The analysis of the IBPS PO 2020 Prelim exam held on the 3rd of October 2020 (Slot 1) has been presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

Test Area	No. of questions	Duration
Quantitative Aptitude	35 Questions	20 Mins
Reasoning Ability	35 Questions	20 Mins
English Language	30 Questions	20 Mins
Total no. of Questions	100 Qs	60 Mins

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 was asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.
There were twelve questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (six questions each on Table and Pie Chart). The data is easy, but the questions were calculation based and were moderate in nature. There were five questions each on Wrong Number Series and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Wrong Number Series were easy to solve.

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

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

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Data Interpretation (2 sets. Table and Pie Chart)	12	Easy to Mod
Wrong Number Series	5	Easy
Quadratic Comparisons	5	Easy
Individual Questions:	13	Easy to Moderate

Reasoning:

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

There were twenty questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement ( 8 persons facing North and South), Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (6 persons; 6 colours – 3 floors and 2 flats), Circular Arrangement + QBR ( 6 Persons all facing inside + Ages), Box Arrangement(9 boxes)), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Syllogisms (Deductions), Blood Relations, Direction Sense and Symbols and Notations. The questions on Symbols and Notations and Blood Relations were easy to solve whereas the questions on Direction sense can be classified as easy to moderate. The three questions on Syllogisms (Only a few model) which were moderate in nature.

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

Topic	No of Qs	Difficulty Level
Symbol and Notations (Inequalities)	3	Easy
Direction Sense	3	Easy to Moderate
Blood Relations	3	Easy
Syllogisms / Deductions (Only a few)	3	Moderate
Miscellaneous (Pairs of letters)	3	Easy
Puzzles
Linear Arrangement (8 persons; 4 persons facing North and 4 persons facing South)	5	Easy
Circular Arrangement + QBR (6 Persons all facing inside + Ages)	5	Moderate
Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (6 persons; 6 colours – 3 floors and 2 flats)	5	Moderate
Box Arrangement (9 boxes)	5	Easy

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, and one was based on FIB. The passage was based on ‘Artificial Intelligence’.

There were five questions each on

Phrase Replacement (Which of the phrases given below each sentence should REPLACE THE PHRASE IN BOLD to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, mark (5), ‘No correction required’, as the answer)

Sentence Rearrangement (A statement has been divided into five segments, each of which is denoted by (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). Rearrange all the segments to form a coherent statement)

Error Identification (In each of the questions below, a sentence is split into four parts. Read the sentence and identify whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in ONE PART of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

There were seven questions on Cloze Test.

Thus, about 23 - 24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions	Difficulty Level
Reading Comprehension	8	Moderate
Cloze Test	7	Easy - Moderate
Sentence Rearrangement	5	Moderate
Error Identification	5	Easy
Phrase Replacement	5	Easy

Overall, 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:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Quantitative Aptitude	20 - 22
Reasoning Ability	24 - 26
English Language	23 – 24
Overall	67 - 72

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2020 Prelim exam held on the 10th of October 2020 (Slot 2) has been presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

Test Area	No. of questions	Duration
Quantitative Aptitude	35 Questions	20 Mins
Reasoning Ability	35 Questions	20 Mins
English Language	30 Questions	20 Mins
Total no. of Questions	100 Qs	60 Mins

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 was asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.
There were fifteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions each on Bar graph, Line graph and Pie Chart). The data is easy, but the questions were calculation based and were moderate in nature. The questions based on Line graph were lengthy compared to bar graph and pie chart. There were five questions each on Missing Number Series and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Missing Number Series were easy to solve.

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

A student could, therefore, have solved around 19 - 21 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Data Interpretation (3 sets. Bar graph, Line graph and Pie Chart)	15	Easy to Mod
Missing Number Series	5	Easy
Quadratic Comparisons	5	Easy
Individual Questions:	10	Easy to Moderate

Reasoning:

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

There were twenty questions on Puzzles (Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (10 persons; 10 colours – 5 floors and 2 flats), Circular Arrangement + Distribution ( 8 Persons, four of them facing towards centre and four of them facing towards outside + Colours), Box Arrangement(6 boxes), Designation based puzzle), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Syllogisms (Deductions), Blood Relations, Direction Sense and Symbols and Notations. The questions on Symbols and Notations and Blood Relations were easy to solve whereas the questions on Direction sense can be classified as easy to moderate. The three questions on Syllogisms (Only a few model) which were moderate in nature.

