Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts Common Recruitment Process (CRP) for the posts of Office Assistant (Multipurpose), Officer Scale-I (Assistant Manager), Officer Scale-II: General Banking Officer (Manager), Officer Scale-II: Specialist Officers (Manager), Officer Scale-III (Senior Manager) for participating organisations. 52 Gramin Banks (Regional Rural banks) operating across India participate in this recruitment process.

Applications for IBPS RRB 2018 have been concluded. The Preliminary and Mains Examination has also been concluded for IBPS RRB 2018. On 16th November, IBPS RRB released Provisional allotment results along with the reserve merit list for CRP RRBs VI Office Assistant, Officers Scale I.

IBPS RRB Vacancies

For 2018, IBPS released a total of  5249 Vacancies for the Post of RRB Office Assistants and a total of 3312 vacancies announced for the post Officer Scale -I.  There total vacancies 10190 Vacancies including the posts of Officer Scale II – Manager and Officer Scale III – Senior Manager vacancies (requiring minimum former work experience of 1-2 years). The state-wise breakup of the vacancies can be viewed in the Annexure I of the detailed notification.

IBPS RRB Important Dates

The IBPS RRB (CRP RRBs VI) process for 2018-19 has been concluded with IBPS releasing the Provisional Allotment on 16th November 2018. The Reserve List for IBPS RRB 2018-19 has also been declared.

In 2018, the RRB examination registration process was started on 8th June and concluded by 2nd July. The two stage examinations (Officer Scale I and Office Assistant) were conducted in August and September/October and the Single Stage Exam (Officer Scale II and III) was conducted in September end. Entire exam process has been wrapped up by 16th November 2018.

IBPS RRB Eligibility Criteria

I. Nationality / Citizenship

A candidate must qualify as one of the following:
(i) an Indian citizen
(ii) a Nepalese or Bhutanese subject
(iii) a Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 (intending to permanently settle in India)
(iv) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Candidates belonging to categories (ii through iv) will need to procure relevant certificate from Government of India.

II Age (As on 01.06.2018)

1] For Officer Scale- III (Senior Manager)

Candidate must be above 21 years and below 40 years i.e. candidates should not have been born earlier than 03.06.1978 and later than 31.05.1997

2] For Officer Scale- II (Manager)

Candidate must be above 21 years and below 32 years i.e. candidates should not have been born earlier than 03.06.1986 and later than 31.05.1997

3] For Officer Scale- I (Assistant Manager)

Candidate must be above 18 years and below 30 years i.e. candidates should not have been born earlier than 03.06.1988 and later than 31.05.2000

4] For Office Assistant (Multipurpose)

Candidate must be between 18 years and 28 years i.e. candidates should have not been born earlier than 02.06.1990 and later than 01.06.2000

Age Relaxation

As per GoI guidelines, IBPS offers certain age relaxations to categories mentioned below:

III Educational Qualification and Experience (as on the last date of Online Registration i.e. 02.07.2018):

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:

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

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

• 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.

IBPS CRP RRB Exam Syllabus

As the prelims, mains and single stage exams have similar sections being asked – the topics to prepare for in the prelim/mains/single stage are broadly the same. Depending on the sections being asked in the exam, given below is a reference list of subtopics to prepare for. This is based on past years trends and similar examinations conducted by IBPS.

The broad sections in the exam are – Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English or Hindi Verbal Ability, General Awareness and Computer Knowledge.

For Specialist Cadre

Do note that specialist cadre officers will be tested separately on professional knowledge.