IBPS PO/Management Trainee Exam Pattern 2013:-The next Common Written Examination (CWE PO/MT-III) as a pre-requisite for selection of personnel for Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee posts in the Participating Organisations listed below will be conducted online by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) tentatively in October 2013.
The structure of the Examination which will be conducted online is as follows:
| Sr. No. |
Name of Tests (Objective) | Maximum Marks |
Duration | |
| 1 | Reasoning | 50 | Composite Time of 2 hours | |
| 2 | English Language | 40 | ||
| 3 | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | ||
| 4 | General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry) | 40 | ||
| 5 | Computer Knowledge | 20 | ||
| Total | 20 | |||
The above tests except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi. IBPS reserves the right to modify the structure of the examination which will be intimated through its website. Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the call letters from the authorised IBPS website www.ibps.in.
Penalty for Wrong Answers
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.
