It has been reported by our students, that the online IBPS PO/MT CWE 2019 Main examination held on 30th Nov 2019 was tedious, time-consuming and difficult vis-a-vis with the one held in 2018.

The Reasoning section was difficult while the English section was moderate. The Data Analysis and Interpretation section was very difficult, whereas the one on GA was easy to moderate.

The following changes / new question types were observed in the exam this year:

1. Wrong number series
2. New types of Puzzle questions
3. Word Interchange – 4 words each were given in bold in two sentences. Interchange the bold words in first and second sentences to form a meaningful sentence.
4. Para Forming with sentence jumbling (Appeared in recent SBI PO 2019 main exam)
5. Error Identification with sentence jumbled
6. Word Replacement with sentence jumbled - A sentence with four parts was given. Rearrange the parts to form a meaning sentence and replace the word in any one of the parts with the word given in options.

The snap shot of the exam is given below:

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

Quantitative Aptitude:

According to feedback received from our students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as very difficult and was quite time-consuming.

There were 6 sets (about 26 questions) on DI. Questions on DI were long drawn-out and required arduous effort to solve. The questions on Time-Work and Probability based caselets were moderate to difficult. There was one question on Wrong number series.

Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude:

This section has been labelled as 'difficult'.

The emphasis here was on puzzles, which were a twister.

There are seven new types of puzzles – Forty one floors with five lifts (even and odd floor concept); Thirteen boxes in alphabetical order from top to bottom with toffees which are multiples of thirteen and each box is of a different colour; Six persons facing North and each of them is pouring cerain quantity of milk in the containers; Circular arrangement with seven persons. Persons sitting in adjacent positions are not arranged in alphabetical order and their ages; Eleven houses in a row from West to East with three houses vacant, eight persons and their ages; Eight persons their designations with four couples and three cities; Two stacks A and B, ten books to be arranged, example is given with some values involving mathematical calculations (similar to Input-Output model).

There were two sets with three questions each on Input-Output, three questions on Direction sense with Symbols (similar to the question type asked in IBPS PO 2017 main exam), two questions on Blood Relations with Symbols (similar to the question type asked in IBPS PO 2017 main exam), two questions on Symbols & Notations (inequalities). There was one question on Reverse Syllogism (similar to the question type asked in IBPS PO 2016 Main exam). About five questions were asked on Critical Reasoning.

There were no questions on Computer Aptitude in this section.

English Language:

This section can be rated as moderate and was a saving grace.

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. There was on OMO question also. The difficulty level can be pegged between moderate to difficult. This model was asked in the recent SBI PO 2019 Main exam.

Word Replacement – A sentence was divided into fours parts – A/B/C/D. Interchange the four parts to form a meaningful sentence and then replace one of the words in any part with the options given below. (New Model)

Word Interchange – Two sentences each with four words in bold were given. Interchange the words in first sentence with the second sentence to form a meaningful sentence. (New Model)

Reading Comprehension – There were 5 RC passages with approximately 18 questions. All the pasages were easy to read and questions ranged from easy to moderate. In one of the passages, one question on FIB and one question on Word Replacement were asked. (similar to the question type asked in IBPS PO 2018 main exam)

Error Identification with Sentence Jumbled – A sentence was divided into five parts. Identify any two parts with error, replace with the correct part and then interchange the two parts to form a meaningful sentence. (New Model)

General Awareness:

This section too was the saving grace in the entire paper. This section can be rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’.

As reported by our students, about 23 to 25 questions were on Current Affairs (based on July to Nov 2019 events), 5 to 6 questions on Banking Awareness. Thus, students who are regularly following the current affairs could have easily attempted 30+ questions.

(B) Descriptive Test:

This section was conducted for 25 marks, with a time limit of 30 minutes, and comprised Letter and Essay Writing. There were 5 topics for writing essays and 5 for letters, and the test-taker had to pick one topic from each of these to write on.

