IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis & Review: 29th December 2019

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IBPS SO Prelims 2019 exam is being conducted today for all the posts i.e. IT Officer, Marketing Officer, Law Officer, HR Officer, Rajbhasha Adhikari, Agriculture Field Officer etc. Overall, there are 1190+ vacancies in IBPS SO this year. If you are an aspirant aiming to crack bank exams then you must go through the latest IBPS SO Prelims exam analysis and review.

In this post we are providing the IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2019 of Rajbhasha Adhikari and Agriculture Field Officer.

IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2019: Good Attempts

The order of occurrence of sections was

English-> Reasoning-> GA (for Rajbhasha Adhikari)/Quantitative Aptitude (for AFO)

Name of Tests	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Good Attempts in terms of Questions (Rajbhasha)	Good Attempts in terms of Questions (AFO)
English Language	50	25	32-35	37-41
Reasoning Ability	50	50	24-31	28-34
Quantitative Aptitude (in AFO)	50	50	NA	28-37
GA (in Rajbhasha Adhikari)	50	50	36-41	NA
Total	150	125	86- 107	94 – 112

English Language

The level of English Language was Easy to Moderate as per the analysis collected by students who appeared in the AFO and Rajbhasha Adhikari exams. Total 50 questions were asked.

In AFO Exam there were 2 sets of Reading Comprehension and one of them was based on entrepreneurship and the other RC based on an article on wildlife.In Rajbhasha Adhikari exam there was only one RC.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	20	Moderate
Error Detection (Identify the correct sentence among 3)	05	Easy-Moderate
Cloze Test	05	Easy
Word swap	05	Easy-Moderate
Connectors	05	Easy
Word Usage	05	Easy-Moderate
Miscellaneous	05	Easy-Moderate
Total	50	Easy-Moderate

Rajbhasha Adhikari:

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	10	Moderate
Error Detection	08	Moderate
Cloze Test	07	Easy-Moderate
Sentence Rearrangement	05	Easy-Moderate
Connectors	05	Easy
Miscellaneous	15	Easy-Moderate
Total	50	Easy-Moderate

Reasoning Ability

The level of Reasoning Ability was Moderate but slightly lengthy in the AFO exam. Total 50 questions were asked. Our team has collected the analysis from students who appeared in AFO and Rajbhasha Adhikari exam of IBPS SO Prelims 2019.

Following were the types of puzzles and seating arrangement questions asked in AFO exam:

Square Seating Arrangements
Linear Seating Arrangement, 9 people, single row
Floor Based Puzzle
Month Based Puzzle- 4 months, 2 days

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles	20	Moderate
Inequality	06	Moderate
Syllogism	05	Easy
Machine Input/Output	05	Easy-Moderate
Blood Relation	05	Easy
Logical Reasoning (2 Assumption based, 1 conclusion based)	03	Moderate
Direction Sense	04	Easy-Moderate
Miscellaneous	02	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

Following were the types of puzzles and seating arrangement questions asked in Rajbhasha Adhikari exam:

Square Seating Arrangement
Linear Seating Arrangement, 9 people
Puzzle- 7 people going to 7 events and buying any of the given 3 gadgets
Puzzle- 6 people, 6 posts/designations

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles	20	Moderate
Inequality	05	Moderate
Coding Decoding	05	Easy
Alphabet Based	01	Easy-Moderate
Blood Relation	05	Easy
Direction Sense	04	Easy-Moderate
Logical Reasoning	03	Moderate
Miscellaneous	04	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

Quantitative Aptitude (Agriculture Field Officer Exam)

The level of Quantitative Aptitude was Moderate. Total 50 questions were asked. There were 4 types of Data Interpretation & Analysis questions.

Caselet
Pie Chart
Line Graph
Missing DI Tabular

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Data Interpretation	20	Moderate
Quadratic Equation	05	Easy-Moderate
Quantity Based	03	Moderate
Wrong No. Series	05	Moderate
Misc Word Problems	17	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

Misc Word Problems included questions on Ages, Mixture and Allegation, Income and Expenditure, Arithmetic, etc.

General Awareness (Rajbhasha Adhikari Exam)

Most of the questions were asked from current affairs and static awareness. The level of questions was moderate. Students reported that there were around 3-4 questions of static awareness asked in the IBPS SO Prelims Rajbhasha Adhikari Exam.

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