IBPS CWE RRB 2014 Exam Dates, Notification & Application Form

What is IBPS CWE RRB Exam and How to apply for the same? This exclusive blog post tells you in a nutshell.

The Third version of  IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) Common Written Exam (CWE) for recruitment of Office Assistants & Officers in Regional Rural Banks (RRB)s has already been notified - the exam is scheduled to be held in September, 2014 and the last date for submission of on-line application form is 9th July, 2014.  This is a good chance for those of you who want a prestigious banking job, nearby your home. Why?

Because  there are 82 Regional Rural Banks (also called as Grameen Banks) in India and it is most likely that one of their branches is quite near to your home. Got i?

What is IBPS CWE for Regional Rural Banks and how to apply? This article is being posted to answer this question.  Following three blog post provides you the prep material for the exam:

IBPS CWE RRB Officer Exam Pattern, Papers & Books.
IBPS CWE RRB Specialist Officer Exam Pattern, Papers & Books.
IBPS CWE RRB (Office Assistant) Exam Pattern Papers & Books.
If you are seriously interested to apply for this exam, you should also go through my blog post titled: Check if you have the Eligibility to appear in IBPS CWE RRB Exam.

What are Regional Rural Banks:

History of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) dates back to 2nd October, 1975 when five RRBs were established for upliftment of the rural economy. RRBs are jointly owned by the Government of India (50% stake), the State Government concerned (15%) and sponsor banks (35%).

At present there are 82 RRBs, sponsored by various PSU banks. You can click here to download the list of State-wise Indian Regional Rural Banks. Currently these RRBs are facing huge shortage of manpower on account of following reasons:

1.0 There has been virtually no recruitment for 18 years since from 1990.

2.0 Volume of business has increased almost 10-fold.

3.0 Large-scale retirement is going to take place in between 2012 to 2015.

What is IBPS CWE for Regional Rural Banks:

This is a common exam for all the Grameen banks (Regional Rural Banks) and it presents you the best opportunity for a bank job.

There are three other IBPS CWE:

Besides this exam for Regional Rural Banks, IBPS also conducts three other variants of Common Written Examination for three kind of banking professional in Indian PSU banks, details of which you can find from following articles of mine:

1.0 IBPS CWE PO/MT: For selection of Probationary Officers (PO) & Management Trainees (MT).

2.0 IBPS CWE Specialist Officers: For selection of Specialist Officers (i.e. IT/ Agriculture/ Law/ HR/ Marketing & Rajbhasha).

3.0 IBPS CWE Clerk: For selection of bank Clerk/Assistants.
You can take a holistic approach to prepare for above exams as I found that pattern of exams are similar in all the above bank exams - that is: if you prepare seriously for one exam, you can appear in other exams without needing any extra preparation.

IBPS CWE RRB 2014 Vacancies:
There are four category of vacancies for which this exam is being held:
RRB Office Assistants: No Experience  required.
Officer Scale-I: No Experience  required.
Officer Scale-II (General Banking Officer): Two years Experience as bank/financial officer.
Officer Scale-II (Specialist Officers): one/Two years Experience in bank.
Officer Scale-III: - Five years Experience as bank/financial firm.
Exact number of vacancies would be known only when the individual Grameen banks  comes up with the notifications following the Common Written Exam.

IBPS CWE (RRB) 2014 Important Dates:

Start date for submission of Online Form: 18.06.2014.
Online Payment of Application Fees: 18.06.2014 to 09.07.2014.
Offline Payment of Application Fees: 20.06.2014 to 14.07.2014

Download of Call letter for Officers:  after 26.08.2014.

Download of Call letter for Office Assistant: after 02.09.2014.
Written exam for Officers: 06.09.2014/ 07.09.2014.
Written exam for Office Assistants: 13.09.2014/ 14.09.2014/ 20.09.2014/ 21.09.2014.
Date for declaration of Results: 05.11. 2014.

IBPS CWE (RRB) 2014 Exam Centres:
The written exam would be held in many venues all across India in 27 states. You can find the list of Exam Centres for IBPS CWE (RRB) 2014  in "ANNEXURE-I EXAMINATION CENTERS"  in page 22 of the Notification.

IBPS CWE (RRB) 2014 Online Form:

You can apply for IBPS CWE for Regional Rural Banks only through on-line form. There is no offline form.
How to apply for IBPS CWE (RRB) 2014 is given clearly in section "K. HOW TO APPLY" in page-14 of the Notification.

Hope above has given a good insight into what is IBPS CWE RRB 2014 and how to apply for the same. To start preparing for the same, as said in the beginning of the article, following subsequent blog post would help:
IBPS CWE RRB Officer Exam Pattern, Papers & Books.
IBPS CWE RRB Specialist Officer Exam Pattern, Papers & Books.
IBPS CWE RRB (Office Assistant) Exam Pattern Papers & Books.

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