IBPS PO 2025 Notification Out | Vacancy | Eligibility | Syllabus | Exam Pattern

 

COMMON RECRUITMENT PROCESS FOR RECRUITMENT OF PROBATIONARY OFFICERS/ MANAGEMENT TRAINEES

 The online examination (Preliminary and Main) for the upcoming Common Recruitment Process (CRP) for Recruitment and Selection of Personnel for Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee (PO/MT) posts in the Participating Public Sector Banks will be conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) as per the tentative schedule provided below : 

Important Dates  (Date extended Information Link)

Activity	Tentative Schedule
Online registration including Edit/Modification of Application	01.07.2025 to 28.07.2025
Payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges (Online)	01.07.2025 to 28.07.2025
Conduct of Pre-Examination Training (PET)	August, 2025
Download of Call Letters for Online Examination – Preliminary	August, 2025
Online Examination – Preliminary	August, 2025
Result of Online Examination – Preliminary	September, 2025
Download of Call Letter for Online Examination – Main	September/October, 2025
Online Examination – Main	October, 2025
Declaration of Result – Main Examination	November, 2025
Personality Test	November/December, 2025
Conduct of Interview	December, 2025 / January, 2026
Provisional Allotment	January / February, 2026

IBPS PO 2025  Official Notification Video  

IBPS PO 2025 Download Official.pdf  

Participating Banks:

• Bank of Baroda 

• Bank of India

• Bank of Maharashtra

• Canara Bank

• Central Bank of India

• Indian Bank

• Indian Overseas Bank

• Punjab National Bank

• Punjab & Sind Bank

• UCO Bank

• Union Bank of India

vacancies

This year IBPS has declared 5208 vacancies for IBPS PO 2025 Exam in their official notification whose details are tabulated below.

Sr. No.	Participating Bank	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	UR	TOTAL	HI	OC	VI	ID
1	Bank of Baroda	150	75	270	100	405	1000	10	10	10	10
2	Bank of India	105	53	189	70	283	700	7	7	7	7
3	Bank of Maharashtra	150	75	270	100	405	1000	10	10	10	10
4	Canara Bank	150	50	200	100	500	1000	10	10	10	10
5	Central Bank of India	75	37	135	50	203	500	5	5	5	5
6	Indian Bank	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
7	Indian Overseas Bank	69	33	121	44	183	450	4	5	7	6
8	Punjab National Bank	30	15	54	20	81	200	2	2	2	2
9	Punjab & Sind Bank	53	27	98	36	144	358	16	3	3	11
10	UCO Bank	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
11	Union Bank of India	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Total		782	365	1337	520	2204	5208	64	52	54	61

IBPS PO Exam Pattern 2025

1. The Structure or Pattern of the IBPS PO 2025 exam is explained below

IBPS PO Prelims Exam Pattern 2025

a. Preliminary Examination (Objective Test)

S. No.	Name of Tests (Objective)	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	English Language	30	30	20 minutes
2	Numerical Ability	35	30	20 minutes
3	Reasoning Ability	35	40	20 minutes
Total	—	100	100	60 minutes

Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing minimum cut-off marks to be decided by IBPS. Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by IBPS depending upon requirements will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination.

b. Main Examination (Objective and Descriptive)

S. No.	Name of Test	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Medium of Examination	Time Allotted
1.	Reasoning	40	60	English & Hindi	50 minutes
2.	English Language	35	40	English only	40 minutes
3.	Data Analysis and Interpretation	35	50	English & Hindi	45 minutes
4.	General, Economy/Banking Awareness	35	50	English & Hindi	25 minutes
Total	—	145	200	—	160 min
5.	Descriptive Paper (Essay and Comprehension)	2	25	English	30 minutes
Total	—	147	225	—	—

Note: * May be broadly based on Economic and Social issues, emerging trends in Banking and Technology, Current events, Ethics etc.

Descriptive Paper may be evaluated by an automated scoring mechanism for identifying features related to writing proficiency. This scoring mechanism is duly validated and evaluates proficiency of test takers

c. Personality Test:
Candidates who qualify in the Main examination will be called for a Personality Test (self-report). Personality Profile of the candidates will be placed before the Interview panel. The Personality Test
will be non-qualifying in nature. However, appearing in the Personality Test will be mandatory for being eligible for appearing for the Interview process.

