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IBPS SO Previous Year Exam Analysis
To understand the latest exam pattern adopted by IBPS for IBPS SO Exam, lets us discuss the exam analysis of the December 2017 Exam to make the exam preparation easy and simple to ace the exam.
Exam Analysis of IBPS SO 2017 Exam held on 30th December 2017
IBPS SO preliminary exam was conducted online with 150 questions to be attempted in 120 minutes.
Overall exam analysis of IBPS SO 2017 Exam
| Subject | Good Attempt (IT Officer) |
| English Language | 25-29 |
| Reasoning Ability | 39 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 32-35 |
| Total | 98-105 for IT Officer 90-100 for (HR/Agriculture/Marketing) |
Section-wise exam analysis
English Language
English section was moderate which gave a comfort zone to the candidates. It had two sets of Reading Comprehension one was based on economics and the other on the general topic. The cloze test had a different type of vocabulary usage which was challenging but interesting for the candidates.
Topic-wise English section bifurcation:
| Name of the Topics | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Reading Comprehension | 20 | Moderate- Difficult |
| Fillers (Single blank) | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Phrase Replacement | 5 | Moderate |
| Cloze Test (New Pattern) | 10 | Moderate |
| Error Detection | 5 | Moderate |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Moderate |
Quantitative Aptitude
This section had questions from easy to moderate level. It had three sets of DI and Caselet questions based on
- Tabular
- Pie Chart
- Line Graph
- Caselet
Topic wise Quantitative Aptitude section bifurcation:
| Name of the Topics | No. of Question | Difficulty Level |
| Number Series (Missing) | 4 | Moderate |
| Approximation | 6 | Easy |
| Data Interpretation | 18 | Moderate |
| Inequality | 6 | Easy |
| Miscellaneous- Arithmetic Word Problems (Average, Mixture and Allegation, CP and SP, Profit and Loss, Partnership etc.) | 15 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Easy-Moderate |
Reasoning Ability
This section had from easy to moderate questions. It had five puzzles and seating arrangement questions based on the following
- Circular (2 Variables)
- Stack Arrangement (1 Variable)
- Floor Based (2 Variables)
- Month Based (2 Variables)
- Linear
| Name of the Topics | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Syllogism | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 20 | Moderate |
| Direction Sense | 7 | Easy |
| Coding-Decoding | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| Inequality | 5 | Easy |
| Alphabet | 1 | Easy |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Logical Reasoning | 5 | Moderate |
| Total | 50 | Easy-Moderate |