IBPS Clerk Prelims 9 Dec Exam Analysis 2017: The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection i.e. IBPS has culminated today’s afternoon batch (second shift) of IBPS Clerk Prelims Examination 2017. The exam ended at 12.30 PM & the students are now waiting for detailed exam analysis. IBPS will be conducting two more shifts today but let us first go through the detailed section-wise analysis of the IBPS Clerk 9 December Shift 2 Exam.
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This article will not only highlight the level of difficulty but also the good attempts, Section-wise paper level & the optimal time a candidate should allow to a particular section.
IBPS Clerk Prelims 9 Dec Exam Analysis 2017 | Shift 2: What was the difficulty level?
As per the exam syllabus and pattern for IBPS Clerk Examination, there were 100 questions in total. Each question carried 1 mark and the total time to solve the paper was 60 minutes.
Now the question is: What was the difficulty level of IBPS Clerk Shift 2 Exam?
The difficulty level of this shift was similar to that of the 1st shift. i.e Moderate!
With IBPS Clerk Prelims Analysis, we will also predict a good attempt scenario for each section which will point out to a probable score ranging in the safe zone for cracking IBPS Exam for the post of Clerk.
IBPS Clerk Prelims 9 Dec Exam Analysis: English Language Section
- Level of Difficulty: Moderate-Difficult
- Good Attempts: 16-19
- Optimal Time: 15 Minutes
Beginning with English Language section in our IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis, the topic-wise review and distribution are as follows.
| Name of the Topic | No. of Questions | Level of Difficulty |
| Parajumble/ Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
| Reading Comprehension | 5 | Moderate |
| Fillers (2 Options) | 10 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Words with Similar Meaning | 10 | Moderate-Difficult |
- There were no vocabulary based questions in Reading Comprehension.
- Topics like Spotting the error or cloze test were nowhere to be found.
- In fillers, 2 options can be the possible answers.
- In the topic, Words with similar meaning, students had to find the option which was similar to the word highlighted in the given question.
IBPS Clerk Prelims 9 Dec Exam Analysis: Reasoning Ability Section
- Level of Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
- Good Attempts: 26-28
- Optimal Time: 25 Minutes
Moving to our next section, Reasoning Ability questions in today’s IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis had a bit of Easy to Moderate Difficulty Level range. The topic-wise review and distribution are as follows.
| Name of the Topic | No. of Questions | Level of Difficulty |
| Sitting Arrangements & Puzzles | 15 | Easy |
| Operation on Numerals | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Alphanumeric Symbol Sequence Series | 5 | Easy |
| Inequality (Direct) | 3-4 | Easy |
| Syllogism | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Coding Decoding | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
Candidates found today’s reasoning section to be more attemptable. The difficulty level was easy to moderate. All the sitting arrangement questions were easy to attempt.
IBPS Clerk Prelims 9 Dec Exam Analysis: Quantitative Aptitude Section
- Level of Difficulty: Moderate
- Good Attempts: 22-24
- Optimal Time: 20 Minutes
Our final part of IBPS Clerk Exam Analysis and Review ends with Quant Section, which was moderate and filled with a bunch of easy but calculative questions. The topic-wise review and distribution are as follows:
| Name of the Topic | No. of Questions | Level of Difficulty |
| Data Interpretation | 5 | Moderate |
| Number Series | 5 | Easy |
| Simplification | 15 | Easy-Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Partnership, SI/CI, Profit & Loss etc.) | 10 | Moderate |
Questions on topic Time & Work, Mixtures, Partnership, SI/CI, Profit & Loss etc. were moderate to attempt. Other topics were little calculative.
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