Since this is the 5th year of recruitment in regional rural banks, this process is called IBPS RRB CWE V.
For the current IBPS RRB recruitment 2016, 56 RRB`s are participating.Those qualifying in this test are appointed as an Officer (Scale I, II, III) or Office assistant positions in any of the regional rural bank.
Registrations of applications – September 14 to 30, 2016
Online written exam scheduled on:
Final appointment to be completed in February 2017
There are a total of 16,560 posts in rural banks through IBPS RRB 2016.The cadre-wise will be filled:
Checkout IBPS RRB statewise vacancy list to know how many vacancies exist in 56 regional rural banks.
Inorder to apply for IBPS RRB Exam 2016, you must satisfy the following conditions,
The official language of each state is clearly specified in the notification itself.If you are not proficient in that language, you cannot apply for jobs in that particular state.
Agelimit: It is compulsory that candidates should fulfil the age conditions, as on Sep 1, 2016:
While the above are only for general category, relaxation applies for others. (max. age +3 yrs for OBC, +5 yrs for SC/ST)
The IBPS RRB exam 2016 pattern shall have two tier exam – Preliminary & Main examinations that have objective type questions for a total of 200 marks.
Candidates applying for Office Assistant & Officer (scale I) are only required to appear for prelims.Scale II & III applicant should appear for main exam directly.
Qualifiers of the main exam will be shortlisted for a common interview process after which allotments in RRBs will happen based on the final merit list.
There are no interviews for office assistants.They are directly appointed on the basis of their main exam scores.
Based on your exam & common interview performance, IBPS shall award scores that are valid for 1 year.Depending on these scores & your RRB preferences, IBPS will automatically allot you to a bank.
This means candidates applying for Officers (scale I,II & III) need not attend interviews for each & every regional bank in your state.
By February 2017, all qualified candidates would get final allotments in any of their preferred regional rural banks.
The application fees are fixed at Rs.100 (SC/ST) or Rs.600 (others) with the following options of payment,
If application submission is successful, a registration number & password would be shown that has to be noted.
The detailed official notification of IBPS RRB recruitment exam 2016 can be downloaded from their website here (.pdf)
For online application – click here for Office assistants, Officer (scale I), Officer (scale II & III)