What Was Asked In Last Year’s IBPS PO Prelims Exam?

As the time left for IBPS PO Prelims is limited, going through previous year’s exam analysis can help you in many way. We are providing you the complete IBPS PO Prelims exam analysis of 2019 of Shift-1 of 12th October 2019. The cut off last year was 59.75 for general Category which was comparatively higher than the 2018 prelims cut-off. Make sure to check the complete analysis of IBPS PO Prelims overall as well as sectional. This analysis is based on the feedback of the students who had appeared last year in the IBPS PO Prelims exam. Let’s check the analysis to gain better insight regarding it.

IBPS PO Prelims Exam Analysis 2019 :Overall  Exam Analysis

The preliminary exam for IBPS PO was conducted online and had 100 questions for 60 minutes. Candidates have to manage those 60 minutes (20 minutes for each section) themselves while dealing with three sections- Reasoning (35 Ques), Quantitative Aptitude (35 Ques), and English (30 Ques).The order of occurrence in IBPS PO Prelims 2019 (Shift -1) was as follows:

• English Language
• Quantitative Aptitude
• Reasoning Ability

English Language (Easy-Moderate)

In 2019, the level of English Language was Easy-Moderate. There was one passsage on the topic related to Chinese Education System. The topic of Cloze Test was Virtual Education.

Quantitative Aptitude (Moderate)
The level of quantitative aptitude was Moderate. There were 3 sets of DIs asked.

• Caselet DI was asked (based on 4 hostels A,B,C,and D),
• Line Graph (based on gender)
• Tabular DI (Total Population W.R.T to male/female population)

Reasoning Ability (Easy-Moderate)

There were 5 questions on Inequality and two questions on Alpha-numeric series. As usual, the whole Reasoning section was dominated by the Puzzle and Seating arrangement as  there were 4 puzzles and Seating Arrangement which are given below:-

• Line Based Puzzle (Based on Age)
• Box Based Puzzle (7 box)
• Square Sitting Arrangement
• Month Based Puzzle

From the analysis given above, we can conclude that no major changes were seen in the last year IBPS PO Prelims exam and this year the same is expected though the chances are always there new type of questions can be asked. We advise you to prepare these topics as they will definitely be asked in the examination. 

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