The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducted its main online examination for the recruitment of Clerical Cadre Posts in the Participating Organizations, across the country on January 01, 2017.
There were 200 questions in the paper, which had to be answered in 135 minutes. There were five sections in all - Reasoning, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness (with special reference to Banking Industry), and Computer Knowledge. All the sections, except English Language, 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 any given question.
Pattern of the IBPS Clerk -VI Main Exam 2016 was as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Max. Marks |
Level of Difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Good Score |
Time allotted for each section (In Minutes) |
Reasoning |
40 |
50 |
Difficult |
28-30 |
26-28 |
30 |
English Language |
40 |
40 |
Moderate-Difficult |
26-28 |
24-26 |
30 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
40 |
50 |
Moderate to Difficult |
22-25 |
19-22 |
30 |
General Awareness(with special reference to Banking Industry) |
40 |
40 |
Easy-Moderate |
24-26 |
21-23 |
25 |
Computer Knowledge |
40 |
20 |
Easy |
22-26 |
20-23 |
20 |
Total |
200 |
200 |
|
125-137 |
118-129 |
135 |
This section primarily saw difficult questions.
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Data Sufficiency (3 statements based) |
4 |
Moderate- Difficult |
Miscellaneous (Directions, Blood Relation, etc..) |
6 |
Moderate- Difficult |
Mathematical Inequalities |
5 |
Moderate- Difficult |
AR (Row Arrangement) |
5 |
Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement) |
5 |
Difficult |
AR(Square Arrangement) |
5 |
Moderate- Difficult |
AR (Data Arrangement) |
5 |
Moderate- Difficult |
Coding-Decoding |
5 |
Easy - Moderate |
The questions in this section were difficult in nature. The questions were from Reading Comprehension, Spot the Error, Phrase Replacement; Fill in the Blanks, Para Jumble, etc.
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Reading Comprehension ( 2 sets) |
16 |
Moderate |
Spot the Error |
4 |
Easy - Moderate |
Phrase Replacement |
4 |
Moderate |
Fill one word in 2 blanks |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Miscellaneous (Vocab based) |
8 |
Easy - Moderate |
Para Jumble |
1 |
Moderate |
Para Completion |
2 |
Moderate-Difficult |
The questions in this section were of moderate level of difficulty with a few of them a bit time consuming. There were questions from topics like Comparison of Variables, Data Sufficiency, Data Interpretation (2 Sets), Simple and Compound Interest, Speed and Distance, Time and Work, Profit, Loss and Discount, Numbers and Geometry. Â
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Comparison of Variables |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
DI ( 2 Sets) |
10 |
Moderate-Difficult |
Number Series |
5 |
Moderate |
Arithmetic (Numbers, Simple Interest & Compound Interest/Speed & Distance / Time & Work / Profit & Loss, Geometry) |
15 |
Moderate-Difficult |
The questions from this section were of easy to moderate level. The major chunk of the questions tested the student’s knowledge of current affairs and banking awareness.
This section comprised questions of easy level. The questions tested candidates’ basic knowledge of computers. The questions were based on Internet, Microsoft Office, Networking, Hardware and Software. A candidate who has basic knowledge of computers could have easily attempted at-least 24 questions.
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