir province during the period 1.01.1980 and 31.12.1989 | 5 years |
| 6. | Person affected by 1984 riots | 5 years |
IBPS SO 2018 Eligibility Criteria
IBPS SO 2018 Vacancies and Job Profile
The following are the posts for which IBPS is recruiting in IBPS SO 2018:
1) IT Officer
2) Agricultural Field Officer
3) Rajbhasha Adhikari
4) Law Officer
5) Personnel Officer
6) Marketing Officer
These posts are vacant in several banks across the country. The following banks would take part in IBPS Specialist Officer Recruitment
| Andhra Bank | Indian Overseas Bank |
| Bank of Baroda | Oriental Bank of Commerce |
| Bank of India | Punjab National Bank |
| Bank of Maharashtra | Punjab & Sind Bank |
| Bharatiya Mahila Bank | Syndicate Bank |
| Canara Bank | UCO Bank |
| Central Bank of India | Union Bank of India |
| Corporation Bank | United Bank of India |
| Dena Bank | Vijaya Bank |
| ECGC | IDBI Bank |
IBPS SO 2018 Vacancies, Salary and Job profile
IBPS SO 2018 Selection Procedure
The IBPS SO 2018 selection process is going to be conducted to recruit IBPS Specialist Officer through three phases:
- Online Preliminary Exam
- Online Mains Exam
- Interview Process
A candidate must clear both preliminary and mains exams to progress to the interview round. The candidates selected after the interview round would be given the appointment letter.
IBPS SO Exam Centers 2018
The written exams will be conducted all over the country, the venues are listed below:
| State Code | State /UT / NCR | Exam Centre |
| 11 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Andaman & Nicobar | Port Blair |
| 12 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Andhra Pradesh | Hyderabad, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam |
| 13 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar |
| 14 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Assam | Guwahati |
| 15 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Bihar | Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Muzzafarpur, Patna, Purnea, |
| 16 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Chandigarh | Chandigarh |
| 17 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Chhattisgarh | Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raipur |
| 18 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Dadra & Nagar Haveli | Surat, Jamnagar |
| 19 | Daman & Diu | |
| 20 | IBPS SO Exam Center in Delhi | Bahadurgarh, Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Gurgaon |
| 21 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Center in Goa | Panaji |
| 22 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Center in Gujarat | Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Vadodara |
| 23 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Center in Haryana | Ambala, Panchkula |
| 24 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Centre in Himachal Pradesh | Shimla |
| 25 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Center in Jammu & Kashmir | Jammu, Srinagar |
| 26 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Centres in Jharkhand | Bokaro, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Ranchi |
| 27 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Centres in Karnataka | Bengaluru, Hubli, Mangalore, Dharwad |
| 28 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Centres in Kerala | Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 29 | Lakshwadweep | Kavarrati |
| 30 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Centres in MP | Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur |
| 31 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Centres in Maharashtra | Aurangabad, Mumbai/Thane/Navi Mumbai, Nagpur, Nanded, Pune |
| 32 | Manipur | Imphal |
| 33 | Meghalaya | Shillong |
| 34 | Mizoram | Aizawl |
| 35 | Nagaland | Kohima |
| 36 | IBPS Specialist Officer Exam Centres in Odisha | Berhampur(Ganjam), Bhubaneshwar, Sambalpur |
| 37 | Puducherry | Puducherry |
| 38 | IBPS SO Exam Centre in Punjab | Amritsar, Ludhiana, Mohali, Patiala |
| 39 | IBPS SO Exam Centre in Rajasthan | Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur |
| 40 | Sikkim | Gangtok |
| 41 | IBPS SO Exam Centre in Tamil nadu | Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli |
| 42 | Telangana | Hyderabad |
| 43 | Tripura | Agartala |
| 44 | IBPS SO Exam Centre in Uttar Pradesh | Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi |
| 45 | Uttarakhand | Dehradun, Roorkee |
| 46 | IBPS SO Exam Centre in West Bengal | Bardhaman, Berhampur, Durgapur, Greater Kolkata, Siliguri |
If the IBPS changes any center exam change, it will be notified in this article.
IBPS SO 2018 Exam Pattern
IBPS SO Exam 2018 will be conducted in three phases: Preliminary Exam, Mains Exam, and Interview Process. It is mandatory for every applicant to clear all levels of examination to obtain the post of Specialist Officer in various Public Sector Banks participating in IBPS SO recruitment 2018.
Modifications relative to last year in IBPS Specialist Officer Recruitment are stated below:
- The exam will be conducted in three stages: Preliminary, Mains and Interview Process.
- A candidate must appear for the Prelims first and the selected students after the Preliminary Exam would be eligible to take the Mains Exam.
- The score of Preliminary Exam shall not be taken into consideration for final allotment. Final selection will be based on the performance in Mains Exam and Interview Process.
- The Mains Examination will contain questions only from the Professional Knowledge Subjects.
