IBPS PO Prelims Exam Analysis 2017 & Expected Cutoff: 7th Oct Slot 1

Keeping up with the trend of changing exam pattern, IBPS PO Prelims 2017 exam was quite different from last year. These changes were reflected in terms of type of questions asked as well as the sectional and overall level, especially in the English section. You can now read this exam review post to know all about the expected cut off and detailed exam analysis of IBPS PO Prelims 2017

With the help of this IBPS PO Exam review, you can also analyse The number of good attempts in this IBPS PO Exam Analysis 2017. We hope this exam analysis will help the students in the upcoming slots to understand the level of the exam and eventually score better!

IBPS PO Exam Analysis 2017 of 1st Slot

Major Changes introduced this year:
(a) English Language: The level of the section was difficult as compared to last year. The pattern of Spotting Errors was slightly changed.
(b) Quantitative Aptitude: There were no questions asked from Quadratic Equations this year.
(c) Reasoning Ability: The number and level of the puzzles was increased this year.
Difficulty Level: Overall level of the IBPS PO exam can be categorised as Moderate. Some of the questions like Inequality etc were easy to attempt while others like Puzzles and miscellaneous questions of quant section were comparatively difficult to attempt.

We will now discuss the individual sections that were asked in this exam as well as their detailed analysis.

Number of Good Attempts for IBPS PO Preliminary Exam 2017

Based on the sectional and overall level of the exam of IBPS PO conducted in 1st slot, here is the number of good attempts:

English Language	15-16 Questions
Quantitative Aptitude	23-25 Questions
Reasoning Ability	25-27 Questions
Overall Attempts	53-55 Questions

English Language Analysis for IBPS PO Prelims Exam

Total Number of Questions asked	30
Level of the section	Difficult
Any Major/New Changes	The overall level was difficult as compared to last year. Cloze test was not asked this year.

Number of Questions asked

Details of topics asked in English section

Reading Comprehension	The passage was asked on Economy. 4 Synonym/Antonym based questions were asked with the comprehension.
Spotting Errors	A thorough study of grammar rules is essential to solve these questions. Errors in 5 parts were given and one had to identify the parts in which there was no error
Sentence Improvement	A part of certain sentence was given in bold and the students had to identify the correct options which could replace the bold part of the sentence.

Quantitative Aptitude Analysis for IBPS PO Prelims Exam

Total Number of Questions asked	35
Level of the section	Moderate
Any Major/New Changes	There were no questions asked from Quadratic Equations.

Number of Questions asked

Details of topics asked in Quantitative Aptitude section

Number Series	Questions were asked from basic arithmetic operations and their combination. Following questions were asked: 17,98,26,89,35,? 2,17,89,359,1079,? 3,5,15,45,113,? 7,4.5,5.5,12,49,? 3240,540,108,27,?,4.5
Simplification/ Approximation	BODMAS rules could be used to solve questions from this topic.
Data Interpretation	2 sets were asked: a Line graph and a tabular graph was asked in this slot, with 6-7 questions in each. Questions were simple and easily doable.
Miscellaneous Questions	This included questions from arithmetic problems like Age-based questions, partnership, profit & loss, time & work, mixture & alligation, simple & compound interest, time speed & distance, boats & streams, probability etc. Some of the questions were a bit calculative.

Reasoning Ability Analysis for IBPS PO Prelims Exam

Total Number of Questions asked	35
Level of the section	Moderate
Any Major/New Changes	There were no major changes in this section.

Number of Questions asked

Details of topics asked in Reasoning section

Puzzles & Seating Arrangement	One question was asked from following: (a) Box based puzzle (b) Ranking based puzzle (c) Scheduling based puzzle, with weekdays and colours as additional attribute. (d) Linear puzzle with people sitting in 2 rows, 5 facing north and 5 facing south. It included the colours they like as an additional parameter.
Inequality	Questions were asked from direct inequality. All the questions were easily doable.
Syllogism	Questions were asked from old pattern. 3-4 questions were easily doable.
Miscellaneous Questions	This included questions from different topics like Blood Relations, Direction sense, Ranking etc.

IBPS PO Prelims Expected Cut Off 2017

You can check out the expected cutoff of IBPS PO Preliminary exam 2017, based on the level of the exam conducted today.

English Language	8-9 marks
Reasoning Ability	9-10 marks
Quantitative Aptitude	9-10 marks
Overall Expected Cut Off	50-52 marks

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IBPS PO Prelims Exam Analysis 2017 & Expected Cutoff: 7th Oct Slot 1

IBPS PO Exam Analysis 2017 of 1st Slot

Number of Good Attempts for IBPS PO Preliminary Exam 2017

English Language Analysis for IBPS PO Prelims Exam

Number of Questions asked

Details of topics asked in English section

Quantitative Aptitude Analysis for IBPS PO Prelims Exam

Number of Questions asked

Details of topics asked in Quantitative Aptitude section

Reasoning Ability Analysis for IBPS PO Prelims Exam

Number of Questions asked

Details of topics asked in Reasoning section

IBPS PO Prelims Expected Cut Off 2017

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