How To Crack IBPS SO IT Officer

Every year Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts exams for selecting Specialist Officers (SO) in 11 public sector banks in the country. Specialist Officer provides assistance to other banking officials  in areas like Information Technology (IT), Marketing, Human Resource, Agricultural Field Officer,Rajbhasha Adhikari etc. Specialist officers, unlike other bank officers, have to be specialised in their domain of study. That means only a graduate in engineering or a

Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science/ IT/ Computer Application/ Electronics and Communication Engineering/ Electronics and Telecommunication/ Electronics and Instrumentation OR Graduates having crossed the DOEACC ‘B’ level test can attend the exams for the Specialist IT Officer post. If you are good at studying during college, IBPS SO exams will be a piece of cake for you.

IBPS SO Exams contain 3 tests, Preliminary, Mains and Interview. Preliminary exams for IBPS SO are same as that of other bank posts like clerk and probationary officer, but in the main exam question paper is entirely different as the main exam is to check candidates’ deep knowledge in respective fields. 

IBPS SO MAIN EXAM PATTERN FOR IT OFFICER

IBPS SO main exam paper is called Professional knowledge, it has 60 questions containing 60 marks which need to be completed in 45 minutes. There are no descriptive questions like Rajbhasha Adhikari post. And the question paper also is in both English and hindi. 

Specialist Officer IT Syllabus 

Questions for professional knowledge will be from Database Management System, Data Communication and Networking,Operating System,Software Engineering,Data Structures,

Computer languages,Computer Organization and Microprocessor and Object-Oriented Program. Once you are clear with the syllabus now you can start preparing for exams.

Prioritise Most Important Topics 

If you have gone through previous year question papers you will be aware that database management system, operating system and networking is most important out of all the topics. 30-40 questions come from these topics alone and if you don’t have much time to prepare then it’s advisable to learn every nook and corner from these topics.Solve as many theoretical questions as possible from old question papers, so that you understand the topics deeply. Also try many mock tests that will give you more understanding of your knowledge of the topic. 

Buy Only Good Books

There may be many books in the market on IBPS SO IT Officer but most of the books carry a lot of unwanted study material, that will only make your time fly without any benefits. As mentioned above about the 3 main topic to focus it always advisable to read Fundamentals of Database Systems by Elmasri & Nawathe for questions related to DBMS, Operating System Concepts by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne for Operating systems and Data communications and networking by Behrouz A Forouzan for Networking. These books are enough for you to easily clear the main exam. 

Last Words 

In the Professional Knowledge paper of IBPS SO (IT), most questions will be based on theory and it’s important that you go through theoretical topics religiously, don’t skip 3 topics we have mentioned above.