IBPS PO Mains Exam Review – 18/11/2018

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IBPS PO Mains Exam Review – 18/11/2018

IBPS PO Mains exam were held today. For almost 3500 posts over 50000 aspirants have appeared for the mains exam. The exam was was of total 200 marks consisting of 155 questions. The exam was difficult.

The exam pattern of the exam was

S.No.	Name of Tests(Objective)	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning & Computer Aptitude	45	60	60 minutes
2	English Language	35	40	40 minutes
3	Data Analysis & Interpretation	35	60	45 minutes
4	General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness	40	40	35 minutes
Total		155	200	3 Hours
Descriptive Writing Test		2	25	30 minutes

Descriptive Test: The Descriptive Test of 30 minutes duration with 25 marks is a Test of English Language (Letter Writing & Essay)

Section-wise Analysis

Subject	Good Attempt	Time
Reasoning and Computer Aptitude	14-17	60
English Language	15-18	40
Data Analysis & Interpretation	8-12	45
General/ Economy/ Banking Awareness	23-26	35
Total	60-73	180

English Language (Easy-Moderate)

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	21	Moderate- Difficult
Cloze Test (New Pattern)	10	Difficult
Sentence rearrangement	4	Moderate
Total	35	Difficult

Reasoning (Difficult)

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	23	Difficult
Machine Input Output	03	Moderate
Coding Decoding	3	Moderate
Logical Reasoning	10	Difficult
Alphabets	1	Moderate
Miscellaneous	5	Moderate- Difficult
Total	35	Diffcult

Quantitative Aptitude (Very Difficult, Time Consuming)

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Data Interpretation 1) Radar 2) Caselet 3) Line and Tabular DI	18	Difficult – Lengthy
Missing Number Series	05	Moderate
New Pattern Number Series	03	Moderate- Difficult
Data Sufficiency	5	Lengthy
Arithmetic Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Problem on Ages, SI & CI etc)	06	Difficult
Total	35	Difficult

General Awareness:

This was the most scoring section of the exam. Most of the current affairs questions was from past 3 months and there very few static and banking questions.

Descriptive Test

This section carried 25 marks with a time limit of 30 minutes. Candidates had to choose from given 5 options to write an essay and a letter.

Essay Writing:

1) Fake-News

2) Magazines and Journals have switched to digital media
3) Does India needs a universal health care system
4) Advantages of learning foreign languages.

Letter Writing

1) Write a letter to the editor on types of pollution and how to reduce it.

2) Write a letter to your neighbor thanking them for their help in the hour of need.

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