The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducted online examination, for the recruitment of Clerical Cadre Posts in the Participating Organizations, across the country on the 30th of November, 2013.
There were 200 questions in the paper, which had to be answered in 2 hours. There were five sections in all - Reasoning, English Language, Numerical Ability, General Awareness with special reference to Banking Industry, and Computer Knowledge. All the other sections except English Language section were available bilingually, that is, in both English and Hindi. Each question had 5 options.There was negative marking of one-fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question for all the sections.
The pattern of the test was as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Max. Marks |
Level of Difficulty |
Possible Attempts |
Possible Score |
Reasoning |
40 |
40 |
Easy to Moderate |
28-32 |
25-27 |
English Language |
40 |
40 |
Easy to Moderate |
28-32 |
25-27 |
Numerical Ability |
40 |
40 |
Easy to Moderate |
25-28 |
23-25 |
General Awareness |
40 |
40 |
Moderateto Difficult |
25-28 |
17-18 |
Computer Knowledge |
40 |
40 |
Easy to Moderate |
28-32 |
20-21 |
Total |
200 |
200 |
|
|
110-118 |
The details of the individual sections are given below:
REASONING
This section primarily saw easy to moderate level of questions. A student should have attempted at least 30 questions. Some of the questions were time consuming. There were questions on symbols, Linear Arrangement, Seating Arrangement, Syllogism, Word Arrangement, Data Sufficiency and Critical Reasoning.
The details of the section are as follows:
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Syllogisms |
10 |
Analytical Reasoning |
10 |
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Coding-Decoding |
10 |
Critical Reasoning |
5 |
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Questions on Fill in the Blanks and Cloze test dominated this section. There was one Reading Comprehension passage with 10 questions. The questions in this section were easy to moderate.
The details of the section are as follows:
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Reading Comprehension |
10( One Paragraph) |
Error Spotting |
5 |
Fill in The Blanks |
10 |
Para Jumble |
5 |
Cloze Test |
10 |
NUMERICAL ABILITY
In general, it was of easy to moderate difficulty level.There were questions on VBODMAS-10, DI(Table)-10,Arithmetic-15 and 5 from other topics.
This section was of moderate to difficult level. 27 questions from this section was from Banking and Economy. 13 questions werefrom Current Affairs.
This section comprised questions of moderate difficulty level based on basic knowledge of computers. The main areas from which questions were asked are : Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Networking, Hardware and Software.
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