IBPS PO 2021 Recruitment Notification: The IBPS PO is one of the most awaited exams every year for most of banking aspirants. With COVID-19 nearly all banking exams got delayed in a particular order. IBPS PO had to go through the same. But finally, tentative dates are looking to be promising. The official notification could be released on the IBPS website by the end of August 2021.
The tentative dates for IBPS PO Prelims are 9th, 10th, 16th & 17th October 2021. And for mains, it is going to be 27th November 2021.
| IBPS PO 2021: Important Dates | |
| Events | Date |
| IBPS PO 2021 Notification | Last week of September 2021 |
| On-line Registration Process | Last week of September-Mid October |
| IBPS PO 2021 Preliminary Exam Date | November 2021 |
| IBPS PO Preliminary Result | November 2021 |
| IBPS PO Mains Admit Card | November 2021 |
| IBPS PO 2021 Mains Exam Date | December 2021 |
| IBPS PO Mains Result | December 2021 |
| Conduct of Interview | January 2022 |
| IBPS PO 2021 Provisional Allotment | 1st April 2022 |
| Sr. No. | Category | Application Fee |
| 1 | SC/ST/PWD | Rs.175/- (Intimation Charges only) |
| 2 | General and Others | Rs. 850/- (App. Fee including intimation charges) |
1. Punjab National Bank
2. Union Bank of India
3. Bank of India
4. Indian Bank
5. Canara Bank
6. Indian Overseas Bank
7. Central Bank of India
8. UCO Bank
9. Bank of Baroda
10. Punjab & Sind Bank
11. Bank of Maharashtra
| S.No. | Name of Tests (Objective | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| 2 | Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 3 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| S.No. | Name of Tests (Objective | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 45 | 60 | 60 minutes |
| 2 | English Language | 35 | 40 | 40 minutes |
| 3 | Data Analysis & Interpretation | 35 | 60 | 45 minutes |
| 4 | General Economy & Banking Awareness | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| 5 | English Language (Letter Writing & Essay) | 2 | 25 | 30 minutes |
| Reasoning | Quantitative Aptitude | English Language |
| Logical Reasoning | Simplification | Reading Comprehension |
| Alphanumeric Series | Profit & Loss | Cloze Test |
| Ranking/Direction/Alphabet Test | Mixtures & Allegations | Para jumbles |
| Data Sufficiency | Simple Interest & Compound Interest & Surds & Indices | Multiple Meaning / Error Spotting |
| Coded Inequalities | Work & Time | Fill in the blanks |
| Seating Arrangement | Time & Distance | Miscellaneous |
| Puzzle | Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere | Paragraph Completion |
| Tabulation | Data Interpretation | – |
| Syllogism | Ratio & Proportion, Percentage | – |
| Blood Relations | Number Systems | – |
| Input Output | Sequence & Series | – |
| Coding Decoding | Permutation, Combination &Probability | – |
| Category | Cut Off Marks |
| General | 58.75 |
| OBC | 58.50 |
| SC | 51 |
| ST | 43.5 |
| EWS | 57.75 |
| HI | 19.75 |
| OC | 46 |
| VI | 54.25 |
| ID | 21.75 |
| S. No. | Subject | Maximum Marks | Cut Off (SC/ST/ OBC/PwD) | Cut Off (General/ EWS) |
| 1. | Reasoning & Computer Aptitude | 60 | 03.75 | 06.00 |
| 2. | English Language | 40 | 08.50 | 11.75 |
| 3. | Data Analysis & Interpretation | 60 | 05.75 | 08.75 |
| 4. | General Economy & Banking Awareness | 40 | 06.25 | 09.75 |
| 5. | English Language (Descriptive) | 25 | 08.75 | 10.00 |
| Category | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR | OC | VI | HI | ID |
| Maximum Scores | 52.20 | 52.11 | 55.82 | 52.40 | 62.98 | 53.78 | 64.16 | 42.16 | 54.31 |
| Minimum Scores | 39.73 | 35.56 | 43.96 | 42.98 | 47.89 | 38.84 | 45.89 | 27.20 | 28.44 |
| Bank | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR | Total | PWBD |
| 1.Bank of Baroda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.Bank of India | 110 | 55 | 198 | 74 | 297 | 734 | 29 |
| 3.Bank of Maharashtra | 37 | 18 | 67 | 25 | 103 | 250 | 10 |
| 4 Canara Bank | 315 | 157 | 567 | 210 | 851 | 2100 | 84 |
| 5. Central Bank of India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6. Indian Bank | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR |
| 7. Indian Overseas Bank | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8. Punjab National Bank | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR |
| 9. Punjab & Sind Bank | 14 | 6 | 21 | 8 | 34 | 83 | 0 |
| 10. UCO Bank | 53 | 26 | 95 | 35 | 141 | 350 | 44 |
| 11. Union Bank of India | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR |
| TOTAL | 529 | 262 | 948 | 352 | 1426 | 3517 | 73 |
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