IBPS PO Prelims : Exam Analysis

IBPS PO prelims exam analysis for exam held on 3 October 2015 (Morning shift).

Quantitative Aptitude

Except a double diagram Data interpretation set and 2 quadratic equation questions, this section was fairly easy.

Series and Simplification were the easiest part of the exam.

	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Quadratic Equation

Simplification
Arithmetic		Easy to moderate
Data Interpretation		1 set was easy another was moderate

English Language

Reading comprehensions were picked from fiancial topics. This section was fairly easy.

As expected Para jumbles were difficult.

	No. of Questions
Reading Comprehension (Financial topics)		Moderate
Fill in the blanks
Cloze test
Para-Jumbles
Error spotting

Reasoning Ability

As expected this section was time consuming. Puzzles were hard.

	No. of Questions

Coding & Decoding
Inequalities
Circular Sitting Arrangement
Blood relations and Direction sense
Puzzles(5 variables) Syllogism

Ideal attempt

Quantitative aptitude - 21-23

Reasoning - 17-18

English - 18-19

Lessons learnt

1) Skip para jumbles and difficult Reading comprehensions in English language section
2) Skip difficult puzzles in Reasoning
3) Skip complex DI sets

Important and easy to solve chapters

Series (5 marks)
Coding-decoding (5 marks)
Inequalities (5 marks)
Syllogism (5 marks)
Cloze tests (5 marks)
Simplifications (5 marks)
Blood relations (2 marks)
Direction sense test (3 marks)
Arithmetic (5 marks) (Few questions were difficult from this part)

You can solve these questions very quickly and they carry 40 marks.

Expected cutoff - For General category, cutoff should be around 41-43 (on the higher end)

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