Today was the first day of the IBPS RRB Office Assistants Preliminary Exam 2019. The exam is being conducted in four time slots: 2 each in morning and evening.
A total of 80 questions had to be answered in 45 minutes. It comprised only two sections i.e., Reasoning and Numerical Ability and both were available in English and Hindi. Each question had 5 options and 1 mark was awarded for every correct answer while 0.25 marks was deducted for every incorrect answer.
The detailed break-up of IBPS RRB Office Assistants Prelims Exam 2019 is as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Level of difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Approximate time taken (in minutes) |
Reasoning |
40 |
Easy |
33-36 |
22 |
Numerical Ability |
40 |
Easy-Moderate |
30-32 |
23 |
Total |
80 |
Easy-Moderate |
69-75 |
45 |
Note: Section wise and overall cut-offs are not uniform for all states.
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
AR (Circular Seating Arrangement – 8 persons – Facing Inside) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Linear Seating Arrangement – 2 Parallel Rows – 10 Persons) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement – 7 Floors based) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Linear Seating Arrangement – Single Row Arrangement – 24 people) |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
Mathematical Inequalities |
5 |
Easy |
Alphabetical/Symbol based series |
5 |
Easy |
Direction – set based |
2 |
Easy |
Coding-Decoding |
1 |
Easy |
Odd One Out |
4 |
Easy |
Syllogism |
5 |
Easy |
There were four sets of Analytical Reasoning. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy.
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Data Interpretation (Table Based) |
5 |
Easy |
Data Interpretation (Bar Graph Based) |
5 |
Easy |
Simplification/Approximation |
10 |
Easy |
Comparison of Variables: Quadratic Equations |
5 |
Easy |
Number Series (Wrong Number Series) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Miscellaneous (QA based word problems - Mixture and Alligation, Time and work, Time, Speed and Distance, Simple Interest and Compound Interest, Profit, Loss and Discount, Ratio and Proportion, Average, Ages, etc.) |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
There were two sets of Data Interpretation (Table based and Bar Graph based). The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
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