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IBPS SO 2022: Study Material, Syllabus and Exam Pattern, Notification, Exam Date & More

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About IBPS SO 2022

IBPS SO Highlights 2022

IBPS SO Notifications 2022

IBPS SO Vacancies 2022

IBPS SO Syllabus

IBPS SO Exam Pattern

IBPS SO Eligibility

IBPS SO Exam Dates 2022

IBPS SO Application Process

IBPS SO Admit Card

IBPS SO Result

IBPS SO Selection Process

IBPS SO Cut-off

IBPS SO Salary

About IBPS SO

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts IBPS SO Recruitment every year to select eligible candidates for the posts mentioned below:

Agriculture Field Officer
Marketing Officer (Scale I)\
HR/Personnel Officer (Scale I)
IT Officer (Scale I)
Law Officer (Scale I)
Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I)

IBPS SO Highlights 2022

The detailed recruitment for the IBPS SO exam will be published by the Institute of Banking and Personnel Selection on its official website in October/ November 2022.

Here are some key points in the table below about this respective exam:

Particulars	Details
Name of the Exam	Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) – Specialist Officer (SO)
Name of the Post	Specialist Officer (SO)
Conducting Organisation	Institute of Banking Personnel Selection(IBPS)
Exam Duration	2 hours
Vacancy	To be notified
Participating Banks	11
Exam Level	National
Exam Mode	Online
Exam Purpose	To recruit eligible candidates to the post of Specialist Officer (SO)
Language	English and Hindi
Level of Recruitment	Prelims, Mains and Interview
Official Website	https://www.ibps.in/

IBPS SO Notifications 2022

The details of the IBPS SO notification 2022 will be released at the official website www.ibps.in for 200 vacant posts of SO with IBPS SO notification for various posts such as Marketing Officer, IT Officer, Law Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, Agriculture Field Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari.

IBPS SO Vacancies 2022

In the 2021-22 session, IBPS introduced 1828 Specialist Officers (SO) vacancies. Please have a look at the table below which provides the total vacancies for IBPS SO 2021-22.

The number of vacancies for various posts is mentioned below:

Name of Post	No. of Vacancies
IT Officer (Scale-I)	220
Agriculture Officer (Scale-I)	884
Marketing Office (Scale-I)	535
Law Officer (Scale-I)	44
HR/Personnel Officer (Scale-I)	61
Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale-I)	84
Total	1828

IBPS SO 2022 Syllabus

IBPS SO 2022 Syllabus is designed separately for each Specialist Officer. The IBPS Specialist Officer syllabus is designed separately for Preliminary Exam and Mains Exam.

The syllabus contains subjects like the English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, and Reasoning.

IBPS SO 2022Syllabus for each subject is given below.

Reasoning Ability

General Awareness

General English

Quantitative Aptitude

Seating arrangement puzzles

Inequality syllogisms

Input and Output of data

Sufficiency Problems

Blood relations

Order and Ranking problems

Alphanumeric

Verbal Reasoning

Distance and Direction

Current Affairs and Banking Awareness Topics

Questions on books and their authors

Currencies

Important Places

Awards

Headquarters

Prime minister’s schemes

Reading

Comprehension

Spotting Errors

Sentence

Improvement/correction

Unscrambling of Paragraphs

Filling in the blanks

Close tests

Sentence completion.

Number Series simplifications

Approximation and Interpretation of Data

Quadratic Equations

Data Sufficiency

Mensuration

Averages

Profit and Loss

Simple and Compound Interest

Time

Work

Distance

Partnership

Ratio and Proportion

Probability

IBPS SO Exam Pattern

The IBPS SO 2022 Exam Pattern consists of three stages namely

Prelims
Main and
Interview

IBPS SO 2022 Prelims Exam Pattern

IBPS SO Rajbhasha Adhikari & Law Officer Prelims Exam Pattern:

Section	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
English Language	50	25	40 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	50	25	40 minutes
Reasoning Ability	50	50	40 minutes
Total	150	125	2 hours

IBPS SO I.T, Agricultural, Personnel/HR & Marketing Officer:

Section	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
English Language	50	25	40 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	40 minutes
Reasoning Ability	50	50	40 minutes
Total	150	125	2 hours

IBPS SO 2022 Mains Exam Pattern

Rajbhasha Adhikari & Law Officer Main Exam Pattern:

Name of the Tests	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
Professional Knowledge	60	60	45 minutes

I.T, Agricultural, Personnel/HR & Marketing Officer Main Exam
Pattern:

Name of the Tests	Number of Questions	Duration
Professional Knowledge (Objective)	45	30 minutes
Professional Knowledge (Descriptive)	2	30 minutes

IBPS SO Eligibility

Given below are the eligibility guidelines as per the IBPS.

Nationality

Candidate should be a citizen of India
The subject of Nepal or Bhutan
Tibetan Refugee who came over to India prior to the 1st of January, 1962
A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Burma, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, East African Countries i.e. (Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania) and/or Vietnam and Zaire with the intention of residing in India permanently.

Age Limit

Minimum age limit- 20 years
Maximum age limit- Not more than 30 years.

Age Relaxation Limit

Age relaxation as per the certain categories has been mentioned below in the tabular form.

