IOB Recruitment 2009 Selection Procedure

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IOB Recruitment 2009 Selection Procedure

Selection will be made on the basis of performance in Written Test and Interview.

Details of Written Test and Interview are as under:

A) Written Test:

a. Objective Tests (Time duration – 95 minutes)

S.NO	Name of the Test	Medium of Examination	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks
1	Test of Reasoning ability	English & Hindi	50	80
2	Test of English Language	English	50	00
3	Test of Numerical Ability	English & Hindi	50	80
4	Test of Clerical Aptitude	English & Hindi	50	40

This test is only qualifying and carries no weightage in the total Marks.

There will be negative marks for the wrong answers in the Objective Test.

The candidates shall be required to qualify in each objective test separately.

Test of English Language is only qualifying and carries no weightage in the total marks for the written test.

b. Descriptive Test – It will consist of 5 compulsory questions with internal options, to assess knowledge on Socio- Economic Developments and Communication skills. The descriptive test is only a qualifying test.

Note:

Candidates have the option to answer Descriptive Tests Paper either in English or Hindi or in the Official

Language of the State/Union Territory for which they have applied.

Candidates have to pass in each of the Objective and Descriptive Test separately.

Depending upon the number of candidates against the vacancies, only those candidates, who rank sufficiently high in the objective test will be called for interview. Mere eligibility/pass in the test shall not vest any right in a candidate for being called for interview.

Final selection will be on the basis of the ranking accorded after adding the marks obtained in the Objective Tests and Interview.

Other detailed information regarding the written examination will be given in the information booklet, which will be made available to the candidate along with the call-letter.

The Bank reserves the right, if required to hold a second stage of written test on the basis of order of merit in the written examination of first stage, as referred above. If the second stage of written test is held, the subsequent process of interview and further process would be on the basis of order of merit of the second stage examination.

Written Test Centres:

The written test will be held at the following centres for the vacancies in the respective states mentioned in the brackets and the address of the venue will be advised in the call letters:

Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh ), Guwahati (Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura) Patna (Bihar) Chandigarh (Chandigarh & Haryana), Delhi (Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir), Panaji-Goa (Goa) Ranchi (Jharkhand, Chattisgarh) Bangalore (Karnataka), Ernakulam (Kerala), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Bhubaneshwar(Orissa), Ludhiana(Punjab),Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, ( Tamil Nadu), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh),Meerut(Uttaranchal)

Request for change of Centre o f Examination will not be entertained.

The Bank reserves the right to alter written test date and / or alter/cancel written test centre under unforeseen circumstances, if any:

A candidate who applies for vacancy in a particular State/Union Territory will have to appear for the examination at the centres s specified centre indicated above. In case of any discrepancy between States/Union Territory and centre marked by the candidate, centre will be decided on the basis of State/Union Territory applied.

B) Interview:

Those short listed candidates in the order of ranking in the written test as per the cut-off marks determined by the Bank shall be called for interview and the decision of the Bank in this regard shall be final.

7. Pre-examination Training:

(For SC/ST/XSM/ PC/ Minority Community Candidates Only):

It is proposed to impart Pre-Examination Training to a limited number of candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes/Physically Challenged /Minority Communities at some centres. The Bank has discretion to conduct at some additional centres or the Bank may delete some of the centres indicated for the training, An eligible candidates who wish to avail of Pre-Examination Training should fill in the relevant column in the Online Application. All expenses regarding travelling, boarding, lodging etc. has to be borne by the candidate for attending the pre-examination training programme at the concerned Centres.

8 . Action against candidates found guilty of misconduct:

Candidates are advised in their own interest that they should not furnish any particulars that are false, tampered, fabricated or suppress any material information while filling uo the application form and submitting the certified copies/testimonials.

At the time of written examination/interview, if a candidate is ( or has been) found guilty of:

(i) Using unfair means during the examination or

(ii) Impersonating or procuring impersonation by any person or

(iii) Misbehaving in the examination hall or

(iv) Taking away the question booklet/answer sheet from the examination hall or

(v) Resorting to any irregular or improper means in connection with his/her candidature for selection or

(vi) Obtaining support for his/her candidature by any means, such a candidate may in addition to rendering himself/herself liable to criminal prosecution, be liable :

1. to be disqualified form the examination for which he/she is a candidate
2. to be debarred, either permanently or for a specified period, from any examination or recruitment conducted by Bank/IBPS.

(vii) The Bank/IIBPS would be analysing the responses of a candidate with other appeared candidates to detect unusual/patterns of responses. If as per the laid down procedure, it is suspected that the responses have been shared and the scores obtained are not genuine/valid, the Bank reserves the right to cancel his candidature.

IOB Recruitment 2009 Selection Procedure