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IBPS has released the official notification for recruitment in Public Sector Banks and next month the exams for RRB Prelims will take place. IBPS has also introduced some major changes in Exam Pattern of Mains Exam for PO Recruitment.
This is the time start your preparation and practice for bank exams. And before you delve deep into the subjects…Have you gone through the changes brought up by SBI in its PO recruitment 2017?
The changes brought by SBI in the type of questions were taken up by the RBI Grade-B Officer recruitment and NICL AO Mains Examinations. So it is a must that you acquaint yourself with the knowledge of all new types and pattern of questions introduced by SBI exams in 2017 as you can expect a similar set of questions in upcoming IBPS PO and IBPS RRB exams as well. Keep on reading to know about new exam pattern of IBPS PO.
IBPS PO 2017 New Exam Pattern
IBPS has introduced some major changes this year in its Mains Exam Pattern. However, the examination pattern for the preliminary exam is still the same. This year IBPS will also conduct a descriptive test of English Language (Letter and Essay Writing) along with the mains exam. Now the structure is very similar to the mains pattern of SBI Exams. Reasoning and Computer sections are clubbed and there are changes in the name of subjects as well as the number of questions and weightage of each section.
IBPS PO Official Notification 2017
IBPS PO Preliminary Exam Pattern:
Sr.
No.
|
Name of Tests
|
No. of Qs
|
Maximum Marks
|
Duration
|
1
|
English Language
|
30
|
30
|
Composite time of 1 hour
|
2
|
Quantitative Aptitude
|
35
|
35
|
|
3
|
Reasoning Ability
|
35
|
35
|
|
|
Total
|
100
|
100
|
IBPS PO Mains Exam Pattern:
Sr. No
|
Name of Tests
(NOT BY SEQUENCE)
|
No. of
Questions
|
Maximum
Marks
|
Medium of Exam
|
Time allotted for each
test (Separately timed)
|
1
|
Reasoning & Computer Aptitude
|
45
|
60
|
English & Hindi
|
60 minutes
|
2
|
English Language
|
35
|
40
|
English
|
40 minutes
|
3
|
Data Analysis & Interpretation
|
35
|
60
|
English & Hindi
|
45 minutes
|
4
|
General/ Economy/ Banking
Awareness |
40
|
40
|
English & Hindi
|
35 minutes
|
|
Total
|
155
|
200
|
|
3 Hours
|
Descriptive Test:
What to expect in IBPS PO Exam 2017?
State Bank of India’s recruitment has always been a trendsetter in banking recruitment industry whose footsteps are usually followed by IBPS and other recruiting company in their own modified version. Well, this year’s SBI PO Recruitment’s Common Written Examinations are over where Prelims examination was easier than expected on the other hand Mains examination was the toughest of SBI’s hardest hits taken by aspirants. Yes, even this year SBI has set up new industry standards for recruitment of Probationary Officers in Banking Industry.
English Section
The difficulty level of this section seems ever increasing with every recruitment exam to aspirants, but don’t worry with correct practice you can get through this section. Now-a-days the approach is more towards practical usage so always stay prepared for the unexpected. After all English is a language and essentially there are two most important aspects of a language its syntax and semantics. If you improve and work on your vocabulary, grammar knowledge, and comprehension skills you can easily deal with any new pattern question.
Must Do for IBPS PO 2017: English Language
- Develop Reading Habits and read newspaper daily to improve comprehension skills
- Improve Vocabulary for Fillers and Cloze test questions
- Learn English Grammar Rules related to all parts of speech
- Memorize all important phrasal verbs
- learn all the different type of sentence structures, e.g. Conditionals etc.
- For Sentence Rearrangement, learn the connecting words, conjunctions, and prepositional phrases.
- For new pattern questions, always read the directions twice, If the direction is clear then you can easily answer the questions.
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Quant section was too lengthy and calculative for most of the candidates as even the questions of Data Interpretation were topic based- Time and Work, Profit and Loss. Many aspirants felt that this was the toughest section among all in SBI PO Mains 2017 exam. Now clearly candidates cannot think of escaping from the concepts and practice of miscellaneous arithmetic part as apart from arithmetic questions you can also get topic based data interpretation.
Must Do for IBPS PO 2017: Quantitative Aptitude
- Tables, squares, cubes, sq. roots and cube roots.
- Develop the ability of speedy calculation to save time.
- Learn formulas and techniques for arithmetic portion – Time and Work, Speed Distance and Time, Upstream-Downstream, Percentage, Ratio, Average, Profit and Loss, SI & CI, Problem on trains, problem on ages.
- Practice tough level questions of Probability, Permutation and Combination
Reasoning and Computer Aptitude
First of all, there were no questions of Computer aptitude and some more new pattern reasoning questions were introduced in SBI PO Mains 2017. This can be your clue as what to practice for IBPS exam.
Must Do for IBPS PO 2017: Reasoning Ability
- Improve your calculation speed and accuracy.
- Practice with High Level Puzzles and Seating Arrangement questions.
- Develop higher order thinking skills.
- Practice Logical Reasoning Question, Direction Sense Questions, Blood Relation, Coding-Decoding, Machine Input-Output.