IBPS Clerk VIII Prelims Overall Exam Analysis: 8 December 2018

December 08, 2018
Hi Readers,
Many of you have appeared for IBPS Clerk Pre exam today. Here is the overall exam analysis of all slots. The students were given 100 questions to be solved in 60 minutes. Overall, the exam varied between Easy to Moderate questions.

There was three Section :-

Subject
Ideal Attempt
Time allotment
English Language
14-19
20 mins
Reasoning Ability
26-32
20 mins
Quantitative Aptitude
21-26
20 mins
Total
61-77
60 mins

Quantitative Aptitude:-

Difficulty level:- Easy-Moderate.

Only one Bar Chart DI was asked in the exam, and other questions were based on numeric ability. Profit loss, averages, ages, ratio proportion, SI and CI problems were easy.

Total Questions:- 35
Topic
No. of questions
Series
5
Simplification
10
Data Interpretation
5
Miscellaneous (Time and distance, Profit & Loss, Time and work, Simple & Compound interest, Problems based on ages etc.)
15

English Language:-

Difficulty level:- Easy-Moderate.

Total Questions:- 30

Topic
No. of Questions
Reading Comprehension
5
Single Filler
5
Errors
5
Sentence Completion / Rearrangement / Formation
15

Reasoning Ability:-

Difficulty level:- Easy

Total questions:- 35

There were 5 puzzles sets. Other questions like syllogism were easy.
This section was a relief to students as it had easy questions.

Topic
No. of questions
Syllogism
5
Alphabetic Series
5
Puzzle & Sitting Arrangement
20
Direction Sense
3
Alphabet Coding
2

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