IBPS RRB PO 2026: 4,256 Scale-I Posts, Prelims 21-22 Nov

IBPS is hiring Officer Scale-I (Assistant Manager) in Regional Rural Banks under CRP RRBs XV. Annexure I of the 1 September 2026 notification lists 4,256 indicative Scale-I posts. Tripura Gramin Bank is marked NR.

Scale-I is the first officer grade in an RRB. The work is branch operations, credit appraisal, recovery and government-scheme accounts. You join only the State or Union Territory you chose. A degree in agriculture, veterinary science, IT, law or accountancy is preferred. It is not required.

Prelims are on 21 and 22 November 2026. Mains is on 20 December 2026. Interviews are listed as January or February 2027. Those exam dates come from the IBPS calendar dated 16 January 2026. The Officer form closed in September. Watch ibps.in for the call letter.

This is not the IBPS PO paper for Bank of Baroda or Canara Bank. That notice is on the IBPS PO page. The clerk paper is on the Office Assistant page. If you have already applied, the rest of this page is the November prelims, the December mains, the 80:20 interview and the document file.

Scale-I prelims are five weeks away. A candidate who still treats this as a clerk paper, or as IBPS PO, will sit the wrong arithmetic and the wrong interview. Quantitative Aptitude in this prelims is 40 questions in 20 minutes. That is not the Office Assistant Numerical Ability paper under another name. The interview is 100 marks. The clerk post has none. Mains marks are 80 percent of the final score. Treat 20 December as the paper that actually hires you. Call letters come only from ibps.in. Keep the stamped prelims letter and the stamped ID copy for that day. Missing either set keeps you out of mains. Watch ibps.in for the November call letter.

Scale-I vacancies by State

Totals from Annexure I. Category and PwBD splits are in the PDF.

Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha hold the largest Scale-I lists. The notification does not print a basic scale or CTC. Pay follows the allotted RRB's service rules.

Scale-II and Scale-III are separate rows in the same PDF. Those posts skip this prelims and sit a single online paper on 20 December 2026, then the same interview. Those papers are not this page.

Local language

Proficiency follows Table A, the same list as Office Assistant. Class 8 or above, or six months after joining, not beyond probation.

Telugu in Andhra Pradesh; Kannada in Karnataka; Malayalam in Kerala; Marathi in Maharashtra; Odia in Odisha; Tamil in Tamil Nadu; Gujarati in Gujarat; Punjabi in Punjab; Hindi in Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and several other Hindi-belt RRBs; Assamese, Bengali and Bodo in Assam; a long J&K list including Kashmiri, Dogri and Urdu; Bengali and Nepali in West Bengal. The full table is on the Office Assistant page and in Table A of the PDF.

The medium of the paper is the version you locked: English, Hindi and the listed local language. English prevails if a translation differs.

Age and qualification

Scale-I age is above 18 and below 30 on 1 September 2026. The degree result must be dated on or before 21 September 2026. There is no percentage floor on Scale-I, unlike Scale-II and Scale-III, which ask for 50 percent.

You may have held an Office Assistant form as well. You may not also apply for Scale-II or Scale-III.

Selection in brief

Prelims is only a filter. You must clear both preliminary tests. The clerk prelims paper uses the name Numerical Ability; this paper uses Quantitative Aptitude. Treat the arithmetic as a step harder.

Mains shortlists not more than three times the declared vacancies in each State, subject to availability. Final weight is 80 percent main examination and 20 percent interview. Mains marks are not shared before the interview is over. A wrong answer on the objective papers costs one-fourth of that question's marks.

The section timings and a four-week plan are on the syllabus page. Ten questions on dates, 80:20 and the one-officer-post rule are on the practice page.

If you have already applied

Call letter. Download it from ibps.in. Prelims are 21 and 22 November 2026, about five weeks away.

At the prelims centre. The call letter is stamped, not collected. Keep it with the stamped ID copy for mains on 20 December. Bring one extra photograph, the same as the call-letter photo. Scribe forms are collected at prelims.

Mains. Bring both call letters and the stamped ID set. IBPS can send you to a centre outside the State you applied for.

Interview file, start now. Clause J asks for originals and self-attested copies, in this order:

1. Interview call letter (when issued).
2. System-generated print of the CRP RRBs XV form.
3. Date of birth: birth certificate or class 10.
4. Photo ID as in clause L.
5. Degree mark sheets, with a document that the result was declared on or before 21 September 2026.
6. Caste, EWS or PwBD papers in the printed Government of India format. OBC (NCL) should be issued on or after 1 April 2026.
7. Local-language proof if you have Class 8 or a certificate.
8. Experience certificates only if a later specialist row asked for them. Scale-I itself does not.

IBPS will later host a link to upload scans. Missing a paper at the interview debar you from the rest of the process. IBPS and the nodal RRB will not collect a certificate sent separately by post.

Interview itself. One hundred marks. Floor 40 percent, or 35 percent for SC, ST, OBC and PwBD. Prepare a two-minute account of who you are, the RRB of your State, and one rural credit product you can explain (Kisan Credit Card, SHG, gold loan). Do not memorise a paragraph on "why rural banking" that you cannot defend.

Pre-examination training. Online PET may be offered to a limited number of SC, ST, OBC and minority candidates if you ticked the column. It creates no right to selection.

What you cannot take in. Clause O bans phones, watches, calculators and notes. The information handout with the call letter is the list that applies on the day.

Reserve list. IBPS draws a reserve list. It does not guarantee a posting. Extra rounds happen only if RRBs report more vacancies within one year of the first allotment. The list then expires, or a fresh CRP replaces it. You cannot demand a different RRB. Allotted officers may be posted anywhere in that bank.

Joining. The allotted RRB will want the same file you took to interview, plus any medical the bank runs under its own service rules. The CRP notice does not print a Scale-I basic pay. Do not treat a coaching "in-hand" figure as official.

Centre and risk. IBPS can send you to a centre outside the State you applied for. You travel at your own cost. Unruly behaviour can cancel this exam and later IBPS CRPs.

Do not pay anyone who offers mains marks or an allotment. IBPS will not share mains scores until the interview process is over. Allotment is printed as February or March 2027.