IBPS RRB Clerk Exam Analysis

Updated on 29 Jun 2020, 05:57 PM IST

IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis - Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts the IBPS RRB Clerk exam for the post of Office Assistants. All candidates taking the test for Office Assistant posts must go through the IBPS RRB Clerk prelims exam analysis to get an idea of the level of the test. Since the test is conducted every year, by going through the exam analysis of IBPS RRB Clerk for previous year and know the type of questions, good attempts, and topics from where most questions are asked. As per the IBPS RRB Clerk prelims exam analysis, the test was considered to be easy. As per the feedback received from the candidates and the experts, there were overall good attempts around 68 to 74. To know the section wise and overall good attempts and difficulty level of the exam.

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IBPS RRB Clerk Dates
IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Paper Pattern
IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis For Quantitative Aptitude
IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis For Reasoning Ability

IBPS RRB Clerk Exam Analysis

This year, IBPS RRB 2020 exam for Office Assistant prelims stage will be held on August 16, 2020 while the mains exam is to be held on September 19, 2020. As per the IBPS RRB exam pattern, the test will be held in three stages - prelims, mains, and interview. The prelims exam is conducted for a total of 80 marks while the mains exam is conducted for a total of 200 marks. Candidates must go through the IBPS RRB syllabus before starting off their preparation to appear for the exam. To know more about the IBPS RRB Clerk exam analysis for the prelims stage, go through the article below.

IBPS RRB Clerk Dates

The table below contains the IBPS RRB exam dates for Clerk along with other important dates:

IBPS RRB Clerk Important Dates 2020

Exam	Office Assistants
IBPS RRB Clerk 2020 Prelims	August 16, 2020
IBPS RRB Prelims Result 2020	August 29, 2020 (Tentative)
IBPS RRB Clerk Mains 2020	September 19, 2020
IBPS RRB Mains Result 2020	October 1, 2020 (Tentative)
IBPS RRB Interview	To be Notified
IBPS RRB 2020 Final Result	To be Notified

IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Paper Pattern

Before going through the prelims exam analysis of IBPS RRB Clerk, candidates must go through the exam pattern. By going through the IBPS RRB Clerk exam pattern, candidates will be able to know the sections from where the questions will be asked in the exam, total questions, marking scheme and the duration of the prelims exam. The table below contains the exam pattern of IBPS RRB Clerk for the prelims stage of examination.

IBPS RRB Clerk prelims exam pattern

Name of Tests	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
Reasoning	40	40	45 Minutes
Numerical Ability	40	40
Total	80	80

IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis - Section wise (2019)

The prelims exam of IBPS RRB Clerk conducted in 2019 was somewhat an easy exam as per the feedback received from the candidates and the experts. Both the sections - Reasoning, and Quantitative Aptitude were of easy level making the overall difficulty level of the exam to be easy. Also, the good attempts reported by the candidates were around 34 to 36 for Reasoning while it was around 31 to 34 for the Quantitative Aptitude section Making the overall good attempts to be around 68 to 74. The table below contains the section wise and overall difficulty level of the prelims exam.

IBPS RRB Clerk prelims exam analysis

Sections	Level	Good Attempts
Reasoning Ability	Easy	34-36
Quantitative Aptitude	Easy	31-34
Overall	Easy	68-74

IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis For Quantitative Aptitude

Quantitative Aptitude is one of the most important sections from which questions are asked in the exam. From this section, a total of 40 questions are asked. In the test conducted in the previous year, there were questions asked from topics like Quadratic Equation, Arithmetic Word Problems & Data Interpretation (DI) and Wrong Number Series. The table below contains the number of questions asked from each topic and the difficulty level of the questions in each section.

Prelims Exam Analysis of IBPS RRB Clerk - Quantitative Aptitude

Topics	No. of Questions Asked	Level of Questions
Quadratic Equation	05	Easy
Simplification	10	Easy
Data Interpretation	10	Easy
Arithmetic Problems	10	Easy-Moderate
Wrong Number Series	05	Easy-Moderate
Total	40	Easy

As per the exam analysis for the quantitative aptitude section, there were around 5 questions from quadratic equation, 10 questions from simplification, 10 questions from data interpretation, arithmetic problem had 10 questions and there were 5 questions from wrong number series.

IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis For Reasoning Ability

There are a total of 40 questions that are asked from the reasoning section. As pr the previous year exam, there were a total of 21 questions asked from the puzzle and sitting arrangement, 4 questions from oder and ranking, 5 questions from inequality, 3 question from direction sense, 1 question each from booth coding and decoding and odd one out while there were 5 questions from syllogism. The table below contains the difficulty level of each of the topics asked in the exam.

IBPS RRB Clerk exam analysis for Reasoning - Prelims

Topics	No. of Questions Asked	Level of Questions
Order and Ranking	04	Easy
Direction Sense	03	Easy
Odd one out	01	Easy
Inequality	05	Easy
Coding Decoding	01	Easy
Syllogism	05	Easy
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	21	Easy-Moderate
Total	40	Easy

IBPS RRB Clerk Result

IBPS will announce IBPS RRB Clerk result for the post of Office Assistants in online mode at ibps.in in the last week of August 2020. Candidates can check the result of IBPS RRB Clerk by using registration/roll number and date of birth/password. IBPS RRB result will contain the name of the candidates, applied post, registration and roll number and qualifying status of the candidates.

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