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It has been reported that the online RRB Officer Assistant Prelim examination held on 17th August 2019 was easy.
A snap shot of the prelim exam is given below.
| Duration of the Exam | 45 minutes |
| Numerical Ability | 40 Qs |
| Reasoning Ability | 40 Qs |
| Total Number of Qs | 80 Qs |
An analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below.
Quantitative Aptitude:
This section, on the whole, has been tagged as 'Easy'.
- There were 10 questions on Data Interpretation – Bar Graph and Tabular data. These questions were easy to solve .
- There were 5 questions each on on Number Series(Wrong Number) and Quadratic Comparisons which were easy to solve.
- There were 10 individual questions covering Ages, Partnership, Pipes & Cisterns, Time & Distance, Mixtures & Alligations etc. These questions were a mix of Easy and Moderate ones
- There were 10 questions on ‘Simplifications’ and were easy to solve
| Topic | No of Questions |
|---|---|
| Data Interpretation | 10(Bar Graph, Table) |
| Number Series | 5 (Wrong No) |
| Individual Questions (Ages, Partnership, Pipes & Cisterns, Time & Distance, Mixtures & Alligations etc.) |
10 |
| Simplifications | 10 |
| Quadratic Comparisons | 5 |
Reasoning Ability:
This section, on the whole, has been tagged as 'Easy'.
There were 23 questions on Puzzles and some of these questions can be labelled ‘moderate’ in terms of the level of difficulty. Questions on Direction Sense, Symbols and Notations, Coding-Decoding and Deductions were easy to crack.
Questions on puzzles were based on – Linear Arrangement (unknown no. of persons, Two row), Floor-based puzzle, Comparisons of heights etc..
| Topic | Slot 1 |
|---|---|
| Analytical Puzzles (Linear Arrangement (unknown no. of persons, Two rows 5), Floor-based puzzle, Comparisons of heights, Circular Arrangement ) |
23 |
| Deductions / Syllogisms | 4 |
| Symbols and Notations | 4 |
| Direction Sense | 3 |
| Coding-Decoding | 1 |
| Odd Man Out | 1 |
| Sequence | 3 |
| Miscellaneous (Word Arrangement) | 1 |
Overall, the paper can be rated as easy as compared to the same exam that was conducted in 2018.
It has been reported that the online RRB Office Assistant Prelim examination held on 18th August 2019 was easy. A similar trend was observed for exams held across all slots.
A snap shot of the prelim exam is given below
| Duration of the Exam | 45 minutes |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 40 Qs |
| Reasoning Ability | 40 Qs |
| Total Number of Qs | 80 Qs |
An analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below.
Quantitative Aptitude:
This section, on the whole, has been tagged as 'Moderate'.
- There were 10 - 15 questions on Data Interpretation spread across slots. Some of these questions involved calculations and were of moderate level of difficulty .
- There were 5 questions on Number Series(all slots) which were easy to solve.
- There 10 questions on Simplifications (all slots) were easy to solve
- The individual questions varied from 5 to 10 in number across different slots. These questions were a combination of Easy and Moderate ones.
- In all the slots, there were 2 - 5 questions on Quadratic Comparisons.
| Topic | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Interpretation | 15(Bar Graph, Table, Caselet) | 13 (Table, Bar Graph, Caselet) | 14 (Table, Bar Graph, Caselet) | 10 (Bar Graph, Table) |
| Number Series | 5 (Missing No) | 5 (Missing No) | 5 (Missing No) | 5 (Wrong No) |
| Individual Questions (Ages, Percentage, Profit & Loss, Time & Distance, Pipes & Cisterns, Mixtures & Alligations, Simple & Compound Interest and Mensuration etc..) |
5 | 10 | 7 | 10 |
| Simplifications | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Quadratic Comparisons | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Reasoning Ability:
This section, on the whole, has been tagged as 'Easy'.
There were 17 to 20 questions on Puzzles and some of these questions can be labelled ‘moderate’ in terms of the level of difficulty. Questions on Coding-Decoding, Symbols and Notations, Coding-Decoding and Deductions were easy to crack. There were 3 questions each on Blood Relations and Direction Sense in few slots.
Questions on puzzles were based on – Linear Arrangement (unknown no. of persons, Two rows, 7 persons all facing North etc..), Circular Arrangement (8 persons; all facing centre; etc..), Box based puzzle, Months based (7 Months & 7 Persons), Square Arrangement (8 people; persons sitting at the corners face outside and sitting at the middle face inside), Months & Dates based (4 Months & 2 Dates), Floor based (8 Floors and 8 persons), Distributions, comparisons (Heights, Weights, Ranks etc..)
As per the feedback received from student who appeared for the exam in slot 4, the data of one set of questions (Puzzles – Distribution) was incorrect.
| Topic | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | Slot 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytical Puzzles | 20 | 17 | 20 | 18 |
| Deductions | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Symbols and Notations | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Blood Relations | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| Direction Sense | 3 | |||
| Coding-Decoding | 3 | 4 | ||
| Sequence | 5 | 5 | 3 | |
| Set of Numbers | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Miscellaneous (Letter Arrangement, Word Arrangement etc..) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Overall, the paper can be rated easy as compared to the same exam that was conducted in 2018.