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IBPS SO 2025 Exam Overview
IBPS has released IBPS SO 2025 Official Notification. IBPS SO 2025 is going to be conducted on 30th August 2025 (preliminary Exam) and on 9th November 2025 (Mains Exam) by IBPS or the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection to select eligible candidates for various posts like:
• Agriculture Field Officer
• Marketing Officer (Scale I)
• HR/Personnel Officer
• IT Officer Scale I
• Law Officer
• RajbhashaAdhikari Scale I
The latest notification released by IBPS states that IBPS SO HR 2025 will be conducted through a three phase (Prelims, Mains & Interview) selection process. Candidates who qualify both the rounds will be further considered for the final interview process. IBPS SO HR 2025 Notification IBPS SO HR 2025 Notification has been released by Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Committee. The IBPS SO HR recruitment 2025 is for selecting candidates for the post of Specialist Officers in Human Resource. Candidates selected through IBPS SO HR 2025 exam can be posted anywhere in India.
This year IBPS has introduced 1590+ vacancies for various posts of Specialist Officers. Only a handful of vacancies are available for this post as the post of SO involves really skilled and specialized officers excelling in their respective domain. Let's have a look at the post wise total number of vacancies for IBPS SO 2025 Exam.
• IT Officer (Scale-I)- 219
• HR/Personnel Officer (Scale-I)- 81
• Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale-I)- 69
• Marketing Officer (Scale-I)- 302
• Law Officer (Scale-I)- 75
• Agriculture Officer (Scale-I)- 853
IBPS SO HR Exam Pattern
IBPS SO HR 2025 Exam will be conducted in the following three phases: Preliminary Exam, Mains Exam and Interview Process. It is mandatory for every applicant to clear all level of examination to get selected to the post of Human Resource Specialist Officer in multiple Public Sector Banks participating in IBPS SO HR 2025. New changes in IBPS SO HR 2025 Exam are stated below:
• The exam will be conducted in three phases: Preliminary, Mains and Interview Process.
• IBPS has introduced separate sectional timing for each sections in prelims exam. The IBPS SO HR preliminary examination has a total duration of 120 minutes and 40 minutes for each sections.
• A candidate must appear for the Prelims first and the selected students after the Preliminary Exam will be eligible to give the Mains Exam.
• Score of Preliminary Exam will not be taken into consideration for final allotment. Final selection will be based on on the Mains Exam and Interview Process.
• The Mains Examination will contain questions only from the Professional Knowledge Subjects.
There is negative marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer.
IBPS SO HR 2025 Preliminary Exam Pattern
|
Section |
Subject |
No. of Question |
Marks |
Exam Duration |
|
1 |
English Comprehension |
50 |
25 |
40 mins |
|
2 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
50 |
50 |
40 mins |
|
3 |
Reasoning Ability |
50 |
50 |
40 mins |
|
Total |
100 |
125 |
120 mins |
IBPS SO HR 2025 Mains Exam Pattern
|
Name of Test |
Number of Questions |
Maximum Marks |
Medium of Exam |
Duration |
|
Professional Knowledge |
60 |
60 |
English & Hindi |
45 minutes |
IBPS SO HR 2025 Interview Process
Candidates who qualify the Mains Exam will be finally called for the Interview Process by IBPS. It is really important for candidates to fare well in the Interview Process as the final selection of a candidate is based on how he/she fares in this final round of the IBPS SO HR Recruitment Process.