IBPS Clerk study materials
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IBPS Clerk case studies

IBPS Clerk · Put your knowledge to work in context.

IBPS Clerk is the clerical-cadre recruitment run through the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection's Common Recruitment Process. The institute's home page currently labels this stream "CRP CSA(Customer Service Associates)", while the site menu still calls it "CRP - CLERKS"; both refer to the same entry-level bank recruitment. The IBPS Clerk case studies are 5 cases and about 3,882 words.

1

Vetting the Lobby Notice: Four Proposed Edits and One Missed Error

Your branch manager has drafted a notice for the lobby board and asks you to vet it before it is printed: 'Customers are hereby informed that with effect from 1 August, cheques deposited after 3:30 p.m. will be processed on the next working day only.

824 words, about 4 min
2

Loading a ₹10 Lakh ATM Cassette Against Four Constraints

A currency chest has to load one ATM cassette with exactly ₹10,00,000 using ₹2,000, ₹500 and ₹100 notes. The cassette physically holds a maximum of 2,000 notes.

646 words, about 3 min
3

Scheduling Five Loan Files When One Rule Is Redundant and Another Is Not

A branch has five loan files - P, Q, R, S and T - to be cleared on five consecutive working days, Monday to Friday, exactly one file per day. The branch head sets four conditions: 1.

760 words, about 4 min
4

Allocating Loss on a Cloned-Card ATM Withdrawal

A savings-account holder reports that ₹18,000 was withdrawn from his account in three ATM transactions at 11:40 p.m. using a cloned card.

816 words, about 4 min
5

A 5,000-Row Vendor CSV That Breaks on Import

A vendor sends a CSV containing 5,000 account records: column A holds 16-digit account numbers, column B the IFSC, column C the account opening date and column D the balance. You open the file directly in a spreadsheet by double-clicking it, and three things go wrong.

836 words, about 4 min