IBPS SO Mains Exam 2021

December 28, 2020

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With the prelims done, start focusing on your IBPS SO Mains exam right away. Do not waste time to know about your prelims results before you start preparation for the Mains exam. This is especially true for students who are unsure of their prelims results. Since you are appearing for the post of a Specialist Officer, the Mains exam should be a cakewalk as you would have already specialized in the post applied for during your graduation days.

The Mains exam tests your professional knowledge in either of the 5 fields: Agriculture field officer, Marketing officer, Law officer, I.T. officer or HR/Personnel officer. There are 2 tests for the post of Rajbhasha Adhikari; professional knowledge objective and professional knowledge descriptive. The paper, except for Rajbhasha Adhikari post, is of 45 minutes with 60 questions which means that you have 45 seconds per question. You should divide the set of 60 questions into 3 subsets; easy, moderate and difficult. Easy questions will be the ones which you can attempt accurately within little time. Moderate questions will be those where you are sure about your accuracy but these questions will take a little longer to solve. The difficult questions are those where you are not sure.

Hence your strategy should be to attempt the easy questions first, then moderate questions and then try the difficult ones. Don’t do any guess work as the exam has negative marking. Practice as many mock tests as possible to understand the exam pattern well. Once you understand the exam pattern you will be able to build up on speed. In the last week before the IBPS SO Mains exam practice previous years’ question papers to understand the topics which are most asked, although, this may not be a good indicator since IBPS keeps on changing the topics weightage.

IBPS SO Agriculture Field Officer

The Mains exam will have questions from topics like horticulture, animal husbandry, basic of crop production, seed science, agricultural economics, soil resources, agronomy and irrigation, agricultural practices, ecology, agroforestry, woman and child development schemes, rural welfare activities, herbicides and pesticides and government schemes among others.

IBPS SO Law Officer

The Mains exam will cover topics from SARFAES, DRT Act, Banking Ombudsman Scheme, Bankers Book Evidence Act, Laws and Actions with direct link to Banking Sector, Relevant Law and Orders related to negotiable instruments, securities, foreign exchange, Banking Regulations, Prevention of Money laundering, Limitation Act, Compliance and Legal Aspects and Consumer Protection Act.

IBPS SO Marketing Officer

The Mains exam for Marketing officer will cover sections like Service Marketing, Market Segmentation, Product Life Cycle, Basics of Marketing Management, Advertising, Business Ethics, Sales, Brand Management, Market research and forecasting demand, PR, Corporate Social Responsibility, Retail and Marketing Strategies

IBPS SO HR/Personnel Officer

The HR Specialist Officer exam covers topics from Business policy and strategic analysis, Rewards and Recognition, Human Resource Development, Transnational Analysis, Recruitment and Selection, Training and Development, Business Policy and Strategic Analysis, Performance Management and Appraisal, Industrial Relations and Grievance and Conflict Management.

IBPS SO IT Officer

The IT officer exam syllabus comprises of Computer Organization and Microprocessor, Data Communication and Networking, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structure, Database Management System and operating system. The exam has now started to cover topics like web technologies too in lieu of the growing trend towards the web and the APIs that support banking functions.

IBPS SO Rajbhasha Adhikari

The mains syllabus for the Rajbhasha Adhikari post includes passages, fill in the blanks, close test, translations (hindi to English and English to Hindi), Hindi grammar and antonyms and synonyms.