IBPS PO

Banking aspirants often search which career option will provide better opportunities to them, SBI PO or IBPS PO. The difference mainly lies in terms of career prospects, salary and work environment.

The job profile of SBI PO and IBPS PO is similar. Probationary Officers in SBI are engaged in the following activities.

• The most important work of the PO is customer service. This includes solving queries of customers.
• POs are directly engaged in customer handling.
• Some other responsibilities include maintaining reports, official correspondence with other departments, etc.

Comparison between IBPS PO and SBI PO salary-

• SBI offers a good compensation package to the Probationary Officers. The total compensation per annum on CTC basis is minimum Rs 8.20 Lacs and maximum Rs 13.08 Lacs it depends on place of posting and other factors.
• The basic salary of IBPS PO is Rs 23,700. The employee is entitled to HRA, DA, Special Allowance, City Compensatory Allowance apart from basic salary. The gross pay of IBPS PO is Rs 38,703 per month.

The topic-wise distribution of questions in IBPS PO Mains exam is given below.

Quant

English

Reasoning

• Seating Arrangement and Puzzles: Around 20-24 questions are asked in the exam.
• Syllogism: This section may consist of the topics of reverse syllogism and direct syllogism
• Coding-Decoding: Questions on word coding, sentence coding etc. are asked
• Miscellaneous Problems: This comprises the topics such as blood relations, directions sense, order and ranking, and alphanumeric series. 3-4 questions are asked
• Input-Output: The questions are based on single and double shifting. In total 5 questions can be expected from this section
• Data Sufficiency: Approx., 5-7 statement-based questions are asked
• Logical Reasoning: The questions range from several topics such as statement and conclusion, argument, course of action, cause and effect, theme based etc. The aspirants can expect approximately 10 questions in total
• Computer Aptitude: Flowchart-based questions can be expected from this section

IBPS PO scorecard is released few days after the declaration of the result. The scorecard is released on the official website and candidates can download it by logging with the required credentials. The hard copy of the scorecard is not sent to candidates by post. The scorecard is released separately for the prelims exam, Mains exam and final selection. IBPS PO scorecard displays the section-wise scores, overall scores, cut off marks, etc. The scores of candidates are calculated in the following manner:

• The corrected scores obtained by each candidate in different sessions of the exam are normalised using the equi-percentile method
•  Scores upto two decimal points are taken for the purpose of calculations