new delhi the institute of banking personnel selection ibps on friday september 14 2018 released a notification regarding recruitment to clerical posts cwe clerksviii in participating banksthe ibps will be conducting this recruitment examination to fill up more than 7260 vacant posts the official notification is available at the ibpss official website the candidates who want to apply for the examination can visit the official website of ibps the online registration for the clerk recruitment exam begins on september 18 2018 and will continue till october 10 2018 the clerk recruitment exam will be held in two phases preliminary and main the who clear the preliminary examination will become eligible to appear in the main after mains result a provisional allotment list will be released for participating banksthe ibps clerk preliminary examination will be conducted on december 8 9 15 and 16 the result of the prelim is expected to be declared in the month of december 2018 or january 2019 the mains will be conducted on january 20 2019 the provisional allotment list of banks is likely to be released in the month of april 2019 the candidates should note that all the abovementioned dates are tentative the candidates are advised to keep checking the official website of ibps for latest updates tentative schedule activity tentative dates online registration including editmodification of application by candidates 18092018 to 10102018 payment of application feesintimation charges online 18092018 to 10102018 download of call letters for pre exam training nov18 conduct of preexam training 26112018 to 01122018 download of call letters for online examination preliminary nov18 online examination preliminary 08122018 09122018 15122018 16122018 result of online exam preliminary december 2018 january 2019 download of call letter for online exam main jan19 online examination main 20012019 provisional allotment apr19 relaxation of upper age limit category age relaxation scheduled castescheduled tribe 5 years other backward classes noncreamy layer 3 years persons with disabilities 10 years exservicemen disabled exservicemen actual period of service rendered in the defence forces 3 years 8 years for disabled exservicemen belonging to scst subject to a maximum age limit of 50 years widows divorced women and women legally separated from their husbands who have not remarried 9 years persons ordinarily domiciled in the state of jammu kashmir during the period 01011980 to 31121989 5 years persons affected by 1984 riots 5 years regular employees of the union carbide factory bhopal retrenched from service applicable to madhya pradesh state only 5 years participating organisations allahabad bank canara bank indian overseas bank uco bank andhra bank central bank of india oriental bank of commerce union bank of india bank of baroda corporation bank punjab national bank united bank of india bank of india dena bank punjab sind bank vijaya bank bank of maharashtra indian bank syndicate bank