Specialist Officers (SO)

Specialist Officer

About S.O

All Banks recruit specialist officers in various disciplines such as IT, Law, Human Resources, Agriculture field officer etc. IBPS is the agency which undertakes both the recruitment generally with two examinations conducted annually in the form of IBPS SO. online apply in month November and Exam in Feb.

Selection Procedure

IBPS SO Exam is conducted for recruiting candidates for the posts of IT Officer, Agricultural Field Officer, Rajbhasha Adhikari, Law Officer, HR/ Personnel Officer, and Marketing Officer. The exam is conducted through 3 stages – Prelims, Main Exam and Interview round.

The selection process of IBPS SO consists of 3 phases (preliminary, mains and interview). The candidates must qualify each of them to go on to the next phase.

The important steps of the IBPS SO Recruitment Procedure are as follows:

Online Preliminary Examination:

A sufficient number of candidates in each category are shortlisted by IBPS depending upon the requirements for Online Main Examination.

Online Mains Examination:

Candidates need to qualify the Professional Knowledge Test in the main exam to be eligible for an interview.

Interview:

The Participating Organizations will hold an Interview which will also be coordinated by the Nodal Bank in each State/ UT with the help of IBPS

Final Result:

The Final result is declared on the basis of a candidate’s overall performance in IBPS SO Mains and Interview Rounds.

Eligibility

Educational Qualification (as on 26.11.2020):

S.No.	Post	Educational Qualification
1.	I.T. Officer (Scale I)	1)Four years of engineering/Technology degree in Computer Science/IT/Computer Application/Electronics and Communication Engineering/Electronics and Telecommunication/ Electronics and Instrumentation OR 2) Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science/IT/Computer Application/Electronics and Communication Engineering/Electronics and Telecommunication/ Electronics and Instrumentation OR Graduates having passed DOEACC ‘B’ level exam
2.	Agricultural Field Officer (Scale-I)	4 years graduation degree in agriculture/ Horticulture/ Animal Husbandry/ Veterinary Science/ dairy Science/ Agricultural engineering/ Fishery Science/ Pisciculture/ Agri Marketing and cooperation/ Co-Operation and Banking/ Agro-Forestry
3.	Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I)	Post Graduate in Hindi with English as a subject at the graduation or degree level OR Post-Graduate Degree in Sanskrit with English and Hindi as a subject at graduation level
4.	Law Officer (Scale I)	A bachelor’s degree in Law and enrolled as an advocate with Bar Council
5.	HR/Personnel Officer (Scale I)	Graduate and Full Time Post Graduate Degree or Full-time Diploma in Personnel Management/ Industrial Relation/ HR/ HRD/ Social Work/ Labour Law
6.	Marketing Officer (Scale I)	Graduate and Full-Time MMS (Marketing)/ MBA (Marketing)/Full time PGDBA/ PGDBM with specialization in Marketing

Age: 20 t0 30 or may some post above with Experience.

Exam Pattern

SO Prelims Exam Pattern

The IBPS SO preliminary examination is of two-hour duration and is conducted online. It has 3 sections with having 150 questions in total with a maximum score of 125 marks. There is a negative marking in IBPS SO pre-exam as one-fourth marks are deducted for every wrong answer.

For the Post of Law Officer and Rajsabha Adhikari Scale-I officer

Serial No	Section	No. of Questions	Total Marks	Duration
1.	Reasoning	50	50	40 min
2.	English Language	50	25	40 min
3.	General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry	50	50	40 min
	Total	150	125	120 min

For the Post of Agriculture Field Officer, Marketing Officer (Scale I), HR/Personnel Officer, IT Officer Scale I

Serial No	Section	No. of Questions	Total Marks	Duration
1.	Reasoning	50	50	40 min
2.	English Language	50	25	40 min
3.	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	40 min
	Total	150	125	120 min

IBPS SO Mains Exam Pattern

For the Post of Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, and Marketing Officer

Name of Test	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
Professional Knowledge	60	60	English & Hindi	45 min

For the Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari

Name of Test	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
Professional Knowledge(Objective)	45	60	English & Hindi	30 min
Professional Knowledge(Descriptive)	2	60	English & Hindi	30 min

The Mains Examination will contain questions only from Professional Knowledge Subjects.

For the Post of Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer it has Professional Knowledge Test there is 1 section having a total score of 60 marks of 45 minutes duration.

For the Post of Rajbhasha Adhikari, there are 2 sections having a total score of 60 marks of 60 minutes duration the total time duration is 30 minutes for objective and 30 minutes for descriptive.

Important Date

IBPS SO Preliminary exam is scheduled on month of December/January. The Mains examination will be conducted on January of every year.

IBPS SO Exam Dates 2022

Sr. No.	Activity	IBPS SO Dates
1	Online Examination – Preliminary	24th, 31st December 2022
2	Online Examination – Main	29th January 2023

IBPS Exam Calendar 2022 – Download PDF

The Institute of Banking & Personnel Selection (IBPS) will be releasing the exam calendar for various exams that include RRBs – CRP RRB-XI (Office Assistants) and CRP RRB-XI (Officers) and PSBs – CRP CLERK-XII, CRP PO/MT-XII & CRP SPL-XII that are to be conducted in the year 2022-23. The official IBPS Calendar released on 16th January 2022 on ibps.in.

Activity	Tentative Dates
IBPS SO Notification	November
IBPS SO Online Registration Starts From	November
Last Date to Apply Online for IBPS SO	November
Download of call letters for Online examination – Preliminary	December
Commencement of IBPS SO Preliminary Exam	December
Result of IBPS SO Online exam – Preliminary	January
Download of call letters for Online examination – Mains	January
Commencement of IBPS SO Mains Exam	January
Conduct of Interview	February
IBPS SO Final Result	April