Essay topics (Choose any one) (250 words):

1. Pros and Cons of 4 day week
2. Influence of Social Media
3. Ethical Banking
4. FDI in retail sector
5. Contribution of unorganised sector in the Indian Economy

Letter Writing ( Choose any one) (150 words):

1. Letter to the Editor about Govt initiative and support program for lonely elders
2. Letter to General Manager of a Company regarding issues of post painting of the house. 5 years warranty given but the paint is not intact
3. Letter to the Road Transport Authority compalining about the usage of high beam LED lights in vehicles.
4. You have purchased a TV in EMI scheme. Monthly EMI of Rs.2000/-. The bank has deducted Rs.3000/- by mistake. Write a letter to the Bank Manager to roll back / adjust Rs.1000/- which was deducted by mistake.
5. Letter to cousin explaining about the benefits of taking part-time job at college.

The online IBPS RRB Officers Main examination held on 13th Oct 2019 was moderate in terms of difficulty level, according to test takers. The level of difficulty of this year’s paper is on similar lines compared to that of last year.

While the Reasoning and English Sections were moderate, the Quant section was time-consuming and difficult. The GA section was ranged between easy and moderate, and the one on Computers can be tagged as easy.

A snap shot of the said exam is given below:

The analysis of the above mentioned session, as reported by our students, has been presented for you.

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as moderate to difficult, as it was lengthy.

The questions on DI were time-consuming, and questions on caselet were tough. Individual questions in this section were drawn from topics like Ratio, Time & Work, Time & Distance, Mensuration, Averages, Mixtures and Alligation, Percentages, Profit & Loss, Partnership, Probability etc. Most of these questions were reportedly tricky and required an in-depth knowledge of concepts to solve them. The 4 questions on Data Comparison were moderate with regard to level difficulty.

Reasoning Ability:

This section can be given a moderate tag, from feedback received by our students.

The emphasis here was on puzzles, which were challenging. Questions on Critical Reasoning and Input-Output can be assigned a moderate level of diffciulty.

English Language:

This section was moderate in terms of difficulty level. There was a single RC passage from which twelve questions were posed. The Cloze passage comprised 8 blanks. There were 5 questions each on Error identification, Word usage, Match the Column and Para Jumbled Sentences. In Para Jumbled Sentences, seven sentences were given and fifth sentence is fixed.

General Awareness:

As reported by our students, about 60 % – 70 % of the questions asked here were typically drawn from topics related to Current Affairs, 4 to 5 questions on Banking Awareness and 2 – 3 questions on Static GK. Questions on Current Affairs were based on events organised in the months of March, April, May and June, or ones that took place during this period.

Computer Knowledge:

This section is easiest of all the sections. Questions in this section dealt with Acronyms, MS Office, Networking, Operating System, Internet, Computer Architecture , DBMS etc.

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 19th of October 2019 (Slot 2) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as easy to moderate. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were eleven questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (Bar graph and Table). There were six questions on Wrong Number Series and five questions on Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Wrong Number Series were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 8 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones. These questions were based on Ages, Ratio, Profit & Loss, Mensuration, Mixtures & Alligations, Time & Distance, Simple & Compound Interest etc...

A student could therefore, have solved around 20-22 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 25 questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement, Circular + Distribution, Two row arrangement with seven persons each, Floor Arrangement with 9 persons, Comparisons), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Deductions (Model: Only a few) and three questions on Blood Relations. These questions on Deductions were easy to moderate and on Blood Relations were moderate to solve.

About 23-25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised of 8 questions, of which two were vocab questions. The passage was based on ‘Recruitment through Social Media’.
• There were five questions each on Cloze Test and Wrongly spelt words.
• There were five questions on Error Identification and three on Phrase Replacement.

Thus, about 23-25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy, moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 19th of October 2019 (Slot 1) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as easy to moderate. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Number Series, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were fifteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (six questions each on Bar graph, two pie charts and three questions on Caselet). Questions on bar graph were easy while questions on double pie chart were calculation based. There were six questions each on Approximations and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Approximations were easy to solve.

Individual questions were eight in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones. These questions were based on Ages, Ratio, Profit & Loss, Mensuration, Mixtures & Alligations, Time & Distance, Simple & Compound Interest etc...

