The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducted an online examination, for the recruitment of Officer Scale - I in Regional Rural Banks (RRB), across the country on September 6, 2014.
There were 200 questions in the paper, which had to be answered in 2 hours and 30 minutes. There were five sections in all - Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness, English Language/Hindi Language and Computer Knowledge. Other than the fourth section, where in a candidate had to attempt either the section on English Language or the one on Hindi 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.The pattern of the test was as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Max. Marks |
Level of Difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Good Score |
Approximate Time Taken (In Minutes) |
Reasoning |
40 |
50 |
Moderate |
30 |
28-30 |
40 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
40 |
50 |
Difficult |
25 |
20-22 |
40 |
General Awareness |
40 |
40 |
Moderate |
30 |
25 |
15 |
English Language/Hindi Language |
40 |
40 |
English â Difficult |
English â 25, Hindi â 30 |
English â 18-20, Hindi â 23-25 |
English â 40, |
Computer Knowledge |
40 |
20 |
Easy |
30 |
12-14 |
15 |
Total |
200 |
200 |
|
140 - 145 |
130 - 140 |
150 |
Expected Cutoffs- These cannot be given at this stage since there are huge variations in cut-offs among different Gramin banks depending on their state.
The details of the individual sections are given below:
The details of the section are as follows:
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Syllogisms |
5 |
Seating Arrangement |
5 |
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Coding-Decoding |
5 |
Puzzles |
5 |
Comparison of Ranks |
5 |
Blood Relations, Direction Sense, Alphabet/Number series, etc. |
10 |
The details of the section are as follows:
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Reading Comprehension |
20 |
Sentence Correction |
5 |
Para Jumble |
5 |
Cloze Test |
10 |
The details of the section are as follows:
| Topic | Number of Questions (Approx) |
Profit Loss, SI/CI, Mensuration, Time, Speed & Distance, etc. |
15 |
Series |
5 |
Data Interpretation |
15 |
Equations |
5 |
The main areas from which questions were asked are: Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Networking, Basic Hardware and Software.
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