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BOB PO – Previous Year Exam Analysis & Cut off Marks

Bank of Baroda (BOB) Manipal PO examination is scheduled on 27^th May 2017, we hope that all your preparation is going good.

Many of the aspirants were wondering about the previous year exam analysis and cut off marks, this will help to judge this year exam and you can fix in the mind that who many questions you have to attend in this year exam

BOB Manipal PO Exam 2016 – Cutoff Marks:

We all knew that BOB Manipal PO Exam consist of two phases of examination,

Phase I: Online Examination (Objective Test & Descriptive Test)
Phase II: Psychometric Assessment, Group Discussion and Personal Interview

Detailed Exam Analysis of BOB Manipal PO Exam 2016:

Reasoning Ability:

Puzzles (Ranking Based)	5 (Moderate to Hard)
Seating Arrangements (Linear & Circular)	10 (Moderate)
Inequality	5 (Easy to Moderate)
Data Sufficiency	5 (Moderate)
Syllogism	5 (Moderate)
Input/Output	5 (Easy to Moderate)
Miscellaneous (Coding-Decoing, Blood Relation, Ranking)	15 (Moderate)
Total Questions	50

Quantitative Aptitude:

Number Series	5 (Moderate)
Data Interpretation (Line & Pie)	10 (Moderate)
Approximation	5 (Easy)
Quadratic Equation	5 (Easy)
Miscellaneous	25 (Moderate)
Total	50

English Language:

Reading Comprehension	10 (Moderate)
Cloze Test	10 (Easy)
Para jumbled	5 (Moderate)
Error Spotting	10 (Moderate)
Fill in the blanks	5 (Easy)
Phrase Replacement	10 (Moderate)
Total	50

General Awareness: Total 50 Questions (Moderate)

Most of the General Awareness questions were asked from banking sector, questions asked from last 3 months current affairs and static GK.

Descriptive Test:

Topics asked in Letter Writing:

Write a letter to Newspaper Editor regarding enlarge the Reader section
Write a letter regarding Lokpal Bill
Write a letter to UN Secretary about Nuclear weapon.
Write a letter to Newspaper Editor regarding Noise Pollution
Write a letter to Police Commissioner regarding Cyber Crime

Topics asked in Letter Writing:

Interlinking of Rivers
About Government initiative on start-ups
Indian Festival as a means of National Integration

Sectional Cutoff (Category wise):

Category	SC	ST	OBC	UR	HI	OC	VI
Reasoning (50)	10.75	10.75	10.75	15.25	10.75	10.75	10.75
Quantitative Aptitude (50)	8	8	8	11.75	8	8	8
English (50)	9.5	9.5	9.5	14.5	9.5	9.5	9.5
General Awareness (50)	10.25	10.25	10.25	14.75	10.2	10.25	10.25
Total (200)	91.5	74.25	103	106.75	47.75	86.25	81.75
GD (50)	17.5	17.5	17.5	20	17.5	17.5	17.5
Personal Interview (50)	17.5	17.5	17.5	20	17.5	17.5	17.5

Overall Cutoff Marks (Out of 100):

Category	Batch – 19	Batch – 19	Waitlist
UR/Gen	64.56	63.68	62.22
OBC	61.42	59.92	58.58
SC	58.3	56.34	54.48
ST	51.1	48.4	45.36
HI	46.98	39.62	33.36
OC	61.88	58.96	55.8
VI	62.04	58.94	56.5