Dear BA’ians
The second day of the new year started off with the big exam i.e. the IBPS CLERK MAINS. This is the first time that IBPS CLERK Exam was conducted in Prelims and Mains pattern. The 2nd shift was quite similar to the first shift, most topics were identical, the level was moderate to easy.
Here is the in-depth analysis.
The IBPS CLERK MAINS 2016 exam is having 200 questions comprising of 5 sections which includes, Mathematics, Reasoning, English, GA & Computer. All questions are carrying equal weight-age.
So, lets review how the exam of Clerk Mains actually was?
Overall the exam was Moderate. Out of all the sections, the Reasoning and Computer section was easy and scoring and General Awareness, Mathematics & English Language section was easy to moderate.
The overall analysis of the paper:
Section
|
Level
|
Good Attempts
|
Mathematics
|
Moderate
|
26-28
|
English Language
|
Easy to Moderate
|
29-31
|
Reasoning
|
Easy to Moderate
|
33-35
|
Computers
|
Easy
|
35-37
|
General Awareness
|
Easy to Moderate
|
23-25
|
Total
|
Moderate
|
146-156
|
Let’s discuss section-wise, how the exam was?
Reasoning
S.no
|
Topic
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
|
1.
|
Row Arrangement
|
5
|
Easy
|
2.
|
Floor Arrangement
|
5
|
Easy
|
3.
|
Square: In-Out
|
5
|
Moderate
|
4.
|
Syllogism
|
5
|
Easy
|
5.
|
Data Sufficiency
|
3
|
Moderate
|
6.
|
Direction Sense
|
2
|
Easy
|
7.
|
Inequalities
|
5
|
Easy
|
8.
|
Number- Symbol Series
|
5
|
Easy to Moderate
|
9.
|
Coding -Decoding
|
5
|
Moderate
|
|
|
|
Easy to Moderate
|
Note: There were no questions from Input/Output.
|
Mathematics:
S.no
|
Topic
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
|
1.
|
Simplification
|
15
|
Moderate
|
2.
|
Data Interpretation: Tabular
(No. of Gold Coins)
|
5
|
Easy
|
3.
|
Arithmetic including Geometry
|
15
|
Moderate
|
4.
|
Series
|
5
|
Moderate
|
|
|
|
Moderate
|
Note: There were no questions from Quadratic Equations.
|
English Language
S.no
|
Topic
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
|
1.
|
RC (Business leaders)
|
10
|
Moderate
|
2.
|
Cloze Test(Marketing Strategies)
|
10
|
Easy
|
3.
|
Errors
|
5
|
Moderate
|
4.
|
Double Fillers
|
5
|
Easy
|
5.
|
Sentence Improvement
|
5
|
Easy
|
6.
|
Para-jumbled based on Water Bottle and its existence)
|
5
|
Easy to Moderate
|
|
|
|
Moderate
|
Computers
This section was easy as mainly basic questions have been asked from this section.
The break up of the computer exam which come in today’s exam:
Topic. No. of Questions
1. Hardware 6
2. Software 5
3. Internet 4
4. Networking 3
5. Operating system 2
6. Others 9
7. Memory 4
8. Binary Code 1
9.MS Office 6
General Awareness
This section was a bit surprising, as was different from the usual pattern. Here the major concentration of questions were from banking and economy, and a few from Static portion. Another few form the international news. More or less it was moderate and was manageable.