IBPS PO Prelims Exam Review – 16th Oct 2016: Slot I

Dear Friends,

Finally much awaited exam i.e. IBPS Probationary Officer’s Prelims exam day has come and the first slot of the exam is over now.

So now lets discuss how the first ever IBPS prelims was?

The paper which was composed of 3 sections – Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning and English. The total time is 1 hour, so clearly speed, accuracy and planning was needed to do well in the exam.

The exam was overall moderate. The English section was moderate to Difficult, Reasoning was easy and doable and Mathematics section was moderate but was calculative and is the most time consuming section among all.

According to the analysis of IBPS PO Prelims 16th October Slot 1, the overall difficulty level of the paper was Moderate to Difficult.

Over-all Analysis

Subject	Good Attempt	Time
English Language	16-18	15 min.
Reasoning Ability	18-20	20 min.
Quantitative Aptitude	13-15	25 min.
	47-53	60 Minutes

Detailed Sectional Analysis

ENGLISH:

Reading Comprehension – 1 passage (10 questions)
Cloze test – 10 questions
Error spotting – 5 questions
Parajumbles – 5 questions

REASONING:

This section was time consuming with 4 puzzles. Today NO coding decoding questions in this section.

Inequalities – 5 questions
Syllogism – 5 questions
Blood relations – 2 questions
Directions – 3 questions
Ranking – 5 questions
Puzzles n Arrangements – 3 sets (15 questions)

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE:

Questions were bit calculative. The topics were

Simplification – 5 questions
Number series – 5 questions
Quadratic Equation – 5 questions
Data Interpretation – 2 set (5 questions each)
Questions from other topics including Partnership, Time and Work, SI, Averages, Boat n Stream, Profit/Loss, Mixture n Alligation – 10 questions (easy to moderate)