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The first phases of the IBPS Clerk Prelim Exam are over today. We have analyzed the exam pattern in detail and are presenting our IBPS Clerk Prelim exam analysis. We will love to hear from you in the comments section below!

The exam was a lot easier than the recent PO exams. We expect the cutoffs to be between 40 and 45 (similar to what we had predicted earlier this week on our previous blog post on Clerk Exam tips.

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Surprises: No Syllogism, no quadratic equations, no fill-in-the blanks

Reasoning Ability

A good attempt would be attempting over 20 questions

Topic	Question Count	Level
Coding & Decoding	5	Moderate
Seating Arrangement	5	Easy
Number Series/ Alphabetical Series	10	Easy
Row Arrangement	5	Moderate
Inequalities	5	Easy
Miscellaneous: Direction Sense, Blood Relations, Age problems etc.	5	Easy

English Language

A good attempt would be attempting over 16 questions.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension (King of Vijyanagar)	10	Easy
Cloze Test (Orphan and his skills)	5	Easy
Sentence Errors	5	Easy
Parajumbles	5	Moderate
Wrongly Spelt words and out of context words	5	Moderate
Total	30	Moderate

Quantitative Aptitude

A good attempt would be attempting over 18 questions. The section had more calculations than usual.

Topic	Question Count	Level
Simplification	10	Easy
Series	5	Easy
Data Interpretation (Table)	5	Moderate
Miscellaneous: Time & distance, Time & Work, Profit and Loss, Ages, Ratio Proportions, SI & CI etc.)	15	Easy-Moderate
Total	35	Moderate