The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts the RRB PO Prelims exam annually to recruit Probationary Officers (POs) in Regional Rural Banks (RRBs). For candidates preparing for this highly competitive exam, analyzing past trends is a smart and strategic move. To help aspirants get a clear understanding of the nature and pattern of the exam, we have compiled the IBPS RRB PO Prelims Exam Trend Analysis for the past 5 years, section-wise. This detailed breakdown of question types, difficulty levels, and topic-wise weightage can act as a valuable guide in shaping your preparation.
IBPS RRB PO Prelims Exam Analysis Trend
Candidates preparing for the IBPS RRB PO exam must prepare with the previous year’s prelims exam analysis trend which will help them to check how many questions have been asked in the last few years.
IBPS RRB PO Prelims Exam Analysis Trend of Reasoning Ability
The reasoning Ability section consists of 40 questions with 40 marks. Here in the following table, we have tabulated the exam analysis trend of the reasoning ability section.
| Topics | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Puzzle and Seating Arrangement | 22 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 25 |
| Direction Sense | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Number Based Series | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Alphabet Based Series | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Inequality | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Miscellaneous questions (Number Based, Word Pairing, Meaningful Word, Odd One Out) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Blood Relation | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Syllogism | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
IBPS RRB PO Prelims Exam Analysis Trend of Quantitative Aptitude
Candidates can check the topics asked from the Quantitative Aptitude in IBPS RRB PO Prelims exam with the weightage that will help the candidates to understand what topic consists of how much weightage.
| Topics | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Data Interpretation | 12 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 10 |
| Caselet DI | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Approximation | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Quadratic Equation | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Missing/Wrong Number Series | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Quantity 1 and Quantity 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Arithmetic Word Problems | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 15 |
| Data Sufficiency | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
IBPS RRB PO Prelims Exam Pattern
Candidates can check the exam pattern for the IBPS RRB PO Prelims exam in the following table:
| Sections | No. of Questions | Marks |
| Reasoning Ability | 40 | 40 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 40 | 40 |
| Overall | 80 | 80 |
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