The analysis of IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on 7th Dec 2019 (Slot 3) is presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

No of choices per question – 5

Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question

As per feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, the exam can be rated as easy to moderate.

The section wise analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Numerical Ability:

According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section did not throw up any surprise and can be rated as ‘easy to moderate’.

The eight questions on Simplifications were easy. There were five questions on Data Interpretation (Table) which ranged from easy to moderate.

There were 6 questions on Number series(Missing Number) that can be rated as easy. Quant questions in this section were twelve in number and pertained to – Percentages, Profit & Loss, Averages, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Time & Distance, Boats & Streams and Mensuration etc.. These were a combination of easy and moderate.

A student could therefore, solve around 23 to 25 questions in approximately 20 minutes provided he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been tagged as 'Easy'.

In this slot, there were 5 questions each on Coding-Decoding, Sequence and Symbols-Notations. There were 3 questions on Deductions (Model: Only a Few).

The questions on puzzles include one each on Linear arrangement (All persons facing South), Circular Arrangement (All facing Centre – 8 persons), Floor Arrangement (7 persons)). Puzzles were easy to moderate but lengthier than other questions in the same section.

Thus, almost 28 to 30 questions could possibly be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.

The topic -wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as given below:

English Language:

This section too was predictable and was rated as easy to moderate.

The lone Reading Comprehension passage on ‘Photosynthesis’was conventional in its presentation, and 8 questions were posed from it. There was one question based on word replacement. (one word in the passage was given in bold and was asked to check whether the given word fit into the sentence)

PFQs with Sentence Jumbled – Five sentences were given. Each sentence is in jumbled order. Student has to arrange the parts of the sentences first and then arrange the paragraph. The difficulty level can be pegged between easy to moderate. This model was asked in the recent SBI PO 2019 and IBPS PO 2019 exams.

There were 5 questions on Word Interchange where a sentence with four words in bold was given. One has to replace the words to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.

There were 6 questions each on Cloze Test and identifying ‘Grammatically Correct Sentence’.

We can deduce that about 25 - 27 questions could possibly be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the difficulty level of the paper in this particular slot can be pegged between Easy to Moderate.

Good Attempts:

The analysis of IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on 7th Dec 2019 (Slot 4) is presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

No of choices per question – 5

Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question

As per feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, the exam can be rated as easy to moderate.

The section wise analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Numerical Ability:

According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as ‘easy to moderate’.
The 10 questions on Simplifications were easy. There were 5 questions on Data Interpretation (Table) which ranged from easy to moderate.

There were 5 questions each on Number series(Missing Number) and Quadratic Comparisons. These questions can be rated as easy to moderate. Quant questions in this section were 10 in number and pertained to – Simple Equations, Profit & Loss, Averages, Mixtures & Alligation, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Boats & Streams and Mensuration etc.. These were a combination of easy and moderate.

A student could therefore, solve around 23 to 25 questions in approximately 20 minutes provided he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has tagged as 'Easy'.

In this slot, there were 5 questions each on Coding-Decoding, Sequence and Deductions (Model: Only a Few). There were 2 questions on Direction Sense .

The questions on puzzles include one each on Linear arrangement (Ten persons, Two rows – Row 1 persons facing North and Row 2 persons facing South), Circular Arrangement (All facing Centre – 8 persons), Distributions (Eight persons and Eight months), Comparison of weights). Puzzles were easy to moderate but lengthier than other questions in the same section.

Thus, almost 28 to 30 questions could possibly be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.

The topic -wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as given below:

English Language:

This section too was predictable and was rated as easy to moderate.

The lone Reading Comprehension passage on ‘Impact of Climate on GDP’ was conventional in its presentation, and eight questions were posed from it. There were two questions each on Synonym, Antonym, 1 question on Fill in the Blank and three questions on comprehension.

PFQs with Sentence Jumbled – Five sentences were given. Each sentence is in jumbled order. Student has to arrange the parts of the sentences first and then arrange the paragraph. The difficulty level can be pegged between easy to moderate. This model was asked in the recent SBI PO 2019 and IBPS PO 2019 exams.

There were six questions on Word Interchange where a sentence with four words in bold was given. One has to replace the words to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.

There were six questions on Error Identification and five questions based on Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank).

We can deduce that about 25 - 27 questions could possibly be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the difficulty level of the paper in this particular slot can be pegged between Easy to Moderate.

Good Attempts:

The analysis of IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on 7th Dec 2019 (Slot 4) is presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

No of choices per question – 5

Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question

As per feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, the exam can be rated as easy to moderate.

The section wise analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Numerical Ability:

According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as ‘easy to moderate’.
The 10 questions on Simplifications were easy. There were 5 questions on Data Interpretation (Table) which ranged from easy to moderate.

There were 5 questions each on Number series(Missing Number) and Quadratic Comparisons. These questions can be rated as easy to moderate. Quant questions in this section were 10 in number and pertained to – Ages, Percentages, Profit & Loss, Averages, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work and Mensuration etc.. These were a combination of easy and moderate.

A student could therefore, solve around 23 to 25 questions in approximately 20 minutes provided he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has tagged as 'Easy'.

In this slot, there were five questions on Coding-Decoding and four questions each on Sequence, Blood Relations and Symbols & Notations.

