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 Organizations 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 Organizations and co-ordinated by IBPS. Depending
on the State/UT wise available vacancies in Participating organizations,
candidates shortlisted will be allotted to one of the Participating Organizations,
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
A PARTICIPATING
ORGANISATIONS
Allahabad
Bank
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Canara
Bank
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Indian
Overseas Bank
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UCO
Bank
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Andhra
Bank
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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
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The tentative schedule
of events is as follows:
Events
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Tentative
Dates
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Online
Registration
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19.08.2013-
07.09.2013
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Payment
of Application Fees- Online
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19.08.2013-
07.09.2013
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Payment
of Application Fees- Offline
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21.08.2013-
12.09.2013
|
Download
of Call Letter for Pre-Examination Training (PET)
for
SC/ST/ Minority Community/ EXSM/ PWD candidates
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After
29.10.2013
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Pre-Examination
Training
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09.11.2013-16.11.2013
(excluding holidays)
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Download
of Call letter for Examination
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After
18.11.2013
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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
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Last
week of January 2014
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Conduct
of Interview
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Second
week of February 2014
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Allotment
|
April
2014
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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.
B. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
(as on 01.08.2013)
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.
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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.
II. Age (As on
01.08.2013):
Minimum: 20 years Maximum:
28 years
i.e. a candidate must have
been born not earlier than 02.08.1985 and not later than 01.08.1993 (both
dates inclusive)
Relaxation of Upper age
limit
NOTE: (i) The
relaxation in upper age limit to SC/ST/OBC candidates is allowed on cumulative
basis
with only one of the
remaining categories for which age relaxation is permitted as
mentioned above in
Point No. II (3) to II (8). PWD candidates applying for a State/UT
where vacancies are not
available for PWD category will be eligible for upper age
relaxation as available
to PWD candidates. Ex-Servicemen candidates applying for a State/
UT where vacancies are
not available for Ex-Servicemen category will not be eligible for
upper age relaxation
available to Ex-Servicemen candidates.
(ii) The maximum age
limit specified is applicable to General Category candidates.
(iii) Candidates
seeking age relaxation will be required to submit copies of necessary
certificate(s) at the
time of Interview and at any subsequent stage of the recruitment process
as required by IBPS/
Participating Organisation(s).
(iv) The following
rules applicable to Ex-Servicemen re-employed under the Central
government would apply
to Ex-Servicemen candidates appearing for the CWE:
(i) Ex-Servicemen
candidates who have already secured employment under the Central Government in
Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ will be permitted the benefit of age relaxation as prescribed
for Ex-Servicemen for securing another employment in a higher grade or cadre in
Group ‘C’/ ‘D’ under the Central Government. However, such candidates will not
be eligible for the benefit of reservation for Ex-Servicemen in Central
Government
jobs.
(ii) An ex-Servicemen who
has once joined a Government job on civil side after availing of the benefits
given to him/her as an Ex-Servicemen for his/her re-employment, his/her
ExServicemen status for the purpose of the re-employment in Government jobs
ceases.
(iii) Candidates who are
still in the Armed Forces and desirous of applying under ExServicemen category
whose date of completion of specific period of engagement (SPE) is completed
one year from the last date for receipt of online application i.e. on or before
09.09.2014 are eligible to apply.
I. Educational
Qualifications:
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.
D. WRITTEN EXAMINATION
I. The structure of the examination which will
be conducted online is as follows:
Sr.
No.
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Name
of Tests (Objective)
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Maximum
Marks
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1
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Reasoning
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40
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2
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English
Language
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40
|
3
|
Numerical
Ability
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40
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4
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General
Awareness(with special reference to Banking Industry
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40
|
5
|
Computer
Knowledge
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40
|
Total
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200
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Total Time :- 2 hours
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 authorized IBPS website
www.ibps.in.
II. Penalty for Wrong
Answers
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. 7
III. Examination
Centers
(i) The examination will
be conducted online in venues across many centres in India. The
tentative list of
Examination centres is available in Annexure I.
(ii) No request for change
of centre for Examination shall be entertained.
(iii) IBPS, however,
reserves the right to cancel any of the Examination Centres and/ or add some
other Centres, at its
discretion, depending upon the response, administrative feasibility, etc.
(iv) As far as
practicable, candidates will be allotted to a centre of his/her choice.
However, IBPS
also reserves the right to
allot the candidate to any centre other than the one he/she has opted for
and a candidate may be
allocated a centre of exam outside the State/UT for which
vacancies he/she is
applying.
(v) Candidate will appear
for the examination at an Examination Centre at his/her own risks and
expenses and IBPS will not
be responsible for any injury or losses etc. of any nature.
IV. Scores
The corrected scores
obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be
normalized using
equipercentile method.
V. Cutoff Score
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:
(1) Valid Call Letter for
the respective date and session of Examination
(2) Photo-identity proof
(as specified in Point G) in original and
(3) Photocopy of
photo-identity proof (as mentioned in (2) above)
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.
E. HOW TO APPLY
Candidates can apply
online only from 19.08.2013 to 07.09.2013 and no other mode of
application will be
accepted.
Pre-Requisites for
Applying Online
Before applying online, candidates should—
(i) scan their photograph
and signature ensuring that both the photograph and signature adhere to the
required specifications as
given in Annexure II to this Advertisement.
(ii) If desiring to make
Online Payment of the requisite application fee/ intimation charges keep the
necessary
details/documents ready (In case of Offline Payment i.e. CBS candidates have to
apply online,
obtain a fee payment
challan and then remit the necessary application fees/ intimation charges).
(iii) have a valid
personal email ID, which should be kept active till the declaration of results
of this round of
CWE. IBPS may send call
letters for the Examination etc. through the registered e-mail ID. Under no
circumstances, a candidate
should share with/mention e-mail ID to / of any other person. In case a
candidate does not have a
valid personal e-mail ID, he/she should create his/her new e-mail ID before
applying on-line and must
maintain that email account.
Application Fees/
Intimation Charges [Payable from 19.08.2013 to 07.09.2013 (Online payment) and 21.08.2013
to 12.09.2013 (Offline payment) both dates inclusive]
- Rs. 100/- for
SC/ST/PWD/EXSM candidates.
- Rs. 600 /- for all
others