Analysis of IBPS PO (Prelim) Online exam held on 23rd Aug 2025 (Shift 2)

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2025 Prelim exam held on the 23rd of August 2025 (Shift 2) has been presented below.

This year, IBPS has changed the pattern with respect to the marks allotted to each section. In the instructions, it was mentioned that all questions carry equal 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 moderate. No new question types/patterns of questions were asked in this shift of the exam.

There were ten questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions each on the Table and Bar Graph (2 Bars)). The questions based on the Table were calculation-based and time-consuming.

The table contains information on the total of wooden and mechanical pencils in column I and the cost of wooden and mechanical pencils in column II. In the note, the cost of each wooden and mechanical pencil was given. The bar graph contains two bars. The first bar gives information on the total manufactured, and the second bar gives information on the total sales of a certain product for four companies. The profit per article for each company was given in the note below the graph.

There were five questions each on Approximations and Wrong Number Series. The questions on Approximations were easy, whereas the questions on Wrong Number Series were moderate in nature.

There were five questions on Data Comparisons (2 Quantity comparisons). These were easy to solve.

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, Profit & Loss, Simple and Compound Interest, Mensuration, Averages, Mixture, and Time and Distance.

A student could, therefore, have solved around 16 – 17 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:

• Floor Arrangement (4 floors, 2 flats)
• Month-based Puzzle (6 Months, non-consecutive + Distribution)
• Designation-based puzzle (8 persons, 8 designations)
• Distribution (8 persons, 3 cities, 8 colours)
• Comparisons (6 persons)

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

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

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

About 23 – 24 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 three were vocab questions (one on Synonym, one on Antonym and one on FIB). The passage was based on a Chinese Payment Gateway. The questions on Reading Comprehension were easy to moderate in difficulty.
• There were four questions on Grammatically Correct sentences (Finding the incorrect sentence). These were easy to moderate to solve.
• There were six questions on the Cloze Test. These questions can be rated as easy.
• There were five questions on Word Interchange (4 words).
• There were two questions on Match the Column (2 Columns). These were easy to moderate.
• There were three questions on Sentence Rearrangement and two questions on Word usage (1 word, 3 usages).

Thus, about 19 - 20 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: