IBPS Clerk

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IBPS Clerk Preliminary Exam 2019 conducted on 7th and 8th December 2019.

IBPS Clerk Prelims Result Date: 28th December 2019

IBPS CWE Clerk 2019 Exam Information

What is IBPS Clerk Exam?

IBPS conducts Common Recruitment Process for selection of personnel for Clerical cadre Posts (IBPS Clerk) in the organisations participating in the exam process. Any eligible candidate, who aspires to be selected as a Clerk or in a similar post in that cadre, is required to register for the Common Recruitment Process (CWE Clerks -IX).

The 2019 exam will online examination (Preliminary and Main) for the next Common Recruitment Process scheduled on 7th & 8th December 2019 & 19th January 2020.

Use this link to open IBPS Clerk IX Official Notification

IBPS Clerk IX Official Notification

IBPS Clerk 2019 Vacancy

As per the IBPS Clerk 2018 Official Notification’ there were 7275 vacancies in total. This year (2019) IBPS has released 12075 positions for IBPS Clerk vacancies (to fill requirements for 2019 – 20)

Organisations Participating in the IBPS Clerk Recruitment

Allahabad Bank	Canara Bank	Syndicate Bank	United Bank of India
Andhra Bank	Oriental Bank of Commerce	Indian Overseas Bank	Bank of Maharashtra
Bank of Baroda	Central Bank of India	Corporation Bank	IDBI Bank
Indian Bank	Union Bank of India	UCO Bank	Vijaya Bank
Bank of India	Dena Bank	Punjab National Bank	Punjab & Sind Bank

IBPS Clerk 2019 Exam Dates

Notification Release Date	Mid-Sep 2019
Admit Card Available	Nov 2019 (Prelims) & Jan 2020 (Main)
Exam Date	Prelims Exam – 7th, and 8th Dec 2019 Mains Exam – 19th January 2020
Result Date	28 December 2019 (Prelims)

Eligibility Criteria for IBPS CWE Clerk IX

Below is the eligibility criteria as per the 2018 notification, the same will be updated if there are changes in the 2019 notification:

I. Nationality / Citizenship

A candidate must be either –
(i) an Indian citizen OR
(ii) a Nepalese or Bhutanese subject OR
(iv) a Tibetan Refugee who came to India before 1st January 1962 to permanently settle in India OR
(v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam to permanently settle in India

For categories iv and v, appropriate certificate issued by GoI is necessary.

II. Age (As on 01.09.2019)

Minimum Age: 20 years

Maximum Age: 28 years

Relaxation of upper age limit:

Sr. No.	Category	Age relaxation
1	Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe	5 years
2	Other Backward Classes (Non-Creamy Layer)	3 years
3	Persons With Disabilities	10 years
4	Ex-Servicemen / Disabled Ex-Servicemen	Actual period of service rendered in the defence forces + 3 years (8 years for Disabled Ex-Servicemen belonging to SC/ST) subject to a maximum age limit of 50 years
5	Widows, divorced women and women legally separated from their husbands who have not remarried	9 years
6	Persons ordinarily domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989	5 years
7	Persons affected by 1984 riots	5 years
8	Regular employees of the Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal retrenched from service (Applicable to Madhya Pradesh state only)	5 years
Please refer to the detailed notification (this link) for exact specifications for each category.

Vacancy for IBPS Clerk 2019

As per the IBPS Clerk 2018 Official Notification’ there were 7275 vacancies in total. This year (2019) IBPS has released 12075 positions for IBPS Clerk vacancies (to fill requirements for 2019 – 20)

IBPS gives out state-wise vacancies and detailed breakup can be referred to in the 2019 notification. This year, Uttar Pradesh has highest reported vacancies for IBPS Clerk posts with 944 total vacancies followed by Tamil Nadu with 792 total vacancies.

IBPS CWE Clerk IX Application

The registration process for this exam will be through online mode only and there will be a single registration for both Preliminary and Main examination, wherever applicable.

Applications for IBPS Clerk IX were closed on 10th October 2019

Document Upload

Candidates will be required to upload the following documents as per the specification given in advertisement.

Document	Dimensions (2017)	File Size Specifications (2018)	Other Information
Photograph of the Applicant (4.5cm × 3.5cm)	200 x 230 pixels (preferred)	20kb–50 kb	Image file should be JPG or JPEG format
Signature of the Applicant	140 x 60 pixels (preferred)	10kb – 20kb	CAPITAL LETTERS NOT accepted
Thumb impression of the Applicant	New – To be updated	10kb – 20kb	Can be in black or blue ink
Scanned copy of handwritten declaration	New – To be updated	10kb – 20kb	Exact text will be updated

IBPS Clerk Admit Card

All eligible candidates can download their call letters from the official IBPS website www.ibps.in by entering details i.e. Registration Number and Password/Date of Birth.

The IBPS Clerk Prelim Call Letter will be released in November –

To download IBPS Clerk Admit Card, use this link

To be updated

IBPS CWE Clerk IX Exam Pattern

Prelim Exam Pattern – NEW

Mode: Online
Type: Objective
Negative Marking: Yes, 0.25 of the marks allotted will be deducted.
Cutoff: Sectional as well as aggregate

Section	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Duration (each section timed separately)
English Language	30	30	20 mins
Numerical Ability	35	35	20 mins
Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 mins
Total	100	100	60 mins

Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS.

To view results for IBPS Clerk Prelim, use this link

To be updated

IBPS CWE Clerk IX Syllabus

IBPS Clerk Prelim and Mains have a large overlap in terms of syllabus for English, Reasoning and Numerical Ability but for Mains there are 2 additional topics, i.e., General Awareness and Computer Knowledge.

IBPS Clerk Result

To be shortlisted for the Mains examination, candidates must qualify sectional as well as overall cutoff in Prelim examination. The prelim result will be announced on 28 December 2019.

To view results for IBPS Clerk Prelim, use this link

To be updated

IBPS Clerk 2017 Cutoffs

Since IBPS Clerk vacancies are released state-wise, cutoffs also vary for each state.

IBPS State-Wise Prelim Cutoffs for 2017:

State	Cut-Off
Uttar Pradesh	76.25
Delhi	76.75
Daman & Diu	70.75
Haryana	76.00
Assam	70.75
Kerela	77.00
Jammu & Kashmir	76.00
Karnataka	61.25
Jharkhand	74.25
Himachal Pradesh	75.00
Telangana	70.00
Odisha	76.50
Goa	67.75
Uttarakhand	78.75
Chattisgarh	70.25
Tamil Nadu	53.00
Madhya Pradesh	74.25
Andhra Pradesh	73.50
Maharashtra	64.50
Punjab	74.00
Gujarat	67.00
Bihar	74.75
West Bengal	77.25
Rajasthan	73.25