IBPS PO 2025 Selection Process - Prelims, Mains & Interview Process

IBPS PO 2025 Selection Process

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has outlined the IBPS PO Selection Process 2025 within its IBPS PO Recruitment 2025 notification, accessible on the official website. Understanding the selection process for recruiting Probationary Officers is of utmost importance, as it commences with the scrutiny of eligibility criteria laid out by IBPS, a vital step before applying for the thousands of vacancies available.

The IBPS PO Selection Process is composed of three fundamental stages: the Preliminary Examination, succeeded by the Mains Examination, and culminating with the Interview round. The Mains exam further includes five sections where candidates must score at least the marks required to match the cut off. As per the categories, there are different marks to be scored by candidates. After the conduction of the IBPS PO Preliminary exam, candidates who have effectively participated in the exam can access their result online. 

On qualifying the Prelims exams, candidates will have to appear for the Mains exams on November 29, 2025. The candidates who clear the Mains exam will be called for the interview round. The IBPS PO Interview will be conducted by the Participating Organizations, under the coordination of the Nodal Bank within each State/Union Territory, with the active involvement of IBPS itself. Upon successful completion of all these stages in the selection process, candidates who qualify will be provisionally allocated to one of the Participating Organizations following the guidelines stipulated by the Government. For a detailed overview of the IBPS PO Selection Process 2025, continue reading the article below.

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IBPS PO 2025 Selection Process Important Dates

The important dates regarding IBPS PO 2025 are mentioned in the table given below: 

Stages of IBPS PO 2025 Selection Process

IBPS PO Preliminary Test

This is the First Stage of Selection Process of IBPS PO. In this candidates are shortlisted on the basis of their performance in the online exam conducted all over the nation. The level of competition in this stage is high, as the number of applicants is more than 3 lakhs, which tends to increase with every passing year and announcement of different banking posts. And the result for the same has now been declared on the official website of IBPS. Candidates who will clear this stage and mark their place in the provisional cut-off marks list will become eligible to appear in the Second Stage of the Selection Process.

IBPS PO Mains Test

IBPS PO Mains is the Second Stage of the Selection Process that can be taken only by the candidates who have acquired the Provisional Cut-Off Marks in the First Stage which is the Preliminary Exam. Once the result of the Prelims is out, selected candidates will be able to download their IBPS PO 2025 Mains Admit Card from the official website. The Mains Examination will be a paper of 3 hours and 30 minutes with 155 + 2 questions. The paper will be both Objective and Subjective in the medium of the language selected by the candidates. Go through the IBPS PO Exam Pattern 2025 for Mains to know about the details of this online examination. Candidates successfully clearing this stage will be sent forward for the Third Stage of the Selection Process.

IBPS PO Interview Process

Only those candidates who qualify for IBPS PO Mains will be called for the Interview Process which is the Third Stage of the Selection Process. Interviews will be organised at select centres. The examination centre, the address of the venue, time & date of the Interview will be notified to the selected candidates in the call letter. Candidates will have to download their interview call letters from the official website of IBPS. Please note that no request regarding changes in the date of the interview, centre etc. will be considered. However, the conducting authorities have the right to change the date, venue, time, centre etc. of the interview or hold a supplementary process for the particular date, session, venue/centre under unforeseen circumstances, if any.

The total weightage for the Interview Process is 100 marks. General category candidates need to score 40% of marks in the Interview Process to qualify. Candidates belonging to reserved categories must score 35% of the marks. The cumulative score of Mains and Interview Process in a ratio of 80:20 will be taken into consideration for selecting the candidates for which a merit list will be prepared. Candidates whose names feature in the merit list will be offered appointment letters.

List of Documents Required for Verification - IBPS PO Interview Process

What follows is the list of documents that will be required during the IBPS PO Interview round. The candidates must carry the original documents as well as the self-attested photocopies. The candidature of those candidates will be cancelled who fail to submit the given documents, and their participation in the further recruitment process will be forbidden. Here goes the list of documents that will be required during the interview round of the IBPS PO 2025:

• Coloured printout of the Interview Call Letter

• Printout of the online application form which should be system generated

• Date of Birth proof (Class Xth certificate or Birth Certificate)

• Photo identity proof

• Certificates or marksheets of Graduation (or equivalent) 

• Caste certificate (for candidates belonging to the reserved categories)

• Asset and Income certificate (for candidates belonging to the EWS category)

• Certificate of Disability (from the concerned authorities)

• Discharge or Service book (for candidates belonging to the Ex-Servicemen category)

• No Objection Certificate (for candidates currently employed in Quasi-Government/ Government/ Public Sector Undertakings Organizations)

• Domicile Certificate (for those candidates who fall under any age relaxation category issued by the Competent Authority)

Also Read: Documents to be Produced During the IBPS PO Interview Round

​Note:

• Those candidates who fail to provide all the documents mentioned above will be prohibited from appearing in the interview 

• To be selected for the subsequent IBPS PO 2025 selection process, the candidates have to produce all the documents

• Candidates cannot send their documents directly to the Nodal Banks/IBPS after or before the interview round takes place

What After the Conclusion of Interview Round of the IBPS PO 2025 Selection Process?

After the conclusion of the interview round of the IBPS PO selection process, the allotment of vacant posts in the IBPS PO 2025 participating organizations will be carried out. The final allotment will take place after the participating organizations confirm the total number of vacant posts. The provisional allotment will be done on the basis of the Government of India guidelines. Only those candidates will be allotted seats on a provisional basis who fulfill the 

• Participating Organization’s eligibility criteria

• Satisfy the identity verification procedure of the Organization allocates 

Forfeiture of the candidature of those candidates will be done who are found to not satisfy the eligibility criteria. No request regarding the provisional allotment shall be entertained by the authorities and repeated requests may lead to the cancellation of the candidature of such candidates. The candidature of those candidates will also be canceled for those who do not accept the appointment offer from the IBPS PO 2025 participating organizations.

Participating Organisations for IBPS PO

The total number of vacancies is decided based on the recruitment need of 20 participating banks.