IBPS Clerk Pre 2016: Exam Analysis - 26-11-2016 (Slot I)

Hi readers,
Today many of you have appeared for IBPS Clerk Pre exam. Everybody was expecting a difficult exam but it was an easy exam.

There was three section :-

Subject	Ideal Attempt	Time allotment
English Language	16-18	15 min
Reasoning Ability	18-20	22-23 min
Quantitative Aptitude	18-20	22-23 min.
Total	60-65	60 mins

Quantitative Aptitude

Difficulty level - Moderate

Chapter	No. of questions
Series	5
Simplification	15
Data interpretation	5
Miscellaneous (Time and distance, Profit & Loss, Time and work, Simple & Compound interest, Problems based on ages etc.	10

There was only 1 Data Interpretation set which wasn't difficult. Overall this section was easy.

English Language

Difficulty level - Easy
There was no fill in the blanks. 10 questions were asked from Error Correction which was a surprise for all.

Chapter	No. of questions
Reading Comprehension	10
Cloze Test	10
Errors	10

Reasoning Ability

Difficulty level - Easy

Chapter	No. of questions
Inequalities	5
Alphanumeric Series	5
Sitting Arrangement	15
Miscellaneous	5
Alphabet Coding	5

There was 1 Circular seating arrangement set and one Linear seating arrangement set.

There were no questions from Coding decoding which is considered to be a time-consuming chapter. Further, there were no questions from Syllogism and Data sufficiency.

As the paper was easy, the cutoff is going to be really high.