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

Topic	No of Qs	Difficulty Level
Symbol and Notations (Inequalities)	5	Easy
Direction Sense	3	Easy to Moderate
Blood Relations	3	Easy
Coding – Decoding	1	Easy
Miscellaneous (Pairs of letters, Meaningful word etc.)	3	Easy
Puzzles
Designation based puzzle	5	Easy
Circular Arrangement + Distribution (8 Persons, four of them facing towards centre and four of them facing towards outside + Colours)	5	Moderate
(Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (10 persons; 10 colours – 5 floors and 2 flats)	5	Moderate
Box Arrangement (6 boxes)	5	Easy

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 (Synonyms), and one was based on FIB. The passage was based on ‘Artificial Intelligence Vs Human Intelligence’.

There were five questions each on

Word Interchange (five words) (Each of the following questions has five underlined parts that may or may not be in their correct places in the sentences. Identify which of the given pairs correctly indicate the PAIRS OF WORDS WHICH SHOULD BE INTERCHANGED to make the sentences grammatically and meaningfully correct without changing the meaning of the sentences. If any of the given sentences is correct as it is and no interchange is required, choose (5) i.e. No interchange required’ as your answer.)

Para Forming Questions (Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below.)

Error Identification (In each of the questions below, a sentence is split into four parts. Read the sentence and identify whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in ONE PART of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

There were seven questions on Fill in the blanks (Two fillers).

Thus, about 21 - 23 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions
Reading Comprehension	8
Fill in the blanks (Two blanks)	7
Para Forming (5 sentences)	5
Error Identification	5
Word Interchange (five words)	5

Overall, 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:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Quantitative Aptitude	19 - 21
Reasoning Ability	24 - 26
English Language	21 – 23
Overall	64 - 70

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2020 Prelim exam held on the 10th of October 2020 (Slot 3) has been presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

Test Area	No. of questions	Duration
Quantitative Aptitude	35 Questions	20 Mins
Reasoning Ability	35 Questions	20 Mins
English Language	30 Questions	20 Mins
Total no. of Questions	100 Qs	60 Mins

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 was asked in this slot of the exam.

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

There were fourteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions on Table, six questions on Pie Chart and three questions on Caselet). The data was easy to understand in all the sets. The questions were calculation based and were moderate in nature. There were five questions on Approximations and six questions on Missing number series. The questions on missing number series and Approximations were easy to solve.

There were no questions on Quadratic Comparisons.

Individual questions were ten in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate, and difficult ones. These questions were based on Ages, Simple Equation, Ratio, Profit and Loss, Averages, Time and Work, Boats and Streams, Mensuration, Simple Interest, etc..

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

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Data Interpretation (3 sets. Table, Pie Chart and Caselet)	14	Easy to Mod
Approximations	5	Easy
Missing Number Series	6	Easy
Individual Questions:
Simple Equation	1	Easy to Moderate
Ages	1
Ratio	2
Profit and Loss	1
Averages	1
Mensuration	1
Time and Work	1
Boats and Streams	1
Simple Interest	1

Reasoning:

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

There were twenty questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement (Eight persons; Four of them facing towards centre and four of them facing away from the centre), Distributions (6 persons bought six different things on different occasions), Linear Arrangement + QBR ( Six persons of different ages all facing North), Distribution ( 8 persons, 8 years), Comparisons ( 6 boxes with different weights)), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were four questions each on Syllogisms (Deductions) and Coding-Decoding. The questions on Syllogisms (Deductions) were moderate n nature whereas the questions on Coding – Decoding were easy to moderate.

