IBPS RRB Scale 3 Officer 2025: Eligibility, Exam Date & Syllabus

IBPS RRB Scale III 2025 is an annual examination for the selection of Scale III Officers in various in Regional Rural Banks in India. IBPS RRB Scale-III 2025. Exam details are given below:

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Important Dates

Activity	Tentative Dates
On-line registration including Edit/Modification of Application by candidates	01.09.2025 to 21.09.2025
Payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges (Online)	01.09.2025 to 21.09.2025
Download of Call letter for Online exam – Main / Single	November / December, 2025
Main Examination	Officers Scale III : 28th December 2025
Conduct of interview (For Officers Scale I, II and III)	January/ February, 2026
Provisional Allotment (For Officers Scale I, II and III & Office Assistant. (Multipurpose))	February/ March, 2026

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Number of Vacancies

Post / s	Minimum Age	Maximum Age	Total Vacancies
Officer Scale III – Senior Manager	21 years	40 years	199

Relaxation in Age Limit

Sr. No	Category	Age Relaxation
1	Scheduled Caste/ scheduled Tribe Candidates	By 5 years
2	Other Backward classes (OBC) Candidates (Non-Creamy layer)	By 3 years
3	Persons With Benchmark Disability (PwBD) as defined under “The Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016”	By 10 years
4	In the case of Ex- servicemen commissioned officers, including ECOs/ SSCOs, who have rendered at least 5 years military service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within the next one year from the last date for receipt of application) other than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or on account of physical disability attributable to military service or on invalidment, subject to ceiling as per Government guidelines	for the post of Officers - 5 years

Educational Qualifications & Post Qualification Experience (As on 21.09.2025)

Eligibility	Scale-III
Education	Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized University or its equivalent with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate. Preference will be given to the candidates having Degree/ Diploma in Banking, Finance, Marketing, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Engineering, Pisciculture, Agricultural Marketing and Co-operation, Information Technology, Management, Law, Economics and Accountancy.
Age	Above 21 years - Below 40 years i.e.: Candidates should not have been born earlier than 02.09.1985 and later than 01.09.2004 (both dates inclusive)
Experience	Minimum 5 years experience as an officer in a bank or Financial Institutions.

Credit History

The candidate applying shall ensure that, they maintain a healthy Credit history at the time of joining of RRBs. The minimum credit score will be as per the policy of participating RRBs, amended from time to time.
Candidates with unresolved CIBIL or similar agency issues must update their status or submit NOCs from lenders before joining. Failure to do so may lead to cancellation of the offer, at the bank’s discretion.

NOTE:

This clause does not apply to the candidates with no Bank account.
This requirement is not a pre-condition to apply.

Selection Procedure

Selection will be through on-line written test and personal interview. Merely satisfying the eligibility norms does not entitled a candidate to be called for Test or Interview.

Exam Pattern

Sr. No.	Name of section	No. of questions	Maximum Marks	Time allotted
1	Reasoning	40	50	30 Minutes
2	Computer Knowledge	40	20	15 Minutes
3	Financial Awareness	40	40	15 Minutes
4a	English Language	40	40	30 Minutes
4b	Hindi Language	40	40	30 Minutes
5	Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation	40	50	30 Minutes
	Total	200	200	120 Minutes

Syllabus

Quantitative Aptitude

Data Interpretation
Boats and Streams
Time and Work
Time, Speed and Distance
Partnership
Mixtures and Alligation
Ages and Average
Profit and Loss
Percentage and Interest
Problems on Trains
Pipes and Cisterns
Area and Volume
Number Series
Linear equations
Quadratic equations
Data sufficiency

Reasoning

Machine Input Output
Puzzles
Seating Arrangement
Order and Ranking
Inequalities
Statement and Assumptions
Statement and Conclusion
Coding-Decoding
Cause and Effect
Statement and Argument
Venn Diagram/Syllogism
Blood Relation
Direction and Distance

Financial Awareness

RBI Circulars
Latest Government Schemes
Banking products
Banking Awareness(Updated on monthly basis)
Priority sector lending
Basel Norms
RBI regulations for Commercial banks, RRBs, Small Finance Banks, HFCs, NBFCs and UCBs
Indian Financial System
Financial market instruments
International reports and indices
Important committees
Foreign investment and trade
Union budget
Latest mergers and MOUs of banks and financial institutions
Financial regulatory institutions in India
Mutual Funds
Ratio analysis
Break-even Analysis
Time Value of Money
Working capital management
Factoring
Dividend Policy
Factoring
Derivatives- Future and Forward Contract
Capital Structure
Cost of Capital
Cash Flow Statement
Banking Regulations Act, 1949
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
SARFAESI Act, 2002
Currency Act
Consumer Protection Act, 1986
Taxation Acts(Income Tax and GST)
Companies Act, 2013
RBI Act, 1934

English Language

Reading Comprehension
Cloze Test
Error Spotting
Double Fillers
Sentence Rearrangement
Vocabulary Based Questions

Computer Knowledge

Hardware and Software
Operating System Basics
Internet Terms and Services
MS-Office (MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint)
History of Computers
Networking and Communication
Database
Security Tools and Viruses

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