IBPS RRB Clerk (Office Assistant, CRP-RRBs-XV)

As per the official notification, IBPS is running CRP RRBs-XV, a common recruitment process for 28 Regional Rural Banks. The Group 'B' Office Assistant (Multipurpose) post, popularly "RRB Clerk", has 8,222 indicative vacancies (Annexure I updated as on 25.09.2026; it was 8,183 in the 01.09.2026 notification until Tripura Gramin Bank reported 39 posts). Uttar Pradesh Gramin Bank has 1,200 of them. Online registration ran from 01.09.2026 to 27.09.2026, extended from 21.09.2026.

There are two online stages and no interview: a Preliminary exam (80 questions, 45 minutes, qualifying only) and a Main exam (200 questions, 200 marks, 120 minutes) whose marks alone decide allotment. As per the IBPS tentative calendar, the Preliminary is on 6, 12 and 13 December 2026 and the Main on 30 January 2027. IBPS may change these dates, so keep checking ibps.in.

The pay for Office Assistant is not stated in the notification and is awaiting an official source; cut-offs for this cycle are not yet published.

Registration for CRP RRBs-XV closed on 27.09.2026. For the next cycle, this is how it worked; always follow the new notification.

1. Register online on ibps.in during the window, and pay the fee online (amounts below; bank charges extra).
2. One application per cadre: you may apply for Office Assistant and also for one Officer post (Scale I, II or III, only one), with a separate fee for each. If you submit more than one in the same cadre, only the latest completed one is kept.
3. Choose the State/UT with care: provisional allotment is restricted to the RRB(s) of the State/UT you apply for, and you need proficiency in that RRB's local language (Uttar Pradesh Gramin Bank: Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit).
4. Choose your exam medium (for Uttar Pradesh: English, Hindi or Urdu), and opt for Pre-Exam Training if you are eligible.
5. Upload your photo, signature and other documents as specified in the notification.
6. Save the confirmation. An edit window opens for 2 days after registration closes.

Common mistakes

• Name or date of birth that does not match your documents.
• Wrong category, or the wrong State/UT.
• Applying without the degree result declared by the cut-off date.
• Paying on the last day, and not saving the confirmation.

With no official papers or topic-wise syllabus from IBPS, there are no topic counts to show for this exam. The official structure (tests, questions, marks and time) is fixed by the notification; the topic mix in our mocks is our editorial judgement, kept clearly separate and labelled as editorial. It is never a probability of what will be asked.

ibps.in lists no question papers or answer keys for CRP RRBs (checked 30.10.2026). We do not host memory-based papers or questions recalled from the exam. Our mocks use original questions that follow the official pattern: test names, question counts, marks and times as printed in the notification.

IBPS publishes no topic-wise syllabus or weightage, so the topic mix inside each test is our editorial judgement and is labelled as such.

There are two online stages and no interview. The Preliminary is a filter: you must clear the minimum cut-off in both tests, but its marks are not counted later. In the Main exam you need a minimum score in each test; then State-wise merit is drawn up against the vacancies available, and only Main marks are used for the final merit.

If scores are equal, the older candidate ranks higher. Provisional allotment is to the RRB(s) of the State/UT you applied for, against the vacancies actually reported. The result stays valid until one year after provisional allotment or until a fresh allotment, whichever is earlier, and a reserve list may be used within that year. Because the Main alone decides your allotment, every mark there counts.

Call letters are downloaded from ibps.in, usually by logging in with your registration number and password or date of birth. As per the notification schedule, the Preliminary call letter comes in November/December 2026 and the Main call letter in December 2026/January 2027. Keep the stamped Preliminary call letter and your ID copy safe: you must bring them to the Main exam.

Exam-day checklist

• Printed call letter, plus the stamped Preliminary call letter and ID copy for the Main.
• Original photo ID, as instructed in the call letter.
• Only the items the call letter permits. Follow the instructions printed on your call letter and in the Information Handout.
• Reach early: the checks and seating take time.

CBT tips

• The notification prints a separate time for each test (Preliminary: Reasoning 25 minutes, Numerical Ability 20 minutes). Practice each test inside its own time; the Information Handout released with the call letter gives the final on-screen rules.
• Use the question palette and mark for review sparingly: one quick pass for sure answers, then return to marked ones.
• Get used to reading on screen and answering with the mouse; our mocks use the same per-test timers.

ibps.in lists no CRP RRBs question papers or answer keys (checked 30.10.2026), and the notification facts we hold describe no answer-key objection process. If IBPS announces one, follow its notice. You can still estimate your score from your own record of attempts:

• Preliminary: 1 mark per question; for each wrong answer, one fourth (0.25) of the marks for that question is deducted. Score per test = correct − 0.25 × wrong.
• Main: marks are fixed per test (Reasoning 50, Computer Knowledge 20, General Awareness 40, English or Hindi 40, Numerical Ability 50, each for 40 questions), which works out to 1.25 / 0.5 / 1 / 1 / 1.25 per question; the wrong-answer deduction is a quarter of that.

No penalty applies to a question left blank. Scores from different sessions are normalised by the equi-percentile method, taken up to two decimal places, so your official score can differ from your estimate. Our score calculator applies this marking per test.

60 days out

• Take a free Preliminary mock (free practice) for a baseline in Reasoning and Numerical Ability.
• Build speed in the Preliminary tests (40 questions each in 25 and 20 minutes). IBPS publishes no topic list; our sets focus on puzzles and seating arrangements, number series, simplification and data interpretation.
• Start the Main-only tests early in small daily doses: General Awareness, Computer Knowledge, and English or Hindi, whichever you will choose.
• Every day: one daily sprint and Today's 3 tasks in your workspace.

30 days out

• Two Preliminary mocks a week with per-test timers on; one sectional drill on your weakest topic daily.
• Log every wrong answer with its reason in your Mistake Notebook.

15 days out

• A Preliminary mock every other day; revise from your Mistake Notebook.
• Learn which question types you skip first, so you don't lose minutes on them on the day.

7 days out

• Two or three final mocks, then light revision. Download the call letter when it opens.
• After the Preliminary, switch to full Main mocks (120 minutes) for the 30 January 2027 exam.

This is a guide, not a promise of marks: adjust it to your mock results.