The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection has announced the 2020 CRP Clerk-X Recruitment, and there are as many as 1557 vacancies up for grabs for the candidates across the country. Every year, the IBPS CRP Clerk examination is held for the recruitment of clerks at various participating banks. Registrations for the same began on the 2nd of September 2020 and will go on till the 23rd of September 2020.
Whether or not you have already started the preparations for the IBPS CRP Clerk-X Recruitment, it is extremely important to have an idea of the question pattern, kinds of questions, and the number of good attempts which helped the candidates clear the previous years’ IBPS CRP Clerk examination. However, you may also want to check out the IBPS Clerk Exam Pattern, Syllabus, And Previous Year Cut-Off before moving any further.
This year, the Preliminary Examination of the IBPS CRP Clerk Recruitment is slated for 05, 12, and 13 December 2020, which means candidates still have a good three months to prepare well for the examination. With that in place, Exammr has brought to you the previous year paper analysis of the IBPS CRP Clerk examination. This will not only help you prepare for the soon to be held examination but also give you an idea of how many questions are required to be attempted in order to secure a seat in the next round.
IBPS Clerk Preliminary Exam Analysis
The Preliminary Examination for the IBPS Clerk comprises of 100 questions, which are to be completed in 60 minutes. Candidates get 20 minutes maximum for completing each section. The table below shows the number of good attempts along with the level difficulty of the questions from each section.
|
Section |
Good Attempts |
Difficulty Level |
|
Reasoning Ability |
28-32 |
Easy |
|
Quantitative Aptitude |
22-30 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
English Language |
25-30 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
Total |
75-92 |
Since question papers of different shifts featured distinct difficulty levels, the overall good number of attempts in the IBPS CRP Clerk Preliminary Exam ranged from 75 to 92 last year. As for the number of questions asked from different topics in each section, check out the following tables:
|
English Language |
|
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
|
Phrase Replacement |
05 |
|
Single Errors |
05 |
|
Error Detection |
05 |
|
Word Rearrangement |
05 |
|
Reading Comprehension |
10 |
|
Para Jumbles |
05 |
|
Quantitative Aptitude |
|
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
|
Word Problems |
10 |
|
Quadratic Equation |
05 |
|
Missing Number Series |
05 |
|
Simplification |
10 |
|
DI |
05 |
|
Reasoning |
|
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
|
Coding & Decoding |
02 |
|
Alpha-Numeric Series |
05 |
|
Blood Relation |
03 |
|
Syllogism |
05 |
|
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement |
15 |
|
Others |
02 |
IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis
Following the Preliminary Examination, IBPS declared the results for the same and candidates who cleared the examination sat for the Mains Exam. The IBPS Clerk Mains Examination features 190 questions from four different sections, namely Reasoning & Computer Aptitude, Quantitative Aptitude, General/Financial Awareness, and General English. Candidates are allotted 160 minutes to complete all of the four sections. Also, there were sectional timings for each section. Have a look at the table below for the good attempts in the previous years’ IBPS Clerk Mains Examination:
|
Section |
Good Attempts |
Difficulty Level |
|
Reasoning & Computer Aptitude |
27-32 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
Quantitative Aptitude |
31-36 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
General/Financial Awareness |
28-34 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
General English |
29-33 |
Difficult |
|
Total |
117-130 |
As far as the topics from which the questions came in each section, check out the following tables:
|
English Language |
||
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
|
Reading Comprehension |
18 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Fillers |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Cloze Test |
6 |
Moderate |
|
Sentence Rearrangement |
6 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Error Detection |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Total |
40 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Reasoning & Computer Aptitude |
||
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
|
Puzzles - Blood Relation based, Circular based, |
20 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
Alphanumeric Series |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Coded Direction |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Coded Inequality |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Syllogism |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
Coding-Decoding |
3 - 5 |
Moderate |
|
Total |
50 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
Quantitative Aptitude |
||
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
|
Data Interpretation - Pie Chart + Tabular + Profit & Loss DI, Caselet |
20 |
Moderate - Difficult |
|
Arithmetic - Train, Profit & Loss, Time & Work, Mensuration, Age, Average, Boat & Stream |
20 |
Moderate |
|
Approximation |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Moderate |
|
Total |
50 |
Moderate |
|
General Awareness/Financial Awareness |
|
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We hope this article has helped in having a clear picture of how many questions are needed to be correct in order to move from the Preliminary Exam to the Main Exam and then find your name on the final merit list. With the IBPS CRP Clerk-X Recruitment exam scheduled in December 2020, there is still ample amount of time for you to prepare the examination and come out with flying colours. So, hit the pedal and accelerate your preparation.
Stay tuned with Exammr for more such pieces, government job notifications, and other news.
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