Bank exams are most awaited by the banking aspirants who wish to make a career in public sector banks in India. Every year, most of the public sector banks release vacancies for Probationary Officer (PO), Clerk and Specialist officers. Mainly, the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts these exams. However, some banks and financial institutions such as SBI, NABARD, LIC, and RBI conduct their exams separately.
Apart from being highly reputed and prestigious, the banking sector jobs in India are highly lucrative. It comes with a good salary package, job security, and other monetary benefits in the form of various allowances. Owing to this, lakhs of students apply for the annual bank exams to realize their dream of becoming a banking professional.
Now, it is important to note that there are various banking exams that are conducted in a year. Hence, a knowledge of all the exams, their timeline, exam syllabus, and the exam pattern is extremely crucial to ensure selection in the bank exams. In this article, we have covered most major exams that are conducted in India.
Most of the banking exams conducted by IBPS, SBI, and RBI are three-level exams consisting of:
Phase-I is a screening round. Hence, it is qualifying in nature for most of the banking exams unless stated otherwise. The score of Mains and Interview is taken into consideration for the final selection of the candidates. It is also important to note that apart from an overall cutoff, the bank exams in India also have a minimum sectional-cutoff. If a candidate does not pass the qualifying cutoff for all the sections, he will not be eligible to appear for the next round.
While the detailed and exact syllabus is mentioned in the notification of each exam, most of the bank exams follow a similar syllabus. It is important to note that the complexity and difficulty level of each exam is different from each other. It is also different for each level namely Prelims and Mains (wherever applicable). For eg, the PO exam is a bit on the difficult side as compared to the Clerk exams. At the same time, the prelims exam will be comparatively simple than the Mains exam. Now, let’s see a brief overview of the bank exam syllabus:
Bank Exams: PO Prelims Syllabus |
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Logical Reasoning |
Coding-Decoding Puzzles and Seating Arrangement Syllogism Input-Output Inequality Alphanumeric Questions Miscellaneous Questions |
Quantitative Aptitude |
Simplification/Approximation Data Interpretation Quadratic Equations Number Series Miscellaneous Questions |
English Language |
Reading Comprehension Spotting Errors Cloze Test Fillers Para Jumbles Sentence Improvement Vocabulary-based Questions |
Bank Exams: PO Mains Syllabus |
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Logical Reasoning |
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement Inequality Syllogism Input-Output Coding-Decoding Logical Reasoning Data Sufficiency Miscellaneous Questions |
Quantitative Aptitude |
Data Interpretation Number Series Simplification/Approximation Arithmetic Problems Quadratic Equations Data Sufficiency Quantity Based Questions Miscellaneous Questions |
English Language |
Reading Comprehension Double Fillers Sentence Rearrangement Sentence Connectors Para jumbles Sentence Improvement Sentence/Paragraph Completion Spotting Errors |
General Awareness |
Current Affairs Financial Awareness Static GK Banking Awareness |
Bank Syllabus : Clerk Prelims Syllabus |
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Logical Reasoning |
Syllogism Coding-Decoding Inequality Data Sufficiency Puzzles and Seating Arrangement Alphanumeric Questions Miscellaneous Questions |
Quantitative Aptitude |
Number Series Data Interpretation Quadratic Equations Quantity based questions Simplification/Approximation Miscellaneous Questions |
English Language |
Reading Comprehension Error correction Cloze Test Error detection Para jumbles Fillers Vocabulary-based Questions |
Bank Exams : Clerk Mains Syllabus |
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Logical Reasoning |
Syllogism Inequality Circular Seating Arrangement Linear Seating Arrangement Puzzle Blood Relation Coding-Decoding Order and Ranking Direction Sense Data Sufficiency |
Quantitative Aptitude |
Data Interpretation Simplification Quadratic Equations Number Series Quantity Based Questions Data Sufficiency Miscellaneous |
English Language |
Reading Comprehension Vocabulary Cloze Test Fillers Odd One Out/ Theme-based questions Para Jumbles Sentence Improvement Sentence/Paragraph Completion Error Spotting |
General Awareness |
Current Affairs Financial Awareness Static GK Banking Awareness |
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Preliminary Examination |
Office Assistants and Officer Scale I: 03.08.2024, 04.08.2024, 10.08.2024, 17.08.2024 & 18.08.2024 |
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Single Examination |
Officers Scale II & III: 29.09.2024 |
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Main Examination |
Officer Scale I: 29.09.2024 Office Assistants: 06.10.2024 |
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Clerks |
Probationary Officers |
Specialist Officers |
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Preliminary Examination |
24.08.2024 25.08.2024 31.08.2024 |
19.10.2024 20.10.2024 |
09.11.2024 |
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Main Examination |
13.10.2024 |
30.11.2024 |
14.12.2024 |
This was a comprehensive overview of most of the bank exams conducted in India. Keep following us to get detailed information about each of these exams. Career Launcher brings to you comprehensive courses for making your banking preparation seamless. Check out our course offerings here. Should you have any queries, feel free to get in touch with our course coordinators.