IBPS SO 2017 Prelims Exam Analysis: 31st December |

Dear Readers,

Today’s IBPS SO Prelims 2017 is over, now it’s time for exam analysis of IBPS SO Prelims for Law/ Rajbhasha Adhikari. This is for the first time when IBPS has conducted a Preliminary Test for IBPS SO Recruitment. And this Preliminary Exam had a new pattern when compared to conventional Banking Recruitment’s Prelims Test; IBPS SO Prelims was of 2 hours with 150 questions for 125 marks. This new pattern gave heebie jeebies to many Specialist Officer aspirants but the yesterday’s shifts of SO Prelims exam was a sigh of relief to aspirants.

Overall the level of this exam was Moderate. Keep on reading to know all the details about types of questions asked in General Awareness, Reasoning and English Language of IBPS SO Prelims

The preliminary exam for IBPS SO was conducted online and had 150 questions for 120 minutes. Candidates have to manage those 120 minutes themselves while dealing with three sections- Reasoning (50 Ques), G.A (50 Ques), and English (50 Ques).

Subject	Good Attempt
English Language	22-24
Reasoning Ability	33-37
General Awareness	32-34
Total	88-96

English Language (Moderate)

The level of English Language was Moderate. Much to the surprise and relief to students, this section was not too over the board, with the recently set “conventional pattern” questions ruling the majority; aspirants who have done adequate practice can score in the English Language section of this exam. There were 2 sets of Reading Comprehension (which also had 1-2 questions based on vocabulary). The topic of RCs were- 1) Curroption related 2) Related to Britain’s Economy

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	20	Moderate- Difficult
Fillers (Double Fillers- Single Word)	5	Easy-Moderate
Phrase Replacement	5	Moderate
Cloze Test (New Pattern)	10	Moderate
Error Detection	5	Moderate
Sentence Rearrangement	5	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

Reasoning Ability (Easy-Moderate)

There were 4 puzzles and Seating Arrangement and the pattern bore resemblance from yesterday’s SO Prelims Exam.

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Syllogism	5	Easy-Moderate
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	20	Moderate
Direction Sense	1	Easy
Coding Decoding	3	Easy-Moderate
Inequality	5	Easy
Alphabet	1	Easy
Data Sufficiency	5	Easy-Moderate
Logical Reasoning	5	Moderate
Blood Relation	5	Easy-Moderate
Total	50	Easy-Moderate

General Awareness ( Moderate)

This section was also not too tough on candidates as with proper preparation aspirants could score in this section as well. Current Affairs question dominated G.A. section and majority of current affairs were related to news of September-October. There were around 10 questions of Banking and 10 question of Static Awareness.

Stay confidence and you’ll surely do well in the exam!
All the best for upcoming exams!!

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