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IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis 2018:
IBPS Clerk is one of the most sought-after recruitment in the banking industry. Several aspirants are burning candles at both ends to get a seat for themselves in this prestigious bank. 8th December is the first day of the first phase of this exam, i.e., prelims. The 2nd slot of today’s exam is over now. Many students appeared for this exam and the competition will be very tough this time. Therefore, it is necessary that one gets aware about the type of questions being asked in the exam so that you get an idea about how to plan your strategy to attempt the questions in the exam and manage your time accordingly.
This year there is the sectional timing of 20 minutes in the Prelims Exam, its important for all banking aspirants to go through the review once. Exam analysis and review can help the aspirants who are yet to appear in upcoming shifts of IBPS Clerk Prelims to get an idea of the difficulty level and expected pattern of questions in Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language sections. The examination held in this shift was of Easy to Moderate level. The order of occurrence of sections was English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning.
IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis 2018: Section-wise Analysis
Subject | Good Attempt | Time |
English Language | 18-24 | 20 |
Reasoning Ability | 28-32 | 20 |
Quantitative Aptitude | 19-24 | 20 |
Total | 69-76 | 60 |
Quantitative Aptitude (Easy-Moderate)
The level of Quantitative Aptitude section was Easy to Moderate. In the first shift there was only 1 DI set but in this shift, there were two sets of Data Interpretation. One can easily attempt questions if they have practised well. DI questions based on a Bar Graph and Caselet in this slot.
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
Data Interpretation | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
Number Series- Find the next term | 5 | Easy |
Simplification | 10 | Easy |
Arithmetic Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Problem on Ages, SI & CI etc) | 10 | Moderate |
Total | 35 | Easy-Moderate |
English Language (Easy-Moderate)
English section was also of easy to moderate level. There was one set of Reading Comprehension with 7 questions out of which 2 questions were related to vocabulary. The passage of the RC was based on an article related to the first impression of leaders in politics and society.
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
Reading Comprehension | 7 | Moderate |
Error Detection (5 Sentences were given) | 4 | Easy-Moderate |
Single Filler | 5 | Easy |
Word Usage | 4 | Moderate |
Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Match the Following (Sentence Completion) | 5 | Moderate |
Total | 30 | Easy-Moderate |
Reasoning (Easy-Moderate)
The level of reasoning was of Easy to Moderate. There were 4 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement, following are the types
- Floor Based Puzzle
- Month Based Puzzle
- Linear Seating Arrangement, Parallel Line, 12 no of people
- Random Arrangement based puzzle, 7 persons, 7 cities
Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 20 | Moderate |
Syllogism | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Blood Relation | 2 | Easy |
Alphabet Series | 3 | Easy-Moderate |
Numeric Series | 5 | Easy |
Total | 35 | Easy-Moderate |
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