A student could therefore, have solved around 22-24 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were twenty questions on Puzzles (6 Persons Linear + Distribution, Distribution, Square Arrangement with eight persons, persons sitting at the centre facing inwards and persons sitting at the corners facing outside, Comparisons), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Coding – Decoding and four questions on Symbols and Notations. These questions on Coding-Decoding were easy to moderate and on Symbols-Notations were easy to solve.

About 26-28 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised of 7 questions, of which two were vocab questions and one was based on FIB. The passage was based on ‘Solar pump scheme’.
• There were five questions each on the Para Jumbled Sentences and Word Interchange. The Para Jumbles were based on ‘Solid waste management in China’. 6 sentences were given and third sentence is in correct position.
• There were five questions on Error Identification and four on Phrase Replacement.
• The questions related to Word Interchange were asked in the recent IBPS & SBI exams.

Thus, about 23-25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy, moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 4) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as easy to moderate. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 12 questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (6 questions each on Table and Pie chart). There were five questions each on Number Series(Missing number) and Quadratic Comparisons and were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 13 in number and were based on Ages, Ratio, Time & Distance, Profit & Loss, Partnership, Probability, Averages, Mixtures & Alligation, Geometry etc.. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 21-23 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 18 questions on Puzzles (Square Arrangement with 8 persons; persons sitting at the corner facing outwards and persons sitting at the centre facing inside, Two row Arrangement with 6 persons each, Box Arrangement + Distribution, Distributions with cities), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Direction Sense and Blood Relations. There were five questions on Coding-Decoding and four questions on Deductions (Model: ‘only a few’).

About 24-26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised of 10 questions, of which 1 were vocab questions.
• There were 5 questions each on Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank), Error Identification, Match the Column and Cloze Passage.
• There questions on Reading Comprehension and Error Identification were rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’.

Thus, about 22-24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy and moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 3) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as easy to moderate. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Quadratic Comparisons, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 14 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (6 questions on Table, 5 questions on Line Graph and 3 questions on Caselet based on Partnership). The questions on table and line graph were easy and on those on caselet were of moderate level of difficulty. There were 6 questions each on Number Series(Missing number) and Approximations. Questions on Series and Approximations were easy.

Individual questions were 9 in number and were based on Ages, Ratio, Time & Distance, Profit & Loss, Partnership, Compound Interest, Mixtures & Alligation, Mensuration. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 21-23 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 20 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement with 6 persons and their ages, Floor Arrangement (5 floors and two flats), Distributions and Linear arrangement with 9 persons some facing North and some facing South), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Direction Sense and five questions each on Coding-Decoding, Deductions (Models: ‘only a few’ and ‘can never be’).

About 24-26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised of 8 questions, of which 2 were vocab questions.
• There were 5 questions each on Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank) and Error Identification.
• There were 3 questions each on Phrase Replacement and finding the inappropriate word in the given sentence.
• There were 6 questions on Para Jumbled Sentences. Seven sentences A to G were given and were asked to find out the second sentence, third sentence etc..

Thus, about 20-22 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy and moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 2) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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 moderate.

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

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as easy to moderate. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 11 questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions on Table and 6 questions on Line Graph). Questions on Data Interpretation were easy to solve. There were 6 questions each on Number Series(Missing number) and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons were easy and Number Series were Easy to Moderate.

Individual questions were 12 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 20-22 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 23 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement with Distributions with 8 persons facing inside, Floor Arrangement, Comparison of heights, Distributions and Two row arrangement with 7 persons each), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Blood Relations, Direction Sense and Deductions (only a few model).

About 22-24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised of 7 questions, of which 3 were vocab questions.
• There were 5 questions each on the conventional Cloze Test pattern and Word Interchange.
• There were 5 questions each on Error Identification and Phrase Replacement.
• There were 3 questions on Fill in the blanks. One sentence with one blank followed by three words to choose from. More than one word can fit into the blank and one has to identify all such words that fits into the blank. This is the new model asked for the first time in IBPS exams.

Thus, about 23-25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy, moderate and difficult questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 1) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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 moderate.