NOTE:

Please note that candidates will not be permitted to appear for the Online Preliminary as well as Online Main Examination without the following documents:
(1) Valid Call Letter for the respective date and session of Examination. Those candidates who are called for Main Exam will also be required to bring authenticated/stamped call letter of
Preliminary Exam (along with authenticated/ stamped copy of the ID proof) 

(2) Photo-identity proof (as specified) in original bearing the same name as it appears on the call letter/ application form.
(3) Candidates reporting late i.e. after the reporting time specified on the call letter for Examination will not be permitted to take the examination. The reporting time mentioned on the call letter is prior to the Start time of the test.
(4) Though the duration of the Online Preliminary examination is 1 hour, candidates may be required to be at the venue for about 2 hours or more including the time required for completion of various formalities such as verification and collection of various requisite
documents, logging in, giving of instructions etc.
(5) For the Online Main examination the duration of the examination is 3 hours 10 minutes,candidates may be required to be at the venue for about 4 hours or more including the time required for completion of various formalities such as verification and collection of various requisite documents, logging in, giving of instructions etc.

PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS (Applicable to both – Online Preliminary and Online Main Examination)

There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at 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.

INTERVIEW

Candidates who have been shortlisted in the Online Main examination and appear for Personality Test for CRP- PO/MT-XV will subsequently be called for an Interview to be conducted by the Participating Banks and coordinated by the Nodal Bank in each State/ UT/ Region with the help of IBPS. 

• Interviews will be conducted at select centres. The centre, address of the venue, time & date of Interview will be informed to the shortlisted candidates in the call letter.
• Candidates are required to download their interview call letters from official IBPS website www.ibps.in. Please note that any request regarding change in date, centre etc. of interview will not be entertained. However, IBPS reserves the right to change the date/ venue/ time/ centre etc. of interview or hold supplementary process for particular date / session / venue / centre / set of candidates at its discretion, under unforeseen circumstances, if any.
• The total marks allotted for Interview are 100. The minimum qualifying marks in interview will not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWBD candidates).
• The relative weightage (ratio) of Online Main Exam and interview will be 80:20 respectively.
• The combined final score of candidates shall be arrived at on the basis of scores obtained by the candidates in the Online Main Examination of CRP- PO/MT-XV and Interview.
• Interview score of the candidates failing to secure minimum qualifying marks or otherwise barred from the interview or further process shall not be disclosed.
• A candidate should qualify both in the Online Main Exam and interview and be sufficiently high in the merit to be shortlisted for subsequent provisional allotment process, details of which will be made available subsequently on official IBPS website www.ibps.in.
• While appearing for the Interview, the candidate should produce valid prescribed documents given below.
• In the absence of valid documents candidature of the candidates shall be cancelled. IBPS/ Nodal Bank/ Participating Bank take no responsibility to receive/ collect any certificate/remittance/ document sent separately.

IBPS PO Syllabus (Preliminary Exam)

The prelims exam constitutes single online exam having 100 marks which is further divided into 3 sections having following subjects:

English Language
Quantitative Aptitude
Reasoning Ability

The subject wise breakdown of the IBPS PO Prelims syllabus 2025 is mentioned below:

English Language	Quantitative Aptitude	Reasoning Ability
Reading Comprehension	Simplification and Approximation	Alphanumeric Series
Paragraph Jumbles	Quadratic Equations	Directions
Idioms & Phrases	Profit and Loss	Reasoning Puzzles
Error Detection	Mixtures and Alligations	Order and Ranking
Tenses Rules	Simple and Compound Interest	Alphabet Combination
Cloze Test	Surds and Indices	Data Sufficiency Tests
Multiple Meanings	Work and Time	Coded Inequalities
Paragraph and Passage Completion	Speed, Time and Distance	Seating Arrangements
	Mensuration (Cylinder, Cone, Sphere, Cuboid)	Picture Series Puzzles
	Data Interpretation	Tabulation
	Ratio and Proportion	Syllogism
	Percentages	Relationships
	Number Series	Input/Output
	Boat and Stream	Coding and Decoding
	Series and Sequences	Assertion and Reason
	Permutation and Combination	Statement, Argument, and Assumption
	Measures of Central Tendency and Variation	Word Formation
	Probability	Logical Reasoning

IBPS PO Mains Syllabus 2025

The syllabus for IBPS PO Mains is a little bit like the Prelims one, but the standard of questions is quite complex. A descriptive paper is included
in this stage of the examination.
The detailed Probationary Officer Mains exam syllabus is mentioned below:

