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IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis
IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis

For all the candidates appearing for the IBPS Clerk Exam, the IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis is very important as it will give the candidates a clear idea about the complexity of the paper that was set for the previous year and the complexity level to expect for the current year.

IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis

Job Highlights

This is a basic IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis:

Sections
Ideal Score
Reasoning and Computer Aptitude
19-23
English Language
18-21
Quantitative Aptitude
29-34
General Economy and Banking Awareness
30-34
TOTAL
111-123

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 IBPS Clerk Syllabus  2018 – Quantitative Aptitude 

This section contains 50 questions worth 50 marks, the time limit for this section is 45 minutes.  The complexity of questions for this section will be moderate, a candidate with good calculation speed and practice can score good marks in this section for the IBPS Clerk Exam Quantitative Aptitude Section. This statement has been made as per our IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis.
The previous year there were three sets of Data Interpretation with 5 questions in each set. The level of difficulty was moderate. Following types of Data Interpretation were asked in this exam:
  • Caselet
  • Tabular – the given data was related to booking of berths in trains done by Males and Females across the country on IRCTC’s website.
  • Tabular – this DI had data related to speed and distance covered by various trains.

Major Quantitative Aptitude IBPS Clerk Exam Question

Other Moderate level questions asked in Quantitative section of IBPS Clerk Main exam were from – Quadratic Equation, Approximation and Missing Series. Candidates with good practice must have aimed to grab maximum marks from these sets of questions. Speedy Calculation is the key to solve these questions.

Miscellaneous Quantitative Aptitude IBPS Clerk Exam Question

Arithmetic Word Problems included questions from the following topics- Problem on Ages, Percentage, Ratio and Proportion, Time and Work, SI & CI, Partnership, Speed, and Distance.

 Quantitative Aptitude IBPS Exam Analysis

Topic
No. of Questions
Level
Data Interpretation
15
Moderate-Difficult
Data Sufficiency
5
Moderate-Difficult
Missing Number Series
5
Moderate
Quadratic Equation
5
Moderate
Approximation
5
Moderate
Miscellaneous – Arithmetic Word Problems
15
Moderate
Total
50
Moderate

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IBPS Clerk 2018 – English Language 

This section had 40 questions for 40 marks with a time limit of 35 minutes. There were 2 reading comprehensions (12 questions), one passage had 5 questions and another passage had 7 questions:
  • One passage was related to the IBM Company Policies
  • Another was based on the hacking of social media accounts

Major English IBPS Clerk Exam Questions

In the previous year’s IBPS Clerk Main Exam’s English Language Section, a major proportion of questions were related to word usage or were vocabulary based. There were 5 questions of Antonyms and Synonyms and around 8 questions related to word usage. With such a pattern it is best to stay calm and first invest time in reading the directions properly. The level of the questions as per our IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis was found to be moderate.

Miscellaneous English IBPS Clerk Exam Questions

Sentence rearrangement questions were of a new pattern where (according to the review given by aspirants) 5 statements/sentences were given and out of which 3 were placed correctly and 2 were not in the correct place in the passage. The candidates had to identify those 2 incorrect/ incorrectly places sentences and identify their proper position in the given passage.

English IBPS Exam Analysis

Topic
No. of Questions
Level
Reading Comprehension
12
Moderate
Antonym/Synonym
5
Easy
Phrase Replacement
5
Moderate
Double Filler
5
Easy
Sentence Rearrangement
5
Moderate
Miscellaneous- Word Usage
8
Easy-Moderate
Total
40
Moderate

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IBPS Clerk – Reasoning and Computer Aptitude 

This section was a little above the paper level; a bit difficult where no questions were asked from Computer Aptitude. There were 4 sets of Puzzles and Seating Arrangement. Following were the types of questions asked:
  • Linear (North-South) – In this seating arrangement the direction in which people are sitting was not clearly mentioned and there were 8 people who were sitting in two parallel lines facing North and South.
  • Floor Based Puzzle- this puzzle had 3 variables- 3 floors, 3 flats and 9 persons
  • Box Based Puzzle- 2 Variables- Box and Colors
  • Blood Relation Based Puzzle
There were also 5 questions of Data Sufficiency where only 1 question had 3 statements whereas all the other 4 questions had 2 statements in each question.
Topic
No. of Questions
Level
Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles
20
Moderate- Difficulty
Syllogism
3
Easy
Data Sufficiency
5
Difficult
Machine Input Output
5
Moderate-Difficult
Alpha-Numeric-Symbol Series
3
Moderate
Alphabet Series
3
Moderate
Direction Sense
4
Moderate
Miscellaneous
7
Moderate-Difficult
Total
50
Difficult

IBPS Clerk – General Economy and Banking Awareness

This section was moderate in complexity, the maximum number of questions were from Current Affairs in December 2017 and January 2018. There were around 10-12 questions from Static Awareness, 10-12 questions from Banking (based on current affairs and news). One question was also asked from Nobel Prize 2017. This section was quite easy as per our IBPS Exam Analysis.

IBPS Clerk Recruitment Notification

The following table gives all the information related to the IBPS Clerk Recruitment dates and vacancies.

Name of the Organization
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection
Vacancies
7275
Post Name
Clerical Post
Category
Official Website
The release of Official Notification
14th September 2018
Start of Online Registration
18th September 2018
Last day for Registration
10th October 2018
Preliminary Examination
8th, 9th, 15th & 16th December 2018
Mains Exam
20th January 2019

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