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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 6 October 2026.</strong> Bank of India re-issues the notice every year with new dates; the latest we read is circular 2026-27/029 of 13.08.2026 (test on 04.10.2026, two days before this guide was checked). No result, cut-off or confirmation that the test took place was found.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>Bank of India has run the same clerk to officer formula in three consecutive notices and changed only the numbers around it.</strong> The post is “General Banking Officer” in Junior Management Grade Scale I. Each year the notice is a circular letter from the Promotion Division of the Human Resource Department plus a notice with the rules, under the Settlement of 15 November 2014 with the Federation of Bank of India Staff Unions. The vacancy number moved from <strong>356</strong> (notice of 28.08.2024) to <strong>983</strong> (06.09.2025) to <strong>813</strong> (13.08.2026), while the application window shrank from seven days to four.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The bank’s staff circulars are not on its public careers pages. We read all three in copies hosted by BankersAdda (2024 and 2026) and Adda247 (2025) and label them <em>reported</em>; the text is Bank of India’s own. The scans are OCR, so every number below was checked against the pages for 2024 and read twice for 2025 and 2026. No tool in this guide: Bank of India’s marks calculator is in <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/bank-clerk-to-officer-promotion-selection-merit-seniority">the selection guide</a>.</p>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">356 / 983 / 813</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">vacancies approved by the Board for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 notices</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">100</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">maximum marks: service 20 + qualifications 15 + test 65, in all three notices</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">130 in 130</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">questions and minutes in the test; no negative marking</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">22.00 / 18.75</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">minimum test marks of 65 to be ranked (SC, ST and PwD: 18.75)</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">Circulars 2024-25/035, 2025-26/039 and 2026-27/029 (reported copies).</p>

Dates are as printed in each circular. The 2024 circular did not fix a test date; we did not find it in the documents we read.

<figure style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0;margin:18px 0"><figcaption style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Vacancies Bank of India identified for promotion from the clerical cadre</figcaption><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">2024-25 notice (28.08.2024)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">356</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:36.2%;height:12px;background:#1f7a45;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">2025-26 notice (06.09.2025)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">983</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:100.0%;height:12px;background:#2f6fb0;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">2026-27 notice (13.08.2026)</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">813</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:82.7%;height:12px;background:#b7791f;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">The Board approved each number on the date in the table; the management “at its sole discretion” may promote fewer than the declared number, depending on the response. Our arithmetic: 813 is 17% below 983.</p></figure>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Two patterns stand out. First, the <strong>window is shrinking</strong>: seven days in 2024, five in 2025, four in 2026, with the 2026 notice arriving only four days before its window opened. Second, the <strong>service cut-off now sits close to the application date</strong>. In 2024 service was counted to 31.12.2024, 117 days after the window closed, so a clerk could count years that fell due months after applying; in 2025 the gap was 20 days and in 2026 it is 11. The qualification cut-off (degree, MBA, CA, JAIIB, CAIIB) is earlier still, and in 2025 and 2026 it is the last day of the window. Anything declared after it does not count for that round.</p>

We compared the three notices clause by clause. The rules below are the same in all of them.

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Read the first five rows as a ladder: a graduate needs 3 years, but a CA needs only 1 and a 12th-pass clerk needs 8. The same qualification does not shorten service anywhere else in the notice: JAIIB and CAIIB <strong>earn marks and change no years</strong>. Ex-servicemen get 1 year of weightage for armed-forces service above 5 and below 10 years and 2 years for 10 or more, counted both for eligibility and for service marks, but only after 3 years of active service in the bank at the service cut-off, and not if the benefit was used earlier for a special-allowance post or for promotion from sub-staff.</p>

The bar only lets you into the ranked list. The rank itself is decided by service plus qualifications plus test marks, a total of 100, so a high test score cannot be replaced by service beyond 20 years or qualifications beyond 15.

After the test: list, posting, waiting list and conduct rules

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">SC, ST and PwD reservation follows Government guidelines; a reserved-category candidate who qualifies on general merit takes an unreserved point. Visually handicapped employees may sit with a scribe and may be posted to specified departments; deaf and dumb candidates are allowed to participate. Pre-promotion training of six days is arranged for SC, ST, OBC and PwD candidates who apply. If a candidate’s category or particulars turn out false, he or she is not promoted or, if promoted, is reverted.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">What we could not find</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">The date of the 2024 test, and any result or cut-off for the three rounds.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Confirmation that the 12.10.2025 and 04.10.2026 tests took place on those dates.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">A zone-wise vacancy table we could read with confidence: each circular carries a zone-wise allocation annexure, but in the OCR scans the columns are not reliable enough to reproduce, so read it in the circular itself.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">The Settlement of 15.11.2014 itself.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Bank of India’s HRMS notice board and your zonal office hold the current position.</p></div>

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<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Other banks in this series: <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/pnb-clerk-to-officer-promotion-selectivity-channel-marks-exam-pattern">Punjab National Bank</a>, <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/bank-of-baroda-clerk-to-officer-promotion-all-india-seniority-channel">Bank of Baroda</a>, <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/bank-of-india-clerk-to-officer-promotion-eligibility-marks-vacancies">Bank of India</a>, <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/union-bank-clerk-to-officer-promotion-state-services-all-india-channel">Union Bank of India</a> and <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/central-bank-of-india-clerk-to-officer-promotion-exam-pattern-eligibility">Central Bank of India</a>. Rules that run across banks are in <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/bank-clerk-to-officer-promotion-eligibility">the eligibility guide</a>, <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/bank-clerk-to-officer-promotion-exam-pattern-syllabus">the pattern and syllabus guide</a>, <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/bank-clerk-to-officer-promotion-selection-merit-seniority">the selection guide</a> and <a style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600" href="/hub/bank-clerk-to-officer-promotion-salary-pay-scale">the officer pay guide</a>.</p>

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<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.bankersadda.com/wp-content/uploads/multisite/2026/09/15160906/2026-27-029.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Bank of India Circular letter 2026-27/029 (Ref HO:HR:PROM:108) of 13.08.2026 with Notice of 13.08.2026: Promotion from Clerical Cadre to General Banking Officers’ Cadre, JMGS-I (full text of the bank’s own circular; copy hosted by BankersAdda)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.adda247.com/jobs/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2025/09/09112227/2025-26-039.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Bank of India Circular letter 2025-26/039 (Ref HO:HR:PROM:141) of 06.09.2025 with Notice of 06.09.2025: same promotion, 983 vacancies, test 12.10.2025 (full text; copy hosted by Adda247)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://www.bankersadda.com/wp-content/uploads/multisite/2024/08/30172451/2024_25_035_Notice_Circular_Promotion_from_Clerical_Cadre_to_GBO.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Bank of India Circular letter 2024-25/035 (Ref HO:HR:PROM:090) of 28.08.2024 with Notice of 28.08.2024: promotion from Clerical Cadre to General Banking Officers’ Cadre, JMGS-I, 356 vacancies (full text; copy hosted by BankersAdda)</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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Bank of India’s circulars of 28.08.2024 (356 vacancies), 06.09.2025 (983) and 13.08.2026 (813): one unchanged 100-mark formula, with cut-off dates, windows and vacancy numbers that moved every year.