Exam review of IBPS PO 2016 Mains
IBPS today conducted the 1st session of IBPS PO 2016 mains exam. IBPS has shortlisted a total of around 1.2 lac candidates for the mains exam. Paper consisted of 200 questions which were to be solved in 140 minutes. Section timer was there in the exam.
We are here with the section wise review of the exam
Quant And DI (50 Questions):
The level of this section was difficult. Average attempt was 17-20 questions
| Topic | Number of Questions | |
| Series | 5 | |
| inquality | 5 | |
| Approximation | 5 | |
| Data Interpretation | 20 | |
| Misc (SI, Profit and Loss etc) | 15 | |
Reasoning (50 Questions):
The level of this section was Moderate. Average attempt was 16-19 questions
| Topic | Number of Questions | |
| Syllogism | 5 | |
| Seating Arrangement | 10 | |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 | |
| Logical | 10 | |
| Data Sufficiency | 05 | |
| Miscellaneous (Ranking / Direction) | 05 | |
English (40 Questions):
The level of this section was difficult. Average attempt was 15-17 questions
| Topic | Number of Questions | |
| Reading Comprehension | 20 | |
| Sentence Fillers | 5 | |
| Parajumbles | 5 | |
| Errors | 5 | |
| Antonym/ Synonym | 5 | |
General Awareness (40 Questions):
The level of this section was Easy- difficult based on the knowledge of questions you had Average attempt was 17-20 questions. Candidates who had gone through the current affairs of past 3 months were able to solve many questions. There were 13-15 questions related to banking also.
Computer Awareness (20 Questions)
For Engineering graduates this is the most scoring section. Basic computer questions were asked here.
