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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

December-Analysis (Both Shifts)


There were 200 questions in the paper, which had to be answered in 120 minutes. There were five sections in all - Reasoning, Numerical Ability, General Awareness, English Language and Computer Knowledge.

Other than the fourth section, where in a candidate had to attempt the section in English Language, all the other sections were available bilingually, that is, in both English and Hindi. Each question had 5 options. There was negative marking of one-fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question for all the sections.

On the whole the difficulty level of the examination ranged from easy to moderate. Numerical ability section and Reasoning section were time consuming and questions were comparatively tricky. Although the questions asked in Reasoning section on 8th December were comparatively easier than those asked on 7th December. English and Computer Knowledge sections were easy. General awareness section was moderate.

The pattern of test was as follows:
Section
Total
Questions
Max. Marks
Level of
Difficulty
Possible
Attempts
Reasoning
40
40
Moderate
23-27
Numerical Ability
40
40
Moderate
22-26
General Awareness
40
40
Easy
30-33
English Language
40
40
Easy
30-34
Computer Knowledge
40
40
Easy
32-35
Total
200
200
 133-148
Reasoning 

This section was a bit time consuming. The level of questions ranged from easy to moderate to even tricky for sitting arrangement questions. There was no question from Non-Verbal Reasoning just as IBPS PO-III Exam. Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles were time consuming.
The details of the section are as follows:
Topic
Number of Questions
Syllogism
5
Data Sufficiency
5
Seating Arrangement
5
Puzzle
5
Coding-Decoding
5
Alpha-Numeric Series
5
Inequality
5
Miscellaneous
5
English Language
The pattern of this section was in line with the previous exam conducted in Clerical Cadre. The level of the questions was easy. Rearrangement, error spotting, cloze test, phrases were all easy to attempt. With a little practice one can easily score good in this section.
The details of the section are as follows:
Topic
Number of Questions
Reading Comprehensions
10
Rearrangement
5
Cloze test
10
Error Spotting
5
Phrases
5
Fill in the blanks
5
Numerical Ability
This section contained one to two DI, problems on number series, simplification and word problems. DI and number series were easier than word problems that consumed a lot of time. This sections was calculative and the level was moderate.

The details of the section are as follows:
Topic
Section
Number Series
5
Data Interpretation
5-10
Simplification
10-15
Arithmetic
15-20

General Awareness
This section too was easy to attempt. Banking and Economy dominated this section. Nominal number of questions was asked from current affairs. The question were mainly asked from the following topics- Electronic Clearing Service, Money market, Repo Rate, Share market, cheque, lending rates, books and authors etc.

Computer Knowledge 

This section was based on basic knowledge of computers. Questions were very easy. The main areas from which questions were asked are: MS Office, Application Software, Hardware, Software, and Input-Output Units.
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