The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 4) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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 / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There were no questions on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 12 questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (6 questions each on Table and Pie chart). There were five questions each on Number Series(Missing number) and Quadratic Comparisons and were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 13 in number and were based on Ages, Ratio, Time & Distance, Profit & Loss, Partnership, Probability, Averages, Mixtures & Alligation, Geometry etc.. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 21-23 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

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

There were 18 questions on Puzzles (Square Arrangement with 8 persons; persons sitting at the corner facing outwards and persons sitting at the centre facing inside, Two row Arrangement with 6 persons each, Box Arrangement + Distribution, Distributions with cities), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Direction Sense and Blood Relations. There were five questions on Coding-Decoding and four questions on Deductions (Model: ‘only a few’).

About 24-26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as 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 of 10 questions, of which 1 were vocab questions.

• There were 5 questions each on Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank), Error Identification, Match the Column and Cloze Passage.
• There questions on Reading Comprehension and Error Identification were rated as ‘Easy to Moderate’.

Thus, about 22-24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy and moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 3) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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 / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Quadratic Comparisons, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 14 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (6 questions on Table, 5 questions on Line Graph and 3 questions on Caselet based on Partnership). The questions on table and line graph were easy and on those on caselet were of moderate level of difficulty. There were 6 questions each on Number Series(Missing number) and Approximations. Questions on Series and Approximations were easy.

Individual questions were 9 in number and were based on Ages, Ratio, Time & Distance, Profit & Loss, Partnership, Compound Interest, Mixtures & Alligation, Mensuration. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 21-23 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

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

There were 20 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement with 6 persons and their ages, Floor Arrangement (5 floors and two flats), Distributions and Linear arrangement with 9 persons some facing North and some facing South), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Direction Sense and five questions each on Coding-Decoding, Deductions (Models: ‘only a few’ and ‘can never be’).

About 24-26 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as 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 of 8 questions, of which 2 were vocab questions.

• There were 5 questions each on Fill in the Blanks (Single Blank) and Error Identification.
• There were 3 questions each on Phrase Replacement and finding the inappropriate word in the given sentence.
• There were 6 questions on Para Jumbled Sentences. Seven sentences A to G were given and were asked to find out the second sentence, third sentence etc..

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

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy and moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 2) has been presented below. The difficulty level of the exam held in this slot has been rated as slightly more than the difficulty level of exam held in slot 1.

Snap shot 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 / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Approximations, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 11 questions (2 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions on Table and 6 questions on Line Graph). Questions on Data Interpretation were easy to solve. There were 6 questions each on Number Series(Missing number) and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons were easy and Number Series were Easy to Moderate.

Individual questions were 12 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 20-22 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

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

There were 23 questions on Puzzles (Circular Arrangement with Distributions with 8 persons facing inside, Floor Arrangement, Comparison of heights, Distributions and Two row arrangement with 7 persons each), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were three questions each on Blood Relations, Direction Sense and Deductions (only a few model).

About 22-24 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as given below.

English Language:

This section has been tagged as 'Easy’ by our students.

The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation, and comprised of 7 questions, of which 3 were vocab questions.

• There were 5 questions each on the conventional Cloze Test pattern and Word Interchange.
• There were 5 questions each on Error Identification and Phrase Replacement.
• There were 3 questions on Fill in the blanks. One sentence with one blank followed by three words to choose from. More than one word can fit into the blank and one has to identify all such words those fit into the blank. This is the new model asked for the first time in IBPS exams.

Thus, about 23-25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy and moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs:

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2019 Prelim exam held on the 12th of October 2019 (Slot 1) has been presented below.

Snap shot 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 / pattern of questions were asked in this slot of the exam.

There was no question on Number Series, Data Sufficiency and Data Comparison.

There were 15 questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (5 questions each on Line Graph, Table and Caselet). Questions on line graph and table were easy while questions on Caselet were lengthy and calculation based. There were 5 questions each on Approximations and Quadratic Comparisons. Questions on Quadratic comparisons and Approximations were easy to solve.

Individual questions were 10 in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate and difficult ones.

A student could therefore, have solved around 22-24 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

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

There were 20 questions on Puzzles (6 Persons + Years, Linear Arrangement (6 persons+ages),Square arrangement with 8 persosn, persons sitting at the centre facing inwards and persons sitting at the corners facing outside, 10 persons+5 months+2 dates), which were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. There were five questions on Coding – Decoding and four questions on Symbols and Notations. These questions on Coding-Decoding were moderate and on Symbols-Notations were easy to solve.

About 26-28 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes. The topic -wise split, as reported by our students, is as 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 of 8 questions, of which 2 were vocab questions.

• There were 5 questions each on the conventional Cloze Test pattern and Word Replacement.
• There were 6 questions on Error Identification and 4 on Phrase Replacement.
• The questions related to Word Replacement were asked in the recent SBI exams.

Thus, about 23-25 questions could possibly be solved in 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Over all, the paper was a combination of easy, moderate questions across all the three sections and can hence be rated as 'Easy to Moderate'.

Good Attempts and Expected Cutoffs: