Analysis of IBPS PO (Prelim) Online exam held on 23rd Aug 2025 (Shift 1)

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2025 Prelim exam held on the 23rd of August 2025 (Shift 1) has been presented below.

This year, IBPS has changed the pattern with respect to the marks allotted to each section. In the exam, there was no mention of question Vs marks.

The following is the sequence of sections that appeared in the exam:

• Reasoning Ability
• English Language
• Quantitative Aptitude

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:

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, Line Graph (2 lines) and Caselet). The questions based on the Table were calculation-based.

The table contains information on the difference between red and blue balls in column I and the percentage of Red balls in column II. The line graph contains two lines. The first line gives info on the number of TVs sold, and the second line gives the difference between TVs and Cell phones. Also, it was mentioned that cellphones were less than TVs sold.

There were five questions each on Approximations and Quadratic Comparisons. These were easy to attempt.

Individual questions from the Arithmetic topics were ten in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate, and difficult ones. These questions were based on Ages, Ratio, Profit and Loss, Averages, Time, Speed and Distance, Boats and Streams, Mensuration, etc.

A student could, therefore, have solved around 18 – 19 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

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

Out of the thirty-five questions in this section, twenty-three questions were on Puzzles:

• Linear Arrangement (Certain number of persons, all facing North)
• Two Row Arrangement (14 Persons, 7 facing North and 7 facing South)
• Month and Date based Puzzle (6 persons, 3 Months and 2 Dates + Distribution (Colour))
• Box Arrangement + Distribution
• Year-Based Puzzle (Base year 2025)

Questions on Puzzles were easy to moderate in terms of difficulty level.

There were three questions each on Blood Relations, Symbols and Notations (Inequalities) and Syllogisms (Deductions; only a few). These questions were easy to solve.

There were three individual questions – Pair of Digits, Odd one out and Meaningful word.

About 25 – 26 questions could be solved in 20 minutes. The topic-wise split, as reported by our students, is 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 eight questions, of which four were vocab questions (two on Synonyms, one on Antonyms and one on FIB). The passage was based on Cloud Kitchen. The questions on Reading Comprehension were easy to moderate in difficulty.
• There were four questions each on Error Identification, FIB (Single Blank), Word Usage and Word Interchange (4 words), which were easy to solve.
• There were five questions on Para Forming. This was based on work-life balance. These questions were easy to moderate in terms of difficulty level.
• There was one question on Match the Column (3 Columns).

Thus, about 22 - 23 questions could be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

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: