Common Recruitment Process for Clerical cadre (CRP CSA). Conducted by Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS). Nisha knows this paper from the site's own pattern pages — and reads your scores, your mocks and what you haven't touched before saying a word.
Once a year (notification ~July–Aug, Prelims ~Aug–Sept, Mains ~Nov–Dec). Online CBT — Prelims + Mains, both fully objective (no descriptive test, unlike IBPS PO).
100 questions · 100 marks · 60 min with 20-min sectional locks (English 30, Numerical Ability 35, Reasoning 35). Clear each section's cut-off AND the overall cut-off — these marks are NOT added to the final merit.
160 objective questions, 200 marks, 125 minutes across 4 sectional-locked sections. This is the ONLY score that decides your rank and provisional bank/state allotment — there is no interview stage at all.
Candidates allotted to a state whose local language they have not already studied or certified must clear a proficiency test after Mains. It does not add marks — it is a pass/fail condition for confirming the allotment.
Qualifying only
Marking: −0.25 per wrong answer
Each of the three sections is a separate 20-minute sprint — no time borrowing between them.
Merit — 100% of the final rank, no interview follows
Marking: −0.25 per wrong answer
Reasoning & Computer Aptitude is the single heaviest section at 60 marks. General/Financial Awareness moves fastest (40 questions in just 20 minutes — pure recall).
Prelims is only a gate — its marks are NOT counted in the final merit. There is no interview at all for IBPS Clerk: your entire rank comes from the 200-mark Mains exam alone (followed, for some candidates, by a qualifying Local Language Proficiency Test).
40 questions, 35 minutes — the single heaviest section. Puzzles & seating arrangement alone are typically 40%+ of this section.
40 questions, 35 minutes. A narrower syllabus than IBPS PO's Quant — no ratio/partnership, mensuration or P&C at this level, just the core arithmetic toolkit.
40 questions in just 20 minutes — the fastest section per question, pure recall with zero calculation.
40 questions, 35 minutes, fully objective — no descriptive component at all, unlike IBPS PO.
The highest-weight chapters in each subject, linked to their notes. Weights are estimates from previous papers where the conducting body publishes none. Your guide weighs these against your own scores.
Sectional cut-offs, speed, and the mock-analysis habit that decides bank and SSC results. Pick one to start, or just talk — Nisha has read your profile either way.
Every fact on this page comes from the exam's blueprint on this site. How the guide uses it: how Guidance works.
Nisha has the pattern and will read your work. Talk it through, and leave with a plan you tick off.
