The next Common Written Examination (CWE) as a pre-requisite for selection of personnel for Clerical cadre posts in the Participating Organisations listed below will be conducted online by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) tentatively in November/ December 2013.
Any eligible candidate, who aspires to join any of the Participating Organisations listed at (A) as a Clerk or in a similar post in that cadre, is required to register for the Common Recruitment Process- (CWE Clerks-III). Candidates who appear and are shortlisted in the examination, will subsequently be called for a Common Interview to be conducted by the Participating Organisations and co-ordinated by IBPS. Depending on the State/UTwise available vacancies in Participating organisations, candidates shortlisted will be allotted to one of the Participating Organisations, keeping in view the spirit of Govt. Guidelines on reservation policy, administrative convenience, etc.
This system of Common Recruitment Process –common written examination, interview and allotment- for recruitment of Clerical cadre posts in Participating Organisations has the approval of the appropriate authorities. IBPS, an autonomous body, has received a mandate from the organisations mentioned at (A) below to conduct the recruitment process as mentioned above, once a year. Prospective candidates will have to apply to IBPS after carefully reading the advertisement regarding the process of examination, interview and allotment, eligibility criteria, online registration processes, payment of prescribed application fee/ intimation charges, pattern of examination, issuance of call letters etc. and ensure that they fulfill the stipulated criteria and follow the prescribed processes.
Allahabad Bank | Canara Bank | Indian Overseas Bank | UCO Bank |
Andhra Bank | Central Bank of India | Oriental Bank of Commerce | Union Bank of India |
Bank of Baroda | Corporation Bank | Punjab National Bank | United Bank of India |
Bank of India | Dena Bank | Punjab & Sind Bank | Vijaya Bank |
Bank of Maharashtra | Indian Bank | Syndicate Bank | Any other Bank/ Financial Institution |
The tentative schedule of events is as follows | |
Event | Tentative Date |
Online Registration | 19.08.2013- 07.09.2013 |
Payment of Application Fees- Online | 19.08.2013- 07.09.2013 |
Payment of Application Fees- Offline | 21.08.2013- 12.09.2013 |
Download of Call Letter for Pre-Examination Training (PET) for SC/ST/ Minority Community/ EXSM/ PWD candidates | After 29.10.2013 |
Pre-Examination Training | 09.11.2013-16.11.2013 (excluding holidays) |
Download of Call letter for Examination After | After 18.11.2013 |
Online Examination (Tentative dates)- some/ all/ additional dates as the need arises | 30.11.2013/ 01.12.2013/ 07.12.2013/ 08.12.2013/ 14.12.2013/ 15.12.2013 |
Sharing of result status of examination (CWE) | Second week of January 2014 |
Download of call letters for Interview | Last week of January 2014 |
Conduct of Interview | Second week of February 2014 |
Allotment | April 2014 |
Candidates are advised to regularly keep in touch with the authorised IBPS website www.ibps.in for details and updates. |
Since recruitment in clerical cadre in Public Sector Banks is done on State/UT-wise basis, candidates can apply for vacancies in any one State/ UT only. Consequently, a candidate would be required to appear for CWE & Interview in any one of the centres in that particular State/UT. However, depending upon the response, administrative feasibility etc. candidates may be allotted to a centre of examination/ interview outside the chosen State/UT for which vacancies he/she is applying. Please note this reallocation is only for the conduct of examination/ interview and the candidate will be considered for vacancies in the State/UT applied for, as aforesaid.
Candidates, intending to apply for CWE Clerks-III should ensure that they fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria specified by IBPS :
Please note that the eligibility criteria specified herein are the basic criteria for applying for the post. Candidates must necessarily produce the relevant documents in original and a photocopy in support of their identity and eligibility as indicated in the online application form-pertaining to category, nationality, age, educational qualifications etc. Please note that no change of category will be permitted at any stage after registration of the online application. Merely applying for CWE/ appearing for and being shortlisted in the examination and/or in the subsequent interview and/ subsequent processes does not imply that a candidate will necessarily be offered employment in any of the Participating Organisations.
