On the first day first show of IBPS Clerk exam, most of the candidates were happy with exam pattern and difficulty level and it's a clear sign of very high cutoffs.
General awareness and Computer knowledge sections were very easy and 30+ questions can correctly answered in both of these sections.
Overall Analysis
| Section | Maximum marks | Ideal attempt |
|---|
| Numerical Ability | 40 | 25-27
|
| Reasoning | 40 | 25-27 |
| GK | 40 | 35-36 |
| Computer | 40 | 35-36 |
| English | 40 | 30-32 |
| Total | 200 | 155-160 |
English Language
| Topic | Marks |
| Reading Comprehensions | 10 |
| Sentence Rearrangement (Difficult) | 5 |
| Cloze test (Very easy) | 10 |
| Error Spotting (Very Easy) | 5 |
| Grammar errors | 5 |
| Fill in the blanks (Easy) | 5 |
English section was very easy. You should attempt this section first. Reading comprehesions were fairly and easily understandable
Reasoning
| Topic | Marks |
| Syllogism (Very Easy) | 5 |
| Data Sufficiency (Very Easy) | 5 |
| Seating Arrangement | 10 |
| Puzzle | 5 |
| Coded Inequalities (Very easy) | 5 |
| Misc | 10 |
This section was fairly easy. All the questions were expected and one could easily attempt 25 questions in this section
Numerical Ability
| Topic | Marks |
| Data interpretation | 10 |
| Simplifications | 5 |
| Series | 10 |
| Arithmetic (Time and work, Time and distance, Simple and compound interest etc) | 15 |
This section was bit lengthy and time consuming. Many candidates wasted most of their time on difficult questions of this section.
GA and Computer knowledge
Questions in these sections were very easy. Read the
GA questions asked on 6 Dec exam of IBPS Clerk
