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IBPS RRB Prelims Exam scheduled for Officer Scale -I: 3, 4 and 11 August 2019.

Prelims Exam scheduled for Office Assistant 17, 18 and 25 August 2019.

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IBPS RRB Exam Pattern

IBPS RRB Examination has both two stage examination (For Scale I and Office Assistant) and single-stage examination (for Officer Scale II/Scale III). The preliminary exam has 2 sections – Reasoning and Numerical Ability and is of 45 mins duration. The Mains Exam and Single Stage exam (for Officer Scale II – GBO and Officer Scale III) and follows the same pattern – a paper comprising 5 sections of 2 hours duration. Single Stage Exam for Officer Scale – II (specialist) will follow a different pattern. Read below for all the details.

IBPS RRB Preliminary Exam

Preliminary Examination (objective) is conducted for Office Assistant (Multipurpose)/Officer Scale-I. The following is the pattern:

S. No.	Section	Question	Marks	Duration
1.	Reasoning	40	40	A cumulative time of 45 mins
2.	Numerical Ability	40	40	A cumulative time of 45 mins
	Total	80	80

IBPS RRB Mains Exam/IBPS RRB Single Stage Exam

Mains Examination is conducted for Office Assistant(Multipurpose)/Officer Scale-I and has same pattern as Single Stage Examination for Officer Scale-II (General Banking Officer)/Officer Scale- III

S. No.	Section	Question	Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning Paper	40	50	A cumulative time of 2 hours is provided
2	General Awareness Paper	40	40
3	Numerical Ability Paper	40	50
4	(a) English (b) Hindi Language Paper*	40	40
5	Computer Knowledge	40	40
	Total	200	200
* Candidates can opt either 4 a or 4 b.

Exam Pattern for Single Stage Exam Pattern for Officer Scale-II (Specialist Cadre)

S. No.	Section	Question	Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning Paper	40	50	A cumulative time of 2 hours and 30 minutes is provided
2	Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation	40	50
3	(a) English (b) Hindi Language Paper*	40	40
4	Computer Knowledge	40	40
5	Financial Awareness	40
6	Professional Knowledge
	Total	240	200
* Candidates can opt either 3 a or 3 b

There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective 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 penalty to arrive at 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.

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