I. Nationality / Citizenship:
A candidate must be either -
(i) a Citizen of India or
(ii) a subject of Nepal or
(iii) a subject of Bhutan or
(iv) a Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India or
(v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India, provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) & (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
Minimum: 20 years Maximum: 28 years
i.e. a candidate must have been born not earlier than 02.07.1983 and not later than 01.07.1993 (both dates inclusive)
The tentative schedule of events is as follows | ||
Sr.No. | Category | Age Reaxation |
1 | Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe | 5 years |
2 | Other Backward Classes | 3 years |
3 | Persons With Disability | 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 Kashmir Division of the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period 1-1-80 to 31-12-89 | 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 |
NOTE:
Degree (Graduation) in any discipline from a recognized University or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government. Computer Literacy : Operating and working knowledge in computer systems is mandatory i.e. candidates should have Certificate/Diploma/Degree in computer operations/Language/ should have studied Computer / Information Technology as one of the subjects in the High School/College/Institute. Proficiency in the Official Language of the State/UT (candidates should know how to read/ write and speak the Official Language of the State/UT) for which vacancies a candidate wishes to apply is preferable. (Some questions may be put at the time of interview to ascertain the candidate's familiarity with the Official Language of the State/UT) Ex-Servicemen who do not possess the above civil examination qualifications should be matriculate Ex-Servicemen who have obtained the Army Special Certificate of Education or corresponding certificate in the Navy or Air Force after having completed not less than 15 years of service in the Armed Forces of the Union as on 01.08.2013. Such certificates should be dated on or before 01.08.2013.
Note:
The structure of the examination which will be conducted online is as follows :
Sr. No. | Name of Tests (Objective) | Maximum Marks | Total Time |
1 | Reasoning | 40 | 2 hours |
2 | English Language | 40 | 2 hours |
3 | Numerical Ability | 40 | 2 hours |
4 | General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry) | 40 | 2 hours |
5 | Computer Knowledge | 40 | 2 hours |
Total | 200 |
The above tests except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi. IBPS reserves the right to modify the structure of the examination which will be intimated through its website. Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the call letters from the authorised IBPS website www.ibps.in.
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.
The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using equipercentile method.
Each candidate will have to secure a minimum score in each test and also on total to be considered to be called for interview. For each State/UT, mere passing in individual tests may not be sufficient as candidates should also score sufficiently high on Total in order of merit to be called for interview.
Please note that candidates will not be permitted to appear for the Common Written Examination without the following documents:
Candidates reporting late i.e. after the reporting time specified on the call letter for
Examination will not be permitted to take the examination.
The reporting time mentioned on the call letter is prior to the Start time of the test. Though the
duration of the examination is 2 hours candidates may be required to be at the venue for about 4
hours including the time required for completion of various formalities such as verification and
collection of various requisite documents, logging in, giving of instructions etc.
Candidates who have been shortlisted in the examination for CWE Clerks-III will subsequently be called for an Interview to be conducted by the Participating Organisations. Interviews will be conducted at select centres. The centre, address of the venue, time & date of Interview will be informed to the shortlisted candidates in the call letter. Candidates are required to download their interview call letters from authorised IBPS website www.ibps.in Please note that any request regarding change in date, centre etc. of interview will not be entertained. However the conducting agencies reserve the right to change the date/ venue/ time/ centre etc. of interview or hold supplementary process for particular date / session / venue / centre / set of candidates at its discretion, under unforeseen circumstances, if any.
The total marks allotted for Interview are 100. The minimum qualifying marks in interview will not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD/EXSM candidates). The weightage (ratio) of CWE (exam) and interview will be 80:20. For each State/UT, the combined final scores of candidates shall be arrived at on the basis of total scores obtained by the candidates in CWE Clerk-III and Interview. A candidate should qualify both in the CWE and interview to be shortlisted for subsequent allotment process, details of which will be available subsequently on IBPS website.
While appearing for the Interview, the candidate should produce valid prescribed documents given below.
List of Documents to be produced at the time of interview(as applicable)
The following documents in original and a self attested photocopy in support of the candidate's eligibility and identity are to be invariably submitted at the time of interview failing which the candidate may not be permitted to appear for the interview
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