IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main Exam Analysis 2019

PUBLISH DATE 21st October 2019

IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main exam was conducted today, for aspirants who cleared the preliminary round of the same. The exam took place in various centres all across the country in a single shift.

IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main exam had five sections, namely Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning, English Language, Computer Awareness, and General Awareness. The weightage of the exam was 200 marks, for which a composite time of 2 hours was provided.

Candidates felt that the section of Quantitative Aptitude was the toughest and time-consuming, whereas the Computer Awareness section was the easiest, in which direct questions were asked.

After talking to the aspirants and collecting their feedback, we have provided the IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main exam analysis. This analysis will prove to be useful for the aspirants to form an idea about the expected cut-off.

IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main Analysis

Name of the Section	Number of Questions	Difficulty Level	Good Attempts
Reasoning	40	Moderate	33-38
Quantitative Aptitude	40	Tough	26-30
English Language	40	Easy- Moderate	32-36
General Awareness	40	Easy- Moderate	28-32
Computer Knowledge	40	Easy	30-32

IBPS RRB Office Assistant Main Sectional Analysis

Reasoning

The level of this section was moderate. Twenty-five questions were asked from Puzzle sets and Seating Arrangement in the form of double row linear seating arrangement, floor- puzzles, based, circular puzzle, linear seating arrangement, and scheduling and thus, these were the most prominent topics of this section. Questions of Coding- Decoding were also included along with some miscellaneous questions.

The topic-wise break-up is given below:

Name of the Section	Number of Questions	Difficulty Level
Seating Arrangement and Puzzles	25	Moderate
Coding-decoding	5	Easy - Moderate
Direction Sense	5	Easy - Moderate
Other miscellaneous questions	5	Moderate

Quantitative Aptitude

Candidates felt this section was the toughest out of all the sections. The questions were time-consuming. Questions of DI dominated this section. Questions from miscellaneous Arithmetic topics and old pattern Data Sufficiency were seen in the paper.

Name of the Section	Number of Questions	Difficulty Level
Data Interpretation	10	Tough
Data Sufficiency	5	Very Tough
Caselet	10	Moderate - Tough
Miscellaneous Arithmetic Problems	15	Tough

The topic-wise break-up is given below:

Name of the Section	Number of Questions	Difficulty Level
Data Interpretation	10	Tough
Data Sufficiency	5	Very Tough
Caselet	10	Moderate - Tough
Miscellaneous Arithmetic Problems	15	Tough

General Awareness

This section was in the range of easy-moderate according to the difficulty level. As is the trend of banking exams, most of the questions in this section were asked from the current affairs of the last six months. Some questions from Static GK and recent government schemes were also asked.

English Language

This time, the section of the English Language was easy- moderate. There were eight questions from Reading Comprehension, which was based on the theme of Dolphins. Seven questions were asked from Coze Test. Other topics were Sentence Correction, Sentence Rearrangement, Error Spotting, and Fill in the Blanks.

The topic-wise break-up is given below: