IBPS exam is one of the most popular banking exams in India. IBPS has recently started online application process for CWE specialist officer 2014 exam. Candidates can read the official notification and application process here. For candidates, who have already applied for the exam, I would like to share some important exam news. IBPS CWE-III SO 2014 exam is scheduled for Feb 8 and 9, 2014. Here, I am going to share a detailed syllabus for the exam. Though IBPS doesn’t specify subject-wise syllabus, but based on previous exams, we can prepare an estimated syllabus.
IBPS SO paper will include four sections in the exam. Three of the sections including Reasoning, English Language and professional knowledge will be the same for all the posts. The fourth section will be different depending on the post you have applied for. Below is the detailed subject-wise syllabus for different posts.
Examination Syllabus for IT Officer scale I & II, Agricultural Field Officer scale I & II, HR/Personnel Officer scale I & II, Marketing Officer Scale I & II, Chartered Accountant Scale II & Manager Credit (Scale II)/ Finance Executive (Scale II) :-
English Language (Same for all): English language paper may include questions from following topics: Word Formation, Passage Correction, Theme detection, Sentence Correction, Spelling, Sentence Completion, Synonyms, Antonyms, Idioms and Phrases, Passage Completion and Conclusion
Reasoning (Same for all): Important topics for reasoning paper are Sitting Arrangement, Series Completion, Decision Making, Series Completion, Coding Decoding, Syllogism, Statement Reasoning, Analogy, Blood Relation, Analogy and Classification
Quantitative Aptitude: Aptitude paper is only for the above posts, and it will contain topics including Numbers, Simplification, Roots, Surds & Indices, Percentage, Profit and Loss, Stocks & Shares, Ratio & Proportion, Boats & Streams, Allegations , Average, Simple and Compound Interest, Clocks, Logarithms, Mensuration, Pipes & Cisterns, Volume & Surface Area, Probability, Heights & Distances Partnership, Chain Rule, Time & Work, Permutation & combination, Time & Distance, Problems on Trains, Tabulation, Bar Graphs, Line Graphs and Pie Charts
Professional Knowledge: Professional knowledge paper will be conducted for every post, but the syllabus will be different for each post. This paper will basically involve questions from professional knowledge, i.e. your qualification level questions.
For IT Officer post, you can expect questions from all major engineering subjects including Database Management (DBMS), Networking, Web Technologies, Basic Programming concepts, timer, Network Security, Basics of hardware (Microprocessor, ALU, etc. You can refer GATE syllabus for the same.
For other posts, professional knowledge paper will contain questions from the respective graduation subjects.
Examination Syllabus for Law Officer Scale I & II and Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale I posts :-
Syllabus of the Reasoning, English language and professional knowledge papers will be the same as above. General awareness syllabus is mentioned below.
General Awareness (Banking Awareness): General awareness section of IBPS SO exam will include questions to check the candidate’s general awareness about various things including Knowledge of current events, India and its neighboring countries, History, Geography, Indian Constitution, Economy, Culture, General Polity, Sports, Scientific Research, etc. You can expect at least 50% of the questions from Economy, Banking and Finance sector.
Source: http://www.meriview.in/2013/11/IBPS-SO-SPECIALIST-OFFICER-SYLLABUS-2014-with-PDF-download-and-Exam-Pattern.html
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