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IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis & Review 19th January 2020: Today’s IBPS Clerk Mains 2019 exam has now been concluded. You can go through the exam analysis of the IBPS Clerk Main 2019 exam in this post. There were a total of 190 questions in the exam.

HIGHLIGHTS

Level of Overall Exam:

• Overall, the level of the IBPS Clerk Main Exam was moderate.
• General Awareness Section was easiest.
• English Language section was lengthy and moderate.
• The level of Quantitative Aptitude was moderate and students found that the questions from this section were time-consuming.
• Logical Reasoning section falls into the level of moderate-difficult, most difficult among all the sections.
• New pattern questions were introduced in the exam in the English Language section. 

IBPS Clerk Main Exam Review 19th Jan 2020: Section-wise Exam Review

IBPS Clerk Main Exam Review: Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude

Number of Questions: 50

1. Puzzles and Seating Arrangement

• There was a puzzle on circular arrangement, where there were 8 members. The puzzle contained 5 questions.
• Another was a year-based scheduling puzzle. 5 questions were asked on this topic.
• Another was a linear puzzle, where there were 8 people facing north and south. There were 5 questions.
• A box-based puzzle was also asked in the exam, where there were 11 boxes. The puzzle had 5 questions.

2. Syllogism

• 5 questions were asked.
• Questions from this topic were based on ‘only a few’ type.

3. Inequality

• 3-4 Questions were asked.
• Questions asked were direct and almost all of them were easily doable.

4. Coding-Decoding

• This was a game-changer in today’s exam.
• There were 2 sets of Coding-decoding asked in the exam.
• One set was direction-related, where 5 questions were asked. Each question carried 2 marks.
• The other set of coding-decoding was based on inequality. Each question of this set carried 1 mark.

5. Data Sufficiency: There were 5 questions of Data Sufficiency.

IBPS Clerk Main Exam Review 2020: Quantitative Aptitude

Number of Questions: 50

1. Data Interpretation

• There were 5 questions of DI.
• One was a pie-chart question.
• Another was a tabular based DI, where there were 5 questions. 
• Another DI was based on profit and loss.
• There were 2 questions on caselet DI. 

2. Data Sufficiency

• 2-3 questions were asked on this topic.

3. Quadratic Inequalities: No questions of Quadratic equations were asked.

4.Approximation: There were 5 questions of approximation.

5. Miscellaneous Questions

• The rest of the questions were asked from miscellaneous topics, such as Mixture & Alligation, Age-based problems. Partnership, Time & Work, Simple & Compound Interest, Profit & Loss, Percentage, Train based problems, etc.

IBPS Clerk Main Exam Review: English Language

Number of Questions: 40

1. Reading Comprehension

• 3 set of RC passage was asked.
• The first DI was based on education, from where 4 questions were asked.
• The other one was based on AI Technology demerits, which has 5 questions.
• The last passage was based on coffee theme.

2. Para Jumbles

• There were 4-5 questions of Para Jumbles.

3. Phrase Replacement

• There were 5 questions of Phrase Replacement.

4. Word Exchange:

• New pattern questions were seen in the paper.
• There were 4 sentences. Each sentence was divided into 2 parts. They had to be exchanged.

5. Error Detection:

• 4-5 questions of error detection were asked.

6. Sentence Rearrangement: 4-5 questions of Sentence Rearrangement were there in the paper.

7. Fill in the Blanks:

• 5 questions were asked.
• There were 3 statements. 1 blank in each, which had to be filled with the same word.

8. Miscellaneous: Other miscellaneous questions were asked.

IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Review: General/Financial Awareness Section Review

Number of Questions: 50

• There were few questions from static GK.
• Some questions were from financial awareness.
• Maximum questions were asked from Current Affairs, the maximum number of questions were from November & December. 
• 1-2 questions were from August month.