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Banking Exams
Recruitment for public sector banks, conducted mainly by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection and the State Bank of India. Selection typically runs preliminary exam, main exam and interview.
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All Banking Exams
Every exam we cover in this category, with its notification, syllabus, papers and cut offs.
IBPS Clerk
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)
1 PDFs
IBPS PO
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)
2 PDFs
9 tests
IBPS RRB Office Assistant
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)
1 PDFs
2 tests
IBPS RRB Officer
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)
2 PDFs
IBPS SO
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)
1 PDFs
SBI Clerk (Junior Associates)
State Bank of India (SBI)
1 PDFs
4 tests
SBI PO
State Bank of India (SBI)
1 PDFs
9 tests
How bank exams are structured
IBPS and SBI both run a preliminary test that only screens, a main examination that decides merit, and — for officer posts — an interview. The clerical cadre has no interview at all. Every section is separately timed: unused minutes in one section cannot be carried into another, and a closed section cannot be reopened.
Cut offs are not published
Neither IBPS nor SBI releases cut-off marks. The notifications say only that cut offs "will be decided" depending on vacancies and candidate numbers, and scores are shown to each candidate individually through a roll-number login rather than as a category-wise table. Any precise bank cut off you see elsewhere is reconstructed from candidate reports, not an official figure.
IBPS and SBI differ on sectional cut offs
IBPS requires a minimum in every section, so a strong overall score with one weak section still fails. SBI states plainly that there is no sectional cut off in the preliminary examination — the merit list is drawn on aggregate marks alone. If you are sitting both, that single difference changes whether you can afford to skip a weak section.
Only the main examination counts
Preliminary marks are discarded once you clear. IBPS goes further and withholds main examination scores entirely until the interview process is complete.