Since last 40 years IBPS have shown their great gratitude to welfare of people. The Institute conducts a wide spectrum of activities in personnel selection both for promotion within and recruitment and selection from outside the organization while working on international model like the ETS model. Nowadays, integrated end to end solutions for human resource management of client organization have been greatly provided by the body IBPS. People from the banking field and insurance industry, psychology, IT sector and educational measurement and many more highly qualified person who have specialized in the testing process have greatly provided themselves for the institute. Client Relations, Design and Analysis, Processing and Technology Operations, Research and Development and Support Services are some of its various verticals. For the purpose of data ware house and processing it also has its own technology infrastructure. It has the capacity to print over 100 thousand data booklets and answer sheets per day as it has state-of-the-art printing facility so its work is much faster. 1 million candidates in 2000 venues across 200 centers can be easily tested by the institute simultaneously in one season as it has this kind of high class capacity. Over 10 million candidates were tested and filled approx. 79,236 vacancies for its client organization besides testing of candidates for admission to academic institutes and certification for diplomas by the IBPS successfully in screening, in 2010-11 alone.
Participating Banks
Allahabad Bank, Andhra Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Canara Bank, Central Bank of India, Corporation Bank, Dena Bank, Indian bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Punjab National Bank, Punjab and Sind Bank, Syndicate Bank, Union Bank of India, United Bank of India, UCO Bank, Vijaya Bank are the names of some of the common participating banks.
If there is any individual who is quite interested in joining any of the above mention public sector banks in the post of clerk or in a post in that cadre, they are necessarily required to take the IBPS CWE.
How to Apply?
The step-wise process of applying to Common Written Exam for Band and PO conductors by IBPs are being listed down by us.
Please note the following points before starting the application process-
1. If you want to apply for CWE online then you have to make sure that who have the copy of your photograph and signature with some required information with you.
2. You have to keep the application fee transmittal details (Contract details such as NEFT UTR No., IFSC Code etc.) prepared if you are interested in payment by cash through NEFT enabled branches of any of the 19 PSBs named/ must keep the required details/ documents ready if you want to make online payment of the requisite application fee.
3. There must be your legal personal email ID, which should be kept active until the declaration of results of this round of CWE so that you can gather much needed information about your performance. You may get a call letters by the IBPS for the purpose of Pre- Examination Training, Written Examination etc. through the registered e-mail ID. A candidate is not allowed to mention E-mail Id of some other person. If you a candidate are not having any valid e-mail ID, he is supposed to create a new valid e-mail ID before applying online and must maintain the e-mail account quite regularly.
Mode of Payment for the application by the candidates are ONLINE MODE and OFFLINE MODE. Using ONLINE MODE you can pay using credit/ debit card. Using OFFLINE MODE you can pay the fees through the NEFT enabled branches of the 19 mentioned Public Sector Banks.
Eligibility to Apply
The candidates who are interested in taking part should ensure that they fulfill the minimum criteria specified by IBPS before applying for the IBPS Common Written Examination (CWE 2011 Bank Clerk Exam).
We have specified some of the basic criteria for applying to various Public Sectors Bank. However applying for CWE / appearing for and qualifying in the examination does not indicate that a candidate will necessarily be qualified for service in all or any of the 19 Public Sector Banks as each Bank will lay down its own eligibility / qualifying standards.
1. Nationality / Citizenship: A candidate must be either of the following:
(a) A Citizen of India or
(b) A subject of Bhutan or
(c) A subject of Nepal or
(d) A Tibetan Refugee who came India before 1962, 1st January with the intent of permanently settling in India or
(e) A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Sri Lanka, Uganda, Malawi, Zaire, Vietnam, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Zambia etc. with the purpose of permanently settling in India, provided that an applicant belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) & (e) shall be a person who has been favored a certificate of eligibility by the Indian Government.
2. Age Limit:
Min: 18 years
Max: 28 years
The maximum age limit specified is for the General Category applicants.
Syllabus for Examination
Each of the 19 participating Public Sector Banks and the Indian Banks Association with the consent of Indian Government has approved the system of Common Written Examination. The IBPS will conduct the written examination for this exam in 2011.
For the recruitment of Probationary Officers/ Management Trainees the Common Written Examination will be held twice a year. The Indian Banks Association has authorized the IBPS and has given them mandates to conduct these exams.
For reasoning 50 questions will come of total 50 marks, for English Language also 50 Questions will come of total 25 marks, Quantitative Aptitude 50 questions will come of total 50 marks, for General Awareness (with special reference to banking industry) 50 questions will come of total 50 marks and one more Descriptive Paper on English Composition (Essay, Letter Writing etc.) will come of total 25 marks and you will get total of 3hours and 30 minutes to solve the paper and the total marks will be 250.
The above tests expect the Test of English Language and Descriptive Paper on English Composition will be printed bilingually, i.e. Hindi and English. The Descriptive Papers will be evaluated of only those candidates who secure minimum qualifying marks in each of the objective tests.
Procedure for Selection
If there is any wrong answer marked in the Objective Tests then there would be penalty for each wrong answer. If a wrong answer is given by the candidate for any question then for each question 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be reduced as penalty to reach at corrected score. For a test if the total penalty is in fraction then the marks obtained will be rounded off to the nearest integer. If a candidate gives more than one answer for any question then it will be treated as wrong even if one of the answers given by the candidate is right and there will be the same penalty of 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question deducted as penalty. If a question is left blank which means that the candidate has given no answer to that question then there will be no penalty for that question.
Following Linear Conversation Method the corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates will further be converted into the standardized scores.
A minimum standardized score in each of the tests should be secured by each candidate to qualify in the written examination and to be considered for vacancies in the participating banks. The cut-off points will be decided based on the average (Average- ¾ Standard Deviation for reserved Category candidates and Average- ¼ Standards Deviation for General Category candidates).
Why CWE?
A recent addition to the successful Endeavour’s of IBPS is Common Written Exams. It will be a blessing for all the banks connected to it, which would make recruitment a much easier and less tiresome procedure. These exams have played a major role for becoming a common platform for all the aspiring candidates for the post of Bank PO in the 19 public sector banks. The 10 Participating banks have given the IBPS permission for managing committee of Indian Bank Association and the Indian Government.
How to Prepare?
The most common question that may arise in the mind of any candidate is that how to prepare for this exam? Well, for success in any bank recruitment a lot practice is much needed by you. Practicing on the old question papers asked in the previous bank clerk exams would be helpful as because the syllabus for the above examination is same as the previous clerk recruitment exam so we suggest you to practice the old question papers. You are advised by us to buy Bank Exams Questions from the market and solve them regularly so that you can improve your speed with sufficient accuracy. You must have to keep track of current affairs specially related to the banking industry. Try to read good current affairs magazines. To enhance the knowledge of computer functionality read basic books of computer and networking.
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