Institute of Banking Personnel Selection(IBPS) conducts IBPS Clerk Exam every year to recruit clerical cadres in multiple banks across the country.IBPS exams are an excellent opportunity for aspirants trying to get into the banking sector in India.
IBPS Clerk prelims exam for vacancies of 2023-24 will be conducted on 12th, 18th and 19th December 2021. Candidates who are interested in this examination should be aware of the syllabus of the examination and subjects to focus on.
IBPS clerk exam pattern and the subjects to focus on will be discussed in this article. For more details about the IBPS Clerk Exam, please check the linked article.
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List of Subjects for IBPS Clerk Preliminary Exam
The candidates have to qualify in all three tests by securing cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS. The three subjects at the prelims stage are:
- English Language
- Numerical Ability
- Reasoning Ability
The total time allotted for the preliminary exam is 60 minutes. Out of which each subject will be allotted a maximum of 20 minutes. The English Language will have 30 questions, Numerical Ability and Reasoning ability will have 35 questions each.
Topics to focus on from the above three subjects are mentioned in the below table:
| IBPS Clerk Prelims Subjects | ||
| English Language | Numerical Ability | Reasoning Ability |
| Reading Comprehension | Logical Reasoning | Profit, Loss and Discounts |
| Tenses rule | Alphanumeric Series | Quadratic Equations |
| Cloze Test(Fill in the Blanks) | Alphabetic Series | Approximation and Simplification |
| Jumbled Paragraphs | Ranking | Mixtures and Alligations |
| Idioms and Phrases | Data Sufficiency Tests | Simple and Compound Interest |
| Error Spotting Correction | Coded Inequalities | Surds and Indices |
| Reading Comprehension | Direction Test | Work and Time |
| Preposition Rules | Seating Arrangements | Speed, Time and Distance |
| _ | Puzzles | Mensuration: Cone, Sphere, Cylinder |
| Tabulation | Data Interpretation | |
| Syllogism | Ratio, Proportion and Percentage | |
| Input/Output | Number Systems | |
| Coding and Decoding | Sequences and Series | |
| Blood Relations | Permutation, Combination and Probability | |
List of Subjects for IBPS Clerk Mains Exam
The mains stage of IBPS Clerk consists of four main stages. The maximum marks and time allotted to each exam at the mains stage is given in the below table
| IBPS Clerk Mains Subjects | |||
| Name of the subject | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Time allotted for each test (Separately timed) |
| General/ Financial Awareness | 50 | 50 | 35 minutes |
| General English | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 50 | 60 | 45 minutes |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | 45 minutes |
| Total | 190 | 200 | 160 minutes |
Topics to focus on from the above 4 subjects are mentioned in the below table:
| General/ Financial Awareness | General English | Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | Quantitative Aptitude |
| Static GK – Static | Vocabulary | Reasoning Ability
Analogy |
Ratio and Proportion |
| General Knowledge | Tenses Rules | Assumptions and Statements | Time, Speed and Distance |
| Current Affairs | Grammar | Coding and Decoding | Work and Time Equations |
| Banking Awareness | Idioms & Phrases | Blood Relations | Mixtures and Alligations |
| India’s Financial and Banking System | Reading Comprehension | Sense of Direction and Distance | Measures of Central Tendency and Basic Statistics( Mean, Average, Median and Variance etc.) |
| Budget and Monetary Plans of the Government | Alphanumeric Series | Stocks, Shares and Debentures | |
| Important National Institutions | Non-Verbal Reasoning | Percentages | |
| Basics of Banking | Computer Aptitude | Clock Ray Questions | |
| Basics of Hardware and Software | Volume and Surface Area | ||
| Operating Systems | Logarithms | ||
| Internet and associated topics | Permutation and Combination | ||
| Microsoft Office and other word processing software | Partnerships | ||
| History of Computing | Heights and Distances | ||
| Basic Computer Networking | Probability | ||
| Basics of Databases | Simple and Compound Interest | ||
| Basics of Cyber Security Tools and Processes | Profit, Loss and Discounts | ||
| Syllogism | Basic Algebra | ||
| Basic Trigonometry | |||
| Charts, Bars and Graphs | |||
| Data Interpretation |
To understand the difficulty level and learn time management during the exam, candidates can go through IBPS Clerk Mock Test Series.
Related Links:
| IBPS Clerk Vacancy | IBPS Clerk Qualification |
| IBPS Clerk 2023 Exam Date | IBPS Clerk Exam Fee 2023 |
| IBPS Clerk Cut Off | IBPS Clerk Answer Key |
| IBPS Clerk Result | IBPS Clerk Scorecard |
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