IBPS PO

Bank of Baroda PO Manipal 2016 – Detailed Exam Analysis

Today the Bank of Baroda (BOB) along with the Manipal School of Banking is conducting its online exam for the post of Probationary Officer. This exam is being conducted in two shifts. So, we have structured the Section Wise Detailed Exam Analysis of the exam which was held on 25th Sep 2016.

The question pattern of the exam is as follows:

Subject	No of Questions	Maximum Marks	Time
Reasoning Ability	50	50	2 Hour
Quantitative	50	50
English Language	50	50
General Awareness (related to Banking Industry)	50	50
Total	200	200
Descriptive Paper
English Language	02	50	30 Minutes
Total	02	50

Now we are going to discuss the overall exam analysis of today’s exams:

Reasoning Ability :

Topics	No. of Questions Asked	Questions Level
Puzzles	18	Hard
Syllogism	6	Moderate
Equality and Inequality	5	Easy to Moderate
Direction Questions	3	Moderate
Ranking	3	Moderate
Input Output	6	Moderate
Data Sufficiency	5	Moderate to Hard
Logical	4	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate to Hard

English Language:

Topics	No. of Questions Asked	Questions Level
Reading Comprehension	10	Moderate
Cloze Test	10	Moderate
Jumbled Sentence	5	Easy to Moderate
Error Spotting	10	Moderate to Hard
Fill in the blanks (Double fillers)	5	Moderate
Phrases	10	Moderate
Total	50	Moderate

Quantitative:

Topics	No. of Questions Asked	Questions Level
Data Interpretation (Line Graph, Pie and Table)	15	Hard
Number Series	5	Moderate to Hard
Approximation	5	Moderate
Quadratic Equation	8	Hard
Miscellaneous	17	Moderate to Hard
Total	50	Moderate to Hard

General Awareness:

Topic	Questions Level
General Awareness Questions were mostly asked from August Month Current Affairs, Rio Paralympics 2016, RBI News, CRR, SLR.. etc	Easy

OVER ALL EXAM ANALYSIS:

Section	Level	No. of Good Attempts
English Language	Moderate	30-35
Reasoning Ability	Moderate to Hard	30-35
Quantitative	Moderate to Hard	25-30
General Awareness	Easy	38-43
Total	Moderate	125-135