IBPS Specialist Officer Recruitment – Preliminary Exam Pattern
The prelims patterns differ based on the post that you are applying to in IBPS PO exam. According to the IBPS SO notification, the preliminary exam pattern for the post of law officer & Rajsabha Adhikari
| Serial No | Section | No. of Questions | Total Marks | Duration |
| 1. | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | 120 minutes |
| 2. | English Language | 50 | 25 | |
| 3. | General Awareness and Banking Industry Knowledge | 50 | 50 | |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
For other Specialist Officers (Agriculture Field Officer, Marketing Officer (Scale I), HR/Personnel Officer, IT Officer Scale I
| Serial No | Section | No. of Questions | Total Marks | Duration |
| 1. | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | 120 minutes |
| 2. | English Language | 50 | 25 | |
| 3. | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
IBPS SO 2018 Mains Exam Pattern
Like the prelims, the mains exam pattern also differs from post to post. For the Post of Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer, the mains exam pattern is as follows:
| Name of Test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Duration |
| Professional Knowledge | 60 | 60 | English & Hindi | 45 minutes |
For the Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari
| Name of Test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Duration |
| Professional Knowledge(Objective) | 45 | 60 | English & Hindi | 30 minutes |
| Professional Knowledge(Descriptive) | 2 | English & Hindi | 30 minutes |
IBPS SO Exam 2018 Syllabus
To prepare for IBPS SO 2018 – 2019 exam, it is very important to know the detailed IBPS SO 2018 Syllabus. Candidates must focus on the general sections of reasoning, quants, and English as well as the Professional Knowledge subjects to perform well in the upcoming IBPS SO 2018-19 Exam.
IBPS SO Preliminary Exam Syllabus
IBPS PO Preliminary Exam is the first round of selection in IBPS PO Exam 2018. Candidates who clear the preliminary exam would be eligible to appear for the mains exam. The Preliminary Exam of IBPS PO 2018 comprises of three major sections: Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude and English Language and one additional section namely Professional Knowledge. The syllabus for all of those sections is given below:
| Reasoning | English Langugae | Quantitative Aptitude | General Awareness |
| Seating Arrangements Puzzles Inequalities Syllogism Input-Output Data Sufficiency Blood Relations Order and Ranking Alphanumeric Series Distance and Direction Verbal Reasoning | Cloze Test Reading Comprehension Spotting Errors Sentence Improvement Sentence Correction Para Jumbles Fill in the Blanks Para/Sentence Completion | Number Series Data Interpretation Simplification/ Approximation Quadratic Equation Data Sufficiency Mensuration Average Profit and Loss Ratio and Proportion Work, Time and Energy Time and Distance Probability Relations Simple and Compound Interest Permutation and Combination | Current Affairs Banking Awareness GK Updates Currencies Important Places Books and Authors Awards Headquarters Prime Minister Schemes Important Days |
Professional Knowledge Syllabus
If you are applying for IBPS IT officer, Agriculture Field Officer, Marketing Officer, Law Officer or HR Personnel Officer, then you should write a test for a professional. The syllabus is different for different posts. The syllabus is given below
| IT Officer (Scale-I) | Agricultural Field Officer (Scale-I) | Marketing Officer (Scale-I) | Law Officer (Scale-I) | HR/Personnel Officer (Scale-I) |
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IBPS SO 2018 Admit Card
The IBPS SO admit card will be released once the application process is complete. Admit card for Preliminary Exam will be released first followed by the admit card for Mains Exam. The admit card for Mains Exam will be issued to candidates who have qualified the preliminary exam.
IBPS SO 2018 Result
The IBPS SO 2018 results will be released after the completion of each phase of the exam. A cumulative score of the preliminary, mains exam and the interview is considered to prepare the final merit list of selected students. The merit list is prepared in the descending order of marks obtained by candidates. Candidates who make it to the merit list will be given the appointment letter by the Bank chosen by the candidate.
IBPS SO 2018 Cutoff
The IBPS SO Cut Off 2018 will be released after each phase of examination has been conducted. The cut off for the IBPS SO preliminary exam will be released first followed by cut off for mains exam. Candidates can evaluate their selection chances by matching their score with the cut off marks released by the IBPS. The previous year’s cut off range is listed in the table below:
| Post | General | OBC | SC | ST | HI | OC | VI |
| Marketing Officer | 74.95 to 55.30 | 66.80 to 51.90 | 59.40 to 47.35 | 62.05 to 35.50 | 33.70 to 33.70 | 58.10 to 39.40 | NA |
| IT Officer | 76.75 to 61.50 | 64.05 to 57.75 | 55.05 to 46.50 | 65.10 to 53.35 | 50.50 to 40.60 | 61.85 to 50.15 | 65.90 to 60.10 |
| Law Officer | 62.85 to 52.95 | 55.80 to 49.20 | 71.15 to 44.95 | 47.50 to 39.55 | NA | 54.40 to 39.85 | 43.30 to 36.30 |
| HR/Personnel Officer | 73.35 to 60.75 | 65.10 to 53.50 | 62.95 to 50.50 | 56.45 to 46.65 | 43.40 to 43.40 | NA | NA |
| Agriculture Field Officer | 69.75 to 41.65 | 60.95 to 40.90 | 52.30 to 34.65 | 53.45 to 30.00 | 45.60 to 26.50 | 49.05 to 27.20 | 60.25 to 25.95 |
| Rajsabha Adhikari | 66.50 to 44.15 | 62.20 to 45.05 | 51.85 to 43.35 | 49.80 to 34.20 | NA | 43.55 to 38.73 | 69.05 to 69.05 |
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