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

Topic	No of Qs	Difficulty Level
Blood Relations	1	Easy to Moderate
Direction Sense	1	Easy to Moderate
Syllogisms / Deductions (Only a few)	4	Moderate
Coding – Decoding	4	Easy
Miscellaneous (Meaningful word, Pair of letters)	2	Easy
Puzzles
Circular Arrangement (Eight persons; Four of them facing towards centre and four of them facing away from the centre)	5	Easy to Moderate
Distributions (Six persons bought six different things on different occasions)	5	Moderate
Linear Arrangement + QBR (Six persons of different ages all facing North)	5	Moderate
Distribution (8 persons, 8 years	5	Moderate
Comparisons (6 boxes with different weights)	3	Easy

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 eight questions, of which two were vocab questions (one each on Synonym and Antonym), and one was based on FIB. The passage was based on ‘Machine Learning’.

There were five questions each on

Sentence Rearrangement (A statement has been divided into five segments, each of which is denoted by (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). Rearrange all the segments to form a coherent statement)

Word Interchange (One sentence with three words in bold was given, and the aspirant was expected to rearrange/interchange the given words to form a grammatically meaningful sentence. This model was earlier present in IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Main exam.)

Cloze Test

There were four questions each on

Error Identification (In each of the questions below, a sentence is split into four parts. Read the sentence and identify whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in ONE PART of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

There were three questions on Grammatically Correct Sentences (Given below are three statements, one has to identify the grammatically correct sentences. More than one sentence can be correct)

There were four questions on Phrase Replacement (Which of the phrases given below each sentence should REPLACE THE PHRASE IN BOLD to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, mark (5), ‘No correction required’, as the answer)

Thus, about 20 - 21 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions
Reading Comprehension	8
Cloze Test	5
Sentence Rearrangement	5
Grammatically Correct Sentences (Given below are three statements, one has to identify the grammatically correct sentences. More than one sentence can be correct)	3
Word Interchange (One sentence with three words in bold was given, and the aspirant was expected to rearrange/interchange the given words to form a grammatically meaningful sentence. This model was earlier present in IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Main exam.)	5
Phrase Replacement	4

Overall, 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:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Quantitative Aptitude	22 - 24
Reasoning Ability	23 - 25
English Language	20 – 21
Overall	65 - 70

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2020 Prelim exam held on the 10th of October 2020 (Slot 4) has been presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

Test Area	No. of questions	Duration
Quantitative Aptitude	35 Questions	20 Mins
Reasoning Ability	35 Questions	20 Mins
English Language	30 Questions	20 Mins
Total no. of Questions	100 Qs	60 Mins

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 was asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were fifteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions each on Table, Pie Chart and Caselet). The data was easy to understand in all the sets. The questions based on pie chart were easy, but the questions based and Table and Caselet were calculation based and were moderate in nature. There were five questions each on Approximations and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Approximations were easy to solve.

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

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

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Data Interpretation (3 sets. Table, Pie Chart and Caselet)	15	Easy to Mod
Approximations	5	Easy
Quadratic Comparisons	5	Easy
Individual Questions:	10	Easy to Moderate

Reasoning:

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

There were twenty questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement ( Fourteen persons; seven persons facing North and seven persons facing South), Linear Arrangement (Unknown number of persons; all facing North), Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (6 persons; 6 colours – 6 floors), Distribution ( 6 persons, 3 months and 2 dates), 9 Persons – 3 Designations), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Syllogisms (Deductions) and Direction Sense which were moderate in nature. The five questions on Symbols and Notations were easy to solve.

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

Topic	No of Qs	Difficulty Level
Symbol and Notations (Inequalities)	4	Easy to Moderate
Direction Sense	3	Easy to Moderate
Syllogisms / Deductions (Only a few)	3	Moderate
Miscellaneous (Coding-Decoding, Meaningful word)	2	Easy
Puzzles
Linear Arrangement (Fourteen persons; seven persons facing North and seven persons facing South)	5	Easy
Linear Arrangement (Unknown number of persons; all facing North)	3	Easy
Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (6 persons; 6 colours – 6 floors)	5	Moderate
Distribution (6 persons, 3 months and 2 dates	5	Moderate
9 Persons, 3 Designations	5	Easy

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 ten questions, of which two were vocab questions, and one was based on FIB. The passage was based on ‘Free lancing’.

