Analysis of IBPS PO (Prelim) Online exam held on 19th Oct 2024 (Shift 1)

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2024 Prelim exam held on the 19th of October 2024 (Shift 1) has been presented below.

Snapshot of the Exam:

No of choices per question – 5

Negative marking: 0.25 of the marks assigned to each question

Sequence of Sections: Reasoning Ability, English Language and Quantitative Ability.

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. No new question types/patterns of questions were asked in this shift of the exam.

There were fifteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions each on the Table, Line Chart and Caselet) . The questions based on the Table were calculation-based.

There were five questions on Approximations and six questions were based on Wrong Number Series.

Individual questions from Arithmetic topics were nine in number. These were a combination of easy, moderate, and difficult ones. These questions were based on Profit and Loss, Averages, Time and Work, Boats and Streams, Simple Interest, etc.

A student could, therefore, have solved around 23 - 25 questions in 20 minutes, if he chose judiciously.

Reasoning:

This section has been given a 'Moderate' tag. There were no questions asked on Syllogisms and Symbols-Notations (Inequalities) in this shift of the exam.

Out of the thirty-five questions in this section, twenty-three questions were on Puzzles.

• Linear Arrangement (6 persons; all facing North + Distribution (Fruits)
• Circular Arrangement (7 persons; 4 persons facing towards the centre and 3 persons facing away from the centre)
• Box Arrangement (6 boxes + Distribution (types of boxes)
• Quant-based Reasoning (7 persons and their ages)
• Comparisons

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

There were five questions on Coding-Decoding and three questions on Blood Relations. These questions were easy to solve.

About 28 – 30 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 '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 each on Synonym, Antonym and FIB). The passage was based on Woman Leadership and Emotional Quotient. About 3 – 4 questions were based on True or False type and indirect. The questions on Reading Comprehension are moderate.
• There were five questions on Para Forming (6 sentences) which were easy to solve.
• The questions based on FIB (Single Blank), Word usage (1 word;3 usages) and Incorrect/Inappropriate usage and wrongly spelt words were easy to moderate where whereas the questions based on Grammatically Correct Sentences (3 sentences; identify the grammatically correct sentence) were moderate and time-consuming.


Thus, about 18 - 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: