IPPB Exam was conducted successfully for the recruitment of Assistant Manager (Territory) - Scale I Officer on 7 & 8 January 2017. The exam was conducted for 100 marks comprised of 100 questions with a time of 60 minutes.
Pattern of Examination: The examination has 3 sections – Reasoning Ability, Numerical Ability, and English Language. There were five alternatives in every question of a test. The candidates MUST pass in each of the Objective tests. The passing marks in each test will be decided by IPPB on the basis of the performance of all the candidates appearing in the tests. Candidate may accordingly allocate their time to each test within total time of 60 minutes for all the three tests put together.
Analysis of Examination: The overall difficulty level of the examination was Moderate.
The Banking team of Jagranjosh.com has come up with a comprehensive analysis of the question paper and the expected cut-off for the examination.
| Section |
Total Ques. |
Level of Difficulty |
| Reasoning Ability |
35 |
Moderate |
| Numerical Ability |
35 |
Moderate |
| English Language |
30 |
Easy to Moderate |
The section wise details are as follows:
Reasoning Ability
The level of difficulty was Moderate for this section.
| Topics |
Number of question |
Level of difficulty |
| Circular arrangement Puzzle |
5 |
Moderate |
| Linear arrangement Puzzle |
5 |
Moderate |
| Floor based puzzle |
5 |
Moderate |
| Input-Output |
5 |
Easy to Moderate |
| Syllogism |
5 |
Easy |
| Inequalities |
5 |
Easy |
| Miscellaneous (Blood relation, Direction, series, Ranking, Alphabet Coding etc.) |
5 |
Easy |
| Total no. of question |
35 |
|
Quantitative aptitude
This overall difficulty level of this section was Moderate.
| Topic |
Number of question |
Level of difficulty |
| Data Interpretation |
10 |
Moderate |
| Simplification |
5 |
Easy |
| Number Series (Based on Missing pattern) |
5 |
Moderate |
| Quadratic Equations |
5 |
Moderate |
| Arithmetic- Simple & compound interest, Time and work, Partnership, Pipes and Cisterns, profit and loss , percentage, Probability, Mixture, Boats and streams, Averages, Problems on Ages |
10 |
Moderate |
| Total no. of question |
35 |
|
English Language
The difficulty level of this section was Easy to Moderate.
| Topic |
Number of question |
Level of difficulty |
| Reading Comprehension (based on Economic and banking) |
10 |
Moderate |
| Cloze test |
10 |
Easy to Moderate |
| Spotting error |
10 |
Easy to Moderate |
| Total no. of question |
30 |
|
Expected Cut-off marks: - As per our analysis and difficulty level of the examination, the following Cut-off marks are expected for the different category.
| General |
60-65 |
| SC |
52-57 |
| ST |
48-53 |
| OBC |
58-63 |
Note: The candidates should note that the above cut-off may vary as it depends upon various factors hence it is not possible to predict the exact cut-off marks until IPPB declared it on its website. The IPPB will announce cut-off mark when the process of selection is over.