IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis, Review 2018: 30th December- Shift 2 (Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari) |

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IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2018 (Shift-2):

IBPS has conducted its online examination for the post of Specialist Officers (SO) Prelims today, and the second shift is over now. This Computer Based Test was conducted by IBPS to select candidates for the Specialist Officers posts, who will be further appointed as SO in the various Banks. After IBPS SO Prelims 2018 Shift-II is over, aspirants who will be appearing in the next banking exams must be eager to know about the Examination’s level, types of questions asked, all of which can help them to appear in the same.

This article will give you the opportunity to analyze the IBPS SO Prelims question asked in the English Language, General Awareness and Reasoning Ability. After critical analysis and review given by candidates who have appeared for the second shift, we would say that this year’s IBPS SO Prelims Shift-2 examination was of Moderate level.

IBPS SO Prelims Analysis (For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari): Overall

The Online Examination constituted of an objective test which had three sections namely English Language, General Awareness and Reasoning Ability and there were 50 questions for 50 marks in Reasoning, 50 questions for 50 marks in General Awareness and 50 questions for 25 marks in the English Language. The objective test had 40 minutes in each section.

Subjects	Good Attempts
Reasoning	29-36
General Awareness	21-26
English Language	27-32
Overall	77-88

Reasoning ( Easy-Moderate )

There were 4 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement which are given below:-

Circular Seating Arrangement
2 Variable based Puzzle

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Puzzle and Seating Arrangement	20	Moderate
Syllogism	05	Moderate
Logical Reasoning	05	Easy- Moderate
Direction Sense	03	Easy
Blood Relation	02	Easy-Moderate
Alphabet Based	03	Easy
Coding Decoding	05	Easy
Miscellaneous	07	Easy-Moderate
Total	50	Easy-Moderate

English Language (Easy-Moderate)

The level of this section was moderate. There were 2 sets of reading comprehensions, one was based on Blockchain Technology and the other one was based on NBFCs. They also included around 4 vocabulary based questions of synonyms and antonyms.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	12	Moderate
Close Test	05	Easy-Moderate
Para Jumbles	05	Moderate
Word Replacement	05	Easy-Moderate
Double Fillers	05	Moderate
Error Detection	05	Moderate
Column Based	05	Easy-Moderate
Sentence Connectors	05	Moderate
Miscellaneous	03	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

General Awareness:

The General Awareness Section was of easy to moderate level. Many questions were asked from Banking Awareness and Current Affairs of last 2-3 Months. Few questions of Static Awareness were also asked in the Exam.

All the best for Result!!