Analysis of IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim Exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 3)

The analysis of the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelim exam held on 5th Oct 2025 (Shift 3) 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 Quadratic Comparisons.
The eleven questions on Simplifications were easy to solve. There were eight questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (Table and Bar Graph). The table contains details of three persons making toys of three types (Wooden, Metallic, etc.). The bar graph contains details of two players, A & B and runs scored by them on two days (Monday and Tuesday).
There were two questions based on the Wrong Number Series.

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

A student could, therefore, solve around 28 to 29 questions in approximately 20 minutes, provided he chose judiciously.

Topic	No of Questions
Data Interpretation (Table & Bar Graph)	8
Simplifications	11
Wrong Number Series	2
Ages	1
Percentages	2
Profit & Loss	1
Partnership	1
Simple and Compound Interest	2
Time & Work	1
Pipes & Cisterns	1
Time, Speed & Distance	1
Mensuration	1
Averages	1
Mixtures & Alligations	1
Numbers	1

Reasoning:

This section has been tagged as 'Easy'.
In this slot, there were five questions on a Set of words, three questions each on Syllogisms and Direction Sense.
There were twenty-one questions on puzzles: Unknown number of persons (All facing North). (No. of persons <=13), Linear Arrangement (8 persons; all facing North), Months & Date-based puzzle (4 months & 2 dates), Square Arrangement (8 persons; persons sitting at the corners facing inside and persons sitting at the middle facing outside), Comparisons (6 persons). 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
Unknown number of persons (All facing North). (No. of persons <=13)	3
Linear Arrangement (8 persons; all facing North)	5
Months & Date-based puzzle (4 months & 2 dates)	5
Square Arrangement (8 persons; corners facing inside, middle facing outside)	5
Comparisons (6 persons)	3
Set of Words	5
Syllogisms (Deductions)	3
Direction Sense	3
Miscellaneous (Pair of Digits, Number Arrangement and Word Arrangement)	3

English Language:

This section too was predictable and was rated as easy to moderate.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and ten questions were posed from it. There were three questions on Synonyms and one question on fill-in-the-blank. The passage was based on ‘Forest Fire (Wild Fire)’.
• There were five questions each on Para Forming (5 sentences) and Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank). The topic was on ‘Muslims migrating from North America’. The questions on Phrase Replacement were moderate in terms of difficulty level.
• There were five questions on Error Identification.
• There were four questions on Phrase Replacement and three questions on Grammatically Correct Sentences. The questions on Grammatically Correct Sentences were moderate in nature.

We can deduce that approximately 22 - 23 questions could be solved within the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Topic	No of Questions
Reading Comprehension	10
Para Forming Questions (5 Sentences)	5
Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank)	5
Grammatically Correct Sentences	3
Phrase Replacement	4
Word Interchange	3

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

Good Attempts:

Test Area	Good Attempts
Numerical Ability	28 - 29
Reasoning Ability	32 - 33
English Language	22 - 23
Overall	82 - 85