IBPS conducts the Specialist Officers recruitment to select candidates towards the banking sector as Grade-1 officers across various streams. Across six officers cadre, the posts are IT Officer, HR Officer, Law Officer, Agricultural Field Officer, Rajbhasha Adhikari, and Marketing Officer, IBPS will hire 647 candidates towards the banking sectors. IBPS has successfully conducted the Specialist Officer preliminary exam on December 26, 2020, across various two shifts. Let’s discuss the IBPS SO Prelims exam analysis in detail for both shifts.
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IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2020
The IBPS SO selection process involves two stages of written examination followed by a personal interview.
- Computer-Based Preliminary Exam
- Computer-Based Mains Exam
- Personal Interview
IBPS SO Preliminary Exam pattern
- For the post of IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer and Marketing Officer:
| SL No | Topic/ Subject | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Available Exam Mediums | 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 | 120 minutes |
- For the post of Law Officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari:
| SL No | Topic/ Subject | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Available Exam Medium | 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 Banking Industry | 50 | 50 | English and Hindi | 40 minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 | 120 minutes |
- Candidates have to qualify in each of the three tests by securing minimum cut-off marks (sectional cut-off) to be decided by IBPS.
- For each wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score.
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IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis
IBPS conducted the Specialist Officers preliminary exam on December 26, 2020, across two shifts. Let’s check the detailed IBPS SO Prelims exam analysis of both shifts.
| Section | Good Attempts |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 34 to 39 |
| Reasoning Ability | 27 to 33 |
| English Language | 31 to 36 |
| Overall | 91 to 102 |
Quantitative Aptitude
|
Topic |
Shift 01 | Shift 02 | ||
| Number of Questions | Difficulty Level | Number of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
|
| Data Interpretation | 15 | Moderate | 15 | Moderate |
| Missing Number Series | 5 | Moderate | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Approximation | 5 | Easy-Moderate | 5 | Easy |
| Quadratic Equation | 5 | Moderate | 5 | Easy |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Moderate | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Arithmetic | 15 | Moderate | 15 | Moderate |
IBPS SO 2020 Prelims Analysis: Reasoning Ability
| Topic | Shift 01 | Shift 02 | ||
| Number of Questions | Difficulty Level | Number of Questions | Difficulty Level | |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 25 | Difficult | 20 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Syllogism | 5 | Moderate to Difficult | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Blood Relation | 1 | Moderate to Difficult | 3 | Easy |
| Machine Input Output | 5 | Moderate to Difficult | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Direction Sense | 3 | Easy | 5 | Easy |
| Inequality | 5 | Moderate to Difficult | 3 | Moderate |
| Data Sufficiency | 2 | Moderate to Difficult | 5 | Moderate |
| Logical Reasoning | 3 | Difficult | 3 | Easy-Moderate |
| Ranking & Coding & Decoding | 1 | Easy | 5 | Easy |
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IBPS SO Exam Analysis: English Language
| Topic | Shift 01 | Shift 02 | ||
| Number of Questions | Difficulty Level | Number of Questions | Difficulty Level | |
| Reading Comprehension | 19 | Moderate | 20 | Moderate |
| Error Detection | 3 | Moderate-Difficult | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Sentence rearrangement | 3 | Moderate | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Cloze Test | 10 | Moderate | ||
| Fillers | 5 | Easy-Moderate | 5 | Easy |
| Word Swap | 5 | Easy-Moderate | ||
| Phrasal Verb | 5 | Moderate | ||
| ParaJumples | 5 | Easy-Moderate | ||
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