The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has released the short notification for the IB Assistant Central Intelligence Officer (ACIO) Executive Recruitment 2025. 

A total of 3,717 vacancies have been announced under this recruitment drive. 

The online application process will begin on July 19, 2025, and continue until August 10, 2025.The recruitment is being conducted for the post of Grade II/Executive across various categories.

Interested candidates must meet the eligibility criteria and apply through the official website of the Ministry of Home Affairs at https://www.mha.gov.in/en.

SELECTION OF CANDIDATES:

a) The candidate has to appear in Tier-I at one of the 5 centres allotted to him/her out of his/her choice of five cities. There will be negative marking of ¼ mark for each wrong answer. No marks would be awarded for an un-attempted question. The questions marked as “Mark for Review” by

the candidates will not be considered for evaluation.

b) In order to achieve qualitative selection & recruit the best available talent, there would be cut-off marks (out of 100) in Tier-I exam as under:

UR-35, OBC-34, SC/ST-33 & EWS-35 (all Ex-servicemen would be treated in their own category viz., UR/OBC/SC/ST/EWS)

c) On the basis of their performance & normalization of marks in Tier-I exam, candidates would be shortlisted for Tier-II @ 10 times the number of vacancies, subject to the condition that the candidate should have scored minimum cut-off in Tier-1.

d) However, cut-off for Tier-I exam in different categories may go higher depending upon the marks obtained by candidates and number of vacancies. Similarly, the criteria of 5 times the number of

vacancies (Tier-III) may also remain restricted due to said cut-off in Tier-I.

e) On the basis of their combined performance in Tier-I and Tier-II, the candidates would be shortlisted for Tier-III/Interview @ 5 times the number of vacancies subject to the condition that the candidate secures minimum 33% marks (17 out of 50) in Tier-II exam.

f) On the basis of combined performance in Tier-I, Tier-II and Tier-III/Interview exam, a final merit list for the post of ACIO-II/Exe will be prepared.

g) The Final selection to the posts would be further subject to successful completion of Character & Antecedent verification followed by Medical Examination, etc.