IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main Exam 2019 was held on October 20, 2019. There were 200 questions spread across 5 sections namely, Reasoning, Numerical Ability, General Awareness, English Language/Hindi Language and Computer Knowledge. All sections except the ‘language section’ were available bilingually. A candidate had to attempt either the section on English Language or Hindi Language. Each question had 5 options, with negative marking of one-fourth of the marks assigned to that question. The paper had to be attempted in 2 hours (120 minutes).
The detailed break-up of IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main Exam 2019 is as follows:
| Section | Total Questions |
Max. Marks |
Level of Difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Approximate Time Taken (In Minutes) |
Reasoning |
40 |
50 |
Easy-Moderate |
25-27 |
30 |
Numerical Ability |
40 |
50 |
Moderate |
15-18 |
35 |
General Awareness |
40 |
40 |
Easy-Moderate |
25-30 |
15 |
English Language/Hindi Language |
40 |
40 |
Easy-Moderate |
English - 24-26 and Hindi 22-25 |
English - 25, |
Computer Knowledge |
40 |
20 |
Easy-Moderate |
24-27 |
15 |
Total |
200 |
200 |
Moderate |
135 - 145 |
120 |
Expected Cutoffs - These cannot be given at this stage since there are huge variations in cut-offs among different RRBs depending on their state.
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
AR (Circular Seating Arrangement - 8 People - facing inside - based on age) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement -9 floor based) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Linear Seating Arrangement - 2 parallel rows- facing north/south -7 people in each row) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement - 3 months/2 dates/6 people/6 city based) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement - 10 box based) |
4 |
Easy-Moderate |
Coding-Decoding |
5 |
Easy |
Blood Relation - Set based |
3 |
Easy |
Directions - set based |
3 |
Easy |
Alphabet based |
1 |
Easy |
Number based |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
Miscellaneous |
3 |
Easy |
The reasoning section was dominated by Analytical Reasoning questions. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
| Topic | Number of Questions (Approx.) |
Difficulty Level |
Data Interpretation (Table - based on banana and apple) |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Pie Chart - based teaching/non- teaching staff ) |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Caselet based on 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15) |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Caselet - based on 2/3/4 wheelers) |
5 |
Moderate |
Comparison of quantities: Quantity I/Quantity II |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Quant based word problems (TSD - Boat and Stream, Mensuration, Time and Work, Partnership, Ratio and Proportion, Profit, Loss and Discount, Mixture/Alligation etc.) |
15 |
Moderate |
There were 4 sets of DI based on table, pie chart and caselets. The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
Reading Comprehension (based on Dolphin and Human Interaction - one questions was based on FIB.) |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
Cloze Test (based on Artificial Intelligence) |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
Para jumbles / Sentence Arrangement |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Spot the error |
5 |
Easy |
Fill in the blank - Single FIB |
5 |
Easy |
Spot the error - Exchange of bold words |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
There was only one set of Reading Comprehensions consisting 10 questions out of which one question was based on fill in the blank. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
Most of the questions were from current affairs including government schemes, banking related schemes. Most of the current affairs questions were related to news events of May, June, July and August. Some of questions/topics asked: National Park, Operation Sunrise, NASA Apollo 11, Wimbledon 2019 etc. General Awareness was easy to moderate in terms of difficulty level.
This section was easy to attempt. The main areas of focus were Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Networking, Internet, Basic Hardware and Software. Some of questions/topics asked: Short Cut Key, Binary to Decimal, MAC Address, MS Office etc. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
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