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Punjab National Bank - Clerk

Punjab National Bank ( PNB ) is an Indian financial services company based in New Delhi, India. PNB is the third largest bank in India by assets. It was founded in 1894 by Lala Lajpat Rai and is currently the second largest state-owned commercial bank in India ahead of Bank of Baroda with about 5000 branches across 764 cities. It serves over 37 million customers. The bank has been ranked 248th biggest bank in the world by the Bankers' Almanac. The bank's total assets for financial year 2007 were about US$60 billion. PNB has a banking subsidiary in the UK, as well as branches in Hong Kong, Dubai and Kabul, and representative offices in Almaty, Dubai, Oslo, and Shanghai.

 The hiring of the candidates will be done on the basis of the score card of IBPS 2017 exam and personal interview round. Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) Conducts (IBPS Clerk 2017) Common Written Exam (CWE) for Clerical Cadre Posts in different Public Sector banks and financial Institution. IBPS department provides human resources to them through clearing a process of CWE (Prelims & Mains). Every year conducts IBPS Common Written Exam for Clerks Recruitment at different cities of all states. IBPS Clerk CWE VII is scheduled in December/January month. 

Punjab National Bank - Clerk 2021 Exam Syllabus

IBPS Clerk Exam Syllabus for English

Vocabulary

  1. Homonyms
  2. Antonyms 
  3. Synonyms
  4. Word Formation
  5. Spelling

Grammar

  1.  Spotting Errors
  2.  Phrases and idioms
  3.  Direct and Indirect speech
  4.  Active/ Passive voice

Reading Comprehension

  1.  Theme Detection
  2.  Passage completion
  3.  Topic rearrangement of passage
  4.  Deriving Conclusion.

IBPS Clerk Exam Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude

  1.  Ratio and proportion
  2.  Averages
  3.  Time and work
  4.  Speed, Distance and time
  5.  Mixture and allegation
  6.  Stocks and shares
  7.  Percentages
  8.  Partnership
  9.  Clocks
  10.  Volume and surface Area
  11.  Height and Distances
  12.  Logarithms
  13.  Permutation and combinations
  14.  Simple and compound interest
  15.  Equations
  16.  Probability
  17.  Trigonometry
  18.  Profit, Loss and Discount
  19.  Mensuration
  20.  Elements of Algebra
  21.  Data Interpretation
  22.  Pie charts
  23.  Tables
  24.  Bar & Graphs
  25.  Line charts.

IBPS Clerk Exam Syllabus for Reasoning

Verbal Reasoning

  1. Analogy
  2. Classification
  3. Word formation
  4. Statement and conclusions
  5. Syllogism
  6. Statement and assumptions
  7. Statement and arguments
  8. Coding Decoding
  9. Blood Relations
  10. Passage and conclusions
  11. Alphabet test
  12. Series Test
  13. Number, Ranking and time sequence
  14. Direction sense Test
  15. Decision making test
  16. Figure series
  17. Input/output, Assertion and reasoning
  18. Seating Arrangement

Non-Verbal Reasoning

  1.  Series test
  2.  Odd figure out
  3.  Analogy
  4.  Miscellaneous Test etc.

IBPS Clerk Exam Syllabus for General Awareness

  1. Current affairs related to national and international issues of last 6 months. 
  2. Overview of Indian Financial System
  3. History of Indian banking system.
  4. Recent credit and monetary policies
  5. Introduction to National financial institutions like RBI, SEBI, IRDA, FSDC etc and of
  6. International organizations like IMF, World Bank, ADB, UN etc.
  7. Abbreviations and Economic terminologies
  8. Banking Terms
  9. Important Government Schemes on capital & money market.

IBPS Clerk Exam Syllabus for Computer Knowledge

  1.  Basics of Hardware and software
  2.  Windows operating system basics
  3.  Internet terms and services
  4.  Basic Functionalities of MS-Office (MS-word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint)
  5.  History of computers
  6.  Networking and communication
  7.  Database basics
  8.  Basics of Hacking, Security Tools and Viruses.

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