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 IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) has just today issued exam notification for Bank clerk recruitment Common Written Exam (CWE) 2011 for 19 major Public Sector banks of India. This comes close on the heels of the Common Written Exam (CWE) 2011 notification for PO (Probationary Officers), details of which can be found in my previous blog post titled: IBPS Bank PO CWE 2011 Notification Eligibility Forms.
This should come as a golden opportunity for those of you who are aspiring for a bank clerk Govt. job. Why? Because this is the first time ever that such a Common Banking Exam for recruitment of bank clerks is being organised in the history of Indian banking industry. Till last year, each of these Public Sector banks used to organize bank clerk recruitment exams separately. Just imagine the amount of effort and money you needed to apply and appear in each of the bank exams individually. Now, these effort would be reduced to a great extent as you have to appear in just one such exam – the IBPS Bank Clerk Common Written Exam 2011. While this blog post of mine tells you in a nutshell what is IBPS CWE for bank clerks and how to apply for the same, another blog article titled: IBPS Bank Clerk CWE Exam Pattern, Sample Papers & Books would give you the prep material to prepare for this exam. You can click here to download the IBPS Bank Clerk CWE 2011 Exam notification.
Let us begin this discussion with an orientation on what is IBPS CWE for bank clerks.
What is IBPS Bank Clerk CWE:
IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) is the apex body for recruitment, promotion and placement services in Indian public sector banks. IBPS was established in 1975 as a unit of National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) and it became an autonomous body in 1984. You can find more about IBPS in this About Us page.
How and why common recruitment exam is being conducted by IBPS? It is because there is a huge manpower requirement in Indian banking sector for the next five years because of two reasons - expansion in new banking areas/new geographical terrains as well as mass retirement of existing banking personnel. If I may quote the words of M. Balachandran, Director, IBPS: "...In the next 5 years, commercial banks will have to recruit almost 7.5 lakh people..." You can download the detailed interview of the Director, IBPS with Businessline of the Hindu by clicking here.
As you can find in the interview, the recruitment of banking personnel is a very long process, taking up as much as 6-8 months for each individual banks. Add to it, the amount of effort and money it takes to organize the national level recruitment test. Therefore from 1st of June 2011, Indian Banks’ Association has aligned with the IBPS to hold the Common Written Examination for selection of personnel in clerical, entry level and officers’ cadre.
Will you get job based on your performance in CWE (Common Written Examination) alone? No, what Common Written Exam has done is - it has reduced your effort in appearing the written part of recruitment process of the banks. For the further selection process (like GD/PI) of each bank individually. When any bank issues recruitment notification, you have to apply for that bank with your IBPS Clerk CWE Score. The bank will than shortlist the candidates based on CWE score and call you for further selection process, specific to that bank.
Following comparisons of bank recruitment process prior and after IBPS CWE would make you clear: Bank Selection process prior to IBPS CWE 2011: 
Bank Selection process after IBPS CWE 2011:  As per the notification, IBPS CWE would be conducted twice a year and you can reappear in subsequent exams to improve your scores.
In which bank you can get job after appearing in IBPS CWE 2011: The list of Indian banks which have participated in IBPS CWE is given below: 1). Allahabad Bank 2). Andhra Bank 3). Bank of Baroda 4). Bank of India 5). Bank of Maharashtra 6). Canara Bank 7). Central Bank of India 8). Corporation Bank 9). Dena Bank 10). Indian Bank 11). Indian Overseas Bank 12). Oriental Bank of Commerce 13). Punjab National Bank 14). Punjab & Sind Bank 15). Syndicate Bank 16). Union Bank of India 17). United Bank of India 18). UCO Bank 19). Vijaya Bank There are 21 Indian PSU banks as you can find in this webpage. So only IDBI & SBI has not participated in IBPS CWE 2011. But in the future years, they too are expected to take part.
IBPS CWE-Clerk Exam Pattern: The exam would consist of objective type questions comprising 50 questions each from the five test sections of Reasoning, English Language, Numerical Ability, General Awareness, Computer Knowledge. Thus there would be total 250 marks to be answered in 2-&-1/2 hour.
So you are interested for these bank jobs and would like to know how to apply? Let us first know eligibility are required to appear in IBPS Bank Clerk Common Written Exam.
IBPS CWE Clerk 2011 Eligibility: Age Eligibility (as on 01.08.2011): Min: 18 Years Max: 28 Years. Age relaxations exist as per Govt. rule.
Academic Qualification Eligibility (as on 01.08.2011): Min. 60% aggregate in Class-X or Min. 50% aggregate in Class-XII or Degree in any discipline or any equivalent qualification. The above qualifications should be from a recognized University.
Relaxations for SC/ST/OBC/PWD/EXSM candidate: Only pass mark is required in above qualification.
So you meet all the above required qualification and would like to apply for IBPS CWE-Clerk exam?
IBPS CWE Clerk 2011 Online form: How to apply You have to apply only online for IBPS CWE - there is no offline form. Click here to find the IBPS CWE Clerk 2011 Online form. This application form would be available only from 25.08.2011 till 24.09.2011. How to apply online for IBPS CWE Clerk 2011 is given very clearly in page:8, Section: "L. HOW TO APPLY" of the notification
Website for downloading Call letter/Admit Card for IBPS CWE Clerk 2011: You have to download your call letter for the Common Written Exam 2011 from this IBPS webpage. The call letter/admit card would be available from 11th November, 2011. To download, you have to enter your registration number and Password/Date of Birth.
Imporant IBPS CWE 2011 exam dates: Date of exam notification: 23.08.2011. Online registration starts from: 25.08.2011. Last date for online registration of IBPS CWE Clerk 2011: 24.09.2011. Last date for modifying/editing your online application form: 26.09.2011. Date of written exam (IBPS CWE 2011): 27.11.2011 (Sunday).
Hope you liked this introductory article on IBPS Common Written Exam 2011 and therefore apply for the bank clerk job confidently. But how do you prepare for the same? For the prep materials, please visit my next blog article titled: IBPS Bank Clerk CWE Exam Pattern, Sample Papers & Books.
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Dear all,
IBPS CWE Clerk written exam date has been re-scheduled and it shall now take place in three Different dates: 27/11/2011, 04/12/2011 and 11/12/2011.
Please go through this notification.
Best wishes.