IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis 2019

IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis 2019 - Candidates who have appeared in the exam can check here IBPS Clerk 2019 exam analysis on December 7, 2019. Leading coaching institutes like Bankersadda, Career Launcher and Wifi Study has released the exam analysis of IBPS Clerk 2019 after the first conclusion of the first shift of exam. IBPS Clerk exam analysis 2019 includes the number of questions asked from each section, section-wise weightage, marking scheme, difficulty level of exam, overall and sectional difficulty level, good attempt in exam and expected cut off marks. Time duration of IBPS Clerk prelims exam will be of 1 hour. By knowing IBPS Clerk 2019 exam analysis candidates can evaluate their performance and can predict their chances of qualifying exam. Candidates must read the complete article to know the IBPS Clerk exam analysis 2019 in detailed form.

IBPS Clerk 2019 prelims exam will be conducted on December 7, 8, 14 and 15, 2019 in online mode. Those who qualify the prelims exam will be further invited to appear for mains exam.

IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam 2019 Analysis of 7 December

IBPS Clerk Prelims Analysis 2019: English

IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelims Analysis : Maths

IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelims Analysis : Reasoning

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IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam 2019 Analysis of 8 December

IBPS Clerk Prelims Analysis 2019: English

IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelims Analysis : Maths

IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelims Analysis : Reasoning

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The analysis of IBPS Clerk 2019 Prelim exam held on 7th Dec 2019 (Slot 3) is 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:

Numerical Ability

• According to the feedback received from students who appeared for this exam, this section did not throw up any surprise and can be rated as ‘easy to moderate’.
• The 8 questions on Simplifications were easy. There were 5 questions on Data Interpretation (Table) which ranged from easy to moderate.
• There were 6 questions on Number series(Missing Number) that can be rated as easy. Quant questions in this section were 12 in number and pertained to – Percentages, Profit & Loss, Averages, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Time & Distance, Boats & Streams and Mensuration etc. These were a combination of easy and moderate.

A student could therefore, solve around 23 to 25 questions in approximately 20 minutes provided he chose judiciously.

Reasoning

• This section has also been tagged as 'Easy'.
• In this slot, there were 5 questions each on Coding-Decoding, Sequence and Symbols-Notations. There were 3 questions on Deductions (Model: Only a Few).
• The questions on puzzles include one each on Linear arrangements (All persons facing South), Circular Arrangement (All facing Centre – 8 persons), Floor Arrangement (7 persons)). Puzzles were easy to moderate but lengthier than other questions in the same section.
• Thus, almost 28 to 30 questions could possibly be solved in about 20 minutes in this section.

The topic -wise split, as per feedback received from our students, is as given below:

English Language

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

• The lone Reading Comprehension passage on ‘Photosynthesis’was conventional in its presentation, and 8 questions were posed from it. There was one question based on word replacement. (one word in the passage was given in bold and was asked to check whether the given word fit into the sentence)

• PFQs with Sentence Jumbled – Five sentences were given. Each sentence is in jumbled order. Student has to arrange the parts of the sentences first and then arrange the paragraph. The difficulty level can be pegged between easy to moderate. This model was asked in the recent SBI PO 2019 and IBPS PO 2019 exams.

• There were 5 questions on Word Interchange where a sentence with four words in bold was given. One has to replace the words to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.

• There were 6 questions each on Cloze Test and identifying ‘Grammatically Correct Sentence’.

We can deduce that about 25 - 27 questions could possibly be solved in the given 20 minutes in the English section. The break-up of the questions is as follows:

Overall, the difficulty level of the paper in this particular slot can be pegged between Easy to Moderate.

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IBPS Clerk Prelims Analysis 2018: Section-wise Analysis

Quantitative Aptitude (Easy-Moderate)

Quantitative Aptitude section was Easy to Moderate level.

Detailed description of quantitative aptitude section for IBPS Clerk exam analysis is mentioned in below given table

English Language (Easy-Moderate)

Questions of English language section were of easy to moderate level too.

Reading Comprehension comprises 7 questions out of which 2 questions were of synonyms and antonyms. It is to be noted that as per IBPS Clerk exam analysis passage of the RC was based on an article related to How to become a success.

Reasoning (Easy-Moderate)

Reasoning topic questions were of Easy to Moderate level.

There were 3 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement, following are the types:-

• Circular Seating Arrangement

• Linear Seating Arrangement

• Box-based puzzle type questions

Candidates who qualified in prelims section were invited to appear for IBPS Clerk mains. Hence the detailed analysis of IBPS Clerk mains exam is given in table below

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IBPS Clerk Subject wise Analysis

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE (Moderate)

As per the analysis of IBPS Clerk exam, Data analysis and interpretation questions were of moderate level. There were a total of 4 sets of DI. Following were the types on DI seen in this section:

• Bar Graph

• Caselet

• Pie Chart

• Tabular

GENERAL ENGLISH (Moderate-Difficult)

There were a total of 3 sets from Reading Comprehension topics

REASONING AND COMPUTER APTITUDE (Moderate-Difficult )

As per IBPS Clerk exam analysis of main exam

Following were the types of Puzzles & Seating Arrangement:

• Circular- Two circular tables were given

• Month and Year based puzzle

• Linear Seating Arrangement

• Floor Based Puzzle (2 variables, 6 floors)

• Box based puzzle (Boxes and chocolates were given to arrange)

IBPS Clerk GENERAL/FINANCIAL AWARENESS (Moderate)

• Section had 50 questions and the level of the questions asked in exam were of moderate nature.

• Static and banking awareness.

• Current affairs

• Indian and International Economy