The mains exam for the IBPS PO was conducted by IBPS on November 26, 2017.
The exam was for 200 marks and the candidates were given three hours to attempt all the questions. The exam was divided into four sections as with questions on:
- Reasoning and Computer Aptitude (60 marks)
- General/Economy/Banking Awareness (40 marks)
- English Language (35 marks)
- Data Analysis and Interpretation (35 marks)
- Descriptive writing section had one question on letter writing and one on essay writing.
Reasoning
- Candidates were surprised with the new pattern in questions on critical reasoning, direction sense and analytical reasoning.
- Blood relations were coded and coding decoding question were of new type with alphabet strings
- There were 8 questions from Critical Reasoning, 5 from Coding Decoding (new type), 4 from Linear Arrangement
- Overall, because of many surprises candidates found this section difficult
English
- English section also brought in few surprises with new patterns for the candidates
- Cloze test and Fill in the Blanks were present in paper as a combination.
- There were 10 questions from RC, 7 from Cloze test, 4 from Synonym and Antonym, 3 each from Error Spotting and Para Jumbles
- Because of the surprises, the section was rated as moderate to difficult
Data analysis and interpretation
- Questions from data sufficiency and data comparison were new type
- There were new questions from Geometry, polynomials and algebra
- There were 15 questions from data interpretation.
- The section was rated as moderate
Overall, the exam brought many surprises for the candidates than they had expected and it will be interesting to know about the candidates performance and cut-offs.
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