IBPS PO Preliminary Previous Year Exam analysis: The official notification of IBPS PO recruitment 2020 has been released and the online registration process of application has started. The recruitment process for the selection of PO/MT 2020 will be conducted for 1400 plus vacancies. Here in this post, we will look at the IBPS PO previous year question paper analysis, exam analysis, previous year trends to get a better understanding of the exam.
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To know all the detail of this exam notification, you can go through the notification details of IBPS PO 2020 through the link mentioned below.
Now, when you have gone through the complete details of this exam, you should also check the exam pattern, syllabus and detailed analysis of IBPS PO exam over the past few years. This will help you to get a better idea of the exam pattern so that you can plan your preparation accordingly.
In this post, we are discussing the exam pattern and changing trends of IBPS PO paper over the last few years. We will analyze each section asked in IBPS PO in the year 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019, and discuss the variations among all these years. This will help us in understanding the expected pattern in the upcoming IBPS PO exam 2020.
Reasoning Ability
Below, we are sharing the exact number of questions asked from different topics in the past 4 years.
| Topics Name | Number Of Questions Asked | |||
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
| 1. Puzzles and Seating Arrangements | 15 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| 2. Inequalities | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 3. Syllogism | 5 | - | - | - |
| 4. Miscellaneous questions( Blood relations, direction sense, alphanumeric series, etc) | 10 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 5. Input-Output | - | 5 | - | - |
| 6. Coding-Decoding | - | 4 | 5 | 5 |
Takeaways from Reasoning Ability:
- Majority of the questions are regularly being asked from puzzles and seating arrangements. Practice these topics the most. Try to cover all the types of puzzles like floor-based, box-based, Scheduling, an unknown number of persons sitting a row, Circular/Linear/Square sitting arrangements, etc
- Inequalities are being regularly asked, as we noticed from the exam trend
- Prepare miscellaneous topics like blood relations, direction sense, alphanumeric series etc. Approximately 6-7 questions are asked each year
- As we have seen some new pattern-based syllogism questions this year, we can expect the same in IBPS PO exam 2020. Practice these questions well to score better in the exam
- Attempt one sectional test of reasoning ability on a regular basis and don't forget to analyze your performance. Find out your weak areas and practice them more
English Language
We will see the exact number of questions asked from different topics in the past 4 years.
| Topics Name | Number Of Questions Asked | |||
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
| 1. Reading Comprehension | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 |
| 2. Cloze test | 8 | - | 6 | - |
| 3. Para jumble | 5 | - | - | 5 |
| 4. Spotting errors | 10 | - | 6 | 5 |
| 5. Sentence Rearrangement | - | 10 | - | - |
| 6. Phrase Replacement | - | 10 | - | 4 |
| 7. Fillers | - | - | 5 | 5 |
| 8. Sentence Improvement | - | - | 8 | - |
| 9. Word Replacement | - | - | - | 4 |
Takeaways from the English Language:
- Most of the questions are asked from Reading Comprehension. To score well in this topic, inculcate a habit of reading a newspaper/watching news channel in English. This will increase your vocabulary and will help you in reading and analyzing the given Reading Comprehension in fewer efforts.
- Solve all the previously asked questions of all the exams and practice them religiously
- A good reading habit will also help you in solving cloze tests & other new pattern questions. You will be able to form correct and meaningful sentences
- Revise grammar rules regularly along with their exceptions. It is seen the examiner often asks questions based on the exceptions
Quantitative Aptitude
We will see the exact number of questions asked from different topics in the past 4 years.
| Topics Name | Number Of Questions Asked | |||
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
| 1. Missing Number Series | 5 | - | - | - |
| 2. Data Interpretation | 10 | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| 3. Approximation | 5 | 5 | - | 7 |
| 4. Quadratic | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| 5. Arithmetic Questions( Based on topics like profit & loss, Partnership, Mixtures & Allegations, etc) | 10 | 13 | 12 | 7 |
| 6. Wrong Number Series | - | - | 5 | 5 |
Takeaways from the Quantitative Aptitude:
- Prepare basic essentials like tables up to 40, squares up to 30, cubes up to 20 and conversion of fractions into percentage and vice-versa
- This will help you to solve questions in a lesser time
- Practice scoring topics like approximation, simplifications, number series, and quadratic equations. If prepared well, these topics will help you score minimum 12-15 marks in just 6-8 minutes
- Majority of the questions are asked from Data Interpretation. Prepare all the different types of DI
- Practice DI's based on arithmetic topics like profit and loss, partnership, SI and CI, mixtures and allegations, etc
This was all about analyzing the pattern of the previously held exams. We hope that you will find this article relevant.
Before you start preparing for this exam, do not forget to go through the previous years papers to get an overall idea of the exam. The link is shared below:
Also, we will advise you to have a glance at last years cutoffs in order to know the difficulty level and the preparation level you need to have to clear this exam.
Previous Years cutoff of IBPS PO
To score well and clear the exams, it is very essential to check your preparation level regularly. This can be done by regularly giving sectional and full length mocks. Below here we are providing the links of daily quizzes for all the sections:
Daily English Language Quizzes
To strengthen your preparation in the General Awareness section, we advise you to go through the below-mentioned links:
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