Hello Aspirants,
The IBPS PO 2019 Prelims exam is a qualifying test that has three sections namely Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English. The overall exam is said to be moderate to difficult when compared to the shifts on October 12th. Smart work & time management will work in the game.
- There will be negative marking of 1/4th of the total marks assigned to each question.
- There will be sectional as well as overall cut off.
Exam Pattern:
| S.No. | Name of Test | No of Qns | Max Marks | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 2 | Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 3 | English | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
Section-wise Analysis:
Section | Level of Difficulty | Good Attempts | |||
| Shift I | Shift II | Shift III | Shift IV | ||
| Quantitative Aptitude | Easy to Moderate | 20-24 | 22-24 | 21-23 | 21-22 |
| Reasoning Ability | Easy | 21-26 | 22-25 | 22-25 | 20-24 |
| English | Easy to Moderate | 20-23 | 20-23 | 18-22 | 19-23 |
| Total | Easy to Moderate | 60-73 | 64-72 | 61-70 | 60-69 |
Chapter-wise Analysis:
Quantitative Aptitude
The difficulty level of this section is moderate. The questions are asked from the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| DI | 10 | 12 | 10 | 12 |
| Arithmetic | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 |
| Quadratic Equation | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Missing Number Series | – | – | 5 | 6 |
| Wrong Number Series | – | 6 | – | – |
| Data Sufficiency | – | – | – | – |
| Approximation | 5 | – | – | – |
| Caselet | 5 | – | 5 | – |
| Difficulty Level | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate |
This section is the time-consuming one. Questions are asked from the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| Puzzles & Seating arrangements | 21 | 20 | 15 | 20 |
| Syllogism | – | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Inequality | 4 | – | 5 | 2 |
| Blood Relation | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Direction | – | 3 | – | – |
| Numerical series | – | – | – | – |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 | – | 5 | 4 |
| Alpha-Numerical series | – | – | – | – |
| Ranking | – | 3 | – | – |
| Miscellaneous | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Difficulty Level | Moderate to Difficult | Moderate to Difficult | Moderate to Difficult | Moderate to Difficult |
This section is easy to moderate. Questions are asked from the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| Error Spotting | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Fill in the Blanks | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| Reading Comprehension | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Cloze Test | 5 | 6 | – | 5 |
| Phrase Replacement | 5 | – | 3 | 5 |
| Words Interchange | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
| Parajumble | – | – | 5 | |
| Match the Column | – | – | – | 3 |
| Difficulty Level | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate |
Sectional & Overall Attempts by Candidates: (From Exam Centre)
| Candidates | Reasoning | Quant | English | Overall Attempts |
| Shift – 1 | 28 | 26 | 20 | 74 |
| Shift – 2 | 33 | 20 | 24 | 77 |
| Shift – 3 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 65 |
| Shift – 4 | 32 | 19 | 25 | 76 |
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