IBPS SO Recruitment Notification 2020-21 Out | Everything You Need To Know

Every year IBPS recruits Specialist Officers through IBPS SO Recruitment exam for various Specialist Officer Scale I Posts – IT Officer, Agricultural Field Officer, Rajbhasha Adhikari, Law Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, and Marketing Officer. The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has released the official notification for IBPS SO for the year 2020. In this blog, IBPS SO Notification 2020 we are going to provide you with all the details like Notification, Examination dates, Eligibility criteria, Syllabus, and more.

IBPS SO Recruitment Notification 2020 | Important Dates & Participating Organisations

The dates as per the official notification by IBPS.

 

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IBPS SO Notification 2020– Eligibility Criteria

Age Criteria

Minimum: 20 years

Maximum: 30 years

(A candidate must have been born not earlier than 02.11.1990 and no later than 01.11.2000 (both dates inclusive)

Educational Qualification

For I.T. Officer (Scale-I)

•  4 year Engineering/ Technology Degree in Computer Science/ Computer Applications/ Information Technology/ Electronics/ Electronics & 3 Telecommunications/ Electronics & Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation.OR
• Post Graduate Degree in Electronics/ Electronics & Tele Communication/ Electronics & Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation/ Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Computer Applications.
  OR Graduate having passed DOEACC ‘B’ level exam.

Agricultural Field Officer (Scale I)

• 4 year Degree (graduation) in Agriculture/ Horticulture/Animal Husbandry/ Veterinary Science/ Dairy Science/ Fishery Science/ Pisciculture/ Agri. Marketing & Cooperation/ Co-operation & Banking/ Agro-Forestry/Forestry/ Agricultural Biotechnology/ Food Science/ Agriculture Business Management/ Food Technology/ Dairy Technology/ Agricultural Engineering/ Sericulture.

Marketing Officer (Scale I)

• Graduate and Two Years Full-time MMS (Marketing)/ Two Years Full-time MBA (Marketing)/ Two Years Full-time PGDBA / PGDBM/ PGPM/ PGDM with specialization in Marketing. *

HR/Personnel Officer (Scale I)

• Graduate and Two Years Full-time Post Graduate degree or Two Years Full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management / Industrial Relations/ HR / HRD/ Social Work / Labour Law.*

Law Officer (Scale I)

• A Bachelor Degree in Law (LLB) and enrolled as an advocate with Bar Council

Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I)

• Post Graduate Degree in Hindi with English as a subject at the degree (graduation) level.

                                                                                OR

• Postgraduate degree in Sanskrit with English and Hindi as subjects at the degree (graduation) level.

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IBPS SO Recruitment Notification 2020 | Vacancies

IBPS has released a total of 647 vacancies for various Specialist Officer Scale I Posts – IT Officer, Agricultural Field Officer, Rajbhasha Adhikari, Law Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, and Marketing Officer.

Post	No of Vacancy
I.T.OFFICER (SCALE-I)	20
AGRICULTURAL FIELD OFFICER (SCALE-I)	485
RAJBHASHA ADHIKARI (SCALE-I)	25
LAW OFFICER (SCALE-I)	50
HR/PERSONNEL OFFICER (SCALE-I)	7
POST : MARKETING OFFICER (SCALE-I)	60
Total	647

IBPS SO 2020 – Selection Procedure

IBPS SO 2020 Recruitment Process will have 3 stages -:

• IBPS SO Preliminary Exam
• IBPS SO Main Exam
• IBPS SO Interview

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IBPS SO Notification 2020 – Exam Fee

Application Fees/ Intimation Charges (Applicable GST will be borne by IBPS)
Application Fees/ Intimation Charges [Payable from 02.11.2020 to 23.11.2020 (only Online payment, both dates
inclusive) shall be as follows

• Rs. 175/- (inclusive of GST) for SC/ST/PWBD candidates.
• Rs. 850 /- (inclusive of GST) for all others

IBPS SO Notification 2020 – Exam Pattern

IBPS SO 2020 Recruitment – Preliminary Exam Pattern

Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari

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IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer

NOTE:

• Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing minimum cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS.
• Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination.
• There will be separate sectional timings for each section in the preliminary examination.

IBPS SO Recruitment 2020 – Main Exam Pattern

Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer

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Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari

• Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations). There will be a 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 a penalty to arrive at a 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.

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IBPS SO 2020  Recruitment – Interview

• The maximum marks allotted for the interview is 100.
• Minimum qualifying marks will not be less than 40% (relaxed to 35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD candidates).
• Weightage of the IBPS SO Mains Exam to Interview is in the ratio 80:20.
• Final shortlisting will be done based on the combined scores of the candidate in the Mains examination and the interview.

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IBPS SO Notification 2020 – Topics for preparation

English Language

Quantitative Aptitude

Reasoning Ability

General Awareness

IBPS SO 2020 Exam – Topics for Preparation

• 10 Mock Tests for Prelims (IT, Agriculture & Marketing Officer)
• 10 Mock Tests for Mains Choose Subject from  SO – IT / SO – Marketing / SO – Agriculture
• 35+ Topic Tests (Covers Quant/Reasoning/English)
• Sectional Tests (Covers Quant/Reasoning/English
• Access to all Oliveboard Concept Videos (Covers Quant/Reasoning/English)
• Lessons on All Topics(Covers Quant/Reasoning/English)