IBPS SO (IT & Marketing Officer) Exam Analysis - 28 January 2017 (Slot 1)

Institute of Banking Personnel, otherwise known as IBPS, is one of the prominent institutions for banking. IBPS conducts examination every year to recruit candidates for the posts of “Specialist Officers” (SO). The IBPS SO exam is conducted for posts of:

• IT Officer (Scale I)
• Agricultural Field Officer (Scale I)
• Rajbhasha Adhikari (Scale I)
• Law Officer (Scale I)
• HR/ Personnel Officer (Scale I)
• Marketing Officer (Scale I)

The IBPS SO exam on 28th January 2017 is conducted for posts of IT Officer and Marketing Officer. The IBPS SO IT and Marketing Officer exam was a peaceful session and we bring you the complete analysis of Slot 1:

IBPS SO – IT and Marketing Officer Exam Analysis- 28th January 2017 (Slot 1/ Shift 1): Summary of Analysis

The summary of analysis is given below. We recommend all the students to go through it:

Sections	Difficulty level	Good Attempts
Reasoning	Moderate-Difficult	22-25
English	Difficult	19-22
Quantitative Aptitude	Easy-Moderate	23-27
Professional Knowledge	Difficult	40-45

IBPS SO – IT and Marketing Officer Exam Analysis- 28th January 2017 (Slot 1/ Shift 1): Overall Analysis

On an overall note, the IBPS SO- IT and Marketing Officer exam was of Moderate-Difficult level. The number of attempts required to exceed the cut- off marks can be 105+.

IBPS SO – IT and Marketing Officer Exam Analysis- 28th January 2017 (Slot 1/ Shift 1): Section- wise Analysis

Let us take you through the section- wise analysis of the exam:

Reasoning:

Difficulty level: The difficulty level of this section was Moderate-Difficult.

Good Attempts: Attempt of 22-25 questions will maximize your chance of clearing the cut- off marks.

Topics asked:

Topics	Level of Difficulty
Syllogism	Easy-Moderate
Seating Arrangement	Difficult
Puzzles	Difficult
Passage Inference	Difficult
Blood Relation	Moderate-Difficult
Inequality	Easy
Data Sufficiency	Moderate-Difficult

Quantitative Aptitude:

Difficulty level: The difficulty level of this section was Easy-Moderate.

Good Attempts: Attempt of 23-27 questions will maximize your chance of clearing the cut- off marks.

Topics asked:

Topics	Level of Difficulty
Number Series	Moderate
Data Interpretation	Easy-Moderate
Quadratic Equations	Moderate
Arithmetic	Moderate
Approximation/Simplification	Easy-Moderate
Miscellaneous	Easy-Moderate

(Miscellaneous topics: Profit and Loss, Simple and Compound Interest, Age, Average Time and Work, Time, Speed and distance, Partnership etc.)

English:

Difficulty level: The difficulty level of this section was Difficult.

Good Attempts: Attempt of 19-22 questions will maximize your chance of clearing the cut- off marks.

Topics asked:

Topics	Level of Difficulty
Spotting of errors	Difficult
Fill in the blanks	Moderate
Sentence Improvement	Moderate-Difficult
Para Jumbles	Difficult
Reading Comprehension	Difficult
Cloze Test	Difficult

Professional Knowledge:

Difficulty level: The difficulty level of this section was Difficult.

Good Attempts: Attempt of 40-45 questions will maximize your chance of clearing the cut- off marks.

Topics asked:

Topics	Level of Difficulty
DBMS	Moderate
Networking	Moderat-Difficult
Software Engineering  - JAVA	Difficult
OSI	Difficult
Unix	Difficult
Data Structure	Moderate-Difficult
Programming language	Difficult
Operating System	Moderate

 

We Will update topic wise Questions asked Soon.

Stay tuned for more updates. All the best!