Category: Bank

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is an autonomous(self-governed) academic and research oriented Institute.It perform following functions:

  • Recruitment Projects
  • Promotion Projects
  • Admission Test & Certification Exams for banking personnel
  • Personality related assessments(Personal interview

Common Written Examination (CWE) is conducted by IBPS for recruitment to nationalized banks in India to fill vacancies for clerical, probationary officers, specialist officers

Various recruitment projects under IBPS are :

  • CWE clerical
  • CWE PO/MT
  • CWE Specialist Officers

CWE RRBs

Basically bank’s clerk job include direct interaction & dealing with the public.Other functions are :

  • Handling withdrawal & deposit counters.This is the reason some banks mention clerk as single window operators
  • Accepting payments, sanction withdrawals, verify cheques,
  • Issue demand drafts & other banking related services to customers.
  • Back-office work like receipts collection, ledger maintenance, balance tally

Marketing of financial products of bank such as loans, deposits, schemes to visitors.

To work as a manager in banking in the banking industry, the first stepping stone is becoming a PO. A PO starts as a trainee officer in the Junior Management Grade Scale of the bank & can rise to the highest levels, becoming a General Manager, Executive Director or even the Chairman. Job responsibilities include :

  • Customer services– To guide clients about the banking facilities and products available to them, like issuing Cheque books, ATM cards, Demand Draft, etc. Customer complaints like discrepancies in accounts
  • Loan Processing– Before granting the loan to the customer, all the documentation is to be done under his/her supervision.
  • Bringing business to bank– To promote the various products and schemes that the bank has in offer for its customers.
  • Supervision of Clerical work

It is not fixed and will depend on the vacancies created by each participating bank in next one year.

IBPS CWE CLERK-Pre (1 hour)

Subjects No. Of Questions Marks
Reasoning 35 35
Numerical Ability 35 35
English 30 30
Total 100 100

IBPS CWE CLERK-Mains(2 hours)

Subjects No. Of Questions Marks
Reasoning 40 40
Quantitative Aptitude 40 40
English 40 40
General Awareness 40 40
Computer 40 40
Total 200 200

IIBPS CWE PO Pre(1 hour)

Subjects No. Of Questions Marks
Reasoning 35 35
Quantitative Aptitude 35 35
English 30 30
Total 100 100

IBPS CWE PO-Mains(2 hours)

Subjects No. Of Questions Marks
Reasoning 50 50
Quantitative Aptitude 50 50
English 40 40
General Awareness 40 40
Computer 20 20
Total 200 200