The questions on puzzles include one each on Linear arrangement (Eight persons – All facing North), Square Arrangement (Persons sitting at the corners facing centre and the persons sitting at the middle facing away from centre), Distributions (Eight persons, four months and two dates). Puzzles were easy to moderate but lengthier than other questions in the same section.

Thus, almost 28 to 30 questions could possibly be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.

The topic -wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as given below:

English Language:

This section too was predictable and was rated as easy to moderate.

The lone Reading Comprehension passage on ‘Coffee Production’ was conventional in its presentation, and ten questions were posed from it. There were three questions one each on Synonym, Antonym and Fill in the Blank.

PFQs with Sentence Jumbled – Five sentences were given. Each sentence is in jumbled order. Student has to arrange the parts of the sentences first and then arrange the paragraph. The difficulty level can be pegged between easy to moderate. This model was asked in the recent SBI PO 2019 and IBPS PO 2019 exams.

There were five questions each on Wrongly spelt words, Fill in the Blank (Single Blank) and Phrase Replacement.

We can deduce that about 25 - 27 questions could possibly be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the difficulty level of the paper in this particular slot can be pegged between Easy to Moderate.

Good Attempts:

The analysis of IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on 8th Dec 2019 (Slot 2) is presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

No of choices per question – 5

Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question

As per feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, the exam can be rated as easy to moderate.

The section wise analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Numerical Ability:

According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as ‘easy to moderate’.

The 10 questions on Simplifications were easy. There were 5 questions on Data Interpretation (Bar Graph) which ranged from easy to moderate.

There were 5 questions each on Number series(Missing Number) and Quadratic Comparisons. These questions can be rated as easy to moderate. Quant questions in this section were 10 in number and pertained to – Percentages, Profit & Loss, Averages, Mixtures & Alligation, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Boats & Streams and Mensuration etc.. These were a combination of easy and moderate.

A student could therefore, solve around 23 to 25 questions in approximately 20 minutes provided he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been tagged as 'Easy'.

In this slot, there were five questions each on Deductions (Model: Only a few) and Symbols & Notations. There were three questions each on Blood Relations and Sequence .

The questions on puzzles include one each on Linear arrangement (Ten persons – Two Rows, Circular Arrangement – Eight Persons – All facing centre, Months & Days based etc..). Puzzles were easy to moderate but lengthier than other questions in the same section.

Thus, almost 28 to 30 questions could possibly be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.

The topic -wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as given below:

English Language:

This section too was predictable and was rated as easy to moderate.

The lone Reading Comprehension passage on ‘Work pressure and Stress’ was conventional in its presentation, and seven questions were posed from it. There were one question each on Synonym, Antonym and Fill in the Blank.

PFQs with Sentence Jumbled – Five sentences were given. Each sentence is in jumbled order. Student has to arrange the parts of the sentences first and then arrange the paragraph. The difficulty level can be pegged between easy to moderate. This model was asked in the recent SBI PO 2019 and IBPS PO 2019 exams.

There were six questions on Error Identification, Five questions on Phrase Replacement and seven questions based on Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank).

We can deduce that about 25 - 27 questions could possibly be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the difficulty level of the paper in this particular slot can be pegged between Easy to Moderate.

Good Attempts:

The analysis of IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on 8th Dec 2019 (Slot 4) is presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

No of choices per question – 5

Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question

As per feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, the exam can be rated as easy to moderate.

The section wise analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, is given below:

Numerical Ability:

According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as ‘easy to moderate’.

The nine questions on Simplifications were easy. There were seven questions on Data Interpretation (Table(5q) & Caselet(2q) which ranged from easy to moderate.

There were five questions on Number series(Wrong Number) and six questions on Quadratic Comparisons. These questions can be rated as easy to moderate. Quant questions in this section were eight in number and pertained to – Ages, Percentages, Averages, Mixtures & Alligation, Time & Work, Time & Distance, Boats & Streams and Mensuration. These were a combination of easy and moderate.

A student could therefore, solve around 23 to 25 questions in approximately 20 minutes provided he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been tagged as 'Easy'.

In this slot, there were four questions each on Deductions (Model: Only a few), five questions each on Sequence and Coding-Decoding. There were three questions on Blood Relations.

The questions on puzzles include one each on Linear arrangement (Ten persons – Two Rows, Circular Arrangement – Eight Persons – All facing centre, Eight persons – 4 Months – 2 Dates, Comparisons etc..). Puzzles were easy to moderate but lengthier than other questions in the same section.

Thus, almost 28 to 30 questions could possibly be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.

The topic -wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as given below:

English Language:

This section too was predictable and was rated as easy to moderate.

The lone Reading Comprehension passage on ‘Mobile Phone Usage’ was conventional in its presentation, and eight questions were posed from it. There were three question based on Synonyms and the remaining were on comprehension.

PFQs with Sentence Jumbled – Five sentences were given. Each sentence is in jumbled order. Student has to arrange the parts of the sentences first and then arrange the paragraph. The difficulty level can be pegged between easy to moderate. This model was asked in the recent SBI PO 2019 and IBPS PO 2019 exams.

There were six questions on Cloze Test, Five questions on Grammatically Correct Sentence, four questions based on Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank) and two questions on Phrase Replacement. All these questions were easy to solve.

We can deduce that about 25 - 27 questions could possibly be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the difficulty level of the paper in this particular slot can be pegged between Easy to Moderate.

Good Attempts: