IBPS Clerk Syllabus 2026

IBPS Clerk 2026 Syllabus

IBPS does not publish a topic-by-topic syllabus. The topics below are those regularly asked in the sections named in the official exam pattern. Prelims has three sections; Mains adds General/Financial Awareness and harder questions.

English Language (Prelims and Mains)

• Reading comprehension
• Cloze test and fillers
• Error spotting and sentence correction
• Para jumbles and sentence rearrangement
• Vocabulary: synonyms, antonyms, word usage

Numerical Ability / Quantitative Aptitude

• Simplification and approximation
• Number series (missing and wrong number)
• Quadratic equations
• Data interpretation (tables, bar, pie and line charts, caselets)
• Arithmetic: percentage, ratio and proportion, average, ages, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time and work, time, speed and distance, mixtures, mensuration, probability

Reasoning Ability

• Puzzles and seating arrangement (linear, circular, floor, box)
• Syllogism
• Inequality
• Blood relations, direction sense, order and ranking
• Coding-decoding and alphanumeric series
• Input-output and data sufficiency (Mains)
• Basic computer knowledge questions may appear within Reasoning in Mains

General / Financial Awareness (Mains only)

• Current affairs of the last 4–6 months (national, international, sports, awards, appointments)
• Banking awareness: RBI, monetary policy, banking terms, financial inclusion schemes
• Government schemes and the Union Budget
• Static GK: capitals, currencies, important days, organisations

Preparation tips

• Practise sectional timing: each section is locked to its own clock.
• For Mains, read daily banking and economy news.
• Solve previous year papers to understand the level of each section.

Source: Sreedhar's CCE – IBPS Clerk CRP CSA-XVI notification guide, Careers360 – IBPS Clerk Recruitment 2026