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

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as easy to moderate. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Number Series, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 15 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions each on Line Graph, Table and Caselet). Questions on line graph and table were easy while questions on Caselet were lengthy and calculation based. There were 5 questions each on Approximations and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Approximations were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 10 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 22-24 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 20 questions on Puzzles (6 Persons + Years, Linear Arrangement (6 persons+ages),Square arrangement with 8 persosn, persons sitting at the centre facing inwards and persons sitting at the corners facing outside, 10 persons+5 months+2 dates), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Coding – Decoding and four questions on Symbols and Notations. These questions on Coding-Decoding were moderate and on Symbols-Notations were easy to solve.

About 26-28 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised of 8 questions, of which 2 were vocab questions.
• There were 5 questions each on the conventional Cloze Test pattern and Word Replacement.
• There were 6 questions on Error Identification and 4 on Phrase Replacement.
• The questions related to Word Replacement were asked in the recent SBI exams.

Thus, about 23-25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy, moderate and difficult questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

It has been reported that the online RRB Officer (Scale I) Prelim examination held on 4th August 2019 was of moderate difficulty level. A similar trend was observed for exams held across all slots.

A snap shot of the prelim exam is given below.

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 - 17 questions on Data Interpretation spread across slots. 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.
• The individual questions varied from 10 to 14 in number across different slots. These questions were lengthy and calculations based.
• In some of the slots, there were 5 questions on Quadratic Comparisons whereas in other slots, questions on Approximations were given instead of questions from Quadratic Comparisons.
• In one of the slots there were 5 questions on Data Sufficiency (2 Statements).

Reasoning Ability:

This section, on the whole, has been tagged as 'Easy'.

There were 20 to 25 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 to 5 questions each on Blood Relations and Direction Sense.

Questions on puzzles were based on – Linear Arrangement (unknown no. of persons, 9 persons facing North, 8 persons etc..), Circular Arrangement (8 persons; all facing inside; some facing inside & some facing outside etc..), Months & Dates based, Age based, Square Arrangement, Distributions, comparisons (Heights, Weights etc..)

Overall, the paper can be rated slightly difficult as compared to the same exam that was conducted in 2018.

The analysis of the SBI PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 9th of June 2019 (Slot 1) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as moderate and was time consuming. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Simplifications, Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.
There were 15 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions each on Table, Pie Chart and Caselet). Questions on Caselet were time-consuming. There were 5 questions each on wrong number series and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on wrong number series and Quadratic Comparisons were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 10 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 16 - 18 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 20 questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement (5 persons all facing North) + Distribution, Square Arrangement (Persons sitting at the middle facing centre and persons sitting at the corners facing outside), Comparisons (7 persons and their ages), Distribution), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were four questions on Symbols & Notations, 3 questions on Blood Relations and 5 questions on Coding - Decoding. These questions ranged from easy to moderate. One question on Odd Man Out was easy.

About 22 to 24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 8 questions. There was 1 Vocab based questions and 1 question on FIB. The passage was based on Economy.
• There were five questions on wrongly spelt words.
• There were seven Error Identification Questions. All these five questions were easy to solve.
• There were two questions on Matching the sentences given in two columns.
• There were three questions on Fill in the blanks(Single blank).
• There were 5 questions on Para Jumbled Sentences. Five sentences to be rearranged to form a meaningful paragraph.

Thus, about 17-19 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the SBI PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 8th of June 2019 (Slot 4) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as moderate and was time consuming. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Simplifications, Approximations and Data Comparison.

There were 15 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions each on Bar Graph + Table, Pie Chart and Caselet). Questions on Bar Graph and Caselet were time-consuming. There were 5 questions each on Wrong number series, Quadratic Comparisons and Data Sufficiency. Questions on Wrong number series and Quadratic Comparisons were easy solve. The questions on Data Sufficiency includes easy and moderate ones.

Individual questions were 5 in number. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 15 - 17 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 23 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (some facing centre and some facing outside), Linear Arrangement (10 Persons all facing North), 6 Persons + 3 months+ 2 Dates +Distribution, Comparisons + Distribution, Distribution+Designation) which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Deductions, three questions on Direction Sense and two questions on Symbols & Notations. These questions are easy to solve.