Category	Age Relaxation
OBC (Non-creamy layer)	3 years
SC/ST	5 years
PWD	10 years
Persons affected by 1984 riots/persons domiciled in Jammu and Kashmir	5 years
Ex-servicemen	5 years

Educational Qualification

Please find below the educational qualification for the various post of IBPS SO:

IBPS SO Posts	IBPS SO Educational Qualification
Agricultural Field Officer (Scale-I)	Four years Bachelor degree in agriculture/ Animal Husbandry/ Horticulture/ Veterinary Science/ Agricultural Engineering/ Fishery Science/ Dairy Science/ Pisciculture/ Agri Marketing and cooperation/ Agro-Forestry/ Co-Operation and Banking
Law Officer (Scale I	A bachelor’s degree in Law
Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I)	Master’s in Hindi with English as a subject at the Graduation level, or Master’s in Sanskrit with English and Hindi as a subject in Graduation
Marketing Officer (Scale I)	Bachelor Degree and a Full-Time MBA (Marketing)/ MMS (Marketing)/ Full-time PGDM/ PGDBA with specialization in Marketing
HR/Personnel Officer (Scale I)	Bachelor Degree and Full Time Post Graduate Degree,or Full-time Diploma in Industrial Relation/ Personnel Management/ HR/ Social Work/ HRD/ Labour Law
I.T. Officer (Scale I)	Four years of Engineering/Technology degree in Computer Science/ Electronics and Telecommunication/ IT/Electronics and Instrumentation/ Computer Application/Electronics and Communication Engineering, or Master Degree in Computer Science/IT/ Electronics and Instrumentation/ Electronics and Communication Engineering/ Computer Application /Electronics and Telecommunication Graduates have passed DOEACC ‘B’ level exam

IBPS SO Exam Dates 2022

Please find below the Exam Dates of IBPS SO 2022.

IBPS SO Events	IBPS SO Exam Date
Starting Date of Online registration	will be notify soon
Last Date of Registration	will be notify soon
Payment of Application Fees	will be notify soon
Release of Admit Card for Written Exam	will be notify soon
IBPS SO Online Exam (Preliminary)	December 24 and 31, 2022
Result of Preliminary Exam	January 2023
Release of Admit Card for Main Exam	January 2023
IBPS SO Main Exam	January 29, 2023
Result Declaration for Main Exam	January 2023
Release of Call Letters for Interview	February 2023
Conduct of Interview	February 2023

IBPS SO Application Process

Please find the below steps to submit application process:

Step 1: Go to the official website – https://www.ibps.in/.

Step 2: Applicants have to log in using a Unique Registration ID and a password will be generated.

Step 3: The candidates will then be required to upload digitally scanned versions of their photographs, signature, left-hand thumb impression, and a handwritten declaration.

Step 4: Download and take a printout of the application form and the payment receipt for future use.

a) Needed Documents

Document	Dimension (pixels)	File Size (KB)	Type
Photograph	200*230	20-50	JPEG/JPG
Left Thumb Impression	240*240	20-50	JPEG/JPG
Signature (in capital letters)	140*60	10-20	JPEG/JPG
Hand Written Declaration	800*400	50-100	JPEG/JPG

b) Application Fees

Categories	Application Fee
General	INR 600/-
SC/ST/PwD	INR 100/-

IBPS SO Admit Card

Please find the below steps to download admit card:

Step 1 : Go to the official website of IBPS www.ibps.in

Step 2 : Log in using Registration Number and Password

Step 3 : Verify and download the same in PDF format

Step 4 : Candidates will see a link on their profile i.e., “Download Admit Card” and click on the link.

Step 5 : The admit card of the IBPS SO admit card will appear on the screen.

Step 6 : Download and save it.

IBPS SO Result Declaration

Please find the below all the relevant details of the IBPS SO result.

IBPS SO Result Events	IBPS SO Result Dates
IBPS SO Preliminary Exam Date	26th December 2021
IBPS SO Preliminary Result	19th January 2022
Last date to view IBPS SO Prelims Result	24th January 2022
IBPS SO Mains Exam Date	30th January 2022
IBPS SO Mains Result	15th February 2022
IBPS SO Mains Score Card Release	24th March 2022
IBPS SO Final Result (provisional allotment)	01st April 2022

IBPS SO 2022 Selection Process

The IBPS SO 2022 selection process involves 3 stages.

Step 1: Prelims

Step 2: Mains

Step 3: Interview

IBPS SO Exam Cut Off 2022

IBPS SO final cut-off is released after completion of the interview process. IBPS SO final cut-offprelims 2021 is mentioned below. Take a look and get an idea about the cut-off for 2022.

IBPS SO Prelims Cut Off 2021 (Out of 125)
Posts Name	SC	ST	OBC	UR	EWS
IT Officer	66.25	54.63	66.38	66.38	64.50
Agricultural Field Officer	21.25	21.25	21.25	21.25	21.25
Rajbhasha Adhikari	19.88	17.25	20.13	20.13	18
Law Officer	40.25	33	42	42.38	34.63
HR/Personnel Officer	40.50	40.50	40.50	40.50	38.75
Marketing Officer	24	23.63	24	24	24

IBPS SO Salary

The salary for IBPS SO for various posts are mentioned in the below table:

IBPS SO Posts	In-Hand Salary (Payscale 1)	In-Hand Salary (Payscale 2)
I.T Officer	INR 24,000 – INR 32,000	INR 34,000 – INR 40,000
Rajbhasha Adhikari	INR 24,000 – INR 32,000	INR 34,000 – INR 40,000
Agriculture Officer	INR 24,000 – INR 32,000	INR 34,000 – INR 40,000
HR Officer	INR 24,000 – INR 32,000	INR 34,000 – INR 40,000
Law Officer	INR 24,000 – INR 32,000	INR 34,000 – INR 40,000
Marketing Officer	INR 24,000 – INR 32,000	INR 34,000 – INR 40,000