Book excerpt: Book Type - Practice Sets / Solved Papers About Exam: The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts the IBPS SO exam every year for the recruitment of Specialist Officers for various posts in the Public Sector Banks across India. IBPS AFO is responsible to provide consultation regarding agriculture loans, banking products & latest technologies. He is also responsible for verification of revenue reports, loan sanctions, promotion of various government schemes in rural & agriculture lending. Exam Patterns – Question paper is to be answered in Objective as well as Descriptive type questions for Part A and Part B respectively. Part A which is Professional Knowledge (Objective Type Question) contains 45 questions. Part B which is Professional Knowledge (Descriptive type Questions) Contains 2 questions. Maximum marks allotted for the paper are 60. Both sections are allotted time duration of 30 minutes each. Question paper contains a single part i.e. Professional Knowledge with 60 Objective type questions. Negative Marking is also applicable to questions attempted wrong. 0.25 marks will be deducted. No marks will be deducted for questions left un-attempted. 1 mark each for all the MCQs. Negative Marking – 1/4 Conducting Body- Institute of Banking Personnel Selection