About 22 to 24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 10 questions. Out of these 10 questions 6 were based on passage, two synonyms and two antonyms. The passage was based on Social Media.
• There were five Error Identification Questions. All these five questions were easy to solve.
• 5 questions on Phrase Replacement comprised a sentence in which a part was in bold font.
• There were 5 questions on wrongly spelt words.
• There were five questions on Fill in the blanks(Single blank).

Thus, about 17 -19 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the SBI PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 8th of June 2019 (Slot 3) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as moderate and was time consuming. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Number Series, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 15 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions each on Line Graph + Table, Pie Chart and Caselet). Questions on Caselet were lengthy and time-consuming. There were 5 questions each on Quadratic Comparisons and Approximations. Questions on Quadratic Comparisons and Approximations were easy solve.

Individual questions were 10 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 16 - 18 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 21 questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement (8 persons some facing North and some facing South), Days + QBR, Comparisons (6 Persons), Floor Arrangement (3 Floors and 2 Flsts), Box arrangement based puzzle)which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Deductions, four questions on Coding-Decoding and three questions on Direction Sense. These questions are easy to solve.

About 23 to 25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 10 questions including two Vocab based questions. The passage was based on Artificial Intelligence.
• There were five questions on identifying the Grammatically Correct Sentence. All these five questions were easy to solve.
• There were 5 questions on Para Jumbled Sentences. Five sentences to be rearranged to form a meaningful paragraph.
• There were five questions on Fill in the blanks(Single blank).
• There were 5 questions on Matching the sentences given in two columns.

Thus, about 16 -18 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the SBI PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 8th of June 2019 (Slot 2) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as moderate and was time consuming. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 16 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions each on Bar Graph + Table, Pie Chart and Caselet). Questions on Caselet and Bar Graph were lengthy and time-consuming. There were 5 questions on Missing number series and 6 questions on Approximations. Questions on Missing number series and Approximations were easy solve.

Individual questions were 8 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 16 - 18 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 23 questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement (10 persons all facing North), Circular Arrangement (8 persons some facing inside and some facing outside, Comparisons (Height of 5 persons), Floor Arrangement (8 Floors and 8 Persons, Days & Months based puzzle), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Deductions and 3 questions on Direction Sense. These questions are easy to solve.

About 25 to 26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 8 questions including one Vocab based question. The passage was based on Education system – Private and Public partnership.
• 5 questions on Phrase Replacement comprised a sentence in which a part was in bold font.
• There were seven Error Identification Questions. All these seven questions were easy to solve.
• There were 5 questions on Para Jumbled Sentences. Five sentences to be rearranged to form a meaningful paragraph.
• There were five questions on Fill in the blanks(Single blank).

Thus, about 17-19 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper can be rated as easy to moderate.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the SBI PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 8th of June 2019 (Slot 1) has been presented below. Similar to the SBI PO & Clerk Prelim exams conducted last year, the structure of even this exam presented a sectional time limit, no navigability between any section, and each section time bound for 20 minutes.

Snap shot 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:

Quantitative Aptitude:

This section can be rated as moderate and was time consuming. No new question types / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Simplifications, Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 15 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions each on Bar Graph, Pie Chart+Table and Caselet). Questions on Caselet were time-consuming. There were 5 questions on Missing number series and 5 questions on Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Missing number series and Quadratic Comparisons were easy to moderate to solve.

Individual questions were 10 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 16 - 18 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag.

There were 18 questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement (some facing North & some facing South), Triangular Arrangement (Persons sitting at the corners facing inside and persons sitting in the middle facing outside, Comparions (6 Ropes), Floor Arrangement (10 Floors and 10 Persons), Box based puzzle+Distribution), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were four questions on Deductions, 3 questions on Direction Sense and 5 questions(Set based) on Blood Relations. These questions ranged from easy to moderate. One question each on Coding-Decoding and Odd Man Out were easy.

About 24 to 25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language :

This section has been tagged as 'Easy’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised 5 questions. 
• There were 2 Vocab based questions. 
• The passage was based on Solar Energy. 5 questions on Phrase Replacement comprised a sentence in which a part was in bold font. There were 5 questions on Cloze test to be filled with a word. 
• There were five Error Identification Questions. All these five questions were easy to solve. 
• There were 3 questions on Matching the sentences given in two columns.