IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2025, Check Prelims and Mains Exam Pattern

The IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2025 is set as per the conventions set by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. The exam pattern is going to help candidates prepare well for the upcoming IBPS Clerk 2025 Examination & strategize their preparation. There are separate mark allocations to different sections of the exam. The candidates need to finish the paper within the time given to them. Check the complete details about the Prelims and Mains IBPS Clerk 2025 Exam Pattern here.

IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern 2025

Candidates can check important points of the IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern. The IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern has two separate sections, namely Prelims, and mains. The mark and time allocation to both phases are different. Let us have a look at the patterns separately.

• The IBPS Clerk 2025 exam pattern for selecting candidates for Clerk is given below.
• The Mains Examination will have just one more section, i.e. Current Affairs and Computer Knowledge.
• Only three sections will be asked in the Preliminary Exam of the IBPS Clerk Exam.
• The score of the Preliminary Exam will not be taken into consideration for the final selection. A score on the Mains Exam will be taken into consideration for the final allotment.
• There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests.

Let’s have a look at the detailed Exam Pattern for multiple posts offered through the IBPS Clerk 2025 Exam pattern.

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IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Pattern 2025

It is to be noted that the candidates have to qualify in each of the three sections of the IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam by securing minimum cut-off marks decided by IBPS in all the sections individually. An adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination. The IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Pattern in tabular form is given below:

IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Pattern 2025

Candidates who qualify for the IBPS Clerk Prelims by clearing the sectional, as well as the overall cut-off, are called for the IBPS Mains exam, which is both qualifying as well as the scoring exam of the IBPS Clerk recruitment. Candidates can check the IBPS Clerk 2025 Mains Exam Pattern in the table below:

Note – Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations). There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Type Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty to arrive at the 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.

IBPS Clerk 2025 Final Selection

Candidates need to qualify for both tiers i.e., Prelims and Mains of the IBPS Clerk to get into the Final Merit List of the IBPS Clerk. However, the Prelims are only Qualifying in nature i.e., prelims marks will not be considered in the final merit of the candidates. Whereas the Mains exam is both qualifying as well as scoring in nature i.e., the Final Selection of the candidate depends on the score of the candidate in the Mains exam. The final list will be prepared after scaling the marks of the candidates out of 100.

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