IBPS PO Prelims Exam Analysis, Review 2018: 14th October- 3rd Slot |

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Dear Aspirants,

IBPS PO Prelims Exam Analysis 2018:

IBPS PO is 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. 14th October is the second day of the first phase of this exam, i.e., prelims. 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 PO Prelims to get an idea of the difficulty level and expected the 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, Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude

IBPS PO Exam Analysis 2018: Section-wise Analysis

Subject	Good Attempt	Time
English Language	19-23	20
Reasoning Ability	23-27	20
Quantitative Aptitude	17-21	20
Total	57-63	60

Quantitative Aptitude (Moderate)

The level of Quantitative Aptitude section was moderate. One can easily attempt questions if they have practised well. DI questions based on Tabular, Caselate and Bar Graph were there is this slot.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Data Interpretation	15	Moderate-Calculative
Missing Number Series	05	Moderate
Approximation	05	Easy-Moderate
Quantity-1, Quantity-2	03	Easy-Moderate
Arithmetic Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Problem on Ages, SI & CI etc)	07	Moderate
Total	35	Moderate

English Language (Easy-Moderate)

English section was of easy to moderate level. There were only 7 question in the set of Reading Comprehension out of which 2 question was of vocabulary (Antonyms and Synonyms). It is important that candidates choose wisely what to attempt and what to skip. Reading Comprehension was based on an article related to the Impact of technology and Artificial Intelligence on job markets.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	07	Moderate
Phrase Replacement	04	Easy-Moderate
Word Usages	03	Easy
Sentence Rearrangement	05	Moderate
Word Replacement	03	Easy-Moderate
Match the Column	03	Easy-Moderate
Cloze Test	05	Moderate
Total	30	Easy-Moderate

Reasoning (Easy-Moderate)

The level of reasoning was Moderate. There were 4 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement, following are the types

Parallel Seating Arrangement (North-South, 5 people each side with color)
Box Based Puzzle (9 Boxes)
Circular Seating Arrangement (6 People)
Miscellaneous Puzzle

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	20	Moderate
Coding-Decoding	05	Easy
Data Sufficiency	03	Moderate
Inequalities	05	Easy
Alphabets	01	Easy-Moderate
Number Based	01	Moderate
Total	35	Moderate