IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis, Review 2018: 8th December |

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Dear Aspirants,

IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis 2018:

IBPS Clerk is one of the most sought-after recruitment in the banking industry. Several aspirants are burning candles at both ends to get a seat for themselves in this prestigious bank. 8th December is the first day of the first phase of this exam, i.e., prelims. Many students appeared for this exam and the competition will be very tough this time. Therefore, it is necessary that one gets aware about the type of questions being asked in the exam so that you get an idea about how to plan your strategy to attempt the questions in the exam and manage your time accordingly.

This year there is the sectional timing of 20 minutes in the Prelims Exam, its important for all banking aspirants to go through the review once. Exam analysis and review can help the aspirants who are yet to appear in upcoming shifts of IBPS Clerk Prelims to get an idea of the difficulty level and expected pattern of questions in Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language sections. The examination held in this shift was of Easy to Moderate level. The order of occurrence of sections was English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning.

IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis 2018: Section-wise Analysis

Subject	Good Attempt	Time
English Language	19-23	20
Reasoning Ability	27-31	20
Quantitative Aptitude	21-25	20
Total	68-74	60

Quantitative Aptitude (Easy-Moderate)

The level of Quantitative Aptitude section was Easy to Moderate. One can easily attempt questions if they have practised well. DI questions based on a Tabular DI in this slot.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Data Interpretation	5	Easy-Moderate
Missing Number Series	5	Easy
Quadratic Equation	5	Easy
Simplification	10	Easy
Arithmetic Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Problem on Ages, SI & CI etc)	10	Moderate
Total	35	Easy-Moderate

Series Question in Slot-1:

200, 193, 179, 158, ?, 95

3, 43, 81, 115, 143, ?

1, 6, 25, 76, 153, ?

50, 54, 45, 61, 36, ?

9, 45, 180, 540, ?, 1080

English Language (Easy-Moderate)

English section was also of easy to moderate level. There was one set of Reading Comprehension with 6 questions out of which 1 question was of identifying the synonym. The passage of the RC was based on an article related to flexibility in jobs and the availability of working from any remote location.

The questions of para jumble or sentence rearrangement were related to a paragraph on the theme of the craze of cricket and it was do-able as well. There were also 5 questions of sentence completion in a match the following format.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	6	Moderate
Error Detection (Spelling & Grammatical)	5	Easy-Moderate
Single Filler	4	Easy
Phrasal Verb or Sentence Correction	5	Moderate
Sentence Reangement	5	Easy-Moderate
Match the Following (Sentence Completion)	5	Moderate
Total	30	Easy-Moderate

Reasoning (Easy-Moderate)

The level of reasoning was of Easy to Moderate. There were 4 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement, following are the types

Square seating arrangement
Day Based Puzzle
Linear Seating Arrangement, Parallel Line, 12 no of people
Random Arrangement based puzzle, 7 persons, 7 cities

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	20	Moderate
Syllogism	4	Easy-Moderate
Direction Sense	3	Moderate
Alphabet Series	4	Easy-Moderate
Alphabet	1	Easy-Moderate
Order and Ranking	3	Moderate
Total	35	Easy to Moderate