Analysis and Expected Cut Off of IBPS PO Prelims - Morning Shift Ist Slot 3rd October 2015

ANALYSIS OF IBPS PO PRELIMINARY EXAM MORNING SHIFT (3rd  Oct ’2015)

In this article we are going to provide you an overview and analysis of Probationary Officer Preliminary Exam of 3^rd October 2015 Morning shift i.e. first day first slot of the exam.

Today, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) finally conducted the most awaited exam among the aspirants and for the recruitment of Probationary Officer in various banking organizations. As you all know this year IBPS has changed the pattern of exam, as exam will be conducted in three phases i.e. Preliminary exam, Main exam and Afterwards Interview of the selected candidates.

According to feedback shared by our readers we are able to analyze the exam and the exam was MODERATE and for a good attempt one should attempt 47-50 questions. However different section has different level of difficulty. The overall analysis will be:

SECTION	QUESTIONS/MARKS	LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY	GOOD ATTEMPTS	MAX. TIME TAKEN (Minutes)
Quantitative Aptitude	35 questions/35 marks	Moderate	13-15	28 minutes
Reasoning	35 questions/35 marks	Easy	18-20	20 minutes
English Language	30 questions/30 marks	Moderate	16-18	12 minutes

SECTIONAL WISE ANALYSIS:

The Reasoning section was Easy to moderate, English Section was moderate, General but the Quantitative section was most time taking mainly because of the calculations.

The sectional wise analysis of questions is as follows for the benefit of our visitors.

REASONING:

Topic	Number of questions	Difficulty Level
Syllogism	5 questions	Easy to Moderate
Coding & Decoding	5 questions	Easy
Seating arrangement (Circular)	5 questions	Moderate
Puzzle (Complex arrangement)	10 questions	Moderate
Inequality	5 questions	Moderate
Blood relations, Direction sense, Alphanumeric series etc.	5 questions	Easy to Moderate

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE:

Topic	Number of questions	Difficulty Level
Number series	5 questions	Moderate
Quadratic Equations	5 questions	Moderate
Simplification	5 questions	Moderate
Data Interpretation	10 questions	Moderate to Difficult
Profit and loss, CI, SI, Speed, Distance, Time, Ages etc.	10 questions	Moderate

ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

Topic	Number of questions	Difficulty Level
Reading Comprehension (Bank License Based)	10 questions	Moderate
Cloze test	5 questions	Moderate
Fill in the blanks	5 questions	Moderate
Sentence Errors	5 questions	Moderate
Par jumbled	5 questions	Moderate to Difficult

Based on this analysis expected category wise cut off will be:

47-53: General Candidates

40-45: OBC candidates

35-38: SC candidates

32-36: ST candidates

Disclaimer: All information on cut-offs, analysis, answer key and scores are based on independent analysis and evaluation provided by our readers. We do not take responsibility for any decision that might be taken, based on this information.