IBPS Clerk Main Exam 2017 was held on January 21, 2018. A total of 190 questions had to be answered in 160 minutes. There were 4 sections namely, General/Financial Awareness, General English, Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude and Quantitative Aptitude. Except General English, the rest of the objective questions were in bilingual format that is, in English and Hindi. Each incorrect answer will reduce the score by 1/4th marks assigned to the respective question.
The detailed break-up of IBPS Clerk Main Exam 2017 is as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Total Marks |
Level of Difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Time Taken (In Minutes) |
General/Financial Awareness |
50 |
50 |
Easy to moderate |
32-35 |
35 |
General English |
40 |
40 |
Moderate |
20-22 |
35 |
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude |
50 |
60 |
Moderate to difficult |
21-24 |
45 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
50 |
50 |
Moderate |
30-35 |
45 |
Total |
190 |
200 |
Moderate |
115-125 |
160 |
Most of the questions came from the Banking Awareness, Financial Awareness and Current Affairs (Maximum questions were from December 17 and January 2018) sections. There were some questions from the static section of General Awareness. One question was also asked from Nobel Prize 2017. The overall difficulty of this section was easy to moderate.
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
Reading Comprehension (based on IBM Company's Policies) |
5 |
Moderate |
Reading Comprehension (based on hacking of social media accounts) |
7 |
Moderate |
Antonyms/Synonyms |
5 |
Easy |
Fill in the Blanks (Double FIB) |
5 |
Easy |
Phrase Replacement |
5 |
Moderate |
Para-jumbles (New Type - 5 statements/sentences were given - 3 were placed correctly and 2 were not in the correct place. Identify incorrect sentences and their proper positions. |
5 |
Moderate |
Word Usage |
8 |
Easy-Moderate |
The overall difficulty of this section was moderate. The questions were more or less based on the vocabulary.
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of difficulty |
AR (Linear Seating Arrangement - 2 parallel rows - facing north/south) |
5 |
Moderate - Difficult |
AR (Data Arrangement - 3 statements -Floor based - 9 persons - 3 floors - 3 flats) |
5 |
Moderate - Difficult |
AR (Data Arrangement - Box and Colors based) |
5 |
Moderate - Difficult |
AR (Blood Relation based) |
5 |
Moderate - Difficult |
Input-output |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Sufficiency (1 Q. 3 statements and 4 Qs. 2 statements based) |
5 |
Difficult |
Alpha numeric series |
3 |
Moderate |
Direction based Set |
4 |
Moderate |
Alphabet Series |
3 |
Moderate |
Coding-Decoding |
1 |
Easy |
Miscellaneous |
6 |
Moderate |
Syllogism |
3 |
Easy |
There was no question from Computer Aptitude. Level of difficulty of this section was moderate to difficult.
| Topic | Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
Data Interpretation (Table - based on Coach of train - no. of passengers- males, females and children) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Data Interpretation (Bar Graph based) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Data Interpretation (Caselet based) |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Data Sufficiency - 2 statements based |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Comparison of variables |
5 |
Easy - Moderate |
Approximation/Simplification |
5 |
Easy - Moderate |
Number Series (Series Completion) |
5 |
Easy - Moderate |
Ages |
1 |
Moderate |
Percentage |
1 |
Moderate |
Ratio and Proportion |
1 |
Moderate |
Time and Work |
1 |
Moderate |
Simple Interest and Compound Interest |
1 |
Moderate |
Partnership |
1 |
Moderate |
Time, Speed and Distance |
1 |
Moderate |
Profit, Loss and Discount |
1 |
Moderate |
Mixture and Alligation |
1 |
Moderate |
Numbers |
3 |
Moderate |
Miscellaneous (QA based) |
3 |
Moderate |
Overall level of difficulty of this section was moderate.
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