IBPS RRB Preliminary examination of Officer Grade was conducted successfully on 9th and 10th September for the year 2017. The exam was conducted for 80 marks comprised of 80 questions with a time of 45 minutes.
Pattern of Examination: The examination has 2 sections – Reasoning and Quantitative aptitude. Candidates shall be required to qualify in each section as per cut-off marks determined on the basis of performance in each section and also on total weighted score. Negative marking is applicable for the Objective Test. For every wrong answer, one-fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty.
The Banking team of Jagranjosh.com has come up with comprehensive analysis of the question paper and the expected cut off for the examination.
Analysis of Examination: The overall difficulty level of the examination was Easy to Moderate.
| Section | Total Ques. | Level of Difficulty |
| Reasoning | 40 | Easy |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 40 | Easy to Moderate |
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The section wise details are as follows:
Reasoning:
The level of difficulty was Easy for this section.
| Topics | Number of question | Level of difficulty | Pattern of the questions |
| Circular seating arrangement | 5 | Easy to Moderate | Some people facing outside and some facing inside |
| Linear arrangement | 5 | Easy to Moderate | People sitting in row |
| Puzzle | 5+5=10 | Easy to Moderate | Month based puzzle+ Box based puzzle |
| Syllogism | 5 | Easy | Questions were based on old pattern. There were 2 or 3 statements and two conclusions. |
| Inequalities | 5 | Easy | Direct inequality based question was asked. There were no questions from coded inequality. |
| Miscellaneous (series, Order & Ranking, Alphabet Test etc. | 5 | Easy to Moderate | Questions were easy based on old pattern. |
| Coding-decoding | 5 | Easy | Sentence based Coding-decoding |
| Total no. of question | 40 |
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Quantitative Aptitude
The overall difficulty level of this section was Easy to Moderate.
| Topic | Number of question | Level of difficulty | Pattern of the questions |
| Data Interpretation | 5+5+5=15 | Moderate | There were three types of DI i.e. Line Graph+ Pie Chart +Tabular DI asked in the paper. Some questions were calculative. |
| Approximation/ Simplification | 5 | Easy | Based on simple arithmetic |
| Quadratic equation | 5 | Easy to Moderate | Basically based on Factorization |
| Number Series | 5 | Easy | Mostly questions were based on multiplication and difference. Questions on Missing pattern were also asked. |
| Miscellaneous - | 10 | Moderate | The topics included questions on Simple & compound interest, Time and work, Partnership , Ration and proportion, profit and loss , percentage, Problems on trains, Averages, Ages, Mixture, etc. |
| Total no. of question | 40 |
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Expected Cutoff marks: As per our analysis and difficulty level of the examination, the following Cutoff marks are expected for different category. It should be noted that IBPS release state-wise cut-off marks for the examination.
| General | 48-53 |
| OBC | 45-50 |
| SC | 38-43 |
Note: The candidates should note that the above cut offs may vary as it depends upon various factors hence, it is not possible to predict the exact cut off marks until IBPS declared it on its website. The IBPS will announce cut off marks, when the process of selection is over.
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