“Banking in India is graduating from general to specialized.” The sector therefore needs specialist officers in various fields like IT, Technical, Agriculture, Legal, Marketing, HR, etc. and also in Rashtrabhasha. So, from last year IBPS has been conducting CWE for Specialist Officers on behalf of 20 participating banks. Detailed analysis of last year’s exam is as follows :-
1) Details of Exam and pass percentage: IBPS CWE specialist officer exam was conducted on 11th March 2012 for the posts of IT Officer, Agricultural Field Officer, Law Officer, Rajbhasha Adhikari, Technical Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer.
According to a report, last year around 4 lakh candidates had registered for this exam of which 3 lakh appeared for the exam and about 16000 had passed the exam. The pass percentage was about 5.5%, which was much lower than the pass percentage of 10% for CWE of PO/MT and 17.5% for CWE of Clerical exam. The cut offs were tightened keeping in mind the requirements of the Public Sector Banks. The number of specialist officer vacancies available in Public Sector Banks was about 4000, which was relatively much lesser than the posts for PO/MT/Clerical cadre.
Below table gives the break-up of candidates who had registered, appeared and passed the CWE for Specialist Officers last year.
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IBPS CWE for Specialist Officer – No. Of Candidates |
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Post |
Registered |
Appeared |
Qualified |
Percentage Qualified |
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IT Officer Scale – I |
194755 |
151058 |
4394 |
2.91 |
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IT Offcer Scale -II |
24618 |
17766 |
157 |
0.88 |
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Agriculture Field Officer Scale -I |
20054 |
14217 |
1556 |
10.94 |
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Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale – I |
2306 |
1506 |
193 |
12.82 |
|
Law Officer Scale – I |
16445 |
11685 |
562 |
4.81 |
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Tech Officer Scale – I |
56633 |
41760 |
2332 |
5.58 |
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HR/Personnel Offcer Scale – I |
29617 |
21491 |
1130 |
5.26 |
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Marketing Offcer Scale – I |
46468 |
34956 |
5775 |
16.52 |
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Total |
390896 |
294439 |
16099 |
5.47 |
2) Details of cutoffs: The cutoffs had been calculated on standard scores for each of the objective tests and also on the Total Weightage Standard Scores (TWSS).
Cutoffs in each section: The maximum standard score for each section was fixed at 50 and the cutoffs were fixed at 24 (General) and 21(reserved) for each of the sections.
Cutoffs on the TWSS: The TWSS was calculated only for those candidates who qualified in individual test area as per the cutoffs on standard scores as mentioned above.
The process for arriving at the TWSS was:
TWSS = [Reasoning + (½ English Language) + General Awareness/ Quantitative Aptitude + (1 ½ Professional Knowledge)]
The cutoffs on the TWSS for each post, as released by IBPS, are as shown in the below table.
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Cutoff scores on Total Weighted Standard Score (TWSS) – Post wise |
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Post |
General |
SC/ST/OBC/PWD |
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IT Officer Scale – I |
128 |
120 |
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IT Offcer Scale -II |
134 |
125 |
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Agriculture Field Officer Scale -I |
112 |
104 |
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Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale – I |
96 |
90 |
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Law Officer Scale – I |
121 |
113 |
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Tech Officer Scale – I |
120 |
113 |
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HR/Personnel Offcer Scale – I |
124 |
114 |
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Marketing Offcer Scale – I |
114 |
107 |
Note: To clear the IBPS CWE exam, a candidate has to clear both the sectional cut-offs and the TWSS cutoff.
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