The online Common Written Examination (CWE) for recruitment of Specialist Officers, CWE-SPL-IV, is going to be conducted in February, 2015. IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) has already released the notification for this examination.
This examination is being conducted for recruitment for the following posts:

Now, let us understand the structure of the CWE-SPL-IV.

The structure of the Online CWE will be as follows:

For the posts of Law Officer- Scale I & Rajbhasha Adhikari Scale I:

For the posts of IT Officer Scale I, Agricultural Field Officer Scale I,
HR/ Personnel Officer Scale I & Marketing Officer Scale I:

The above tests except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and Hindi.

There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate; there will be no penalty for that question.

The corrected scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using equipercentile method.

Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score in each test and also a minimum total score to be considered to be shortlisted for interview. Prior to the completion of the interview process, scores obtained in the online examination will not be shared with the candidates shortlisted for interview.

Interview

Candidates who have been shortlisted in the examination for SPL-IV will subsequently be called for an Interview to be conducted by the Participating Organisations and coordinated by the nodal banks with the help of IBPS. Interviews will be conducted at select centres. The centre, address of the venue, time & date of Interview will be informed to the shortlisted candidates in the call letter.

The total marks allotted for Interview are 100. The minimum qualifying marks in the interview should not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD candidates). The weightage (ratio) of Online CWE (exam) and interview will be 80:20. The combined final scores of candidates shall be arrived at on the basis of total scores obtained by the candidates in CWE (SPL-IV) and Interview. Interview score of the candidates failing to secure minimum qualifying marks or otherwise barred from the interview or further process shall not be disclosed. A candidate should qualify both in the CWE and interview and be sufficiently high in the merit list to be shortlisted for the subsequent allotment process, details of which will be available subsequently on the IBPS website.