IPPB Prelims 2017: Cut-offs and Exam Analysis

The IPPB Officer Prelims exam was conducted over two days on Jan 7th & 8th 2017. Most students found the paper on the easier side compare to some of the officer level exams held last year. With just 650 vacancies and several lakh applicants, along with an easy to moderate paper, one can expect the cut-offs to go high. Here is a brief analysis of the overall paper and the expected cut-offs.

English Language
There were questions only from three broad topics and this section was Easy to moderate.

Reading Comprehension	10Q
Cloze Test	10Q
Spotting Error	10Q

 

Reasoning
This section was Easy and covered very similar topics to what is covered in several other bank exams.

Analytical Reasoning Sets	15Q
Syllogism	4Q
Input Output	5Q
Inequalities	3Q
Blood Relations	3Q
Miscellaneous	5Q

 

Quantitative Aptitude
This section could be termed Easy-moderate on the exam. There were no real surprises in terms of question types or level of difficulty.

Series	5Q
Approximation	5Q
Quadratic Equations	5Q
DI	10Q
Miscellaneous Word Problems	10Q

 

Expected Cut-Offs
Note: These are only estimated cut-offs & actual cut-offs may vary.

Section	Cut-Offs
English Language	8.5 (+/-1)
Reasoning	10 (+/-1)
Quantitative Aptitude	9 (+/-1)
Total	68 (+/-3)

 

We hope you all had a good exam.