IBPS RRB PO 2020 Mains Exam Analysis & Review by Students

IBPS RRB PO 2020 mains exam was conducted successfully on January 30. The overall paper was easy to moderate in terms of difficulty level. Read here IBPS RRB PO 2020 mains exam analysis & review by students.

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has conducted IBPS RRB PO/Officers Scale I 2020 mains exam on January 30. Candidates who had qualified the prelims exam, appeared for the mains exam. According to the students, the overall paper was easy to moderate in terms of difficulty level. The Reasoning section was easy, General Awareness section was easy to moderate, Numerical Ability section was easy to moderate, English/Hindi Language section was easy to moderate, Computer Knowledge was easy. As per experts, this year IBPS RRB cut off is expected to be high.

The mains exam of IBPS RRB PO comprised questions from Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness, English/Hindi Language and Computer Knowledge. A total of 200 questions were asked in the exam. Maximum marks allotted to the paper were 200. The duration of the test was two hours.

In this article, we have compiled IBPS RRB PO 2020 mains exam analysis and review by students. Going through the analysis will help candidates to know the overall and section-wise difficulty levels, number of good attempts, etc.

IBPS RRB PO 2020 Mains Exam Analysis & Review by Students

Shiksha approached students on social media to gather the feedback regarding the difficulty level of the exam. Let’s check out the feedback shared by the students.

Harshit Vijay: “The overall paper of easy to moderate. I found the English and Computer Aptitude papers were easy, Reasoning and Quant papers were moderate and GA was tough.”

Anuj Srivastava: “The Maths and Reasoning sections were easy. In Maths, there were tabular DI (five to six questions), pie chart, missing number series (five questions), series (five questions), sufficiency (five to six questions) and rest were from Arithmetic. In Reasoning, there were questions from direction (three questions), inequalities (three questions), seating arrangement (five questions), puzzles (22 questions), chinese coding (three questions) and miscellaneous (three to four questions). In English, basic level grammar questions were asked. There were around eight to nine questions from error, five questions from cloze test, two passages, etc. The Computer Aptitude section was easy and questions were of very basic level. The General Awareness section was tough, questions were asked from authors and books, physical quality life index, Tarun scheme, etc.”

Chandraveer: “The Reasoning section was easy, questions were asked from circular puzzle, age, box, uncertain linear puzzle, inequality, blood relation, statements, causes and effect. In Quant, questions were asked from pie-chart, caselet, DI, number series, arithmetic. The Hindi section was tougher compared to other sections. Questions were asked from error detection, sentence arrangement, fillers, antonyms, synonyms, proverbs. In GA, mostly questions were asked from current affairs. This section was easy. The Computer Aptitude section was easy, 20 questions were asked from MS Excel.”

IBPS RRB PO 2020 Mains Exam Analysis: Overall Difficulty

The overall difficulty level of IBPS RRB PO 2020 mains exam is given below.

IBPS RRB PO 2020 Mains Exam Analysis: Section-wise Difficulty

General Knowledge

GA questions were asked from Previous Budget, G20 Submit Theme, Mudra Scheme, International Mountain Day Theme, Name of the book A Song of India, 2019 ICC World Cup Winning Team Captain, World Population Day date, Fishery Sector Limit, Small Finance Bank, Allahabad Bank Merger.

Reasoning

Day-Based Puzzle (Two questions), Uncertain Linear (Three questions), Circular-Based Puzzles (Five questions), Miscellaneous (One Chinese Coding questions, One direction question, Inequalities (Three questions), Blood Relations (Three questions). The topic-wise distribution of questions is given below.

Quantitative Aptitude

The level of this section was easy to moderate. The distribution of questions is given below.

English/Hindi Language

The topic-wise distribution of questions in this section is given below.

English Language

Hindi Language

 Computer Aptitude

This section was easy in terms of difficulty level. Questions were asked from Shortcut for MS Excel/Powerpoint, Shortcut Key for Page Break, VIRUS, Protocols related questions, first Generation Computer, Second Generation Computer- Vaccum Tube replacement, Google Spreadsheet, File Transfer Protocol, Web Browser Related, Business Social Site Linkedin.