Analysis of IBPS PO (Prelim) Online exam held on 20th Oct 2024 (Shift 1)

The analysis of the IBPS PO 2024 Prelim exam held on the 20th 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

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 fourteen questions (3 sets) on Data Interpretation (five questions each on the Pie Chart and Caselet and four questions on the Table). The questions based on the Table were calculation-based.

There were six questions on Approximations and five questions were based on Quadratic Comparisons.

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

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

Reasoning:

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

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

• Linear Arrangement (Certain number of persons, all facing North)
• Two Row Arrangements (12 Persons)
• Month and Date based Puzzle (3 Months and 2 Dates + Distribution (Flowers))
• Box Arrangement + Distribution
• Distributions (9 persons and 3 States)

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

There were three questions each on Direction Sense, Symbols and Notations (Inequalities) and Syllogisms (Deductions; only a few). 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 'Easy to Moderate’ by our students.

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage was conventional in its presentation and comprised eight questions, of which three were vocab questions (two on Synonyms, and one on FIB). The passage was based on Woman Leadership and Emotional Quotient. About 2 – 3 questions were based on True or False type and indirect. The questions on Reading Comprehension are moderate.
• There were five questions each on Error Identification and Word Interchange which were easy to solve.
• There were six questions on the Cloze Test and three questions each on Phrase Replacement and Match the Column.

Thus, about 19 - 21 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: