IBPS Clerk prelims 2018: Paper analysis in detail

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Section

Total Questions: 30

Level of difficulty: Easy- Moderate

Good Attempts: 19- 22

Time taken (in minutes): 20

English Language

Reasoning Ability – 35 (Easy-Moderate)

Numerical Ability: 35 (Easy-Moderate)

Total: 100

Easy-Moderate 70-60

English Language:

Topic

Number of questions: 6

Level of difficulty: Moderate

Reading Comprehension – based on internet cloud use in education. (There were two questions based on synonyms and antonyms.)

Parajumbles: 5 (Easy-Moderate)

Sentence Rearrangement 5 ( Easy-Moderate)

Spot the Error – 4 bold words were given. (Easy-Moderate)

Vocabulary based (Miss Spelt words) – 4 (Easy-Moderate)

Match the following (Sentence Completion) – 5 (Easy-Moderate)

There was one set of Reading Comprehension. Two questions were from synonyms and antonyms. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.

Reasoning Ability:

Topic: AR (Circular Seating Arrangement)

Number of questions: 5

Level of Difficulty: Moderate

AR (Linear Seating Arrangement – in 2 parallel rows facing North/South): 5 (Moderate)

AR (Data Arrangement – floor based): 5 (Moderate)

AR (Data Arrangement – Height based): 5 (Moderate)

Number based – set 5 (Easy Alphabet based – set): 5: Easy

Alphabet based – 1 (Easy)

Ranking based – 1 (Easy-Moderate)

Syllogism – 3 (Easy-Moderate)

There were four sets of five questions each from Seating Arrangement and Data Arrangement. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.

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Numerical Ability:

Topic: Data Interpretation (Table based)

Number of questions: 5

Level of Difficulty: Easy-Moderate

Data Interpretation (Caselet based): Easy-Moderate

Simplification/Approximation: 10 (Easy)

Number Series (Wrong number series) – 5 (Easy-Moderate)

Profit, Loss and Discount – 1 (Easy-Moderate)

Simple Interest and Compound Interest -1 (Moderate)

Time and Work – 1 ( Moderate)

Time, Speed and Distance: 1 (Moderate)

Permutation and Combination: 1 (Moderate)

Mensuration (Rectangle): 1 (Easy-Moderate)

Age-based: 1 (Easy)

Mixture and Alligation: 1 (Moderate)

Miscellaneous (Quant based word problems): 2 (Moderate)

There were two sets of five questions each from Data Interpretation. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.

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