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IBPS SO IT-Officer Scale-I 2016-17 (2nd Shift) Exam Analysis

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IBPS SO IT-Officer Scale-I 2016-17 (2nd Shift) Exam Analysis |_2.1

Dear Aspirants, IBPS SO IT-Officer Second Shift is over, Now it’s time for exam analysis of IBPS SO IT-Officer Scale-I Exam (2nd Shift). In this exam, there are four sections namely English, Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude and Professional Knowledge. This year for IBPS SO IT Officer Scale-I all the test except Professional Knowledge are qualifying in nature and only marks of Professional Knowledge will be considered in the merit list. IBPS SO IT Officer exam is a boon to all aspirants, who missed their mark in SBI SO IT-Officer. This shift’s exam was also Difficult in level. The surprises seen in the 1st shift in English and Reasoning sections continued. Even Professional Knowledge section had some changes from the previous year’s level and pattern and was similar to the previous shift’s paper.

The order in which sections appeared: Reasoning-English-Professional Knowledge-Quantitative Aptitude.



OVER-ALL ANALYSIS


SECTIONS
GOOD ATTEMPTS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
18-23
REASONING ABILITY
17-24
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE  
23-29
PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE
39-47













QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE (Easy-Moderate)

Quant was relatively easier than other sections of this examination, with conventional questions being asked students found it a sight of relief in this examination. This section was of Easy-Moderate Level, it had 50 questions and time given was 30 minutes. Topics from which questions were asked were Number Series, Quadratic Equation, Data Interpretation, Simplification and Approximation and Miscellaneous Arithematic Portion.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Difficult)

English Language again brought some big surprises for candidates appearing in today’s exam. This section was of a Difficult level. Questions were of the new pattern, it included passage errors and sentence improvement. Apart from these topics, there were questions from Reading Comprehension (2 set, Technology based- cybercrime and Economy Based-American Govt.), Cloze Test, Appropriate/Inappropriate Words and Jumbled Paragraph. 



REASONING ABILITY (Moderate- Difficult)

This section had 50 questions and time given was 30 minutes. Many questions were of same level and type as those asked in IBPS PO Prelims 2016. Overall the section was Moderate to Difficult. Topics from which questions were asked were, Inequalities ( 5Q easy) Syllogism (5Q Easy-Moderate), Puzzles and Seating Arrangement (20Q Difficult, 2 variable puzzles), Passage Inference (5Q Difficult), Data Sufficiency it included blood relaton, ranking and direction sense (5Q Moderate-Difficult). 
PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE (Moderate-Difficult)

Many questions and topics asked in this section were covered in Career Power Test Series, so those students who have attempted that test found it to be relatively moderate. This is the deciding section, as the scores obtained in professional knowledge out of maximum 80 marks will be the deciding factor if a candidate’s name will be in the merit list. This time there was a surprise in this section as well as a majority of questions were from Networking portion rather than being from DBMS. 

Following are some topics from which questions were asked in this section: 
Unix and Commands used in UNIX -cd, ls and man
2 Questions were from Abstraction in Java and one questions was asked class of static variable in Java,
Majority of the questions asked were from Network Security
1 question related to why iOS and Android do not get affected from malicious software
Questions related to OSI Layers and devices used in OSI Layers
4 questions from Routing Protocols
3-4 questions were also asked from Software Engineering
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
3NF Normal form in DBMS
Operating System
Function of hardware keys in mobile (volume+power key)

All the best for upcoming exams!!!!!

IBPS SO IT-Officer Scale-I 2016-17 (2nd Shift) Exam Analysis |_3.1

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