Analysis of IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim Exam held on 4 th Oct 2025 (Shift 1)

The analysis of the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on 4 th Oct 2025 (Shift 1) is presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

Number of choices per question – 5

Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question

According to feedback received from our students who took this exam, it can be rated aseasy.

The sections in the exam appeared in the following sequence.

• Numerical Ability
• English Language
• Reasoning Ability

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

Numerical Ability:

According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section can be rated as easy.

There were no questions on Number Series and Quadratic Comparisons.

The twelve questions on Simplifications were easy to solve. There were ten questions (2sets) on Data Interpretation (Table and Line Graph). The questions on Data Interpretation were easy to solve. The table contains details of two persons selling English books, Hindi books and Urdu books. The line graph contains details on the number of books sold by four different book sellers.

Individual Quant Questions: There were thirteen questions from topics of Ages,Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Mixtures,Boats and Streams, Mensuration, etc. These were a combination of easy and moderateones. A student could, therefore, solve around 26 to 27 questions in approximately 20 minutes,provided he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been tagged as Easy.

In this slot, there were five questions on Sequence and three questions each on Symbols Notations (Inequalities), Blood Relations and Direction Sense. These questions were easy to solve.

There were eighteen questions on puzzles – Circular Arrangement (Eight persons; all facing inside), Month-based (Eight months; non-consecutive), Linear Arrangement(Uncertain number of persons), and Box-based puzzle (Eight boxes). The questions on Puzzles were easy to solve.

Thus, almost 33 to 34 questions could be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.

The topic-wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as follows:

English Language:

This section too was predictable and was rated as easy.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation,and nine questions were posed from it. There were two questions on Synonyms and one question on fill-in-the-blank. The passage was based on ‘Army Dog’.
• There were six questions on the Cloze Test. The topic was based on ‘Medical Research: Reconstruction from an old skeleton’. The words given in the options were very close, and one should be careful while choosing the answer choices.
• There were five questions each on Error Identification and Word Interchange (3words)
• There were four questions on Phrase Replacement and one question on Word usage.

We can deduce that about 24 - 25 questions could be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Overall, the difficulty level of the paper in this shift can be rated as easy.

Good Attempts: