The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection conducts the IBPS RRB Exam to recruit Officers and Office Assistants in various Regional Rural Banks (RRBs). If you are looking to apply for IBPS RRB Office Assistant Exam, then it would help you to know about the previous exams. In the following post, we would do an IBPS RRB Office Assistant Exam Analysis. We would look at the type of questions that came in the exam and their difficulty as well. This would help you to create a solid strategy to crack IBPS RRB 2021.
IBPS RRB Office Assistant Exam Analysis – Understanding the Exam Pattern
The first thing that we need to do is understand the IBPS RRB Exam Pattern for Office Assistant. As said before, the exam is conducted both for the officer and the office assistant post. The IBPS RRB Office Assistant Exam has two stages – prelims and mains. Unlike the officer posts, you don’t have to appear for the personal interview when applying for an office assistant. Let us take a look at the IBPS RRB Pattern for prelims.
IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2021 Pattern – Prelims
The following table gives the details of the exam pattern for IBPS RRB Office Assistant 2021
| S. No. | Section | Question | Marks | Duration |
| 1. | Reasoning | 40 | 40 | 45 Minutes |
| 2. | Numerical Ability | 40 | 40 | |
| Total | 80 | 80 | – | |
IBPS RRB 2021 Exam Pattern – Mains
In the following table, we have provided you with the IBPS RRB Exam pattern 2021 for office assistant
| S. No. | Section | Question | Marks |
| 1 | Reasoning Paper | 40 | 50 |
| 2 | General Awareness Paper | 40 | 40 |
| 3 | Numerical Ability Paper | 40 | 50 |
| 4 | English Language Syllabus Paper | 40 | 40 |
| 5 | Hindi Language Syllabus Paper | 40 | 40 |
| 6 | Computer Knowledge Syllabus Paper | 40 | 20 |
| Total | 200 | 200 | |
DURATION: 2 HOURS
IBPS RRB Office Assistant Exam Analysis for 2021
Let us now take a look at the IBPR RRB Office Assistant Exam Analysis for 2021. We would start with the prelims stage.
IBPS RRB Prelims Exam Analysis – Overall Analysis
In 2021, the level of the exam can be considered Easy to Moderate
| Sections | Level | Good Attempts |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning Ability | Easy-Moderate | 28-32 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | Easy-Moderate | 28-32 |
| Overall | Easy-Moderate | 66-70 |
IBPS RRB Office Assistant Exam Analysis: Quantitative Aptitude
Let us look at the quant section of the prelims exam. The level of quantitative aptitude could be said to be Easy to Moderate. There were two sets of DI that were asked in this section, namely:
- Tabular
- Caselet
Type of Questions in Quantitative Aptitude
The following table gives the details of the questions that are asked in the quantitative aptitude:
| Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Data Interpretation | 10 | Moderate |
| Wrong Number Series | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Approximation | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Arithmetic Word Problems | 10 | Moderate |
| Simplification | 10 | Easy |
| Total | 40 | Easy-Moderate |
IBPS RRB Office Assistant Exam Analysis: Reasoning Ability
The level of questions in the reasoning section was Easy to Moderate. There were a total of 4 sets of Puzzles and Seating Arrangements. Following are the types of Puzzles and Seating Arrangement asked in the Exam:
- Linear Seating Arrangement: single line, 6 people
- Box-based puzzle: 7 boxes
- Month based puzzle
- Random arrangement based puzzled: salary of 6 persons was given
The following table gives the details of the types of questions asked in the exam:
| Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 20 | Moderate |
| Syllogism | 3 | Moderate |
| Blood Relation | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| Direction Sense | 4 | Moderate |
| Coding Decoding | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Numeric Series | 5 | Moderate |
| Alphabet | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Easy-Moderate |
Now, we would take a look at the mains exam.
IBPS RRB Mains Exam Analysis – Overall Analysis
Check out the table below to get the details of the overall analysis for IBPS RRB Mains Exam
| SECTIONS | GOOD ATTEMPTS |
| Hindi Language | 27-32 |
| English Language | 24-29 |
| Reasoning | 23-27 |
| Numerical Ability | 17-22 |
| Computer Knowledge | 31-34 |
| General Awareness | 26-31 |
| TOTAL | 132-143 |
NUMERICAL ABILITY( Moderate-Lengthy)
- Pie Chart
- Caselet
- Line Graph
- Missing DI: Tabular
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Data Interpretation | 20 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Data Sufficiency | 5 | Moderate |
| Miscellaneous (Mensuration, Boat & Stream, CI and SI, Profit & Loss, Time and Work, Partnership etc.) | 15 | Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Moderate – Lengthy |
HINDI LANGUAGE (Easy-Moderate)
| Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
| Reading Comprehension गद्यांश (2 Sets) | 10 | Moderate |
| वाक्य में त्रुटी | 5 | Moderate |
| Cloze Test (2 Sets) | 10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Word Based Error | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 4 | Moderate |
| Filler | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total | 40 | Easy-Moderate |
ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Easy-Moderate)
|
Topic
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
|
|---|---|---|
|
Reading Comprehension
|
10
|
Moderate
|
|
Error Detection
|
7
|
Moderate
|
|
Cloze Test
|
8
|
Easy-Moderate
|
|
Sentence Rearrangement
|
5
|
Moderate
|
|
Spell Check based Errors
|
5
|
Easy-Moderate
|
|
Identify correct use of word in sentences
|
5
|
Easy-Moderate
|
|
Total
|
40
|
Easy-Moderate
|
REASONING ABILITY (Moderate)
The level of reasoning was Moderate. Following were the types of puzzles asked:
- Circular Seating Arrangement
- Parallel Lines Seating Arrangement
- Month Based Puzzle, 3 Variable
- Linear Single Line
- Comparison Based
|
Topic
|
No. of Questions
|
Level
|
|---|---|---|
|
Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles
|
25
|
Moderate
|
|
Data Sufficiency
|
5
|
Moderate
|
|
Blood Relation
|
3 | Moderate |
| Direction Sense | 4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Syllogism | 1 | Easy |
| Coding Decoding | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| Machine Input Output | 1 | Easy |
|
Total
|
40
|
Moderate
|
GENERAL AWARENESS (Moderate)
Most of the questions were from banking and current affairs. Keeping up with the latest trend in the GA section of banking examinations, in this exam as well IBPS asked current affairs questions from past 5 months, where most of the questions were related to news events of July and August. There were also around 7-8 questions of banking awareness and few questions of static GK.
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE (Easy)
The level of this section was very basic most of the questions were from basics of computer knowledge concepts and definitions. The level of questions asked was easy and many questions were related to straight definitions and abbreviations. Computer section in this year’s IBPS RRB Clerk Mains covered topics like shortcut keys, abbreviations, questions related to basic protocols of the internet, Networking, basics of computer software.