There were six questions each on

Para Forming Questions (Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below.)

There were six questions on Fill in the blanks (Two fillers).

There were four questions each on

Error Identification (In each of the questions below, a sentence is split into four parts. Read the sentence and identify whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in ONE PART of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

Word Interchange (One sentence with three words in bold was given, and the aspirant was expected to rearrange/interchange the given words to form a grammatically meaningful sentence. This model was earlier present in IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Main exam.)

Thus, about 23 - 24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions	Difficulty Level
Reading Comprehension	10	Moderate
Fill in the blanks (Two fillers)	6	Easy - Moderate
Para Forming Questions (6 sentences)	6	Easy
Error Identification	4	Easy
Word Interchange (One sentence with three words in bold was given, and the aspirant was expected to rearrange/interchange the given words to form a grammatically meaningful sentence. This model was earlier present in IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Main exam.)	4	Easy - Moderate

Overall, 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:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Quantitative Aptitude	21 - 23
Reasoning Ability	24 - 26
English Language	21 – 22
Overall	66 - 71

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2020 Prelim exam held on the 11th of October 2020 (Slot 1) has been presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

Test Area	No. of questions	Duration
Quantitative Aptitude	35 Questions	20 Mins
Reasoning Ability	35 Questions	20 Mins
English Language	30 Questions	20 Mins
Total no. of Questions	100 Qs	60 Mins

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 was asked in this slot of the exam.

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

There were twelve questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (six questions each on Table and Pie Chart). The questions were calculation based and were moderate in nature. The set given on Table is based on Marked Price and Discount (Quant based DI). There were five questions each on Approximations and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Approximations were easy to solve.

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

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

Topic	No. of Questions	Difficulty Level
Data Interpretation (2 sets. Table and Pie Chart)	12	Easy to Mod
Approximations	5	Easy
Quadratic Comparisons	5	Easy
Individual Questions:	13	Easy to Moderate

Reasoning:

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

There were twenty questions on Puzzles (Linear Arrangement ( 8 persons facing North and South), Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (6 persons; 6 colours – 3 floors and 2 flats), Circular Arrangement + QBR ( 6 Persons all facing inside + Ages), Box Arrangement(9 boxes)), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Syllogisms (Deductions), Blood Relations, Direction Sense and Symbols and Notations. The questions on Symbols and Notations and Blood Relations were easy to solve whereas the questions on Direction sense can be classified as easy to moderate. The three questions on Syllogisms (Only a few model) which were moderate in nature.

About 21-23 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

Topic	No of Qs	Difficulty Level
Coding – Decoding	5	Easy to Moderate
Syllogisms / Deductions (Only a few)	5	Moderate
Miscellaneous	5	Easy
Puzzles
Linear Arrangement (12 persons; six persons facing North and six persons facing South)	5	Easy
Distribution (5 Persons, ages and countries)	5	Moderate
Floor Arrangement + Distribution – (9 persons, 9 floors)	5	Moderate
Box Arrangement (9 boxes)	5	Easy

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 eleven questions, of which three were vocab questions, and one was based on FIB.

There were five questions each on

Word Interchange (One sentence with three words in bold was given, and the aspirant was expected to rearrange/interchange the given words to form a grammatically meaningful sentence. This model was earlier present in IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2019 Main exam.)

Cloze Test

Fill in the blanks (Two fillers)

There were four questions on Phrase Replacement (Which of the phrases given below each sentence should REPLACE THE PHRASE IN BOLD to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, mark (5), ‘No correction required’, as the answer)

Thus, about 23 - 24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions	Difficulty Level
Reading Comprehension	11	Moderate
Cloze Test	5	Easy - Moderate
Fill in the blanks (Two blanks)	5	Easy
Word Interchange (One sentence with three words in bold was given, and the aspirant was expected to rearrange/interchange the given words to form a grammatically meaningful sentence.	5	Easy to Moderate
Phrase Replacement	4	Easy

Overall, 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:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Quantitative Aptitude	20 - 22
Reasoning Ability	21 - 23
English Language	23 – 24
Overall	64 - 69