Last year's IBPS Specialist IT Officer Cut-Off score

Today I am posting about the real scenario of Last year's IBPS Specialist Officer exam. It includes

• The number of applicants & selected for interview
• Cut-off score to get the interview
• Actual number of vacancies
• Actual & final standardized cut-off scores of those who got job

This will help you to get a real idea about the level of competition this exam IBPS Specialist Officer CWE-III is offering.

The number of Applicants & selected for interview

In the table below, there are statistics of the 'appeared' candidates & 'qualified for interview' candidates for all the IBPS Specialist Officer posts last year i.e. IBPS SO CWE-II.

Post Name	No. of Registrants	No. of appeared	Qualified for Interview
IT-Officer-I	194755	151058	4394
Technical Officer	56633	41760	2332
Marketing Officer	46468	34956	5775
HR Officer	29617	21496	1130
Agri Field Officer	20054	14217	1556
Law Officer	16445	11685	562
Rajbhasha Adhikari	2306	1506	193
IT Officer-II	24618	17766	157
Total	3,90,896	2,94,439	16,099

As you can see from the above tables, you can clearly see that 1.5 lakh candidates appeared for the IT Officer scale-I, out of which only 4 thousand qualified for the interview. this means the competition is very tough & you have to give your best to qualify for the interview.

Same condition is with all other posts too. For IT Officer scale-II, out of 17 thousand , only 157 made it to the interview.

Cut-Off Score to get the interview

Now coming to the cut-off score of last year's IBPS Specialist officer (IBPS SO CWE-II), which again made it very competitive.

Post Name	Category
	General	OBC/SC/ST/PWD
IT-Officer-I	128	120
Technical Officer	120	113
Marketing Officer	114	107
HR Officer	124	114
Agri Field Officer	112	104
Law Officer	121	113
Rajbhasha Adhikari	96	90
IT Officer-II	134	125

As you can see from the above table, cut-off to get the interview in IT Officer-I was 128 marks for General  & 120 for other categories which is very high as compared to IBPS PO & Clerical exams.

Actual number of vacancies

Now coming to the point of vacancies as compared to the number of candidates qualified for the interview, this ratio was quite low. Here is the actual number of vacancies from last year's IBPS CWE-II:

As you can see, 4000 candidates were selected for the interview but only 351 vacancies were there for IT Officer scale-I. This gives a ratio of 1:11 that means out of every 11 candidates, only one candidate was offered the job.

Actual & Final Standardized score of those who got job

After the final results of IBPS SO CWE-II were declared, these were the minimum & maximum final scores of the candidates who were offered the job. Have a look.

NOTE: THESE SCORES ARE OUT OF 100. Final score is calculated after taking marks in written exam out of 80 & marks in interview out of 20.

As you can clearly observe, the minimum & maximum marks for IT officer scale-I are around 70 & 78. That means the candidate who scored 70 out of 100 in the final must have scored more than 140 marks in the test to get into this list.

HOW?

Suppose someone scores 140 marks(Normalized score) out of 200 in Online test. So he will get 56 marks out of 80.
Now in the interview of 100 marks, he gets 80 marks. So, he will get 16 marks out of 20.
Note: people usually score 70-80 marks on just an Average interview (an experienced IT SO)

Finally, Out of 100, he will get 56+16= 72 marks. The minimum cutoff was 70. I hope this clears the marking scheme of IBPS for final selection.

Conclusion

Coming to the last section of this post, I want to write following points:

• Competition is very tough but it is not impossible to crack this exam.
• Score enough, not only enough to get the interview but to get the job.
• No one can speculate the cut-off of this year's IBPS Specialist Officer exam. Don't panic or get confused by people posting speculations about cut-off. 
• Study hard & give your best.

I hope this helps all the aspiring candidates for IBPS Specialist officer post.