The Review: IBPS CLERK MAINS 2016 (First Shift)

Dear BA’ians

First of all, a very happy new year 2016. 

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. So, let’s analyse the first exam of 2016 and see whether there were surprises in this exam as student got in IBPS PO Mains or it was just like any other exam and also see whether some new topics came in today’s slot or not.

Here is the 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 weightage.

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:

		Good Attempts
Mathematics
English Language	Easy to Moderate
	Easy to Moderate
General Awareness	Easy to Moderate

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

		No. of Questions
	Row Arrangement
	Floor  Arrangement
	Square: In-Out
	Data Sufficiency
	Direction Sense
	Inequalities
	Number- Symbol Series		Easy to Moderate
	Coding -Decoding
			Easy to Moderate
Note: There were no questions from Input/Output.

Mathematics:

		No. of Questions
	Simplification
	Data Interpretation: Tabular (No. of Gold Coins)
	Arithmetic including Geometry
Note: There were no questions from Quadratic Equations.

English Language

		No. of Questions
	RC (Leader Qualities and its Personalities)
	Cloze Test(Marketing Strategies)
	Double Fillers
	Sentence Improvement
	Para-jumbled based on Water Scarcity		Easy to Moderate

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 surprise as it was easy to moderate and questions were from Current Affairs and also from banking awareness which surprised the students.

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