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The Review: IBPS CLERK MAINS 2016 (Second Shift)

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The Review: IBPS CLERK MAINS 2016 (Second Shift) |_2.1

The second day of the new year started off with the big exam i.e. the IBPS CLERK MAINS. This is the first time that IBPS CLERK Exam was conducted in Prelims and Mains pattern. The 2nd shift was quite similar to the first shift, most topics were identical, the level was moderate to easy.



Here is the in-depth analysis.
The IBPS CLERK MAINS 2016 exam is having 200 questions comprising of 5 sections which includes, Mathematics, Reasoning, English, GA & Computer. All questions are carrying equal weight-age.

So, lets review how the exam of Clerk Mains actually was?

Overall the exam was Moderate. Out of all the sections, the Reasoning and Computer section was easy and scoring and General Awareness, Mathematics & English Language section was easy to moderate.


The overall analysis of the paper:
Section
Level
Good Attempts
Mathematics
Moderate
26-28
English Language
Easy to Moderate
29-31
Reasoning
Easy to Moderate
33-35
Computers
Easy
35-37
General Awareness
Easy to Moderate
23-25
Total
Moderate
146-156
Let’s discuss section-wise, how the exam was?
Reasoning
S.no
Topic
No. of Questions
Level
1.
Row Arrangement
5
Easy
2.
Floor  Arrangement
5
Easy
3.
Square: In-Out
5
Moderate
4.
Syllogism
5
Easy
5.
Data Sufficiency
3
Moderate
6.
Direction Sense
2
Easy
7.
Inequalities
5
Easy
8.
Number- Symbol Series
5
Easy to Moderate
9.
Coding -Decoding
5
Moderate

Easy to Moderate
Note: There were no questions from Input/Output.
Mathematics:
S.no
Topic
No. of Questions
Level
1.
Simplification
15
Moderate
2.
Data Interpretation: Tabular
(No. of Gold Coins)
5
Easy
3.
Arithmetic including Geometry
15
Moderate
4.
Series
5
Moderate
Moderate
Note: There were no questions from Quadratic Equations.


English Language
S.no
Topic
No. of Questions
Level
1.
RC (Business leaders)
10
Moderate
2.
Cloze Test(Marketing Strategies)
10
Easy
3.
Errors
5
Moderate
4.
Double Fillers
5
Easy
5.
Sentence Improvement
5
Easy
6.
Para-jumbled based on Water Bottle and its existence)
5
Easy to Moderate
Moderate
Computers
This section was easy as mainly basic questions have been asked from this section.
The break up of the computer exam which come in today’s exam:
Topic.                No. of Questions
1. Hardware        6
2. Software         5
3. Internet          4
4. Networking     3
5. Operating system   2
6. Others             9
7. Memory           4
8. Binary Code     1
9.MS Office          6
General Awareness
This section was a bit surprising, as was different from the usual pattern. Here the major concentration of questions were from banking and economy, and a few from Static portion. Another few form the international news. More or less it was moderate and was manageable.

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