Last Year's IBPS Specialist Officers CWE Cutoff Details

Friends, from the day IBPS announced the Common Written Exam notification for Its Specialist Officers II Exam, people have been continously asking about the last year's cutoffs and total number of candidate's details. Here we're posting a detailed analysis of Last year's scores of Specialist Officers. Here an important point you should keep in mind is.. the numbers may vary.. but this will help you in getting a clear idea of the selection pattern... All The Best

Last year IBPS has conducted its Specialist Officers exam for IT Officer, Agricultural Field Officer, Law Officer, Rajbhasha Adhikari, Technical Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officers on 11th March 2012. It gave the results in the duration of 45 days. According to the IBPS there are around 4 lakh candidates had registered for this exam, 3 lakh of them have appeared for the exam and about 16000 candidates cleared the exam. 

What is the Pass percentage of IBPS SO I ?

The pass percentage is around 5.5%, which is much lower than the pass percentage of 10 for CWE of PO/MT and 17.5 for CWE of Clerical (last year's exams).

For how many posts ?

There were 4000 posts of Specialist Officers approx (Source Mr. Balachandran, Director of IBPS at that time)

Here is the Detailed List of Candidates :

Total Number of Candidates appeared for IBPS SO Exam
Post	Registered	Appeared	Qualified
IT Officer Scale – I	194755	151058	4394
IT Offcer Scale -II	24618	17766	157
Agriculture Field Officer Scale -I	20054	14217	1556
Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale – I	2306	1506	193
Law Officer Scale – I	16445	11685	562
Tech Officer Scale – I	56633	41760	2332
HR/Personnel Offcer Scale – I	29617	21491	1130
Marketing Offcer Scale – I	46468	34956	5775
Total	390896	294439	16099

What are the cutoffs last year ? 

As usual individual cutoffs were 24 for gen and 21 for others (out of 50 marks)

What about TWSS ?

The TWSS was calculated only for those candidates who qualified in individual test area as per the cutoffs on standard scores as mentioned above.

The cutoffs on the TWSS for each post, as released by IBPS, are shown in the table below.

Cutoff scores on Total Weighted Standard Score (TWSS)
Name of the Post	General	SC/ST/OBC/PWD
IT Officer Scale – I	128	120
IT Offcer Scale -II	134	125
Agriculture Field Officer Scale -I	112	104
Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale – I	96	90
Law Officer Scale – I	121	113
Tech Officer Scale – I	120	113
HR/Personnel Offcer Scale – I	124	114
Marketing Offcer Scale – I	114	107

IBPS had clearely mentioned that if an aspirant has cleared the cutoffs on the standard score but not cleared the cutoffs on TWSS is not eligible to apply for banks.

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Last Year IBPS Specialist Officers CWE Cutoffs and Posts Details