Analysis of IBPS PO (Prelim) Online exam held on 19th Oct 2024 (Shift 2)
The analysis of the IBPS PO 2024 Prelim exam held on the 19th of October 2024 (Shift 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
Sequence of Sections: English Language, Quantitative Ability and Reasoning Ability.
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/patterns of questions were asked in this shift of the exam.
There were fifteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions each on the Table, Bar Graph and Caselet). The questions based on the Table were lengthy and calculation-based.
There were five questions each on Approximations and Quadratic Comparisons. These questions were easy to solve.
Individual questions from Arithmetic topics were ten in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate, and difficult ones. These questions were based on Ages, Ratio, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Averages, Time and Work, Boats and Streams, Simple Interest, etc.
A student could, therefore, have solved around 18 - 22 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.
Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
Data Interpretation (3 sets. Table, Bar Graph and Caselet) | 15 | Easy to Moderate |
Quadratic Comparsions | 5 | Easy |
Approximations | 5 | Easy |
Individual Quant Questions | 10 | Easy to Moderate |
Reasoning:
This section has been given a 'Easy to Moderate' tag
Out of the thirty-five questions in this section, twenty questions were on Puzzles.
• Linear Arrangement (7 persons; some facing North and some facing South
• Floor Arrangement (3 Floors, 2 Flats + Distribution (Cars)
• Box Arrangement (9 boxes)
• Month-based Puzzle (3 Months & 2 Dates + Distribution (Colours)
Questions on Puzzles were easy to moderate in terms of difficulty level.
There were three questions each on Syllogisms (Only a few), Symbols & Notations (Inequalities), Direction Sense, and Blood Relations. These questions were easy to solve.
About 28 – 30 questions could be solved in 20 minutes. The topic-wise split, as reported by our students, is given below.
Topic | No of Qs | Difficulty Level |
Symbols & Notations (Inequalities) | 3 | Easy |
Blood Relations | 3 | Easy |
Direction Sense | 3 | Easy |
Syllogisms (Only a few) | 3 | Easy |
Miscellaneous (Letter Odd One out, Meaningful word and pairs of letters) | 3 | Easy |
Puzzles | ||
Linear Arrangement (7 persons; some facing North and some facing South | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
Floor Arrangement (3 Floors, 2 Flats + Distribution (Cars) | 5 | Moderate |
Box Arrangement (9 boxes) | 5 | Easy |
Month-based Puzzle (3 Months & 2 Dates + Distribution (Colours) | 5 | Moderate |
English Language:
This section has been tagged as 'Moderate’ by our students.
• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation and comprised eight questions, of which one was a vocab question (Synonym). The passage was based on the Consumer Price Index. The questions on Reading Comprehension are moderate.
• There were six questions on the Cloze Test which were easy to solve.
• The questions based on Incorrect/Inappropriate usage and wrongly spelt words, Sentence Rearrangement and Phrase Replacement were easy to moderate where whereas the questions based on Grammatically Correct Sentences (3 sentences; identify the grammatically correct sentence) were moderate and time-consuming.
Thus, about 18 - 20 questions could 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 |
Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Easy |
Incorrect/Inappropriate usage and wrongly spelt words | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
Cloze Test | 6 | Easy |
Phrase Replacement | 3 | Easy |
Grammatically Correct Sentences | 3 | Moderate |
Overall, the paper was a combination of easy, moderate questions across all three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate’.
Good Attempts:
Test Area | Good Attempts |
Quantitative Aptitude | 18 - 20 |
Reasoning Ability | 25 - 27 |
English Language | 18 - 20 |
Overall | 61 - 67 |