IBPS SO 2025 Eligibility Criteria - Check Age Limit, Marks Required, No of Attempts, Important Factor

IBPS SO Eligibility Criteria 2025

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts the IBPS SO exam to recruit candidates. The candidates will be hired for different positions under IBPS SO such as Agriculture Field Officer, Marketing Officer (Scale I), HR/Personnel Officer (Scale I), IT Officer (Scale I), Law Officer (Scale I), and Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I). The candidates should be between 20 and 30 years of age with a bachelor’s degree. They should be Indian citizens. More details related to age, qualification, nationality are provided below. Continue reading to get detailed information related to eligibility. In total, the IBPS SO 2025 Mains exam will be conducted for 1007 SO vacancies on November 09, 2025. 

IBPS SO 2025 Eligibility Criteria - Academic Qualification

IBPS will specify academic qualifications under the IBPS SO eligibility criteria 2025 for all the candidates. Candidates are advised to examine the eligibility norms and make sure they fulfil each of them before filling the application form. 

IBPS SO Eligibility Criteria 2025 - Age Limit and Age Relaxation

IBPS has decided the upper and lower age limit for all the candidates as part of IBPS SO eligibility criteria. The age criteria under the IBPS SO 2025 eligibility criteria is as follows:

• Minimum: 20 years

• Maximum: 30 years

A candidate should not have been born before 02.11.1993 and not after 01.11.2003.

Relaxation of Upper Age Limit in IBPS SO

IBPS SO Eligibility Criteria 2025 - Nationality

A candidate should either:

• Be an Indian citizen,

• Or could be a citizen of Nepal or Bhutan or Tibetan Refugee,

• Could be a Tibetan refugee who came to India before January 1, 1962, with the intention of settling permanently in India.

• Could be a person of Indian origin who has migrated from East African countries of Kenya, Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), with the intention of permanently settling in India.

IBPS SO 2025 Eligibility Criteria for EWS Category

Applicants not covered under the SC, ST, OBC categories and have a gross annual income less than 8 lakh rupees are identified as EWS candidates i.e. candidates belonging to the Economically Weaker Section. Such candidates are entitled to the benefit of 10% reservation for the vacancies released by IBPS.

Important Points related to IBPS SO Eligibility for EWS Category 

The income from all sources such as salary,  business, agriculture, profession, etc. will be included in revenue. This income will be the income from the financial year preceding the year of application. 

However, any person or his family having possession of any of the following assets will not be included in the EWS category, irrespective of his annual family income.

• 5 acres of Agricultural Land and above.
• Residential flat of 1000 sq. ft. and above.
• Residential plots of 100 sq. yards and above in notified municipalities.
• Residential plots of 200 sq. yards and above in areas other than the notified municipalities.

While applying for the property holding test to determine EWS status, the property owned in different locations by a particular “Family” is clubbed. The term “Family” will include the person seeking the benefit of reservation, his parents, siblings below 18 years of age, spouse and children below 18 years of age.

Candidates seeking to avail the benefit of EWS reservation for IBPS SO Selection Process will have to produce an Income and Asset Certificate at the time of document verification and interview round issued by a Competent Authority in the prescribed format. 

IBPS SO 2025 Eligibility Criteria for PwD Category

As per the Government of India norms, persons with benchmark disabilities are eligible for reservation under section 34 of “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”.

The categories of disabilities eligible to avail reservation under the Act is as follows:

• Deaf and hard of hearing
• Blindness and low vision
• intellectual disability, autism, mental illness, and specific learning disability
• locomotor disability including leprosy cured, cerebral palsy, dwarfism, muscular dystrophy, and acid attack victims

People with benchmark disabilities will be allocated the reserved vacancies as prescribed in the “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016” and as per vacancies reported to IBPS by Participating banks.

Directives for PwD using services of Scribe

Candidates whose writing speed is affected permanently or with minimum benchmark disability for any reason are allowed to use their own scribe during IBPS PO Exam 2021, but have to abide by certain rules mentioned below:

1. Candidates who wish to use the scribe services or are eligible for the same in the examination will have to apply for the services of scribe while filling the IBPS PO Application Form.
2. Scribe will have to be arranged by the candidates themselves and at their own cost.
3. Both candidate and scribe will have to submit an undertaking that all the stipulated eligibility conditions mentioned for the scribe are fulfilled. Also, if, at any stage of the exam, it is found that the scribe did not fulfill any of the IBPS SO eligibility criteria 2025 prescribed or suppresses material facts then the applicant’s candidature will be cancelled, irrespective of the result of the CRP.
4. The scribe arranged by the candidate may be from any educational background but should not be any candidate for the online examination under (CRP-PO/MT-IX)
5. The scribe used by the candidate is eligible for compensatory time of 20 mins or otherwise recommended for the full hour of the examination. Since compensatory time given to candidates shall be a system based process, therefore, only candidates who register for the same will be allowed such concessions.

Directives for candidates with Cerebral Palsy and Locomotor Disability

Candidates with a minimum of 40% Cerebral Palsy and Locomotor Disability where dominant extremity i.e. writing is affected to the scope where it may slow down the performance will be permitted a compensatory time of 20 min/hr or otherwise advised.

Directives for candidates having Intellectual Disability

Candidates will be provided a compensatory time of 20 min/hr of the exam only if they are more than 40% Intellectually Disabled, mentally ill, Autistic or have Specific Learning Disability, irrespective of availing the Scribe services. 

Directives for Visually Impaired candidates

The Visually Impaired candidates suffering from 40% or more disability may opt to view the contents of the question paper in magnified font and will be eligible for compensatory time of 20 min/hr otherwise advised. Only the visually impaired candidates who are not using the services of scribe will be permitted to avail the facility of viewing the contents of the test in the magnifying font.

Candidates who fulfil all the above IBPS SO Eligibility criteria 2025 should start preparing for the examination well in advance. As the IBPS application process is entirely online, it is useful to keep scanned copies of all relevant supporting documents handy. This would allow the candidate to finish the application process faster and secure the examination centre of their own choice.