The first slot of IBPS Clerk 2017 held on 9 December 2017 has been over and with the help of students' review, we are here with the complete exam analysis.
The exam pattern was same as it was in the slots held on 2nd and 3rd December. English Language paper gave a headache to the students and challenged their reading and comprehensive skills.
All the three sections remained unchanged as previous shifts. English Section was equally difficult and challenging as observed in the IBPS Clerk Pre Examination on 2nd and 3rd of December.
Ideal Attempts
Considering the difficulty of the exam we can say that the ideal attempt should be between 75-80.
Section-wise ideal attempt is as follows
Section-wise ideal attempt is as follows
| Subject | Good Attempt |
|---|---|
| English Language | 14-16 |
| Reasoning Ability | 28-31 |
| Numerical Ability | 25-27 |
| Total | 75-80 |
Numerical Ability (Easy-Moderate)
This section did not bother the candidates as the there were 12questions were based on arithmetic problems out of 35 questions.There was only 1 set of tabular Data interpretation. T
| Topics | No. of Question | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Tabular DI | 5 | Moderate |
| Simplification | 13 | Easy-Moderate |
| Number Series | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Average | 1 | Easy |
| Simple Interest and Compound Interest | 1 | Easy |
| Profit & Loss | 1 | Easy |
| Problem on Ages | 1 | Easy |
| Discount | 1 | Easy |
| Boat and Stream | 1 | Easy |
| Time and Work | 1 | Moderate |
| Ratio and Proportion | 1 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous | 4 | Easy |
| Total | 35 | Easy-Moderate |
English Language ( Moderate-Difficult )
This section had moderate to difficult questions. There were double fillers and sentence rearrangement. But the questions based on idioms and phrases were new. Students were asked to choose an idiom/phrase the was similar to the word given in bold. There were questions of double fillers. In sentence rearrangement, parts of a sentence were to be rearranged to make a meaningful sentence.
| Topics | No. of Question | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 5 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Double Fillers | 10 | Moderate |
| Idioms/ Phrases | 10 | Difficult |
| Sentence Rearrangement (New Pattern) | 5 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Total | 30 | Moderate-Difficult |
Reasoning Ability (Easy)
This section was the easiest as there were 2 sets of linear puzzles and two sets of floor-based seating arrangement
| Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Order and Ranking based puzzle | 3 | Easy |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 10 | Moderate |
| Alpha-numerical-symbol Series | 5 | Easy |
| Blood relation | 3 | Easy |
| Syllogism | 3 | Easy |
| Inequality | 3 | Easy |
| Alphabet-based | 2 | Easy |
| Direction sense | 3 | Easy |
| Miscellaneous | 3 | Easy |
| Total | 35 | Easy |
