Indian Overseas Bank IOB Apprentices Online Form 2025

Indian Overseas Bank IOB Apprentices Online Form 2025 — a recruitment notification — is summarised below. The key figures are 750 vacancies, an application window closing 09 March 2025, and a fee of ₹944 for unreserved candidates. Everything below — dates, eligibility, fee and the official links — is set out in the order you will need it.

Banking recruitment is decided largely on the mains stage, with the preliminary used only to shortlist. Regional rural bank posts additionally test proficiency in the local language, which is a genuine eliminator for out-of-state candidates.

Applications open on 01 March 2025 and close on 09 March 2025, giving candidates 9 days to complete the process. That is an unusually short window of 9 days — treat this as urgent and complete registration, upload and payment in a single sitting if you can. The exam is currently shown for 16/03/2025; treat this as provisional until the admit card confirms it.

750 posts are advertised in this notification. At this scale the selection is normally decided on a single written or computer-based paper plus verification, with cut-offs set by category. Category-wise distribution, where the notification provides it, is shown in the vacancy table further down this page — check the count against your own category rather than the overall total, since reserved-category cut-offs and competition ratios differ substantially from the unreserved ones.

The age limit runs from 20 to 28 years for unreserved candidates. That is an 8-year band, so candidates near either edge should confirm the exact cut-off date the notification measures age against — it is usually a fixed reference date, not the date you apply. On qualifications, the notification states: Bachelor Degree in Any Stream in Any Recognized University in India. If your degree is an equivalent under a different name, look for the equivalence clause in the official PDF before paying the fee — a form rejected for a qualification mismatch is not usually refundable.

Fee-paying categories are charged between ₹472 and ₹944, depending on category. Payment is accepted via debit card, credit card, and net banking. Pay only through the official portal linked on this page; the fee is normally non-refundable once the form is submitted.

Read the eligibility conditions in full before paying any fee. The most common reason applications are rejected is a qualification or age criterion that was missed at the form stage, and that cannot usually be corrected after the window closes.