The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is conducting IBPS SO Prelims Exam today and we are here with detailed IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis of 26 & 27 December 2020 to give you all the idea of types of questions asked and the difficulty level of the exam. Exam analysis will help the aspirants who will be giving exam in the upcoming slots. The exam had various sections viz. Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness, and English Language. Let us look at the section-wise IBPS SO exam analysis.
IBPS SO Exam Analysis 2020 For Prelims: Exam Pattern
Before starting the IBPS SO Exam analysis for 2020 Prelims exam, Let’s have a quick look at the exam pattern:
For Rajbhasha Adhikari and Law Officer
| Sr. no | Name of test | No. Of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium Of Exam | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 50 | 25 | English | 40 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | English and Hindi | 40 minutes |
| 3 | General Awareness with Special Reference to the Banking Industry | 50 | 50 | English and Hindi | 40 minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
For the Post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer
| Sr. no | Name of test | No. Of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium Of Exam | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 50 | 25 | English | 40 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | English and Hindi | 40 minutes |
| 3 | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | English and Hindi | 40 minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 |
IBPS SO Exam Analysis – All Shifts Prelims | 26 December 2020
Quantitative Aptitude (For the Post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer) – Prelims Exam analysis
The IBPS SO Exam analysis for Quant section asked in the Shift 1 Prelims exam is as follows:
This section stood at around an easy to moderate level. Questions asked from Data Interpretation were in a good number and rest were from topics like Quadratic Equation, Data Sufficiency, Word Problems, etc.
Difficulty Level: Easy to Moderate
| Topics | Questions – Shift 1 | Questions – Shift 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Data Interpretation (Table | Bar) | 10 | 13 |
| Caselet | 5 | 5 |
| Approximation | 5 | 5 |
| Missing Number Series | 5 | 5 |
| Arithmetic | 17-18 | 15-16 |
| Data Sufficiency | 2-3 | 4 |
| Quadratic Equation | 5 | 3-4 |
Reasoning Ability – IBPS SO Prelims Analysis
This section stood at around moderate level. Maximum number of Questions were asked from Puzzles and rest were equally divided among the left topics i.e. Syllogism, Logical Reasoning, Coding-Decoding, Inequality, etc.
Difficulty Level: Moderate
| Topic | Que. – Shift 1 | Que. – Shift 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Puzzle & Seating Arrang. | 25 | 20 |
| Data sufficiency | 2 | 5 |
| Syllog | 5 | 5 |
| Input-Output | 5 | 5 |
| Coded Inequality | 5 | 5 |
| Direction Sense | 3 | 2 |
| Blood Relation | 1 | 3 |
| Logocal Reasoning | 3 | |
| Order ranking | 1 | |
| Misc | 5 |
English Language – IBPS SO Prelims Analysis
This section stood at a moderate level as compared to other sections. English section comprised of as usual reading comprehension, cloze test, Fillers, etc.
Difficulty Level: Moderate | Easy
| Topics | Que. – Shift 1 | Que. – Shift 2 |
|---|---|---|
| RC – COVID | AI & Internet | 15 to 17 | 18 |
| Cloze test | 5 | 5 |
| Word replacement | 5 | 5 |
| Error spotting | Correct Detection | 5 | 5 |
| Sentence Correction | 4 | 7-8 |
| Para jumbles | 5 | 5 |
| Fill in the blanks | 5 | 5 |
| Vocab | 3-4 | – |
This was all from us in this blog, IBPS SO Exam Analysis for 26 December 2020. Stay tuned with Oliveboard for exam related information.
IBPS SO Exam Previous Year Analysis for Prelims
The first shift of the IBPS SO exam is now over and the overall difficulty level of this shift was moderate.
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Quantitative Aptitude (For the Post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer)
This section stood at around an easy to moderate level. Questions asked from Data Interpretation were in a good number and rest were from topics like Quadratic Equation, Data Sufficiency, Word Problems, etc.
Difficulty Level: Easy to Moderate
- Data Interpretation: 15 Questions
- Quadratic Equation: 5 Questions
- Data Sufficiency: 5 Questions
- Miscellaneous and Word Problems: 25 Questions
Reasoning Ability
This section stood at around moderate level. Maximum number of Questions were asked from Puzzles and rest were equally divided among the left topics i.e. Syllogism, Logical Reasoning, Coding-Decoding, Inequality, etc.
Difficulty Level: Moderate
- Puzzles and Seating Arrangement: 20 Questions
- Logical Reasoning: 5 Questions
- Coding-Decoding: 5 Questions
- Inequality: 5 Questions
- Syllogism: 3-4 Questions
- Blood Relation: 4 Questions
- Alphabet-based: 2-3 Questions
- Direction Sense: 2 Questions
- Miscellaneous: 2 Questions
English Language
This section stood at a moderate level as compared to other sections. English section comprised of as usual reading comprehension, cloze test, Fillers, etc.
Difficulty Level: Moderate
- Reading Comprehension: 10-12 Questions
- Error Detection: 2 Questions
- Sentence Connectors: 5 Questions
- Para jumbles: 5 Questions
- Word Replacement: 5 Questions
- Cloze Test: 5 Questions
- Match The Column: 5 Questions
- Double Fillers: 5 Questions
- Miscellaneous: 4-6 Questions
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