Hello Aspirants,
The IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims exam is a qualifying test, candidates are required to pass in each section & score the necessary cutoffs to get shortlisted for the IBPS RRB Clerk main exam.
The overall exam is said to be moderate to easy. Smart work & time management will work in the game. All the candidates are requested to do practice on the topics mentioned below. Let’s see today’s exam analysis also.
Exam Pattern:
| Sr. No. | Name of Tests (Objective) | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks |
| 1 | Numerical Ability | 40 | 40 |
| 2 | Reasoning Ability | 40 | 40 |
| 3 | Total | 80 | 80 |
Section-wise Analysis:
Section | Level of Difficulty | Good Attempts | |||
| Shift I | II | III | IV | ||
| Numerical Ability | Easy | 30-35 | 32-33 | 31-34 | 32-35 |
| Reasoning | Easy | 30-33 | 30-35 | 30-32 | 32-34 |
| Total | Moderate to Easy | 60-68 | 62-68 | 61-66 | 64-69 |
Overall Good Attempts: 60-68
Chapter-wise Analysis:
Numerical Ability section is moderate to easy. Questions are asked on the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| DI | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Arithmetic | 10 | 10 | 15 | 10 |
| Quadratic Equation | – | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Missing Number Series | – | 5 | – | 5 |
| Wrong Number Series | 5 | – | 5 | – |
| Caselet | 5 | – | – | – |
| Simplification | 15 | 10 | 10 | 15 |
| Data Sufficiency | – | 5 | – | – |
| Difficulty Level | Easy | Easy | Easy | Easy |
This section is moderate to easy. Questions are asked on the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| Puzzles & Seating arrangements | 20 | 15 | 15 | 20 |
| Syllogism | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Numerical Series | 5 | 5 | 3 | – |
| Alphabetical Series | – | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 | – | – | – |
| Miscellaneous | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| Inequality | – | – | 4 | – |
| Difficulty Level | Easy | Easy | Easy | Easy |
Sectional & Overall Attempts by Candidates: (From Exam Centre)
| Candidates | Reasoning | Quant | Overall Attempts |
| Shift – 1 | 33 | 37 | 70 |
| Shift – 2 | 35 | 32 | 67 |
| Shift – 3 | 36 | 32 | 68 |
| Shift – 4 | 36 | 33 | 69 |
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