IBPS Clerk Eligibility 2025: Age Limit, Qualification & Nationality

IBPS Clerk Eligibility Criteria is released along with the notification. The eligibility criteria comprise nationality, educational qualification and age limit. According to IBPS Clerk eligibility criteria, any graduate candidates between 20 and 28 years old can apply for the exam. Check here IBPS Clerk Eligibility Criteria.

IBPS Clerk Eligibility Criteria 2024

IBPS Clerk Eligibility: The Institute of Banking Personnel prescribes IBPS Clerk Eligibility Criteria in terms of nationality, age limit, and educational qualification. According to IBPS Clerk eligibility criteria, any graduate candidates between 20 and 28 years old can apply for the IBPS Clerk exam. Candidates are advised to check IBPS Clerk eligibility before applying to ensure whether they are eligible for the exam or not.

IBPS Clerk exam is conducted every year to recruit eligible candidates for Clerical posts in the various public sector banks in the country. This is an excellent opportunity for candidates who wish to make their career in banking. Read below for more details on IBPS Clerk eligibility.

Also Read:

IBPS Clerk Notification 

IBPS Clerk Application Form 

IBPS Clerk Eligibility Criteria: Nationality

A candidate must be either:

(i) A citizen of India or

(ii) A subject of Nepal or

(iii) A subject of Bhutan or

(iv) A Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before January 1, 1962, with the intention of permanently settling in India or

IBPS Clerk Eligibility Criteria: Reservation Policy

IBPS Clerk is identified as suitable for the Persons with undernoted categories of disabilities as defined in the Schedule of RPWD Act 2016 and notified by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) from time to time.

OC Category

A person's inability to execute distinctive activities associated with movement of self and objects resulting from affliction of the musculoskeletal or nervous system or both, including Cerebral Palsy, Leprosy Cured, Dwarfism, Muscular Dystrophy and Acid Attack Victims. Orthopedically challenged persons are covered under locomotor disability with the following benchmark:

• OA - One arm affected (Right or Left)
• OL - One leg affected (Right or Left)
• OAL - One arm & One Leg affected
• BL - Both legs affected but not arms

QA and OAL Category-

• Persons with OA and OAL category should have normal bilateral hand functions. Leprosy cured person means a person who has been cured of leprosy
• Loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity
• Manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity
• Extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him/her from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression leprosy cured shall be construed accordingly
• Cerebral palsy is a Group of non-progressive neurological conditions affecting body movements and muscle coordination, caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring before, during or shortly after birth
• Dwarfism means a medical or genetic condition resulting in an adult height of 4 feet 10 inches (147 centimetres) or less;
  Muscular dystrophy is a group of hereditary genetic muscle diseases that weakens the muscles that move the human body and persons with multiple dystrophy have incorrect and missing information in their genes, which prevents them from making the proteins they need for healthy muscles. It is characterised by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue
• Acid attack victims means a person disfigured due to violent assaults by throwing of acid or similar corrosive substance

Visually Impaired Person Category [IV]

Visually Impaired category [IV] person who suffers from the below-mentioned problems meets the IBPS Clerk eligibility.

Blindness

• Visual acuity less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible correction; OR 
• A total absence of sight; OR
• Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 10 degrees.

Low Vision

• Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 40 degrees up to 10 degrees

Hearing Impaired Person

• Any person having 70 decibels of hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears
• Any person having 60- 70 decibels of hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears

Intellectual Disability [ID] category

Candidates with the below-mentioned disorders are allowed to appear for the exam:

• Intellectual disability
• Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) 
• Specific Learning Disability
• Mental Illness
• Multiple Disabilities

Only those persons with benchmark disabilities will be eligible for reservation. Benchmark disability means a person with not less than 40 per cent of a specified disability where specified disability has not been defined in measurable terms and includes the persons with disability, where disability has been defined in measurable terms, as certified by the certifying authority.

A person who wants to avail the benefit of reservation will have to submit a disability certificate issued by a Competent Authority as per Government of India guidelines. Such certificate will be subject to verification/re-verification as may be decided by the competent authority. 

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