IBPS RRB Officer Scale-I syllabus

Prelims for Officer Scale-I (Assistant Manager) in Regional Rural Banks: Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude only, on separate timers of 25 and 20 minutes, then mains and an interview.

Officer Scale-I preliminary examination

Reasoning

40 questions, 40 marks · 25 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. A wrong answer takes away 0.25 marks. An unanswered question scores nothing. The practice test uses five options.

  • Seating arrangement and floor or scheduling puzzles
  • Syllogism
  • Inequality
  • Coding and decoding
  • Blood relations and direction sense
  • Order, ranking and alphanumeric series

Quantitative Aptitude

40 questions, 40 marks · 20 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. A wrong answer takes away 0.25 marks. An unanswered question scores nothing. The practice test uses five options.

  • Data interpretation from tables
  • Number series
  • Quadratic equations
  • Simplification
  • Arithmetic: percentage, profit and loss, interest, time and work, time and distance, ratio, average, mixture and partnership

Officer Scale-I main examination

Reasoning

40 questions, 50 marks · 30 minutes

The notification gives 50 marks for 40 questions. Treated here as 1.25 marks each, with 0.3125 taken off for a wrong answer.

  • Reasoning, at a higher level than the prelims

Computer Knowledge

40 questions, 20 marks · 15 minutes

The notification gives 20 marks for 40 questions. Treated here as 0.5 marks each, with 0.125 taken off for a wrong answer. These marks are inside the mains total of 200.

  • Computer knowledge

General Awareness

40 questions, 40 marks · 15 minutes

1 mark for a right answer. A wrong answer takes away 0.25 marks.

  • General awareness, including banking

English Language

40 questions, 40 marks · 30 minutes

The candidate opts for either English Language or Hindi Language, not both. Set in English. 1 mark for a right answer; 0.25 taken off for a wrong one.

  • English language

Hindi Language

40 questions, 40 marks · 30 minutes

The alternative to English Language. Set in Hindi. 1 mark for a right answer; 0.25 taken off for a wrong one. Not taken together with English.

  • Hindi language

Quantitative Aptitude

40 questions, 50 marks · 30 minutes

The notification gives 50 marks for 40 questions. Treated here as 1.25 marks each, with 0.3125 taken off for a wrong answer.

  • Quantitative aptitude, at a higher level than the prelims