IBPS PO Mains 2015 Second Shift - Exam Analysis

Dear BA’ians

So the big day has arisen, all your preparations from the past 1 month have been tested as the IBPS Mains exam is over now. The pattern was same as it was asked in the first shift.

This was the first time that the Mains exam has been conducted. The mains exam is of 200 questions comprises of 5 sections which includes, Mathematics, Reasoning, English, GA & Computer.

Overall the exam was difficult just like the morning shift mainly due to the difficulty of Mathematics and Reasoning Section.

Out of the 5 sections, the most difficult section was Reasoning & the most scoring section was Computers and General Awareness.

The overall analysis of the paper:

		Good Attempts
Mathematics	Moderate (lengthy)
English Language
General Awareness
	Moderate to Difficult

Let’s discuss section-wise, how the exam was?

Mathematics:

		No. of Questions
	Pie Charts		Difficult
	Line Graph		Moderate
			Moderate
			Difficult
	Data Sufficiency		Difficult
	Miscellaneous(Time & Work, P&L, SI, Speed &Distance, CI, etc) + Caselette		Moderate
			Moderate but Lengthy

Note: No questions on Probability and quadratic

		No. of Questions
	Puzzles(In/Out, Floor, Circular, & Linear Arrangement)		Difficult
	Critical Reasoning (weak arguments, probable reason, conclusions, )		Moderate
	Syllogism (based on not follow)		Moderate
	Input/Output		Difficult
	Data Sufficiency		Moderate
			Moderate to Difficult

Note : No questions on Coding/Decoding and Inequalities

English Language

		No. of Questions
	RC’s(Canada Economy Recovery at the time of Great Depression & Systematic Development Goals)		Moderate
	Jumbled Sentence
	Close Test		Moderate

Computer was bit easy and includes the basics, so can help to boost up your score. Many questions were mainly from the compendium which was presented by BA.

General Awareness

1. The overall section was moderate and mainly the questions were from Current Affairs, Banking Awareness and some questions were from Static Part.

2. Most importantly, the questions were mainly from GA Capsule.

3. RBI and related schemes

4. International Organisations.

5. Basic Banking was limited to this time.

Personality test

The personality test was divided into 2 parts -

1. Part A- 76 questions

2. Part B- 60 questions.

(Agree, Disagree, Strongly agree and strongly disagree)

Time - 45 minutes

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