Analysis of IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim Exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 2)

The analysis of the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 2) is presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

Test Area	No of Questions	Max Marks	Duration
Numerical Ability	35	35	20 Mins
Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 Mins
English Language	30	30	20 Mins
Total	100	100	60 Mins

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 as easy.

The sections in the exam appeared in the following sequence:

• Numerical Ability
• English Language
• Reasoning Ability

Section-wise Analysis

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 ten questions on Simplifications were easy to solve. There were twelve questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (Table and Bar Graph). The questions on Data Interpretation were easy to solve. The table contains details of three places and three modes (Plane, Train and Bus) to reach these places. The bar graph contains details on the number of shops in four cities (P, Q, R, S).

Individual Quant Questions: There were thirteen questions from topics of Ages, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time & Work, Time and Distance, Mixtures, Trains, Mensuration, etc. These were a combination of easy and moderate ones.

A student could, therefore, solve around 27 to 28 questions in approximately 20 minutes, provided he chose judiciously.

Topic	No of Questions
Data Interpretation (Table & Bar Graph)	12
Simplifications	10
Quant Questions: (Ages, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Partnership, Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Time & Work, Time and Distance, Mixtures, Trains, Mensuration, etc)	13

Reasoning:

This section has been tagged as 'Easy'.
In this slot, there were five questions each on a Set of words and coding-decoding, three questions each on Syllogisms and Direction Sense and two questions on Blood Relations. These questions were easy to solve.
There were fifteen questions on puzzles: Two Row Arrangement (Ten persons; five persons facing North and five persons facing South), Floor Arrangement (eight persons;4 floors & two flats) and Day-based puzzle (Monday to Sunday). The questions on Puzzles were easy to solve.
Thus, almost 32 to 33 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:

Topic	No of Questions
Analytical Puzzles:
Two Row Arrangement (Ten persons; five facing North & five facing South)	5
Floor Arrangement (eight persons;4 floors & two flats)	5
Day-based puzzle (Monday to Sunday)	5
Set of Words	5
Coding-Decoding	5
Syllogisms (Deductions)	3
Direction Sense	3
Blood Relations	2
Miscellaneous (Pair of Digits and Word Arrangement)	2

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 ‘Animal Rescue Centre’.
• There were six questions on the Cloze Test. The topic was based on ‘Rafting experience’.
• There were five questions on Error Identification.
• There were four questions each on Phrase Replacement and Word Interchange (3 words).
• There was one question each on Word usage and Match the column.

We can deduce that about 25 - 26 questions could be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions
Reading Comprehension	9
Cloze Test	6
Word Interchange	4
Error Identification	5
Phrase Replacement	4
Match the column	1
Word Usage (One word; three usages)	1

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

Good Attempts:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Numerical Ability	27 - 28
Reasoning Ability	32 - 33
English Language	25 - 26
Overall	84 - 87