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IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis, Review 2017: 10th Dec – Shift 1

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IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis, Review 2017: 09th Dec - Shift 1

IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis & Review: 

IBPS‘s recruitment of Clerk is the much-anticipated opportunity for every banking aspirant and with the Preliminary exam, you are now a step closer to achieve your goal. Today’s (10th December’17) IBPS Clerk Pre exam 1st shift is over now, and it is the time for its Exam Analysis. All those aspirants who are yet to appear for IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam can benefit from this exam analysis as here we provide you an insight on the types and levels of questions being asked in this year’s IBPS Clerk Prelims exam. The level of this shift’s examination was Moderate.

All the three sections remained unchanged as previous shifts. English Section was equally difficult and challenging as observed in the IBPS Clerk Pre Examination on 2nd, 3rd and 9th of December.

IBPS Clerk Prelims Analysis: Overall  

The preliminary exam for IBPS Clerk was conducted online and had 100 questions for 60 minutes. Candidates have to manage those 60 minutes themselves while dealing with three sections- Reasoning Ability (35 Ques), Numerical Ability (35 Ques), and English Language (30 Ques). 

Subject Good Attempt Time (in min.)
English Language 14-17 15
Reasoning Ability 29-32 20
Numerical Ability 23-26 25
Total 76-80 60


English Language (Moderate-Difficult)
The level of English Language was Moderate-Difficult. There were new pattern questions on idiom and phrases where one had to choose an idiom/phrase the was similar to the word given in bold. There were questions of double fillers. In sentence rearrangement, parts of a sentence were to be rearranged to make a meaningful sentence.

Topic No. of Question Level
Reading Comprehension 5 Moderate
Double Fillers 7 Moderate
Idioms/ Phrases 10 Moderate-Difficult
Sentence Rearrangement (New Pattern) 8 Moderate-Difficult
Total 30 Moderate-Difficult

Numerical Ability (Easy-Moderate)

The level of Numerical Ability section was Easy-Moderate. The number of questions from arithmetic (word problems) was significantly high as 10 out of 35 questions were from the arithmetic portion There was only 1 set of DI:
  • Tabular (Month-based)

Topics No. of Question Level
Tabular DI 5 Moderate
Simplification 15 Easy-Moderate
Number Series (Missing) 5 Easy-Moderate
Partnership 2 Easy
Profit & Loss 1 Easy
Simple Interest and Compound Interest 1 Easy
Pipe and Cistern 1 Easy
Problem on Ages 3 Easy
Time and Work 1 Easy
Miscellaneous  1 Easy
Total 35 Easy-Moderate

Reasoning Ability (Easy)
There were 3 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement which are given below:-
  • Linear (Double line, North-South) 1 Variable
  • Linear(Single line, facing North)
  • Days based Puzzle
Topics No. of Questions Level
Coding Decoding  5 Easy
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement 15 Moderate
Alpha-Numerical Series 5 Easy
Direction Sence 2 Easy
Inequality 2 Easy
Syllogism 3 Easy
Numerical Series 5 Easy
Total 35  Easy

All the best for the next shifts !!


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