IBPS RRB Officer Exam Analysis 2021

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IBPS RRB Officer Preliminary Examination will be conducted tentatively in the month of August 2021.As the official notification regarding IBPS RRB Officer Recruitment 2021 is now out the exact examination date is also known to us- the preliminary exam will be conducted on 01.08.2021, 07.08.2021, 08.08.2021, 14.08.2021 and 21.08.2021. Analyzing previous exams will help the candidate in preparing better to face the exam. This year IBPS will select a huge number of (approximately 10,166 posts) Grade 1,2 and 3 officers towards the regional banking services. In this article, let us have a quick IBPS RRB Officer Exam Analysis.

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IBPS RRB Officer Exam Patten

Let us analyze the IBPS RRB exam conducted for scale 2 in this article. The IBPS RRB officer scale -2 posts have only single-stage written examination followed by the personal interview for the selection process. the posts included in the Scale -2 is:

Marketing Manager
Treasury Manager
IT Specialist Officer
Chartered Accountant
Legal Officer
Agricultural Officer, and
General Banking Officer.

The exam pattern for the General Banking Officer is:

SL No	Subject	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Exam Duration
1	Reasoning	40	50	Composite time of 2hrs
2	Computer Knowledge	40	20
3	Financial Awareness	40	40
4	English or Hindi Language	40	40
5	Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation	40	50
	Total	200	200

The exam pattern for all other specialist posts are:

SL No	Subject/ Topic	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Exam Duration
1	Reasoning	40	40	2hrs 30 mins
2	Computer Knowledge	40	20
3	Financial Awareness	40	40
4	English or Hindi Language	40	20
5	Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation	40	40
6	Professional Knowledge	40	40
	Total	240	240

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IBPS RRB Officer Scale-II Exam Analysis

The IBPS has concluded the single-stage written examination for the IBPS RRB Officer scale-2 posts across India. The exam analysis of the same conducted on October 18, 2020, is given below:

The level of the IBPS RRB Officer Scale-II Exam was of moderate level in terms of difficulty.

SL No	Subject	Good Attempts
1	Financial Awareness	18 to 24
2	Computer Knowledge	29 to 32
3	Reasoning Ability	27 to 32
4	Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation	25 to 30
5	English Language	31 to 34
	Total	130 to 152

Financial Awareness

Thie section was Moderate. Students find some of the questions very hard to crack without deep reading. Candidates were able to attend questions anywhere between 20 to 27 out of 40. Some of the questions asked in the exam were:

Establishment year of RBI.
Which bank financed the Mumbai Meerut expressway?
Establishment year of Exim bank.
Question related to Public Provident Fund
The full form of FITL Loan: Funded Interest Term Loan
Which bank-financed Mumbai metro project? National Development Bank (NDB)
RBI has extended loan availability on jewels up to 90% of an amount effective from?
Question regarding Current account and Savings account.
In 2019, LIC acquired the major stake in which of the following bank?
Which organization initiated the online complain platform “Scores”: SEBI
Question regarding exports and imports
AS per the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) norms, who is the district level complaint redressal authority?
Another name of the Tez pay: Google Pay
The tagline of the Indian Postal Payments Bank: Aapka Bank Aapke Dwar
Negotiable instruments section:Section 13

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Computer Knowledge

The question level was easy to moderate for the majority of the aspirants. There were questions asked from the MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word). About 9 questions related to MS Excel and 4 from other software of the MS Office. There were 5 questions from networking and 4 questions from topics like ROM, RAM etc. There were 2 questions related to VIRUS and trojans.

Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation

This section was moderate to hard to the mass. There were 3 sets of Data Interpretation, one of them was based on pie-chart. In the arithmetic portion, there were questions from:

partnership,
compound interest,
time and work,
pipes and cistern,
probability
quadratic equations (5 questions)
number series (asked to find the wrong number in the series: 5 questions)

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Reasoning Ability

This section was easy to moderate but time-consuming. The questions were asked from topics like:

One seating arrangement
One machine input-output
towns and people matching puzzle
syllogism: 3 questions
Inequalities : 3 questions
Coding decoding: 2 questions

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Language: English

Comparing to other sections, English Language was easy to the candidates, The questions were asked from topics like:

Reading Comprehension: 5 questions
Error Detection,
Misspelt words,
Rearrangement of Sentence,
Idioms and Phrases: 5 questions
Cloze Test, and
One word Substitution

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