IBPS RRB Officer Scale I Preliminary Exam 2016 (November 5, 2016) Afternoon Shift

Today was the second day of IBPS RRB Officer Scale - I (Preliminary) Exam 2016. It is being conducted in four time slots from morning to evening. A total of 80 questions had to be answered in 45 minutes. It comprised only two sections i.e. Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude and both were available English as well as in Hindi. There was a negative marking of 0.25 marks for every incorrect answer.

The detailed break up of IBPS RRB Officer Scale I Prelims 2016 is as follows:

Section

Total Questions

Level of difficulty

Good Attempts

Good Score

Approximate time taken

Reasoning

40

Easy-Moderate

24-28

22-25

20

Quantitative Aptitude

40

Easy-Moderate

 

22-24

18-20

25

Total

80

Moderate

50-55

40-45

45

 

Expected Cutoffs:

Subject

General

SC/ST/OBC

Reasoning (Out of 40)

10-12

7-9

Quantitative Aptitude (Out of 40)

8-10

6-8

Overall Objective Test (Out of 80)

38-44

OBC: 35-40
SC: 30-35
ST: 25-30

 

Below is the section-wise analysis of IBPS RRB Officer Scale I (Prelims) 2016:

Reasoning section of IBPS RRB Officer Scale I (Prelims) 2016:

Topic

Number of Questions

Level  of Difficulty

Puzzles (Floor Based)

5

Moderate-Difficult

Circular arrangement

5

Moderate

Linear Seating arrangement

5

Moderate-Difficult

Syllogism

5

Easy-Moderate

Mathematical Inequalities

5

Easy

Direction

2

Easy-Moderate

Blood Relation

3

Moderate

Miscellaneous (Singlet)

10

Easy

 

The Reasoning section was dominated by questions based on logical reasoning. The Circular Seating and the Linear Seating Arrangement set were attemptable while the set based on Floor Arrangement was a bit tricky. Blood Relation and Miscellaneous questions were easy to moderate in terms of difficulty level while questions on Syllogism were easy to solve. The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.

 

Quantitative Aptitude section of IBPS RRB Officer Scale I (Prelims) 2016:

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Number Series

5

Moderate

Data Interpretation (Table Based)

5

Easy

Data Interpretation (Bar Graph)

5

Moderate

Data Interpretation (Pie Chart)

5

Easy

Simplification

5

Easy

Quadratic Equations

5

Moderate

Profit & Loss

2

Easy-Moderate

Simple Interest & Compound Interest

1

Easy-Moderate

Time & Work

1

Moderate

Probability

1

Moderate

Miscellaneous

5

Moderate

 

The Quant section saw questions from a variety of topics. Some commonly asked topics were Time and Work, Mensuration, Probability, Simple Interest & Compound Interest, Percentage, Age, Mixtures & Allegations and Profit, Loss and Discount. The sets of Data Interpretation were not very calculation intensive and thus at-least two among them should have been attempted. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate,

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