IBPS CLERK CWE EXAM- Prelims Preparation

IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) conducts a common written exam or CWE each year for the recruitment of clerical cadre in various banks branches all over the country. All public sector banks branches use CWE as a base to fill the vacancies for this post.

IBPS conducts Clerk exam each year since 2010 and names each exam according to its year, for example exam of 2013 becomes IBPS clerk CWE 3 and so on. The IBPS Clerk CWE exam has two stages of selection- preliminary exam and mains. Students who qualify in both of these exams are selected for the post.

PATTERN OF IBPS CLERK CWE EXAM- PRELIMS

The preliminary exam of IBPS Clerk CWE is an online exam and testing a candidate on the basis of their aptitude, intellect and English is its motive. A total of three sections are asked to complete and the candidate must clear the cutoff of each section to proceed to the next stage - mains. Candidates are asked to solve the question paper in the time duration of 1 hour. The maximum marks of the paper are 100 and the passing marks are decided by IBPS which changes every year depending on the level of difficulty of this exam.

 SYLLABUS  OF IBPS CLERK CWE EXAM- PRELIMS

Quantitative Analysis:

The total number of questions asked in this section is thirty five which is the same as reasoning aptitude test. Questions asked according to every topic are mentioned below as follows:

 English :

Types of topics are mentioned below:

There are a total of thirty questions in IBPS clerk exam. English section of this exam is divided into four different topics. The following topics are mentioned below:

1. Reading Comprehension
2. Vocabulary
3. Grammar
4. Verbal ability

Reasoning :

The pattern of this section is given below:

• Total no. of questions : 35
• Total marks : 35
• Marks per question : 1
• Negative marking of per wrong answer : 0.25

SYLLABUS

• Syllogistic reasoning
• Relationship Concepts
• Statement conclusion
• Seating Arrangement
• Analogies Space Visualization
• Similarities and Differences
• Decision Making
• Problem-Solving
• Arithmetical Number Series
• Differences
• Arithmetical Reasoning
• Analysis
• Judgment
• Visual memory
• Observation
• Discrimination
• Verbal and Figure Classification
• Non-verbal series
• Coding Decoding

General Awareness :

This section’s syllabus is divided into 3 subtopics-

• Current affairs
• Static GK
• Banking knowledge

Current Affairs -

This section asks for knowledge of information which is going in the current market or world. All the environmental issues i.e. legal, political, financial, important events, economy, Questions on Indian Economy, laws, government schemes, the latest science, and inventions, and discoveries are covered into this section of IBPS clerk examination.

Static GK -

You can guess on this one after reading the name, as this portion asks for only that knowledge which is static in nature, via that happens or happened once in the time period. So you need to prepare topics like-

• 5-year plans
• books with authors
• Indian Constitution Indian Constitution Questions
• Gk of India
• agriculture
• award
• sports
• budget and taxes
• Countries and currencies
• important days
• national and international organization
• Indian history
• geography

Banking -

This section requires knowledge of banking from every angle. The nationalized bank’s history, types of banks, the role of the banking industry, money market in India, capital market in India, RBI, RBI Functions, Fiscal-Monetary Policies, inflation deflation, national income, and public finance are some demands of this section.

Going into depth of some above-mentioned topics -

1) Indian Banking Industry :

•  History
• Role of Banking
• Types of Banks
• Functions of Banks

2) RBI and Monetary Policy :

• Main Functions
• Instruments
• RTGS
• MSF
• Types of Money
• BASEL Committees
• Credit Rating Agencies
• Anti-Money Laundering
• Devaluation
• International Financial Institutions

3) Money Market in India :

• Money Market Concepts
• FERA and FEMA
• FDI and FII
• Types of Negotiable Instruments
• Types of Cheques

4) Capital Market in India :

• – Primary Market
• – Secondary Market
• – Derivatives Market
• – Over the Counter Market

5) Public Finance :

• – Concept of Budget
• – Financial and Railway Budget
• – Bills
• – Schemes and policies implemented by Govt.
• – Revenue of Central Govt.
• – Taxes on Income and Expenditure
• – Revenue Deficit
• – Finance Commissions

6) National Income :

• Source of Income
• Types of Goods
• Some Macro Economic Indicators

NEGATIVE MARKING

There is a penalty for wrong answers marked in both prelims examination as well as in mains examination. If your answer is a wrong answer to an objective question, then this will lead to a penalty of one-fourth of the total mark assigned to that question. There won’t be any penalty if a candidate doesn’t answer a question and leaves it as a blank

SCORE CALCULATION

The final score for the IBPS Clerk CWE exam is calculated by keeping the below mentioned points in mind:

• Marks obtained in the Preliminary Exam will not be considered for selection.
• The candidates must qualify for the mains exam in order to clear the selection.
• Out of 100, the aggregate score is used for the final merit list for each category. Candidates who top the merit list are selected for further recruitment processes

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