Exam Pattern of IBPS RRB 2017 – Office Assistants and Scale I , II & III Officers
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Exam Pattern of IBPS RRB 2017 – Office Assistants and Scale I , II & III Officers
Dear Bankersdaily Aspirant ,
IBPS has announced the RRB Notification 2017 for many vacancies. The exam is for the selection of both Office Assistants and the Scale I , Scale II and Scale III Officers. As many of you are aware that the individual vacancies of each state is also mentioned , the competition is going to be heavy this time. If you haven’t seen the individual State Vacancies in the notification, please click the below link to know about them.
We hope you have started the preparations and if not , do start you preparations right now as the exam is around the corner and you don’t have much days. In this article we have provided the exam pattern of IBPS RRB Office Assistant , IBPS RRB Scale I Officers , IBPS RRB Scale II Officers and IBPS RRB Scale III Officers. Also if you any doubts regarding how to apply for the different posts in RRB and also any queries regarding the notification , please check the below link which has the Common FAQ’s faced by the candidate.
Common FAQ’s while Applying for IBPS RRB Vacancies
Preliminary Examination (objective)
Office Assistant (Multipurpose)
| S.no | Name of Tests | No of questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1. | Reasoning | 40 | 40 | Composite time of 45 minutes. |
| 2. | Numerical Ability | 40 | 40 | |
| Total | 80 | 80 |
* Candidates (for both posts) have to qualify in both the tests by securing minimum cut-off marks to qualify for the mains examination
Officer Scale -1
| S.no | Name of Tests | No of questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1. | Reasoning | 40 | 40 | Composite time of 45 minutes. |
| 2. | Numerical Ability | 40 | 40 | |
| Total | 80 | 80 |
* Candidates (for both posts) have to qualify in both the tests by securing minimum cut-off marks to qualify for the mains examination
Main Examination Pattern
IBPS RRB Office Assistant (Multipurpose)
| S.no | Name of tests | No of questions | Maximum Marks | Total Time |
| 1. | Reasoning | 40 | 50 | Composite Time of 2 hours |
| 2. | Numerical Ability | 40 | 50 | |
| 3. | General Awareness | 40 | 40 | |
| 4 a | English Language | 40 | 40 | |
| 4 b | Hindi Language | 40 | 40 | |
| 5 | Computer Knowledge | 40 | 20 | |
| Total | 200 | 200 |
*Candidates can opt for either English / Hindi during the time of applying for the post. The candidate has to attend the chose language in the mains examination (i.e Either English / Hindi , but not both)
* For the Office Assistant Multipurpose post , there is no Interview and candidates are shortlisted based on the cutoff gained by the candidate in the Mains Examination.
Officer Scale -I
| S.no | Name of tests | No of questions | Maximum Marks | Total Time |
| 1. | Reasoning | 40 | 50 | Composite Time of 2 hours |
| 2. | Numerical Ability | 40 | 50 | |
| 3. | General Awareness | 40 | 40 | |
| 4 a | English Language | 40 | 40 | |
| 4 b | Hindi Language | 40 | 40 | |
| 5 | Computer Knowledge | 40 | 20 | |
| Total | 200 | 200 |
* Candidates have to qualify by securing the minimum cut off marks in all the sections and also have to clear the overall cutoff marks in order to grab a spot in the interview list. The marks obtained in the Mains Examination and the Interview will be added to get the total marks of the candidate and he has to clear the cutoff of the total marks after the interview to grab a spot in the merit list.
* Candidates can opt for either English / Hindi during the time of applying for the post. The candidate has to attend the chose language in the mains examination (i.e Either English / Hindi , but not both)
Officer Scale – II
* Candidates can opt for either English / Hindi during the time of applying for the post. The candidate has to attend the chose language in the mains examination (i.e Either English / Hindi , but not both)
Officer Scale – III
| Sr No. | Name of Test (Objective) | Medium of Exam | No.of Questions | Maximum Marks | Total Time |
| 1 | Reasoning | Hindi/English | 40 | 50 | Composite Time of 2 hours |
| 2 | Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation | Hindi/English | 40 | 50 | |
| 3 | Financial Awareness | Hindi/English | 40 | 40 | |
| 4 a | English Language | English | 40 | 40 | |
| 4 b | Hindi Language | Hindi | 40 | 40 | |
| 5 | Computer Knowledge | Hindi/English | 40 | 20 | |
| Total | 200 |
* Candidates can opt for either English / Hindi during the time of applying for the post. The candidate has to attend the chose language in the mains examination (i.e Either English / Hindi , but not both)
If you wish to know more about how to crack the different sections asked in the IBPS RRB Office Assistants and Scale I , II & III Officers , Please Check the below link to gain more about how to tackle the various sections and tricks of each section.
How to Approach various topics in IBPS RRB Exams
If you have started the preparation for the IBPS RRB posts , you are ahead of many others who are fighting for a spot in the vacancies. If not start your preparation now. We have also started a new learn series to help the candidates gain more insight about the topics asked in the exam , so if you wish to check more about that , please click the link below to know more about the Learn Series. We are sure this will help the aspirants to the core.
Learn Series – Know about Various Topics