🧩 Reasoning	🧠 General / Economy / Banking Awareness	✍️ English Language	📊 Quantitative Aptitude / Data Interpretation
Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning	Banking Awareness	Reading Comprehension	Simplification and Approximation
Syllogism	Financial Knowledge	Vocabulary	Statistics (Mean, Median, Averages)
Seating Arrangements (Circular and Linear)	Basic Economics	Grammar	Representational Statistics (Graphs, Charts, Tables)
Scheduling	Current Affairs	Usage of English in Business	Ratio and Proportion
Input / Output	Static GK	Verbal Ability	Percentages
Blood Relations	GK for Financial Institutions	Paragraph Completion	Data Interpretation (Bar, Line, Pie, Caselet, Table)
Ordering and Ranking	Current Events – National & International (Finance)	Sentence Improvement	Data Sufficiency
Coding and Decoding	Government Schemes	Cloze Test	Mensuration (Cylinder, Cone, Sphere, Cuboid)
Sufficiency of Arguments and Data	Budget & Economic Survey	Error Detection	Geometry
Directions and Displacement	RBI Circulars & Monetary Policies	Para Jumbles	Linear Equations
Code Inequalities	Financial Reports & Indices	Fill in the Blanks	Quadratic Equations
Alphanumeric Series	International Financial Organizations	Idioms and Phrases	Simple and Compound Interest
Computer Fundamentals	Mergers & Acquisitions in Banking	Word Usage / Word Swap	Speed, Distance and Time
Internet, Memory, Shortcuts	Appointments & Resignations (Financial Sector)	Sentence Connector / Starter	Profit, Loss and Discounts
Word Processing / Spreadsheets (MS Office)	Financial Terms and Abbreviations	Match the Column	Time and Work
Computer Hardware & Software	Capital Markets, Money Markets, Insurance	Sentence Rearrangement	Equations (Linear & Quadratic)
Operating Systems and GUI Basics	Awards & Honours (Financial Sector)	Letter Writing (Mains)	Number Systems
Computer Networks / Windows	Reports, Committees, Acts	Essay Writing (Mains)	Mixtures and Alligations
Microsoft Office Applications			Permutations and Combinations
			Probability
			Age Calculations
			Series and Sequences
			Boat and Stream
			Measures of Central Tendency & Variation

Eligibility Criteria 

Nationality Criteria

A candidate must be either - 
(i) a Citizen of India or  
(ii) a subject of Nepal or   
(iii) a subject of Bhutan or  
(iv) a Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India  or  
(v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India, provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) & (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the 
Government of India.

IBPS PO 2025 – Age Limit & Relaxation (AS ON 01.07.2025) 

Criteria	Age Requirement
Minimum Age	20 years
Maximum Age	30 years
Date of Birth Range (Both Inclusive)	Between 02.07.1995 and 01.07.2005

Relaxation of Upper age limit 

Sr. No.	Category	Age Relaxation
1	Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe	5 years
2	Other Backward Classes (Non-Creamy Layer)	3 years
3	Persons With Benchmark Disabilities as defined under “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”	10 years
4	Ex-Servicemen, Commissioned Officers including Emergency Commissioned Officers (ECOs)/ Short Service Commissioned Officers (SSCOs)  who have rendered at least 5 years military service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is  due to be completed within one year from the last date of receipt of application) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or physical disability attributable to military service or invalidment, subject to ceiling as per Government guidelines.	5 years

Educational Qualification (As on 21.07.2025)

A Degree (Graduation) in any discipline from a University recognised by the Govt. Of India or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government.
The candidate must possess valid Mark-sheet / Degree Certificate that he/ she is a graduate on the day he / she registers and indicate the percentage of marks obtained in Graduation while registering online. 
Note:  
 (1) All the educational qualifications mentioned should be from a University/ Institution/ Board recognised by Govt. Of India/ approved by Govt. Regulatory Bodies and the final result should have been declared on or before 21.07.2025. 
(2) Proper document from Board / University for having declared the result on or before 21.07.2025 has to be submitted at the time of interview. The date of passing the eligibility examination will be the date appearing on the mark-sheet or provisional certificate issued by University / Institute. In case the result of a particular examination is posted on the website of the University / Institute and web based certificate is issued then proper document/certificate in original issued and signed by the appropriate authority of the University / Institute indicating the date of passing properly mentioned thereon will be reckoned for verification and further process.
(3)  Candidate should indicate the percentage obtained in Graduation calculated to the nearest two decimals in the online application. Where CGPA / OGPA is awarded, the same should be converted into percentage and indicated in online application. If called for interview, the candidate will have to produce a certificate issued by the appropriate authority inter alia stating that the norms of the University regarding conversion of grade into percentage and the percentage of marks scored by the candidate in terms of norms. 
(4)  Calculation of Percentage: The percentage marks shall be arrived at by dividing the total marks obtained by the candidate in all the subjects in all semester(s)/year(s) by aggregate maximum marks (in all the subjects irrespective of honours / optional / additional optional subject, if any) multiplied by 100.  This will be applicable for those Universities also where Class / Grade is decided on basis of Honours marks only. The fraction of percentage so arrived will be ignored i.e. 59.99% will be treated as less than 60% and 54.99% will be treated as less than 55%. 
In case Grade point system (CGPA/ OGPA) is adopted, the candidates are required to convert their CGPA/ OGPA into percentage as per criteria adopted by the University/ Institute. The candidates must produce documentary proof of the criteria for conversion into percentage adopted by the University/ Institute at the time of Interview/ Document Verification.

For more details click below

IBPS PO 2025 Download Official.pdf